Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University

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66 Fynbos: The main growth forms are: --restioid. evergreen, somewhat grasslike, solid round stems with joins, suggestive of rush or sedge. From family Restionaceae, genus Restio. Fynbos has 310 species in Restionaceae, and 203 species in Cyperaceae (sedge). We walked through restioid growth all day. Restionaceae is almost confined to the Southern Hemisphere, principally South Africa and Australia. It is closely related to Juncaceae (rushes), but the flowers have a pendulous ovule and are unisexual, mostly dioecious. Superficially, they resemble Cyperaceae and where they are numerous in South Africa and Australia they take the place of grasses in the vegetation. The family probably originated in Australia, at least the most primitive members are there. Flowers in spikelets, the male ones with glume-like segments and three anthers. The female flowers have a superior ovary, 1-3 locules, and ovules that are pendulous from the apex. Juncaceae have perfect flowers, 3 or 6-merous, and ovules ascending or parietal. Perhaps two-thirds of the species worldwide are in the Cape flora. --proteoid. Like Protea --ericoid. Like Erica, or heath-like. small leaves, heather like, often purplish or pink flowers, bell shaped. International biologists visiting the fynbos are often struck with the lack of animals. No large mammals are seen roaming about, few bird calls can be heard, and one does not need insect proof netting to sleep at night. It can seem that this corner of Africa is a botanical wonderland and a zoological desert. But there are many more inconspicuous animal and plant interactions. Especially common is seed dispersal by ants (myrmecochory), thought to be common where nutrients are low, seeds are expensive to produce and rodents are likely to eat seeds on the ground. Ants carry the seeds underground. Another factor is fire-stimulated germination. Many of the seeds have to be smoked and/or burned to grow well. Many plants are serotinous, fruiting heads remain on the plant and open up only after fires. There are few fleshy fruited species. Many species have hard leaves, schlerophylly. This seem to be the reason why there are not many butterflies. August 14. Monday. We drove to Cape Town and rode the cable car up Table Mountain. Reasonably good day, but hazy in the distance. Shopping also. Went to the Rhodes Monument. August 15. Tuesday. Full day of meetings, and lecture in the afternoon. Spoke to the debating club at their banquet that evening.
67 August 16. Wednesday. Day of meetings and lecture in the afternoon. Interview with Alex Weaver, CSIR (Council on Scientific and Industrial Research), head of their Environmental Services. Interview with Bernard Lategan, Dean of Liberal Arts. Interview with Judge Denis Cowan, much interested in environmental law in South Africa. Heard lecture by Cyril Ramphosa, on ANC Constitution Commission and a labor mediator. Reunion dinner with the Bush Camp group that night. August 17. Thursday. Drove to Cape Town in time to get lunch with Johan's wife, Marion, and to visit University of the Western Cape. Largely a colored institution; she teaches Afrikaans language and literature there. Brief stop at the Cape Flats Nature Reserve. Caught plane home at 5.00 p.m., flying via Johannesburg, with interesting flight over the Karoo on the way up. Then overnight to London, then day flight over the Atlantic to JFK New York, with a splendid view of Cape Cod flying in, the northern hook seen perfectly. Then to Pittsburgh, then to Denver, a rather roundabout flight and some 37 hours in the system. Great trip. end of Afruca 1996
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Trail Log 1995-1997 Holmes Rolston,
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1995 January 4, 1995. Wednesday. Ad
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"Winnow" - the root is wind, vent,
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Worker's Directory. He gave me a co
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7 year. Leaving the hospital comple
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9 Bougainvillaea. Many kinds, all w
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11 Gerenuk - a very long necked ant
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13 I took a bird walk on my own, as
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15 francolins egret, unidentified e
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17 2 males, old males 3 females, wi
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19 somewhat better on the return tr
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21 mahogany trees wild fig trees ga
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Continuing, we crossed a long, flat
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Page 39 and 40: 31 We drove back around in the lake
Page 41 and 42: 33 small park. Jane Goodall's resea
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Page 45 and 46: 37 July 10. Monday. Drove to Kruger
Page 47 and 48: 39 The guides go first, Jan up fron
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Page 57 and 58: 45 little egret giant kingfisher pi
Page 59 and 60: 47 At Skukuza, I separated from Joh
Page 61 and 62: stand your ground. Be bold and nois
Page 63 and 64: 51 Red-billed woodhoopoe, with call
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Page 89 and 90: lawn). A near relative is Araucaria
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Page 93 and 94: track in the snow. We left about 11
Page 95 and 96: 4 coyotes in snow. 1 immature bald
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Page 101 and 102: Australia July 1 - August 19, 1996
Page 103 and 104: July 10, Wednesday. Drove to Laming
Page 105: We drove through the rainforest and
Page 109 and 110: QUT. Elizabeth Saxon, sat beside me
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Page 120 and 121: it later deteriorated. Wombat kille
Page 122 and 123: Seminar at 2.15 p.m Chris Mortenson
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This cave is the pouch of the femal
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Huge streams pour off the rock in a
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ut not all that messed up. Turned a
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Trail Log 1997 February 22, 1997, S
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much better in the lower, protected
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To Tower Junction, then to Tower, l
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Back to the ranch. The coyote was a
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crows are unusual inside Yellowston
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as a bell in contrast to yesterday.
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I went up on a higher hill to try t
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Siberia and Lake Baikal June 15-29,
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Russia has an 80-year old system of
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In the dining car, there never seem
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Reached Zilovo, about 10.15, about
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City tour on a nice day. Population
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second oldest 2,000,000 years. It h
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Communism unraveled, and that, we t
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Thalictrum foetidum Grimmia calcare
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Walk to Shaman Rock. From the rock,
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Viola rupestris Euphorbia alpina Pl
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Lychnis sibirica Schizonepetala mul
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wapiti, elk (American term), red de
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July 16-18, 1997, Tuesday through F
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Events in Ft. Collins area: July 28
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Camped at Sarto Creek, in flats nea
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Shuttle back to Missoula, arriving
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Polygonum viviparum, Alpine Bistort
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