***Steward of a Department He Once Sought to Scrap.
When Spencer Abraham was a senator from Michigan, he had one big idea for the Department of Energy. Abolish it. By Katharine Q. Seelye. [New York Times: Business] Another example of the Bush foxes guarding the henhouse…
***Now Hear This
- Bill Moyers speaks his mind on Bush-brand environmental [...]
***Pedaling the lonesome road
- “Every late September for the past dozen years, people such as Bennett and Boyden have gathered in South Lake Tahoe for the five-day trek across the Silver State via Highway 50 known as OATBRAN (One Awesome Tour Bike Ride Across Nevada). And though there are many other official, organized cross- state [...]
***A Quick Quicksilver Hike
this foggy morning. I got to Almaden Quicksilver County Park before 7:30 am after dropping my son off at school. This was one of those late August mornings when I can sense that autumn is not all that far off.
The leaves have started falling along the Mine Hill trail.
Late-season flowers and seeds.
Foggy [...]
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Four Oaks, Yosemite Valley. Yosemite National Park, California. April 21, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell. (Sales)
Dogwood Blossoms. Yosemite National Park, California. April 21, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell. (Sales)
Autumn Leaves and Granite. Yosemite Valley, California. October 22, 2006. [...]
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***Sir Wilfred Thesiger, Renowed Explorer and Writer, Dies at 93.
Wilfred Thesiger was arguably the last of the world’s great explorers and lucky enough to have lived at a time when the globe still had some uncharted corners. By Paul Lewis. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
The heir to great 19th-century venturers like Livingstone, Stanley, Speke and [...]
***New Kind of Electricity Market Strains Old Wires Beyond Limits.
Consumers have learned a difficult lesson about the electricity grid: it was an afterthought during the decade-long process of deregulating the power industry. By Neela Banerjee and David Firestone. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
***EPA misled public on 9/11 pollution
- White House ordered false assurances on [...]
Late-summer managed fire in Yosemite National Park. Date unknown.
***A new hike today
- at least partially. I went to my same old trailhead at Almaden Quicksilver County Park and started up the usual trail. On a lark, I took an old use trail that branched off near the bottom of the trail, and followed it up [...]
Smoke from late-summer managed fire in Yosemite National Park. Date unknown.
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***Streisand Goes Coastal Over Web Photo Effort
- [SFGate]
The more than 12,000 images they have posted on http://www.californiacoastline.org are not the first to document California’s Pacific boundary. But the digital technology, free access and user-friendly Web site design are unprecedented.
In addition to scenes of spectacular loveliness, the project also documents illegal seawalls, sewage outflows, erosion and [...]