***And I’m back
from a short but beautiful trip to the Fletcher Lake area of Yosemite. More later, including photos. UPDATE: A busy day, with no time to post photos. But scroll down to my earlier picture of the same area between Lake Townsley and Ireland Lake that I took last October.
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***Tuolumne
- here I come… :-) Watch for photos in a few days.
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***Battle over the Parks
- A third of GGNRA’s staff could be in competition for their jobs if the Bush administration’s park privatization plan becomes a reality. [SFGate]
It’s not that Collman is sloughing off or not committed. His days start at 4 in the morning. When he speaks about preserving national parks for his [...]
***Yosemite and the Invention of Wilderness.
The writer and environmentalist Rebecca Solnit believes that the American idea of pristine wilderness a profoundly mistaken fantasy. By James Gorman. [New York Times: Science]
Not that the generations of Yosemite worshipers that followed venerated mainstream American culture and the exploitation of natural resources. Far from it. On a rock dome [...]
2003.09.08
******Still no time to post pictures
what with several meetings and work to get some computers ready for the upcoming start of school. So a text description will have to suffice for now.
On Friday I drove up to Tuolumne Meadows, arriving about 11:00. I managed to kill an hour eating a slightly-early lunch, changing into my [...]