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I decided to take some photos today rather than post to the blog. Here is the Portneuf River today at Edson Fichter Park on the south outskirts of Pocatello (SE Idaho). Photo copyright Ralph Maughan. Portneuf River at Pocatello. Bannock Mountain Range in the distance.
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Logan Canyon is a well known and loved, lengthy canyon through the Bear River Range of the Wasatch. Autumn colors are always brilliant as this on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2006. In Logan, Canyon. Bear River Range. Sunday, Oct. 8, 2006. Copyright Ralph Maughan
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I recently ran across the book Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan. I was at a meeting so I only had time to read a couple chapters, but the one on “Industrial corn” had a profound effect on me. I have ordered a copy, and yet it already leads me to post. Pollan cited an old…
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Like most additions to the endangered or threatened list, groups have had to sue to get the US Fish and Wildlife Service, to take their petition seriously. There are those who mistakenly say that all it takes is a 39 cent stamp to put a species on the list. In fact, you have to have…
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It may be possible to restore extinct megafauna like giant horses, North American cheetah, cave bears, etc. by means of genetic engineering. Just this weekend at a meeting I wondered if it were possible to restore the orginal cattle (today’s cow is a completely human-derived animal). I’m not endorsing this, but it ought to provoke…
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The “new west” is the most densely populated part of the United States, and yet there are still vast wide open spaces. It’s a place where imagination of the concept of the West is more important than the reality we live in. So says Hal Rothman in this essay for Writers on the Range.