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To make a more complicated example, and illustrate how dodges are computed, consider:
base = 3.5 stops = 11.314s
dodge 1 = 0.5 stop = 2^(3.5-0.5) = 8s (i.e. dodge for 3.314)
dodge 2 = 0.25 stop = 2^(3.5-0.25) = 9.514s (i.e. dodge for 1.8s)
Therefore, the base exposure once dodges are subtracted is 11.314-3.314-1.8=6.2s. When you perform the dodges, the non-dodged areas will get the originally intended base exposure of 11.314s.
The reason the base exposure is expressed in stops is it makes it easier to scale your paper size, or to shift the whole exposure darker/lighter by a certain tone. Say you figure out a good print at 8x10 and want to print 16x20, you just add two stops. And when you do a test strip in stops, the values will be equi-spaced, e.g. 2.0, 2.25, 2.5, 2.75, 3.0, 3.25, 3.5, 3.75. If you converted all of those to seconds, you'd get some really annoying numbers. It's also very easy to apply drydown correction; the software just needs to subtract a configured value, e.g. 0.08.
It also makes it easier to do stuff like grade changes when printing split-grade. My timer doesn't directly support that (i.e. it won't recompute the times for a grade change, or do a grade change while preserving a particular zone), but the use of stops to represent each exposure time makes it relatively simple for the user.


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We Live for The Ice Cream.by Sobriquet Studio
Fine art print on bright white, fine poly-cotton blend, matte canvas using latest generation Epson archival inks. Individually trimmed and hand stretched museum wrap over 1-1/2" deep wood stretcher bars. Includes wall hanging hardware.
Life is Sweet, Make it Count.
totally true!!! :D :P
Lovely colours. I definitely live for Ice Cream, Salted Caramel ice cream.
Thanks Ben, we appreciate the support!
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yummy design :)
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Wonderful design and colors.
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Yummy... love it!
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Thanks again Susan!
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That we do :D
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Baked Stuffed Eggs Recipe
Meet the Cook: Lucky for me, the man I married was patient. As a young bride, I could hardly boil water! (Now, 42 years later, he and I have three grown daughters and six grandchildren.) This make-ahead egg dish is wonderful for potlucks. -Lorraine Bylsma, Eustis, Florida
- 8 hard-cooked eggs
- 3 to 4 tablespoons sour cream
- 2 teaspoons prepared mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 can (10-3/4 ounces) condensed cream of mushroom soup, undiluted
- 1 cup (8 ounces) sour cream
- 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- 1. Slice eggs in half lengthwise; remove yolks and set whites aside. In a bowl, mash yolks with a fork. Add sour cream, mustard and salt; mix well. Stuff or pipe into egg whites; set aside.
- 2. In a saucepan, saute onion in butter until tender. Add soup and sour cream; mix well. Pour half into an ungreased 11-in. x 7-in. baking pan.
- 3. Arrange stuffed eggs over the sauce. Spoon remaining sauce on top. Sprinkle with cheese and paprika. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
- 4. Remove from the refrigerator 30 minutes before baking. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until heated through. Serve immediately. Yield: 6-8 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1 serving (1 each) equals 235 calories, 18 g fat (10 g saturated fat), 252 mg cholesterol, 580 mg sodium, 6 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 10 g protein.
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Thought that might get your attention! But before I get to the details, let me give you some background.When I turned 40, a friend of mine gave me a great set of notecards. They were the best--great athletic-inspired phrases coupled with pictures of a running shoe, a bike, and a bathing suit. I loved them and used them up quickly.Last … [Read more...]
Our common language
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Ryders winner
A big congratulations to Rachel at the Dalai Mama. Random.org picked number 122 out of 129, so she's getting a pair of Ryders sunglasses! Send me an email Rachel and they're all yours! … [Read more...]
Swapping one race for another
I have certain races I love, that I go back to year after year. Probably top on that list is the Annapolis 10-miler at the end of August each year. It's a fabulous event--5,500 people (just right), a beautiful course throughout Annapolis' scenic neighborhoods, and a real challenge. Just about all of my running partners do this one, so … [Read more...]
Quick and dirty Ryders eyewear giveaway!
/Old, dated sunglasses!Mommy, you look like a bug. Mommy, you look like an alien. Those were the kind words my kids had for me recently when I returned from a bike ride wearing these old sunglasses:Um, ok, I'll admit, maybe these glasses are a bit dated! So it was good timing that Outside PR sent me a couple of pairs of Ryders … [Read more...]
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New kid on the block
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A winner and giving in to Garmin
First, let's get to the business at hand--my CSN Stores giveaway. I had 108 entries and random.org generated number 73 as my winner. That means that Samantha over at Feet in Motion is the winner. Congrats Samantha--email me and I'll get you hooked up with your CSN card!In other news--I'm selling out. I have always been a bit of a purist … [Read more...]
Keeping a tradition (sort of)
This weekend was supposed to be a shore trip for us, but with our pending Australia trip, we decided to bypass the beach and head to Ohio to get in a quick visit with family. I grew up on a lake there, and while my parents don't have a house there any more, they still have friends who do. One was nice enough to offer to let us swim there … [Read more...]
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CSN Stores giveaway!
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BEIRUT -- Rebel forces killed nearly 80 Syrian soldiers in the past few days and activists claimed Tuesday the toll was more than 100 in what appeared to be some of the heaviest losses for government troops since the uprising began 15 months ago.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a network of sources on the ground, said 113 soldiers have been killed in clashes with rebel forces across the country since Friday. The figure was impossible to confirm independently, but the Syrian government confirmed nearly 80 soldiers had been killed over the past three days.
"The regime is suffering major losses," said Rami Abdul-Rahman, head of the Observatory.
Syria's uprising began with mostly peaceful protests, but a brutal government crackdown with tanks, machine guns and snipers led many in the opposition to take up arms. Now, the conflict has morphed into an armed insurgency.
The violence has grown increasingly chaotic in recent months, and it is difficult to assign blame for much of the bloodshed as the country spirals toward civil war. The government restricts journalists from moving freely, making it nearly impossible to independently verify accounts from either side.
Videos and photographs posted online by activists showed destroyed tanks and armored personnel carriers over the past several days. In a video posted online Saturday and said to be taken the Damascus suburb of Douma, an APC was torn to pieces and at least two charred bodies of soldiers were seen near the vehicle.
Government spokesman Jihad Makdissi said last week that rebels are now using sophisticated anti-tank missiles.
Syria's state-run news agency, SANA, says nearly 80 soldiers were killed over the past three days. It said the dead include a brigadier general who was shot dead while on his way to work in the restive northern province of Idlib.
Activists say that more than 13,000 people have been killed since the crisis in Syria began in March last year.
The State Department says international envoy to Syria Kofi Annan will be going to Washington on Friday to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Annan is scheduled to brief an open meeting of the U.N. General Assembly on Syria on Thursday and then attend a closed Security Council meeting to discuss the latest developments. Annan has been pushing a six-point plan to ease Syria's crisis calling for stopping killings and launching an inclusive political process.A cease-fire never took hold and the violence has continued despite the presence of U.N. observers in the country.
U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice tweets:
|@ AmbassadorRice : #Syria regime turned artillery, tanks and helicopters on its own men & women. It unleashed knife-wielding shabiha gangs on its own children.
Russia says international envoy Kofi Annan will visit Moscow on Monday to discuss the ongoing crisis in Syria. Russia also called for an inquiry into an alleged massacre that took place in the village of Tramseh on Thursday. "We have no doubt that this wrongdoing serves the interests of those powers that are not seeking peace but persistently seek to sow the seeds of interconfessional and civilian conflict on Syrian soil," Russia's foreign ministry said in a statement, according to Reuters. Moscow did not apportion blame for the killings.
Read more on Reuters.com.
The Associated Press obtained a video that purports to show the aftermath of an alleged massacre in the village of Tramseh, near Hama.
How do Syria's fighters get their arms? An overview put together by Reuters explains that there are three gateways to the country -- Lebanon, Turkey, and Iraq.
Syrian rebels are smuggling small arms into Syria through a network of land and sea routes involving cargo ships and trucks moving through Turkey, Lebanon and Iraq, maritime intelligence and Free Syrian Army (FSA) officers say. Western and regional powers deny any suggestion they are involved in gun running. Their interest in the sensitive border region lies rather in screening to ensure powerful weapons such as surface to air missiles do not find their way to Islamist or other militants.
Read the full report here.
This citizen journalism image made from video provided by Shaam News Network SNN, purports to show a man mourning a victim killed by violence that, according to anti-regime activists, was carried out by government forces in Tremseh, Syria about 15 kilometers (nine miles) northwest of the central city of Hama, Thursday, July 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network, SNN)
According to the Hama Revolutionary Council, a Syrian opposition group, more than 220 people have been killed in a new alleged massacre in Taramseh. Earlier reports said more than 100 people were killed. "More than 220 people fell today in Taramseh," the Council said in a statement. "They died from bombardment by tanks and helicopters, artillery shelling and summary executions."
Fadi Sameh, an opposition activist from Taramseh, told Reuters he had left the town before the reported massacre but was in touch with residents. "It appears that Alawite militiamen from surrounding villages descended on Taramseh after its rebel defenders pulled out, and started killing the people. Whole houses have been destroyed and burned from the shelling," Sameh claimed.
Read more on Reuters.com.
Syrian activist Rami Jarrah tweets that Syrian State TV has confirmed deaths in Tremseh. "Terrorists" is often the term used by the Syrian regime for opposition forces.
|@ AlexanderPageSY : Syrian State TV: clashes between security apparatus & terrorists in #Tremseh of #Hama leaves large numbers of terrorists killed #Syria
|@ Reuters : UPDATE: DEATH TOLL IN SYRIAN FORCES' ATTACK ON VILLAGE IN SYRIA'S HAMA REGION IS MORE THAN 200, MOSTLY CIVILIANS - OPPOSITION ACTIVISTS
|@ Reuters : At least 100 killed in Syrian village: opposition activists http://t.co/FG3fJwu8


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I bought this as a replacement for my normal wedding set while I'm pregnant and my fingers have swollen. It looks great and it's very comfortable. I was worried about it scratching things since the diamonds go all the way around, but it hasn't actually been a problem. It looks just like the picture.
- How did the image on site compare with the actual product? exact
- How accurate was the sizing? exact
This ring is very pretty but it is not intended for everyday wear sad to say. I was planning on wearing it with two other rings because they looked so nice together, and my other rings I wear on a permanent basis. After wearing my new eternity band for one week, I have already lost one diamond out of it. What a shame. So wear it sparingly and your diamonds should last.
- Did the image onsite match the product? It seemed a little smaller
- Did the product fit true to size? Yes
- How is the quality of the product? Fair to good
This is just okay. Too much money for not enough product.
It was a pretty ring but I looked it over I saw it was missing a setting so I had to return it.
- How did the image on site compare with the actual product? very accurate
- How accurate was the sizing? exact
- Please tell us about the quality of the product. missing a setting


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When a stroke happens, the countdown begins. "Time is brain" is a common phrase used by the Barnes-Jewish Stroke Management and Rehabilitation Team (SMART), a group of specialists who bring unique expertise and exceptional care to help stroke patients. There is a limited window of opportunity for the rapid response stroke team to assess a patient's situation, individualize the treatment and administer the clot-busting medications. The team has developed a process of "door-to-needle" that is rapid and seamless, resulting in:
Barnes-Jewish Hospital is dedicated to providing its patients with the most comprehensive care when it comes to stroke treatment and prevention:
To find out more about the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Stroke Center, visit us online at Stroke/Cerebrovascular Disease or call 314-TOP-DOCS (314-867-3627) or toll-free 866-867-3627.\
Other topics in the Real Science, Real Innovation series:
November: Lung Cancer
December: Pancreatic Cancer
January: Stroke TPA Treatment
February: Heart Attack and STEMI
March: Colon Cancer
April: Atrial Fibrillation
May: Hemorrhagic Stroke
June: Breast Cancer
July: Leukemia
August: Stroke
September: Prostate Cancer
October: Neurosurgery
Barnes-Jewish has the most advanced operating room imaging technology in the world at its disposal with the installation of a multi-room iMRI surgical imaging suite, enabling neurosurgeons to perform important MRI tests while surgery is in progress. Find out more in this video.


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Book your room at Quality Hotel Mildura Grand
Get an overview of this hotel4-star hotel with 5 restaurants and free breakfast
Quality Hotel Mildura Grand places you in the center of Mildura, within steps of Mildura Brewery Pub and a short 10-minute stroll of Ornamental Lakes Park and Jaycee Park. Highlights at this hotel include 5 restaurants, an outdoor swimming pool, and free buffet breakfast.
All 92 rooms feature free WiFi, TVs, and hair dryers. Room service and phones are also available.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
In addition to an outdoor pool, Quality Hotel Mildura Grand provides a sauna and a fitness center. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 5 restaurants. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This 4-star property offers access to a business center, a meeting room, and meeting rooms. Event facilities include a conference center and conference space. This Mildura hotel also offers tour/ticket assistance, gift shops/newsstands, and a garden.
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- Free WiFi
- Outdoor pool
- Conference space
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- Total number of rooms - 92
- Laundry facilities
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- Free breakfast
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
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- Bar/lounge
- Business center
- Newspapers in lobby (surcharge)
- Fitness facilities
- Computer station
- One meeting room
- Luggage storage
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Free parking nearby
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- Number of restaurants - 5
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- Air conditioning
- Private bathroom
- Room service (limited hours)
- Television
- Phone
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Where to Eat
A complimentary buffet breakfast is served each morning between 7 AM and 10 AM.
Jim McDougalls - This restaurant serves lunch and dinner.
Spanish Bar and Grill - This steakhouse serves lunch and dinner. Open select days.
Pizza Cafe - This restaurant specializes in Italian cuisine and serves lunch and dinner.
Mildura Brewery - This brewpub serves light fare only.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Activities
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an outdoor pool, a sauna, and a fitness center.
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-out time is 10 AM
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.


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More than 300 activists took to patrolling the Prey Lang forest again for four days, March 23-26, to combat illegal logging. Dressed as Avatars from the blockbuster movie, members of the Prey Lang Network and the Cambodia Natural Resources Conservation group clashed with police and private security guards at a sawmill within Prey Lang forest. The protesting villagers demanded entrance to the building to see whether it had a government license to operate. After a negotiation with the district governor, they were allowed entry to the site.
The activist groups believe that the mill is being used as a front to store illegally logged wood from the forest until it may be shipped out for export and sale as luxury lumber. Radio Free Asia reported that a protesting villager said that the group had no choice but to raid the sawmill in order to protect the forest, and called on the company to discuss the impact of deforestation with the villagers.
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Master of Science in Finance (MSF)
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The curriculum is divided into three sets of courses: a fundamental core, a quantitative core and electives. The fundamental core includes six courses across five disciplines. These introductory courses are required and cover accounting, economics, financial management, investment management, statistics and ethics. The quantitative core consists of four courses that are designed to develop analytical and modeling skills: two financial math and modeling courses, a course on derivative securities, an econometrics class and finally, a capstone course.
A maximum of 4 courses from the fundamental core may be waived for qualified students. MSF candidates choose 7 or 8 electives from a list of more than 15 courses. The electives span three career tracks: corporate finance, risk management and asset management. Students may select electives from any/all career tracks, but we recommend a concentration (four or more courses) in one track. We encourage students to consider ancillary courses outside the Quinlan School of Business, especially math, statistics, computer science and law courses.
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Fundamental Core (4)
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1964 Chevrolet Chevelle • 50,000 miles
Replaced the water pump, car runs hot. Mech said there is an air pocket that keps the coolant from flowing. There is no thermasat in the car currently. The top radiator hose gets hot but the bottom hose stays cool. The new gaskets are properly installed, the pump is new, and the radiator is free of obstructions. How do you get the air out of the engine?
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Warren William plays a high-powered ambitious executive who unflinchingly steamrolled his way to the top without regard for the havoc he left in his wake. As the manager of a Macy-like department store, he constantly browbeats his flunkies into submission, and ends-up driving at least one to suicide. Loretta Young plays the wife of one of William's minor employees (Wallace Ford), with whom the Big Boss has a brief affair during an office party. Eventually William gets his comeuppance, and Loretta is vindicated in the eyes of her hubby. A terrific example of pre-Motion Picture Production Code raciness, Employees' Entrance still causes audiences to gasp at its audaciousness when seen today--and also invokes loud laughter when William rebukes one of his errant vice presidents, asking him "What am I paying you so much for? Fifteen thousand a year!" ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi


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The Reno-Tahoe Open is this week's stop on the PGA Tour, assuming you aren't in the field of the WGC-Bridgestone event in Ohio.
And that means instead of the same old 72-hole stroke-play format that dominates the PGA Tour week in and week out, we get the modified Stableford scoring system for a week in Reno. A golfer get two points for a birdie, five for an eagle and eight for the rare double eagle. But a player gets nothing for a par and loses a point for a bogey and three points for anything above a bogey. The idea is to promote a little aggressive play.
Okay, maybe you don't want to see a modified Stableford system every week on the tour. Maybe you don't want to see it more than once a year. But the idea of PGA Tour pros playing something other than 72 holes of stroke play can be refreshing.
The problem is that 72 holes of stroke play is a wonderful way to identify the top player in any given week. So the tour, in fact every tour around the world, is wedded to stroke play. The PGA Tour has only one match-play event, the Accenture Match Play Championship featuring the top 64 player in the world (or at least the top 64 who agree to play in the event).
So what other formats could the PGA Tour embrace as one-time events through a year: How about:
Another match play event: Yes, there is the WGC Accenture event, but that's not for the PGA Tour rank and file. Match play presents problems, from losing stars in the first round to matches that can range from 12 to 22 holes or more. Still, a match-play event for the tour could be entertaining.
A team event: Team competitions seem popular in the Ryder Cup, so why not bring a two-man better-ball event to the tour. Let the top, say, 48 players eligible pick a partner from the rest of the tour and then have at it. Imagine how entertaining a four-team, eight-man playoff would be.
A mixed team event: One of the tournaments I always liked as a kid was the only JC Penney tournament that featured a PGA Tour player and an LPGA player teamed together. You have to wonder why the PGA Tour would be interested in this, but the LPGA would certainly benefit from the exposure. Wouldn't you tune in to see, say, Phil Mickelson and Stacy Lewis playing against Inbee Park and Tiger Woods?
A skins game: Since the end of the old Skins Game a few years ago, lots of people have asked what could be done to revive the fun format. More money and bigger starts than were playing at the end of the event would help. And of course it couldn't be an official event. But bringing back a skins format would certainly be fun for fans, if it was done right.


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In fall and winter, it's deer and elk, pushed down from the high country by hunters and changing weather. Somehow I've avoided a head-on collision, but I once clipped a muley's back foot as it bounded like a high-jumper over the hood. Last week, a small flock of mountain bluebirds swooped in front of my truck as I drove to the grocery store. I braked, hoping they had all somehow eluded my grill. But in the rearview mirror, I watched a sky-colored male tumble like a ball across the road. "Damn it," I muttered, "another 'incidental take.' "
That's the formal term wildlife agencies use for cases in which a protected wild animal is unintentionally killed. From a legal standpoint, it means that I, and all the other drivers on the road, will be pardoned; we have no liability if we collide with, and kill, a species of federally protected frog — or a grizzly, for that matter. After all, we didn't mean to do it.
But should large industrial developers get off the hook so easily, especially if scientists clearly show that their business practices are killing wildlife? That's one of the questions raised by Judith Lewis Mernit's cover story on how some determined ecologists are seeking to hold large-scale Western wind and solar facilities responsible for the birds they attract and kill. Over the past several decades, ecologist Shawn Smallwood has single-mindedly researched such avian deaths. The results are disquieting, not only because they demonstrate the considerable environmental trade-offs we are making for the sake of clean power, but because of the way some in the industry reacted to his findings — with disinformation campaigns and personal attacks.
Just shoot the messenger: It's an often-used page from the playbook of many extractive industries. But it doesn't have to be that way. Smallwood's efforts have actually helped the wind industry; despite its initial resistance, it's now embracing large, slow-turning turbine blades and careful site selection to minimize the carnage. It's high time for Big Solar and its state and federal regulators to do the same, before any new plans are approved in the Mojave Desert.
No one is entirely guilt-free when it comes to the "incidental taking" of wildlife. But we can reduce the carnage, partly by reducing our consumption of energy, or producing our own, so that new power plants are unnecessary. And we can also just slow the hell down as we drive the West's marvelous back roads.]]>
I pointed out that without the law, and the environmentalists who were using it, logging companies would have razed the last remnants of ancient forests in the Pacific Northwest without a second thought, wiping out not only the northern spotted owl, but also a whole range of species that depend on that ecosystem. In the process, they would have destroyed the resource base of their own industry. The law, I argued, is necessary: How else can citizens put the brakes on ecologically mindless exploitation?
We never came to agreement, but a decade later, in 2002, the themes of our debate resonated in High Country News' first major story about "the next spotted owl," the greater sage grouse. From a scientific perspective, the finicky denizen of the West's rapidly declining "sagebrush sea" clearly qualified for federal protection. But a listing could mean new restrictions for energy companies and thousands of ranchers across 11 states.
Many predicted a political fiasco that would simply encourage Congress to gut the law, but 13 years later, as Senior Editor Jodi Peterson reports in this issue, something remarkable has happened: Instead of hunkering down for an endless legal battle, ranchers, biologists, land managers, environmentalists and even energy companies are working together to conserve and restore millions of acres of private and public lands for the bird — and by extension the ecosystem it depends on. The progress, led by far-sighted biologists and greased by millions of taxpayer dollars, has been so rapid and extensive that Interior Secretary Sally Jewell says her department will do everything in its power to not list the bird, whose status comes up for re-evaluation in September.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service may eventually be forced to list if the grouse's numbers — now around 400,000 — continue to decline. But even if that happens, Peterson says, the work already done by the diverse stakeholders will serve as a solid foundation for any federal recovery plan. There should be few surprises, and less of a reason for the usual fear-mongering over-reactions.
That our nation's strongest environmental law might function better as a catalyst for ecosystem-wide conservation than as last-minute CPR for individual species is a development that I imagine my debater of yore would wholeheartedly embrace. It is surely a sign that the West is finally maturing.]]>
An hour and only a few hundred feet down later, I realized: really hard. What looked from a distance like a set of natural stairs was actually a hazardous geologic jumble. When the first rock shifted unexpectedly under me, I suddenly envisioned a crushed ankle, a broken crutch. What would I do? There was no one in sight, and only a bag of gorp and half-bottle of water to get me through a cold night outdoors. Going back was impossible, so I improvised, tossing my crutches ahead of me and then scrambling like a monkey over the rocks to retrieve them. In this manner, I slowly inched downward. A few nerve-racking, sweat-soaked hours later, I reached the trees and walked on blessedly soft duff to the lakeshore. At dusk, I reached my friends' cabin, exhausted, chastened — and utterly exhilarated.
That hike was three decades ago, and I can still feel its emotional and physical rush. It's the same feeling that has lured millions of people to the West's vast public wildlands for a century. But the ways we experience that landscape are changing, as this special issue explores. For one, there are simply more of us competing for limited space. So we no longer confine ourselves to the Yosemites and Yellowstones; we've discovered hundreds of new hotspots, such as the national forests outside Sedona, where HCN Fellow Sarah Tory reports on a mountain biking boom that has forced federal land managers and bikers to confront the uncomfortable fact that even quiet recreational pursuits can overrun the land.
And then there is technology. From flying squirrel suits and ever-burlier bikes and four-wheelers, to GoPro cameras and cellphones with apps that monitor every footstep, gadgets accompany us into the most remote places. Too often, we use them to buffer us from a direct encounter with the wild, even as we "share" every second with hordes of unseen strangers. As Senior Editor Jonathan Thompson observes, "We're not just rock climbers, backpackers and trail-runners; we're performers and entertainers."
It can be disturbing, but it's not destiny. In the stories here, people still experience the elemental West, whether it's Krista Langlois swirling down a frigid Alaskan river or Nic Korte confronting his own mortality in the Grand Canyon. For no matter how much fancy gear we carry, or how many people we meet, with just one step off the beaten path, we can enter a new and exhilarating world.]]>
HCN contributor Ana Maria Spagna has just released a handbook for the post-oil world called 100 Skills You'll Need for the End of the World (As We Know It). She describes it as "slightly tongue-in-cheek, but earnest, too, a quirky shift in thinking about what makes us human, what might help us survive." Her suggestions include "canning" and "bartering," but also "daydreaming," "laughing" and "staying home." For details, see anamariaspagna.com.
Nick Neely, former HCN intern (winter 2010), recently received a Food and Farming journalism fellowship from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Nick plans to write about the way "excess hatchery salmon and steelhead in Oregon are delivered to food banks or thrown back into streams as carcasses to enrich the ecosystem." He first hatched this story idea while at HCN, he says.
And finally, our own website, hcn.org, received first place for "General Website Excellence" in the Society of Professional Journalists' Top of the Rockies annual contest. We competed against other publications from four Western states, with readerships of 30,000-79,000, for "content, interactivity, design, navigation, multimedia and community tools." Good job, HCN! (If we do say so ourselves.)
At well over 6 feet tall and wearing a T-shirt decorated with wolves, Dale Hawker stopped in to renew his longtime subscription. Dale, who runs a sawmill in Troy, Montana, population (maybe) 800, also makes lamps and tables, but is proudest of his dog, Timber, a 170-pound mix of Alaskan malamute and wolf, with fur as thick as dreadlocks. A lot of wolf-dog mixes have, um, emotional "issues," but Dale assured us that his dog was just shy, though you wouldn't want to "mess with his food" by attempting to take away a bone, for example, nor should you "come near him with scissors." Dale added that his dog possesses remarkable discernment: "If he doesn't want to let somebody out of their car, it's because he shouldn't. He's a good judge of people." We'll take your word for it, Dale. But what about delivery people? "No problem!" said Dale. The UPS guy "always starts out flinging dog biscuits." Dale was in our area to attend the 75th birthday party of his stepdad, Tom Huerkamp, a former HCN board member.
Our May 11 cover story, "The Wetland Wars," said that Roy van de Hoek girdled eucalyptus while still a Bureau of Land Management employee; he actually did that two years after leaving that job.
Babbitt caught Clinton at a good time; it was the president's second term, and he was eager to establish his legacy, and also, if possible, to divert attention from his administration's simmering scandals. By the time Clinton left the White House, he had created or expanded 22 national monuments, covering some 6 million acres in the West. He did this by wielding the executive authority that TR himself had signed into law — the 1906 Antiquities Act.
That presidents enjoy using their executive authority should come as no surprise, especially when they're facing a Congress that reflexively opposes almost everything they do. In the past two years, Barack Obama has used his own power to keep immigrant families together, to sign a treaty with China reducing greenhouse gases, and, yes, to create a bunch of new national monuments in the West. Most of them, like Clinton's, are managed by the Bureau of Land Management. When our new Washington, D.C., correspondent, Elizabeth Shogren, examined the striking similarities between the conservation policies of the Clinton and Obama administrations, she uncovered an important common denominator: John Podesta.
Podesta, who served both presidents during their second terms, is an incredibly influential behind-the-scenes practitioner of the power game. The idea of playing "three-dimensional chess" has become a political cliché, but according to Carol Browner, Obama's former climate czar, Podesta is a genuine master of the art.
Podesta was raised on the streets of Chicago and has spent most of his life inside the Beltway, and yet his most enduring legacy is likely to be out here, in the West. (Podesta is not quite done with politics; he's currently directing Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.) In this issue, we feature Shogren's profile of Podesta and give a brief history of the Antiquities Act. We also take a look at Clinton-era monuments in Colorado and Montana and a potential new one in California.
One lesson is clear: Bold White House proclamations don't automatically change how these pieces of public land are managed. Conflicts over grazing or energy development or archaeological preservation tend to persist, partly because the new monuments try, and fail, to please everyone involved. But as John Hart's essay on the proposed Berryessa-Snow Mountain National Monument observes, simply calling a place a national monument somehow opens our eyes to its natural wonders. And in a world increasingly dominated by human activity, that's a worthwhile legacy for anyone.]]>
April winds brought Kelsey Elwood, a teaching and research assistant at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, to our door. She was in the area to study how those brisk winds affect local farmers' orchards. Kelsey, a Western Slope native, was delighted to be back on this side of the mountains for a week. She reminisced with fellow Colorado College alum, HCN's Online Editor Tay Wiles, about mutual friends and old professors.
Sherye Bacon Boylan, who grew up here in the area but now lives in LeRoy, New York, was in Paonia visiting her sister, Donna, and niece Krista, and they all dropped in to visit HCN headquarters. Sherye told us that their father used to own the old Gambles Hardware building across the street — where HCN was first housed when it relocated to Paonia in 1983 from its birthplace in Lander, Wyoming.
Frank DeMita and Georgia Nakou came all the way from Jersey — no, not that Jersey, but the largest of the British Channel Islands. Frank first ran across High Country News as a law student in Taos, New Mexico, and has kept an eye on the magazine ever since. They were eager to sample Paonia's culinary delights, so we sent them off with back issues and a list of scenic hikes to walk off all those tasty meals.
Remember those "Subscriber Alert" notices in recent issues of HCN about an Oregon company sending unauthorized renewal offers? In March, the state's attorney general filed a lawsuit against 19 companies and nine people accused of running a "sophisticated mail scam" that tricked people into paying inflated prices to renew their subscriptions to various magazines and newspapers, bilking them of some $20 million. Reader R.N. Vredenburg of Grants Pass, Oregon, sent us a clip about the lawsuit and wrote, "Out of business soon? Let's hope for the best!" We sure hope so, too!
Alert reader Steve Snyder of Marlin, Texas, sent us a note about our April 13, 2015, story "The West in 72 Hours." He wrote: "Space shuttles may have landed at Edwards (Air Force Base, in the Mojave Desert), but they were, of course, never launched from there, which is the verb in your story." Thanks for the careful read, Steve. Also in that issue, we referred to the Grand Tetons rather than Grand Teton National Park, and "Glacier National Park" appeared as "Galcier." Ouch. HCN regrets the errors.
I wish I could be that frugal. (Though Mr. Read may have taken his frugality to an extreme; his lawyer said, "He wouldn't even park close to my office because he didn't want to pay for parking.") A retirement-advice columnist said that if I had just started saving around $5,000 a year back when I was 25 years old, I would be a millionaire by the time I hit 65. But I didn't listen.
Of course, back then saving even $50 a month seemed impossible. It's hard to swim ahead confidently when you can barely keep your head above water. I have less sympathy for those lottery winners and professional athletes who do earn enough to save for a rainy day, but utterly blow their money. Unfortunately, some of the communities that have ridden the boom-and-bust roller coaster of the energy industry fall into this category, too.
As senior editor Jonathan Thompson reports in this issue, Farmington, New Mexico, which sits atop the fossil-fuel-rich San Juan Basin, has enjoyed almost a century's worth of the euphoric financial highs generated by high commodity prices, often for decades at a time. And yet, when the price of gas guttered out in 2008, and then oil did the same late in 2014, the town was as ill-prepared as ever to cope with the sudden loss of well-paying jobs and reduced tax revenue. It had never set up a rainy-day fund, and its leaders, while acknowledging the need to diversify their economy, have taken only timid steps in that direction.
One can only hope that the current double whammy of low oil and gas prices will spur the West's many Farmingtons to quit talking and start acting. It is possible; state governments in Wyoming and even in New Mexico have set aside billions in taxes paid by the industry, and that money is helping to maintain schools and keep other essential services going even as tax revenues continue to seesaw dramatically. But the wisdom of that approach has yet to filter down to the local level. So far, Farmington's basic strategy, as Thompson notes, is to simply wait hopefully for the next boom, just around the corner.
Or, as the bumpersticker adorning thousands of trucks around the West's oil and gas patches so succinctly proclaims: "Please God, send us another boom; I promise not to piss this one away."]]>
When Garfield County, Utah, Commissioner Louise Liston said this to me in 1996, I was pretty sure she'd pegged me as one of those one-night-stand environmentalists. We were discussing the new 1.9 million-acre Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument that President Bill Clinton had created a few months earlier. It was an exhilarating moment for the West's conservation community, but Liston and most of the other locals I spoke to in the tiny town of Escalante —some of them direct descendants of the Mormon pioneers who settled southern Utah's canyon country a century ago — hated it.
They resented what they called a government "land grab" — even though the monument was already federally owned — partly because it killed a planned coal mine with good-paying jobs. They feared environmentalists would take away their grazing rights. Perhaps most of all, they hated that the monument would attract outsiders with different values, turning their world upside down.
Over the ensuing 19 years, High Country News has periodically revisited Escalante country to see how the post-monument drama is unfolding. Parts of the plot have played out predictably: Visitors have increased dramatically, some newcomers have moved into town, and there has been friction over cattle grazing and motorized recreation.
But there have been a few twists. One was the formation more than five years ago of a local watershed group that explicitly seeks to bridge the divide between old-timers and newcomers through restoration projects. When the writer of our cover story, Scott Carrier, interviewed the non-Mormon leaders of the Escalante River Watershed Partnership, he found that they are still struggling to get most Mormon ranchers to participate in their practical river-restoration efforts, which include removing invasive species such as Russian olive. Carrier's thesis — that the distrust between ranchers and conservationists exists because they have "entirely different cosmologies, or answers to the questions of where we come from, why we are here, and where we are going" — is likely to resonate with many who have lived in the West's small rural communities. But his reporting also reveals that, like the early Mormon settlers, some of the so-called "outsiders" have dug in for the long haul, working the land in new ways to make a living. Year by year, project by project, they are developing a deep abiding love that could lead to a new relationship with the old-timers and the magnificent landscape they both inhabit. Sometimes we forget that even the old-timers' families were newcomers once.]]>
Over the years, we've broadened our understanding of what constitutes an HCN story. When we get a good pitch about a battle on public lands, though, there's no hesitation: All eyes in the room light up. "That's down the center of our plate," someone will intone as heads bob up and down. We all know that HCN exists largely because of the national forests, parks, wildlife refuges and BLM lands; they are the connective tissues that bind this region together and differentiate it from the rest of the country and, indeed, the world. Where else does the average citizen have the ability to explore unfettered more than half a billion acres of mountains, canyons, deserts and grasslands?
And yet the West's public lands have always seemed to belong to some folks more than others. A relatively small number of ranchers have the right to graze livestock on them; private companies drill for oil and gas, cut timber and dig for minerals on them; ski resorts charge folks a premium to slide down runs carved out from the public domain. And, as Montana writer Marshall Swearingen explores in our cover story, private landowners can secure almost exclusive access to adjacent public lands simply by locking a gate and putting up a "no trespassing" sign.
That's infuriating to those hunters, hikers and other recreationists who in recent years have seen roads long opened to the public get shuttered off by new landowners who want more privacy or, more insidiously, exclusive access to public lands for the patrons of their guest ranch or outfitting business. It can amount to a privatization of a public resource, yet, as Swearingen discovers, access advocates face an uphill battle to legally prove that historic access routes should remain open. In many cases the paperwork simply doesn't exist.
That's the bad news. The good news is that in some places, activists, land agencies, county governments and landowners have worked out ways to keep the gates open while respecting private property rights. We hope to see more of these success stories in coming years and write about them in the magazine.
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In the late 1990s, I convinced High Country News to send me to the Pacific Northwest to cover the fight over the Columbia Basin's diminished wild salmon runs. There, I finally grasped the salmon's truly jaw-dropping journey, from mountain streams in Idaho to the Pacific Ocean and back again, and I saw how thoroughly we had reshaped the hydro-system, our dams turning the Columbia and Snake rivers into a series of slackwater reservoirs, deadly to fish.
I also learned about what HCN correspondent Ben Goldfarb describes in this issue as "the West's most aggravating legal cycle," in which conservationists regularly butt heads with the powerful agencies and interests that control the Columbia and are legally obligated to "restore" its endangered wild salmon runs. In the late 1990s, salmon activists and scientists began building a solid case that the dams on the Snake River would have to go before true restoration could occur.
Their greatest allies in the fight have been Northwest tribes, who have deep cultural ties to salmon and retain the legal right to harvest them. Surely tribal lawsuits, combined with growing evidence that our current efforts to transport fish around and through dams weren't working, would win the day. But that has not happened. Instead, as Goldfarb reports, the Bonneville Power Administration, which sells electricity from the dams and funds most of the region's salmon recovery efforts, cut a deal with all but one of the tribes. The BPA would funnel a huge amount of money into the tribes' salmon hatcheries and habitat improvement projects if those tribes promised not to challenge the government's recovery effort, or even to advocate for dam breaching.
Were the 2008 Fish Accords, which expire in 2018, merely a bribe, or are they yielding tangible benefits for both the salmon and the tribes? The nuanced story Goldfarb tells provides no easy answers. It does, however, reveal a lot about the modern relationship that Northwest tribes have with salmon. And reading it, I felt again that sense of wonder about the wild creatures with whom we share the West.]]>
I'm not a city person. I live just outside a small town of less than 2,000 souls, and I like its gritty, two-block downtown, where you see your neighbors every time you pick up the mail or buy some dog food; I like the quiet so deep that you can hear the wingbeats of ravens and eagles overhead, the night skies so dark and clear that you can almost touch the stars. And I love the fact that I never, ever have to sit in traffic, except in the company of cows or sheep.
Still, I relish the chance to visit the city. There, I can feel that pulse of energy unique to humanity, generated by hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of people living and working cheek by jowl. The vast majority of Westerners live in urban areas, yet, as Senior Editor Jonathan Thompson reports in our cover story, since the end of World War II, those cities have grown increasingly unlivable, with their glass-and-steel downtowns that empty out by 6 p.m. and their ever-expanding rings of megaburbs, where you have to drive and sit in traffic to do almost anything.
This model of development, fortunately, has finally begun to change. Led by a new wave of creative planners and developers and supported by citizens fed up with traffic jams, many Western cities are embracing public transportation, light rail in particular, and the walkable, bikeable, mixed-use neighborhoods it can spawn. Denver, with a 10-year sprint to revamp its lower downtown and build a practical rail system, has been at the forefront of this railvolution, but Salt Lake, Albuquerque and even, as Thompson discovers, Phoenix are fast on its heels.
These days, I look forward to heading over the mountains to Denver to see what new parks, apartments, businesses and public spaces have sprouted since my last visit. After a ballgame at Coors Field, a quick bus ride to a great restaurant and then a stroll through neighborhoods filled with people out shopping and enjoying the evening, I start thinking that perhaps I, too, could live in a city.
But, no. After a couple of days, I'm eager to leave the bustle behind and drive back to our semi-wild — one could almost say feral — region. Cities are not for all of us. But as the West fills up with millions of newcomers in the coming years, it is essential that our cities become more livable places. And embracing rail, rather than more roads, may be the best way to do it.]]>
Writer Jon Christensen did a cover story for HCN that year, focusing on Pence and the rising anti-federal sentiment in Nevada. Then, as now, ranchers resented grazing regulations, and Western rural counties wanted more control of federal lands. The 19-year-old story reminded me that serious hostility toward federal employees is nothing new. In fact, it has been around since the late 1800s, when the federal government's determination to develop the West's water resources and manage its badly overused rangelands and forests clashed headlong with the corporations and settlers who wanted those resources for themselves.
The participants in our public-lands forum acknowledged that federal agencies can, at times, be their own worst enemy. Both Ruch, whose group advocates for environmental regulation, and Utah's San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman, who led a protest ATV ride earlier this year on a road closed by the Bureau of Land Management, said the agency is mired in bureaucracy and often seems incapable of decision-making. Former BLM Director Bob Abbey noted that some of the agency's problems stem from having to fend off hundreds of lawsuits, even as certain lawmakers, for political reasons, seek to starve it of funds in order to guarantee its failure.
The agencies have genuine problems, as anyone who reads HCN knows, and there are legitimate complaints to be made. But, as senior editor Ray Ring writes in this issue, assaults — in words or deeds — against employees for doing their jobs are simply unacceptable. Ragtag armed "militia" should not be encouraged or supported when they point guns at BLM employees, as they did this summer in Bunkerville, Nevada, in a face-off over enforcing grazing regulations on rancher Cliven Bundy. As Bob Abbey put it: "There were laws that were broken, there were lives that were threatened, and there have to be consequences for that."
His message echoes what Pence's boss, Forest Supervisor Jim Nelson, told HCN back in 1995: "As long as people are breaking the law and getting away with it — until those kinds of folks are dealt with — it's going to be tough. ... You have to stand up to bullies or they will take over."]]>
Ray has crossed the continent for HCN, from Alaska, where he showed how salmon research reveals the complexity — and fragility — of nature ("Ecosystems 101," 12/2/13) to the U.S.-Mexico border, where the Border Patrol damages deserts in the name of homeland security ("Border Out of Control," 6/16/14).
The staff will miss Ray's prodigious output, his fearlessness and his self-deprecating humor. But fortunately Ray will continue to work as a part-time contributing editor. He's just turned 65 and wants to spend more time traveling and writing fiction — something he did successfully years ago.
This man of incredible endurance and energy — who worked weekends and nights to get every detail just right — certainly deserves a break. Just not too long a break, we hope, for the sake of our readers, and even more for sake of the staff. For we admire Ray and his work more than we can ever say.
At our fall board meeting in Denver, we were delighted to welcome five new HCN board members. Two of them are profiled below; the remaining three will appear in future issues.
John Belkin has been an attorney in Colorado since 1998, working real estate, land use, conservation easements and government affairs. Since 2006, he's been the Crested Butte town attorney. He's also served as a law clerk for federal courts and as a congressional staffer and in the Executive Office of the president. Originally from New Britain, Connecticut, John is a graduate of Quinnipiac University School of Law and Hobart College. He enjoys skiing, mountaineering and mountain biking and spending time with his wife, Melissa.
An editor specializing in science, health and the environment, Laura Helmuth brings deep journalism and new media experience to the board: She's been a writer and editor for Science magazine and the science editor for Smithsonian magazine, and is now the science and health editor for Slate magazine and the vice president of the National Association of Science Writers. Laura has a Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience from the University of California, Berkeley. A hiker and birdwatcher, she comes West from her Maryland home whenever she can.
In the Sept. 15 issue, the book review titled "A new century with carnivores" stated that the Millville Predator Research Facility was based at the University of Utah, but it's actually at Utah State University. HCN regrets the error.
In our profile of writer Charles Bowden in the Oct. 13 issue, due to mistaken information from a photographer, we misidentified the third man in an early 1970s photo of Bowden with Edward Abbey. The third man was monkey-wrencher Dave Foreman, not Doug Peacock.]]>
The short answer is that we won't, at least not intentionally. Jodi Peterson, HCN's managing editor, explains one reason on page 3: The Forest Service currently spends the majority of its annual budget fighting wildfires instead of restoring sick forests to prevent those fires from happening in the first place. It's forced to regularly steal from restoration and other programs to cover firefighting cost overruns. Efforts to change this have gotten stuck in a gridlocked Congress.
Another reason is that, even with truckloads of money, the Forest Service and the diminished logging industry just can't seem to do the job. As investigative journalist Claudine LoMonaco reports in our cover story, the agency has struggled to get its biggest restoration effort — the so-called 4FRI project in northern Arizona's ponderosa pine belt — off the ground, despite support from a wide range of stakeholders. By now, loggers were supposed to be making good progress on the project's first phase — thinning 300,000 acres of spindly, dog-hair thickets to create healthy groves of the kind of large pines and meadows that don't burn so hot, while supplying markets with useful wood-based products. But the Forest Service hired a questionable contractor who quickly folded, and there are troubling signs that a second contractor might also be in trouble.
The agency's sour relationship with environmentalists, whose lawsuits battered the Southwest's logging program, also factors into 4FRI's problems. Old-school agency managers resist hard-and-fast restrictions on logging the larger, more valuable pines, while environmentalists insist that these trees are essential habitat for threatened spotted owls, rare goshawks and a host of other species.
The Forest Service's near paralysis, made worse by limited funding, suggests that the overall effort to restore our forests will remain modest for years to come, even as wildfires grow larger in this era of drought and climate change. The agency has proven that it can manage small-scale thinning projects that help rural economies as well as forests. But greatly increasing the scale of this work is simply not practical, even if the problems with projects like 4FRI are overcome. In the meantime, Mother Nature will continue to manage the forests with the kind of gigantic wildfires that restructure entire ecosystems almost overnight. That's a humbling prospect.]]>
I have always used crutches to get around and had never carried a pack for any distance. The experience was more difficult than I anticipated. Despite my companions taking the heavier equipment, the pack's extra weight threw me off balance. As the reality of the long slog ahead settled in, my optimistic pace slowed; I fell behind, and began paying more attention to the dirt beneath my crutch tips than the beauty of the forest. With a lot of support, I completed the trip and, despite aching bones and sore armpits, even felt some wilderness magic. Camping in the cool Appalachian mist amid wild rhododendrons and cushiony mosses was unforgettable.
But I realized then that I would never be a backcountry traveler, at least not without some motorized help. Today a Jeep and an all-terrain vehicle escort me to the wild, and I don't stray too far from the road. My idea of a wilderness experience is driving to a mountain lake, inflating my kayak and paddling around the marshy edges, camera and binoculars in tow.
It's not the pure "mountain man" experience I once imagined, but, as several of this issue's stories demonstrate, our ideas of the wild and how to access it shouldn't be too rigid. Christopher Ketcham laments the decline of backpacking, particularly among the younger generation, and the rise of "done-in-a-day" adrenaline recreation. What is lost, he writes, "is the radical encounter with the non-human" that technology-free wilderness provides so well.
John Hart has long reveled in – and worried about – the country's disappearing roadless areas, but he no longer sees wilderness protection as the central endeavor of the conservation movement, as it was in the heady days of yore. Rather, it is one of several tools that help us manage and inhabit ecosystems. Many wilderness bills today acknowledge this by incorporating the human dimension, from airstrips and livestock grazing to (occasionally) residential development.
Perhaps no one embodies our complex modern relationship with wilderness as well as filmmaker Sinuhe Xavier, the central character in the cover essay by HCN contributing editor Craig Childs. Wielding his Land Rover through Utah's redrock country, he is, as Childs writes, "as bad-ass an off-roader as there is," yet, he knows that without the constraint of wilderness and national monument boundaries, our love of motors would overrun the world's magical places.
In the end, as Childs suggests, we cannot be fully human without getting out of our vehicles, turning off our devices and directly encountering the wild, however we can do it. May you get the chance to do so soon.]]>


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Ariz. court: Cops can't keep Rx marijuana patients pot
Category: News | Posted on Sat, July, 13th 2013 by THCFinder
PHOENIX –– Medical marijuana patients whose drugs are taken by police are entitled to get it back, the Arizona Supreme Court has ruled.
In a brief order, the justices rejected arguments by prosecutors that the drug is strictly regulated by the federal government, leaving police legally powerless to turn marijuana over to anyone else. They gave no reason for their ruling.
The order most immediately affects Valerie Okun, whose drugs were taken from her nearly two years ago on Interstate 8 near Yuma. While she was never prosecuted -- she has a valid medical marijuana card from California -- sheriff's deputies refused to return the drugs.
But Yuma County Sheriff Leon Wilmot told Capitol Media Services on Tuesday he's still not ready to hand over the marijuana. He hopes to get the case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
If he succeeds, that could affect more than the immediate question of when police have to return marijuana taken from medical cardholders.
It presents an opportunity for the nation's high court to look at the obvious conflict between laws in places like Arizona where at least some individuals can buy and have marijuana, and federal statutes which consider possession by anyone other than authorized researchers a felony. And that could pave the way for Supreme Court to finally rule whether states have an inherent right to enact their own marijuana laws.
Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk said federal court intervention is necessary.
"I find it a bit frustrating that Arizona's marching ahead with facilitating and implementing the availability of marijuana, a controlled substance, in conflict with federal law,'' said Polk, who chairs the Arizona Prosecuting Attorneys' Advisory Council. She said a court needs to "deal with the issue of federal preemption head-on.''
Okun initially was stopped at a Border Patrol checkpoint. Officers searched her vehicle after a dog alerted on it, finding marijuana and hashish.
The Border Patrol turned the matter over to county officials. But charges against her were dropped because she is enrolled in California's Medical Marijuana Program; Arizona's Medical Marijuana Act recognizes cards issued in other states.
Okun then asked the court to return the three-fourths of an ounce of marijuana that was seized. While the judge agreed, Ralph Ogden, who was the sheriff at that time, did not.
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SOUTHFIELD (WWJ/AP) - Advocates pushing for broader legalization of marijuana in Michigan hope to send a message of support — and economic clout — by spending $2 bills.
Supporters of the cause are being asked to spend at least one of the typically less-used $2 bills for every cash purchase for the three weeks. The effort kicked off on Wednesday.
Steven Greene, a 45-year-old South Lyon resident, said he picked up $200 in $2 bills from a credit union in Southfield. Greene, a state-registered user of medical marijuana and a caregiver licensed by the state to grow medical marijuana for others, said the use of the bills could remind people of possible tax revenue from marijuana sales.
"People will also realize, if you arrest us, you're taking that same money out of circulation, and you're spending tax dollars to put us in jail," he said.
Michigan voters approved marijuana for some chronic medical conditions in 2008, but the state Supreme Court ruled in January that medical marijuana dispensaries aren't allowed. Michigan has roughly 130,000 registered users of medical marijuana.
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1.) What does your Deviantart name mean and why?
Oh boy...where do I begin...So does anyone remember or watched Wizards of Waverly Place? Well, my name derives from episode 10: "Pop Me and We Both Go Down", where the DJ at Justin's dance calls him DJ Mad Hatter. Back in middle school I had a friend who started calling me that because I always wore a hat to school. The nickname made sense because my common nickname is DJ. I guess it kinda just stuck with me.
2.)What fandom were you obsessed with when you joined and what are you into now?
Hm... I believe I was into Bleach and Naruto at the time, but now I'm stuck on Homestuck (See what I did there?) and Durarara!!
3.) How many watchers do you have now?
4.) Name 3 of your favorite artists on DA.
I can't choose!!!
5.) Or lack thereof, move along...
6.) Do you participate in clubs' contests here on DA?
No because everyone is better than me...
7.) What is your most popular submission?
Lee and Lea: djmadhatter93.deviantart.com/a…
8.) What are your favorite non- anime TV shows?
Adventure Time!
9.) What are the things you wish you could draw better?
Proportions and I are the worst enemies...
10.) Summer or Winter?
Summer; I don't like the cold...
11.) Rain or sun?
It doesn't matter as long as it doesn't snow...
12.) What's your favorite type of music?
I don't care really....
13.)PC or Mac?
I don't know...
14.) Anime or manga?
I can go either way, but probably manga because I like to read.
15.) Coke or Pepsi?
I don't care... it's the same to me...
16.) Read or TV?
Probably reading because I'm a nerd like that
17.) How many hours a day do you spend on DA?
18.) Name a talent.
of mine?
19.) Flash or Traditional cartoons?
It doesn't matter
20.) What is your favorite fast food restaurant?
McDonalds or Taco Bell
21.) What are your top 3 favorite books (no mangas)?
1. Alice in Wonderland
2. Ghost Girl
3. The Outsiders
22.) Wii or Playstation?
Probably Playstation because my family owns a Wii and I hardly played it. Plus, I have a sort of history with the Playstation systems.
23.) Name 3 of your favorite bands/ singers?
uh...it's too hard to choose...
24.) Do you like Denny's?
25.) What's your favorite smiley(SSSSSSS)?
26.) What is your favorite type of pie?
Pumpkin pie. Mmmmm....pumpkin pie *drools*
27.) Have you ever stayed up for 24 hours?
Yes....never again...
28.) Do you go on DA alot?
29.) Are you a member of any other sites besides DA?
Does Facebook count?
30.)Do you cosplay?
31.) Fruits or sweets?
Defiantly sweets
32.) Buttered, plain or salted popcorn?
33.) Have you skipped school?
yeah...and I got in troubled...
34.) Have you been on a plane?
I don't think so
35.) Have you swam in an ocean?
36.) Have you been ice skating?
When I was younger...
37.) Favorite sport?
I don't like sports...sorry...
38.) Ever been on TV?
I don't think so...
39.)Favorite salad and dressing?
Probably chicken with ranch dressing...
40.) What do you do to relax?
Watch videos on YouTube
41.) What is the last film you saw in the theater?
The Hobbit: the Battle of the Five Armies
42.) Favorite sandwich?
Turkey with mayo
43.) If you could go anywhere in the world...
Any book store or craft store
44.) Favorite time of day?
45.) What did you want to be when you were little?
A teacher...
46.) What do you want to be now?
An author since I'm always writing...
47.) If you could eat with one person, who would it be?
That's a tough one... this question can go either way because I could choose a celebrity or some I know and haven't seen in a while...
48.) What character would you hate to be stuck in a room with?
Sober Gamzee...*Shivers*
49.) When is your birthday?
June 17th
50.) Favorite type of ice cream?
Cookie dough
51.) Last book you read?
Minecraft: The Unofficial Story
52.) Which store would you max out a credit card at?
Micheals, Gamestop or Barns and Nobles
53.) Do you buy/sell/both on eBay?
54.) What is the most annoying thing people ask you?
Can you teach me to do >blank<? (My youngest brother always asks me this and after a while it gets really annoying.).
55.) Favorite all time movie?
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
56.) What was your favorite show when you were a kid?
Some where between Yu Yu Hakusho and Sailor Moon...
57.) What are you listening to right now?
My family
58.) What is the last thing you ate?
Fruit Loops cereal
59.) If you were a crayon, what color would you be?
Yellow because it's a mellow color and that's how I feel all the time.
60.) What is the first thing you notice about another person?
61.) Favorite sport to play?
I don't like sports...but if I had to play something, it'd probably be soccer so I can be the goalie and I'll be the best darn goalie ever!!!
62.) Favorite day of the year?
My and My sweeties anniversary
63.) Hugs or kisses?
64.) Vanilla or Chocolate?
Chocolate, of course
65.) Favorite Board Game?
66.) Favorite smells?
Nice smells that doesn't make my poor nose cry
67.) What inspires you?
My surroundings
68.) Do you have any piercings?
Just my ears
69.) How many siblings do you have?
First off: heehee 69, secondly: 5
70.) Bacon bits or croutons?
BACON!!!!!! *Crashes through a wall* BACON!!!
71.) Favorite day of the week?
Saturday because that's when I watch a lot of anime
72.) Favorite phrase?
"I win again, just like always!"
73.) Favorite Restaurant?
74.) Favorite animals?
75.) Favorite thing to do outside?
Walk around
76.) Favorite thing to do when it's raining?
Read, write, draw... if it's not too bad, watch YouTube videos
77.) Favorite Disney character?
Probably Belle because she's more like me
78.) Do you like coffee? If so, what is your favorite brand?
I like coffee, but I don't have a favorite brand...
79.) Tag 6 people
But I don't wanna