CNN’s Change The List project and reporter John D. Sutter picked a great topic (and mission) to report on in “My 417-mile trip down ‘Apocalypse River’” about California’s endangered San Joaquin River. Driving through the Central Valley on the way to the Sierra Nevada, you can’t help but be struck by the contrast of the […]
I read an article on National Geographic’s website that was a good short read about the Wilderness Act and wilderness areas. I particularly liked some of the quotes: “In truth, ‘Wilderness’ is a state of mind and heart” is how photographer Ansel Adams once put it. “Very little exists now in actuality.” And that actually […]
This is neat news for Cahokia Mounds and the amazing historical and archaeological sites of mounds all around St. Louis. In the radio hour they spoke about finding a site with evidence of 5,000 huts during the new bridge construction. They believe that was just 10% of the newly-found site. I think the State of […]
This 3.8 gigapixel image of the Khumbu Glacier was captured and stitched by David Breashears in spring 2012, from a viewpoint near Mount Everest. You can pan and zoom around this remarkable image, seeing the massive tent city of Base Camp, and awesome features of the Khumbu Icefall and surrounding mountains. You can also spy […]
The John Krebs Wilderness was created in April 2009 and it pushed the percentage of wilderness area within Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks from 83.6% to 93.4%. This happened a while back but I still wanted to post about it since I loved hearing it. The Wilderness encompasses 39,740 acres in the area of […]
The forest fires in Colorado and Utah are all over the news right now and could affect plans for people wanting to get out into the mountains and forests and do some hiking or backpacking. A friend living in CO posted on facebook that his state was on fire. I’ll try to shed some light […]
A camp stove is behind the huge Colorado wildfires in the Roosevelt National Forest in the Fort Collins area that started May 14th. It sounds like the man whose stove started it tried to stamp it out but then had to flee as it got out of hand. He later reported it to the police […]
A couple of young guys set up some nasty booby traps on a popular trail in Provo Canyon, Utah complete with a kind of bait that definitely were designed to hurt people. Traps are intriguing and maybe they thought it could be fun to try and set up traps like you see in movies or something […]