Those of you who live in the eastern part of the country don’t get much opportunity to see these survey markers. The General Land Office, one of the precursor agencies to the current Bureau of Land Management, had the responsibility for conducting the cadastral survey of the western three-quarters of the country and laying out …
Month: February 2008
Big Core
A large part of our project area contains old stream terraces that are covered with gravel and cobbles of good chippable stone. The prehistoric people who lived here used these as source areas for their lithic tools. Above you can see some crew members recording a small site consisting of a core and a few …
Running and Hunting
A Scientific American blogger wonders if we run in such things as marathons because once, we ran down other animals. Elizabeth Thomas got there years ago. HT Walter Hingley for the SciAm link.
Bird Origins
Birds are older than you (or Alan Feduccia) think.
Mortality
Via Maggie’s Farm comes this lovely quote from W. S. Merwin’s poem “The River of Bees”: On the door it says what to do to surviveBut we were not born to surviveOnly to live. Pluvi has a good one too– as melancholy but funnier. Check out the photo in her post above that one as …
Letting the cold in
Our Louisiana parish (read “county”) of East Baton Rouge voted Saturday to approve the construction of its third casino resort, this one a 540 acre development to include a 100 room hotel, a river boat gambling venue and a 3,700 space parking lot. All of it will go in about a mile north of this …
New ( to me) blogs
Here are some good ones I have found by looking around in the comments sections of my and other’s blogs. First, Luisa’s GREAT dog blog Lassie Get Help. Luisa is a native Californian who trains Border collies and defends Pit Bulls. Vicki Hearne would have loved her. She also blogs on other subjects dear to …
Pigeon Forum Broodstock
Our little crew of scientists, artists, eccentrics, and breeders is always doing something interesting– crossing, putting in new colors, developing flying traits. As we begin the season here are few of our odd birds. Jake’s Bagdad (I may cross this bird on homers to improve its lost flying ability.) His “Chinese owls”, neither Chinese nor …
Just Pix
Happy old dog: Lily got stairs from the Post Office crew for Christmas. Happy Hawkers (and dog- in- laws): Nate and Cooper’s. Paul and Frieda.
A few more thoughts on dog restrictions
Annie Hocker, Matt, and feminist hunter and gun writer Mary Stange were having an online discussion on the erosion of support for unpopular kinds of hunting like that with hounds. I saved a few of my thoughts as I thought them appropriate for the blog. Mary said (rightfully) that we must mobilize and stand up: …