Category Archives: Conservation

Joy and a revisit to an earlier post

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On a recent return to the MS Delta, I was listening to a young author and film maker being interviewed on the radio while driving my tractor.  The interviewer asked the young lady if she had any advice for others … Continue reading

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San Pedro Parks Wilderness

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A recent visit to the the San Pedro Parks Wilderness highlighted the incredible complexity of the geology of New Mexico.  Follow highway 550 from Albuquerque up to a high desert plateau at Cuba, NM and one passes through hundreds of … Continue reading

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What we waste – and thoughts on composting

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Millions of households in the United States (I assume other “advanced” countries as well) throw organic materials that they generate in their kitchens into the trash bin.  This is another example of our departure from things related to the earth … Continue reading

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A simply good day

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A couple of months ago, we decided to install a new front fork and wheel and new, larger main tires on the Cessna 182 that would allow us to access New Mexico back country airstrips more safely and with a … Continue reading

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Backcountry

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Claudia and I recently joined a group called the New Mexico Pilots Association.  Part of their mission is to encourage backcountry flying in NM and to help land owners maintain airstrips that are located in some of the more remote … Continue reading

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Have Binoculars Will Travel – Missouri River

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As the crow flies and about 30 miles due west of the famous St. Louis arch, lies the  Weldon Spring Conservation Area – the largest such area in the St. Louis metropolis.  Hardwood forests cling to 300 ft. limestone bluffs … Continue reading

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Painted Buntings

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Spring in the lower MS delta brings many varieties of songbirds that favor the swamp as the place to make their nests and raise their young.  As always, we are always on the lookout  for the arrival of our “holy … Continue reading

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Horned Owls

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At the east end of the property, there is a woodlot of Honey Locust trees that my grandfather planted.  He planted this patch of trees to grow fence posts for his dairy farm as Locust is one of the most … Continue reading

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Mexico – Oaxaca & the Pueblos Mancomunados

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Recently, Claudia, Domino (k-9 unit) & I spent a week in Oaxaca, Mexico treking the “Pueblos Mancomunados”.  The PM’s are a group of like minded campesino villages located in the Sierra Azul Mountains just north of the town of Oaxaca … Continue reading

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On the trail

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This morning we woke to another unseasonably cool summer morning.  A cold front moved through the area back on Monday and brought north winds that delighted us all.  Until, that is,  the unrelenting force of the Gulf of Mexico realized the error … Continue reading

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