Posted on 12/27/2001 1:32:35 PM PST by snopercod
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:48 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
CARSON CITY, Nev. -- A drive into the Sierra Nevada can seem like a retreat from time, a return to landscapes unmolested by the 20th century...blahblahblah...
The 74-year-old retired federal wildlife biologist hiked, bushwhacked and occasionally helicoptered his way to dozens of mountain spots recorded in photographs taken in the late 1800s and early 1900s. He hunted for the same peaks and boulders, the same vantage points. And when he found them, he took another photo. In a just-published book, Gruell matches the new and old images, showing how much the landscapes have changed. In scene after scene, the contemporary photographs document dense forest and lush growth. Their historical twins show leaner country in which the trees were fewer, the ground more open, the meadows more abundant....
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Are you ready to give your book report?(grin)
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Good article.
Pedantry rears it's ugly head.
Advanced degrees are reserved for those who have voluntarily removed themselves from the real world to promote Academia over real Science. - That makes them especially useful to the power brokers.
Unless it happens in October, when weather conditions reverse the normal westerly winds, a Mammoth eruption would have little effect on the sierra, but would have massive effect on the White mountains, Mono Lake, and Nevada in general.
Sustainable growth (which obviously means no growth at all) is just a buzz word of the marxist/communist agenda.
The most attractive growth, which produced the places where people most want to live (thus highest property values) occurred almost entirely without planning, or gov't intervention.
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