Foraging like Gold Miners: Miner’s Lettuce
There is a really cool community of hikers and hiking bloggers on Twitter. On Fridays at 9am PST they do this awesome little session called #hikerchat. Since I have started at my new job I have been unable to tweet in for #hikerchat, but since I wasn’t feeling very ambitious today I decided to take this week’s conversation topic and run with it – Foraging. I don’t do much foraging,…
Talking about the Localizing California Waters Conference and Water Reuse
Tomorrow is the start of the Localizing California Waters, a four day conference bringing together people who care about water reuse, water policy, and water management in California. I am a part of the group putting on the conference, the Telele Foundation, and I will be milling about doing registration and various other tasks. Hopefully I will be able to pop in and see at least one talk & maybe learn…
Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) for Outdoors Bloggers?
Have you heard of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) before? It when creative type drop everything and attempt to write a full novel in one month. People love it, some writers hate it, and recently I found out about the equivalent for bloggers – National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo). The challenge is to blog everyday in November. But why do NaBloPoMo? Personally I am starting a new job this month and…
Eagle-Shawmut Mine: A Hidden History Except in Years of Drought
2014 has been a heck of a drought year in California and not one farmer, environmental group, or politician is happy about it. We are trucking fish to try and keep them alive, proposing a $14.4 billion dollar bond measure, and looking at all the ways we can conserve and reuse our limited supply. It is a mess. But while visiting Groveland’s best coffee shop, the Mountain Sage (which really knows how…
New Years Goals & a look back at 2013
Happy New Year! Just yesterday I got back from a holiday traveling around the Northwest (Washington, Idaho, Montana) – more on that to come – but first wanted to make a post about some of the non-resolutions that I triumphed over in 2013, plus contemplate what might me next on the agenda for 2014! Why am I calling them non-resolutions? Simply put, because I never “resolved” to do these things. Maybe…
If your house was burning what would you take?
Today I was reading a blog called The Burning House. It asks a simple but fascinating question – If your house was burning what would you take? Since I actually did pack up stuff for the Rim Fire evacuation this year immediately thought, what was it I took? Plus I was already planning to do a little update latter this week on how the Stanislaus National Forest is looking after…
The Rim Fire from Groveland
In case you have not heard, the big news around Groveland & this stretch of of the Sierra recently has been the Rim Fire, currently at 228,680 acres & the 4th largest wildfire in California history. Curtis, I, and our pets (Basil and Herman) are now back at home and safe, but it was an adventure getting here! We survived home evacuations, road closures, visitors, and backpacking trips during this chaotic…
Sierra Book Challenge: Legends of the Yosemite Miwok
It is 10:32 am here in Groveland and already 81 degrees outside. Better yet we have this vibrant neon pink warning on the National weather Service NOAA map indicating “Excessive Heat Warning,” whatever that means. Which is a round about way of stating that right now I am hiding in our insulated (but not air conditioned) house with all the window shut and all the appliances (save this laptop) closed…
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