The Descriptive Process

[slowp]

We have Grizzly Corridors. . . Super dumb.

The bears walk on the logging roads.

They may have stopped, but we had to follow rules for grizzly bear management on the Okanogan. There were no known grizzlies there, but there might be some that might wander down from Canada.

The North Cascades NP is considering relocating grizzlies into their park. Never mind that the experts promised that they would never do that. I want to know where the bears will come from and are they somebody else's problem bears? (Sarcasm following) I'm quite sure the bears will stay inside the park boundaries. They'll each have their own little GPS unit so they'll know when they stray.

Rumor has it, and I tend to believe it, that we've had grizzlies in the backcountry near here. I know of one sighting by a guy who is pretty down to earth, and wouldn't be prone to telling tales. It is how it should be. We believe there is a bear or two, nobody is out to harass and study it to death, and we have no special management requirements for it. The bear or bears are not bothering us and vice versa. That's how it should be.

 

[Metals406]

So... a logging road is a "Grizzly Corridor", then? Makes sense.

Corridors are bands of untouched timber, so bears have a place to talk and have afternoon tea.

They would never walk on a road or through a logged sale. That would be the path of least resistance. And as we all know, animals are *********.

 

[slowp]

The Klamath area of Jefferson State has some big black bears. They like to poop on the roads because flat ground is pretty much non-existent elsewhere. We're talking about high centering when driving over it.

 

[madhatte]

ah, gub mint.

 

[Metals406]

The Klamath area of Jefferson State has some big black bears. They like to poop on the roads because flat ground is pretty much non-existent elsewhere. We're talking about high centering when driving over it.

Prolly cause they ain't got no corridors to poop in.

 

[northmanlogging]

I now have this image of bears waltzing down some logging road, on their hindies like a real person, with little bonnets, and maybe a parasol... speaking in very high minded british accents...

Oh I knooow Bernard, the loggers just leave these trails in such a mess, I don't understand why the Queens Forsesters don't do any thing about this washboard stuff, it hurts my feet you know tsk tsk...

I think I may need medication...

 

[northmanlogging]

Uh by the way, the big fuzzy wuzzys really like them there blue huckle berries, could be an argument there for "restoration" of food stuffs...

 

[paccity]

 

[treeslayer2003]

oh thats nasty..........i hope the owl is iced too

 

[Gologit]

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Thanks Fraser. Sometimes I get to missing working full time. You're pictures make me appreciate retirement.
Oh, and get a new chain on that Husky. Okay?

 

[paccity]

Thanks Fraser. Sometimes I get to missing working full time. You're pictures make me appreciate retirement.
Oh, and get a new chain on that Husky. Okay?

that chain has a few left in it. lol.

 

[slowp]

That saw should be waxed and contained in a case.

Northman, grizzlies aren't a topic here, yet. The easy way for the agency of No would be to ban all picking, except for the local tribal people. If it went your way, it might actually scare away some of the commercial pickers. Their handguns might not be big enough to give them a feeling of security. Those folks come up here for mushroom picking but pick huckleberries until the shrooms come up.

Still no precipitation here and it has warmed up a tad.

 

[Joe46]

Well after the wind storm I just got my internet back. Had a little excitement during the storm. Neighbors tree came down. Missed my bedroom by about 5 feet. Chain link fence took a punch though. Was not familiar with the tree, so had to check out my tree book. Near as I can tell it was an Alaskan Cedar. Never ever saw one in the woods. Had to have been planted many years ago. They also had a couple of Alpine Firs in their yard.

 

[Metals406]

Another earthquake last night around midnight. I slept right through it My wife said it shook things pretty good for a few seconds!
You feel that one, Nate?
Saying 4.5 this time, a few miles from Whitefish.

Yeah, it happened right at midnight on the nose.

Woke Alicia up and she came out asking what just happened. lol

I told her an earthquake, and she ambled back to bed. I guessed a 3.6 -- I was close!!

Didn't feel bigger, but it was only maybe 3 seconds long.

 

[northmanlogging]

So I almost got all poetical yesterday, end of the day, sipping coffee listening to the ravens, and walking on a fairly nice load of logs, that hollow clack that the calks make in a log, in the distance you could hear the toot of a talkie tooter... Pretty good day considering I nearly died like three times, broke my spencer tape and forgot my saw gas at home...

Today was different... very large very hollow very hard leaning maples, like 6 of em... no one died and no houses got smashed (barely...) one of em tore itself apart while I was trying to get it to swing, probably 15 pieces before it even hit the ground... but it missed the garage, and the fence so I win right...

 

[treeslayer2003]

yup

 

[paccity]

woodhenge

 

[treeslayer2003]

thats pretty good

 

[slowp]

Wow. I understood that picture right away. Scary. Now, where are the druids?

 

[2dogs]

In today's paper their is a letter advocating a water system be built to take water from the Cascade drainage system to either Lake Shasta or Folsum Lake. I have mentioned this before as it seems like a great idea and it will only cost a few trillion dollars. Washington is wasting the water filling up rivers and let it just run into the ocean. Folsum Lake is tiny so I would suggest the aquaduct go straight to the Los Angeles basin. Those people need to wash their sidewalks too. Thoughts?