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My desert picture up there, a test of your observation skills. Many students are of foreign origin and do not know what to expect of a "desert."
Temperatures were a little above freezing when we arrived. Look close at clothing, body language and two fetching coats from the university truck.
Brrr... frosty nipples.
Like my Western Indian outfit? Draws attention away from my big fat butt.
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So cold, a gal could squat and warm her butt with steam. Even the lizards would run over and jump into your pants just for the warmth.
These are, teeth chatter teeth chatter, Panamint Daisies, shiver shiver shiver, often called, teeth chatter teeth chatter, a pollen plant by local, shiver shiver shiver, beekeepers who bring their colonies, teeth chatter teeth chatter, to this area... AW SH!T, I JUST RUPTURED A NIPPLE.
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I spent many an hour hiking through the park. I spent most of my time in Indian Cove climbing after work. Shorter drive for much better climbing than the longer drive into the park and then hike to the rocks. One goal of this investing action is to help fund a home down near Joshua Tree or Yucca Valley.
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Western juniper covers 10 times more land than it did in the 1880s, and that has ranchers and ecologists concerned.
by Gail Wells
Western juniper is a familiar sight across the shrubby plains of eastern Oregon. Its dark green masses punctuate a landscape of silvery sage, golden grasses, and tan desert soil.
You can’t tell from a casual glance, but there’s a lot more juniper on the range than there used to be. It now occupies about 10 times more territory across eastern Oregon, northern California, and southwest Idaho than it did in the 1880s and has muscled out native shrubs, flowers, and grasses to achieve a dominance that may last for hundreds of years.
That’s bad news for Oregon’s high-desert ecology, says Rick Miller, an Agricultural Experiment Station scientist at the Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center (EOARC) in Burns. Since the late 19th century, when spreading European-American settlement coincided with a shift toward a warmer, moister climate, western juniper has spread across 9 million acres, according to Miller, and considerably more acres have the potential for being encroached.
What’s so bad about juniper? The main thing is that it hogs water, which is scarce to begin with in this environment where only 12 to 14 inches of precipitation fall each year. Its roots reach wide and deep, depleting water from the soil, and its heavy canopy can keep some precipitation from ever reaching the ground.
As juniper consumes more of the water and nutrients on a site, other plants languish and die—“a slow strangulation,” in the words of one eastern Oregon rancher. Lost are the nesting habitats for birds such as the western sage grouse, and gone is much of the food for large herbivores like mule deer, antelope, and elk. The bare soil washes away with every rainstorm, and eventually the land degrades to the point where it can support juniper and not much else.
Juniper is a hardy, prolific, adaptable, long-lived tree. Unlike troublesome exotic weeds such as medusahead and cheatgrass—both of which arrived after European-American settlement—western juniper is a native. It migrated north into its current range around 6,000 years ago, as the earth was warming after the last Ice Age, and shares the landscape with sagebrush and native grasses.
Western junipers can live for centuries, becoming gnarled and spiky with spots of bright green lichen.
------------------------------------------------ One of these dern things done ett me ax once.... Thought I heard a cry from within the dern tree, the wind was a howling one night, thought I'd do the right thing and let what ever was in there out...
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Guess I better 'splain...Late night at the Bar, full of Whiskey.....To much energy left to just sleep it off.....Idea ! was 25 of um that were coming down...Well, I got one of them..
Wind Blowing raining sideways on a side hill, couple a hrs before sun->up.....Never been so in touch, it was like a feeling of finality of what had happened to our "Great Northwest"....
It was not a I got mine kinda thing....It was more like I was forced to feel it, but Whiskey and 20 sumpin can do that.
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You boys would love to see some of these old slides I am looking through. I am transferring them to hard drive, then to CD disk. Most of these slides have degraded very badly. That will teach us to use cheap Fuji film instead of expensive Kodak film, even if poor then.
You would love to see these slides but poor old Bob Frey is already pulling enough of his hair out because of me.
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Goofy footers are usually the more creative of the two types.. Mark Gonzales.. Natas Kaupus... Me.. Dusty..lol Regular footers tend to be more consistient though.
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When my turn, I walk up on stage, jiggle, wiggle and giggle, take off my top, then really jiggle!
I am disqualified from the contest. Poop.
Thought for sure this would earn me high scores from the judges.
Boy up front, first thing he does is grab his crotch.
Although kicked out, more pictures were taken of me than any other contestant! Sure would like to have those pictures now to remember what it was like to be perky, before our girl and gravity sucked me down to my knees.
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