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Pinyon Pine – Bearer of a delicious nugget
If the Ponderosa pine outlines the American West, then the Pinyon pine marks the limits of the Southwest’s high desert. Pinyon trees are found throughout the Southwest, ranging across the Southwest’s Four Corners region to Nevada and California at elevations generally between 4,500 to 7,500 feet, although they can be found up to 9,300 feet Read More >>
Solitude – A precious thing
Anyone who has read some of my “stuff” might conclude my favorite campground or forest feature is solitude. They would be correct. I look for and enjoy solitude when and where I can find it. To me, experiencing solitude can “recharge my batteries” and completely adjust any negative manure going on in my life. While Read More >>
Our 1994 trip to Canada – Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia
This “report” was written by Fred right after our 1994 trip to Canada. I think you will see Fred, our Golden Retriever, Tory, enjoyed the whole experience. It can safely be said, our ten days camping in Canada was where our current lifestyle began. From the beginning, it was our intent to concentrate on Read More >>
Zion National Park
How magnificent is Zion National Park? When early descriptions were given, back in the 1880s, people did not believe them. Such wondrous and whimsical displays of nature sounded to farfetched. But seeing is believing and after numerous articles, photographs, scientific reports, and personal accounts, people started to believe, visit and enjoy this place in southern Read More >>
Affordable Family Vacation – Alternative to National Parks
Original published by the New York Times and updated May 2013 Every January, I start planning for the upcoming camping season. In the beginning, camping was a break from my life of a 9-to-5 job, bills, and the same-old, same-old. Then came a husband and children. So, camping became an affordable family vacation. Today, it Read More >>
Noteworthy Clark Lake campground, Ottawa NF (MI)
Any time a lumberman decides that a forest he owns is too beautiful to log, you can be sure something very special has happened. This story began in the year 1895 when A. D. Johnston went to assess the 80 acres of wooded land he had recently purchased in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. What he found Read More >>
Charles Waters Campground
in the Bitterroot National Forest and convenient to Missoula, MT, Charles Waters Campground combines rustic luxuries with some wonderful trails. The campground, once the outdoor laboratory for Dr. Charles Waters research on the life history and control of forest tree diseases, consists of a spur next to a large grass meadow and a loop passing through Read More >>
Civilian Conservation Corps
On April 17, 1933, the first Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Camp Roosevelt, was established in the George Washington National Forest in northwest Virginia. There would be 14 more CCC camps built on the George Washington and Thomas Jefferson national forests, both in Virginia. A sad note is that, other than Camp Roosevelt, those other 14 Read More >>
Most Amazing thing we’ve experienced
You asked, “What’s the most amazing thing you’ve ever experienced or seen in a national forest?” That’s tough one. Not because there was a lack of the “amazing” but rather an abundance of them. I have maybe 14 journals loaded with things we have seen and experienced with a long list of adjectives attached. Here Read More >>
Living symbols of the West are available
Horses and burros were re-introduced to the USA by the Spanish back in the 15th century and their numbers in the wild have grown through natural methods and by animals lost from wagon trains, ranchers, pony express, loggers, and farm stock. The U.S. Calvary, stage lines, and bankrupt farmers and ranchers, also, intentionally turned horses out Read More >>
