Trego's Mountain Ear

When I bought my sawmill, the advertisement read: “The Frontier OS27 is our reliable mid-size sawmill with even more horse-power to serve your milling needs.”  Bruce Todd, who has a lot more experience with mills than I ever will, told me that it’s a toy.  From the fun I’ve had learning to use a mill, Read more

When I started snow surveys, the only electrical instrument we had was a meter to read the Bouyoucos blocks to measure soil moisture below the snow course.  Everything else was clockwork for measurements on the snow pillows, or by weighing the tubes. Now, knowing what’s up there is as simple as typing in the site Read more

Forestry publications tell me that there are about 200 species of insects that prey on Ponderosa Pine.  The woodpeckers that are successfully debarking a Ponderosa south of the house, and a couple of Western Larch to the north, have convinced me that some sort of bark beetle has successfully reproduced and left grubs working under Read more

Last week’s article showing the dawn of Naval aviation 8 years before Dad was born made me realize – I can show the ships, and their ages, that he served on in the second World War.  The first two were coal burners, both launched in the 1890s, both having served in the Spanish American War, Read more

Noah Rothman’s article at commentary.org brought my thoughts back to the 1970’s when I researched the possibility of ranching fallow deer.  Rothman wrote about whitetail deer in New Jersey: “In Western New Jersey, a population-dense state with an equally high concentration of whitetail deer, the problem is an increasingly urgent one. “Sustainable levels of deer Read more