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Harvested as part of thinning to reduce fire danger.
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“Experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other”
-Benjamin Franklin
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Rejuvenation
Modern medicine does not often restore youth. Surgery and chemotherapy kept me on the green side of the grass when I was hit by colon cancer – but came at a price in physical fitness. This year, I discovered that the Opthamologist fellows can return a large portion of youthful vision. I went in with Read more
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75th Annual Meeting of Lincoln Electric Coop
Like last year, the meeting took place at Lincoln County High School, and could be attended by car. Unlike last year, in person attendance was also possible. Voting for trustees had already been done (Exclusively by mail), though the results were announced at the meeting. In a somewhat novel experience, there were (for one district) Read more
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Stahl and the 1910 Burn
“Although forty years have passed since the time of the great forest fires in North Idaho the date is not easily forgotten. On August 20, 1910, a forest fire raced unchecked for one hundred miles in two days, to devastate one million acres of wilderness in the Idaho Panhandle and northwestern Montana. Eighty-seven persons perished… Read more
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Piebald Deer
A few years ago, we had a small piebald whitetail buck on the place. He grew large enough to have spikes, then wandered off and didn’t return. There can be a lot of reasons for a small buck deer not to return – wolves, coyotes, cougars and even human hunters – but one of my Read more
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How to Not Gerrymander
I noticed that New York’s legislative attempt to gerrymander 3 more democrat seats in congress has been called out of line by the court. Gerrymandering is a bizarre form of election chicanery – you basically try to put as many of the opposing party members in as few districts as possible while keeping your party Read more
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Stahl Well Above Normal
We’ve made the first of April – and this is the time when it is possible to look at the data and say, “Our snowpack is well above normal.” The measurement on March 31 was 41.8 inches of water, 116% of average. NOAA’s seasonal temperature outlook leads us to infer that this Spring will melt Read more
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