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InterBel Annual Meeting
This year’s annual meeting for InerBel fell in April (as ever), but that may not be the case next year, due to changes in the…
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Trego Excerpts from the Small School Survey
Looking at where your school ranks in comparison with others is important. Montana’s Small School Alliance conducted a survey of small schools, and we’ve excerpted where Trego ranks in certain specific categories. Here they are, with some explanations for…
We Think We’re Normal
We tend to believe we grew up in normal circumstances. We’re not always right, but our home lives usually seem normal to us. As we grow older, we learn that our view of normalcy doesn’t match our friends and colleagues view. To me, it is normal to share my backyard with a grizzly or two every year. Likewise it is normal not to have venomous snakes underfoot. Neither situation is normal to folks living in North Carolina or Florida. So with this sort of concept in my head, I looked at an article on Real Clear Science “Four Reasons Why…
Edward Stahl at Pipe Creek
Edward Stahl shared a bit about his early days with the Forest Service. This segment starts with his elevation to the Supervisor’s office in Libby. I hadn’t realized that Stahl was a seasonal – I never met a Forest Service seasonal who wound up with a mountain named for him. It looks like he was responsible for the route over Dodge Creek to the Yaak. The whole story is at npshistory.com. I was laid off October 1st and met a party from Eureka and joined them hunting goat at Bowman Lake. We had an early snowstorm and crossed the range…
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. -Benjamin Franklin
Talking Privilege
I was looking at American Digest and there was an article about Home Depot with its training material on privilege. I think the first time I heard about privilege, it was another white guy telling me about my white privilege. Not his white privilege, but mine. He was an Ivy graduate. I’m a cow college…
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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 the MD’s orders to check for diabetic retinopathy. The damned diabetes came along with struggling through chemo – and type II diabetes is definitely better than dead. No complaints, and no diabetic retinopathy. That was good news. On the other hand, cataracts (I knew that…
Is Demography Really Destiny?
I’m looking at folks showing Russian, Ukrainian, and Chinese population pyramids, and ominously stating “Demography is Destiny.” Of course I’ve been looking at Paul Ehrlich’s book The Population Bomb all of my student and professional life, and know what the population pyramid showed him in 1968 – and his interpretation sure as hell didn’t pan out. Ehrlich predicted famine because of the rapid population growth. Politicians looked at 9.2% of the population over 65, and knew that the Social Security System would be solid forever. After all, “Demography is destiny”, right? By 1970 – the year I turned 21 -…
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