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The Army’s Timber Industry Union
It is difficult to look back at the old-timers in Trego and not realize how much influence the International Workers of the World (IWW -…
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Larry’s Lutefisk
When I wound up at SDSU, our Extension Director, Larry Tidemann, exposed his Norwegian roots occasionally. With a Scots surname, I never pointed out that more of my recent ancestors are Scandinavian – mostly in self-defense. The descendents of…
Our inchworms and their violent kin
Mike found this inchworm in the woods recently. Inchworms are moth caterpillars, specifically members of family Geometridae. Their family name means something like “the earth measurers”, after how they fold up and then stretch themselves out, like a surveyor’s measuring rope. Ours around here aren’t all that interesting. They’re pretty standard caterpillars – standard herbivores, or opportunistic omnivores. And, like most larvae, they are very hard to identify beyond family until they molt to adulthood. Hawaii, however, has an interesting lineage of carnivorous inchworm caterpillars. The prevailing thought is that when the Hawaiian islands were first colonized by insects, few…
Thoughts on Electing Morons
There have been times when I voted for a political candidate. I looked at the candidates and thought Jimmy Carter was ahead of Gerald Ford, so I voted for him. I voted for Senator Tim Johnson because he was head and shoulders above his opponent. I wasn’t alone in voting for Carter in 76 – nor against him in ‘80. Tim Johnson wound up with a brain bleed, surgery, and finished his term in the senate voting straight party line. I can’t say that my idea of voting for the best candidate worked out well. We don’t really elect morons…
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Montana Moves to Control Burgeoning Wolf Population
The Reintroduction of Wolves into Montana has been very successful, from only about 60 in the state in the 1990’s to estimates of over a thousand today. The State Government has recently passed a law to reduce the wolf population. Here’s Dean Weingarten’s writing on the topic: On 20 August, 2021, the Montana Fish &…
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No Climax Species When Climate Changes
Half a century ago, I was exposed to the concept of a climax species – and I really liked the idea that there would be a single identifiable species of tree (or grass) that would indicate all I need to know about the climate, the environment. I thought of the dominance of ponderosa pine and bluebunch wheatgrass on the Tobacco Plains, versus the dominant Douglas Fir/Western Larch around Trego – and the 4-inch difference between the annual precipitation that shows up with 400’ difference in elevation and a quarter degree of latitude. Somewhere over that half-century, I gradually came to…
Trego's Mountain Ear 
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