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How Oil Shale is like Argentina
Senator Ken Salazar's recent op-ed piece in The Washington Post about oil shale reminds me of the cynical old saying about Argentina: It will always be a country with a brilliant future.I am still waiting for some bright (or Bright) person to re-inve...
Blog Stew with Kenaf and Squirrels
¶ I thought that every rural deputy sheriff could recognize marijuana plants -- but evidently not in Mississippi.¶ Squirrels: Are you with them or against them?If suburbanites painted murals on their walls like those on the Lascaux caves, y...
Back through the Hayman Burn
Looking south across the Hayman Burn with Sheep Nose in the distance, July 2008.In January 2003, just before my father's death, he and I went up to look at the Hayman Fire site, where 138,000 acres had burned the previous June, turning most of the So...
At the Campground
M. and I spent a long weekend with a group of friends who meet annually at Wellington Lake, southwest of Denver. Down the shoreline from us, a group of Boy Scouts were yelling loudly during their swimming races -- and even more loudly during the next...
I Ain't Lyin'
Even with mystery beasts running amuck in eastern El Paso County, it's time for me to take a slight blogging break.M. and I are heading for the higher and hopefully cooler mountains for a few days to investigate a post-forest fire landscape and possi...

