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1. Legacy Journal
2. Legacy Journal: Billy and the Bike: A Memoire of Deschutes Country
3. Legacy Journal: Memory Lane
4. Legacy Journal: Water, Swimming, and going with the Tide.
5. Legacy Journal: Haying in the upper John Day River Valley
6. Legacy Journal: Mother’s Day, Tessa’s 4th BD, and the Lilacs are Blooming in Highland Pk
7. Legacy Journal:  the Professional Specialists v the Gentlemen PolyMaths: Having it All?
8. Legacy Journal: May Day Musings: Muddling through the Maize
9. Legacy Journal:  Wednesday Leanings
10. Legacy Journal: Sunday Big Sur International Marathon
11. Legacy Journal: Saturday Prep
12. Legacy Journal: Fremont in Oregon
13. Legacy Journal: Saturday West timeline, first Native American “fossil” and Tracktown.
14. Legacy Journal: Hooray of the train.
15. Legacy Journal: Steve Chu of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
16. Legacy Journal: Klamath in Triplicate-- 1846 Carson, Fremont and Gillespie
17. Legacy Journal:Ranch Memoires
18. Legacy Journal: Mustang- Myths, Mascots and Machines
19. Legacy Journal: Darwin’s Man at Harvard: Asa Grey, Botony : collectioning and writing.
20. Legacy Journal:  Saturday Science Session
21. Legacy Journal: Rochester Rites of Spring: Squash, Squash, and more Squash
22. Legacy Journal: Saturday Style and Substance
23. Legacy Journal: Friday Final Edition:  Philanthropy, mandates, and Spring in the Rockies
24. Legacy Journal: Tuesday Lessions: Maps, Tall Tales, Western Trails
25. Legacy Journal:  Mellow Monday
26. Legacy Journal:  Spring, Easter, and NCAA MBB
27. Legacy Journal: Race, Coals to Newcastte, and Wednesday Technology
28. Legacy Journal: Economic Moral Hazard
29. Legacy Journal: Happy St. Patrick’s Day and Go Green
30. Legacy Journal: Sunday Shoot Out

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[ Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:36 ]

Legacy Journal: Haying in the upper John Day River Valley

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Environment

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“Hay is the foundation of civilization in the northern climes"---- futurist, physicist, and Templeton Award winner Freeman Dyson





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Going Green at Sixteen by Doug Fisk, May 2008

For the Fisks and the Forrests mid-July in the fifies was a time for three generations to gather and Go Green.

On working cattle ranches in the upper John Day Valley of eastern Oregon, haying season was and is serious business and a heck of a lot of fun.

The Forrest ranch is 4,000 acre spread located just up river to the east of the pioneer village of Prairie City.  In its “hayday” “the ranch” was a cow and calf operation that shipped 1200 lb, lean and meaty 2year old grass fat steers to the Portland market or to a buyer from Safeway markets.  The deal was usually make on a handshake,

One square mile of the ranch was green irrigated wild natural meadow grass that was mowed, sun dryed, winnow raked into rows, bucked up in bunches, and piled into loose two story high mounds using an overshot stacker. It was kind of a 2 weeks blitzkrieg that was hopefully free of thundershowers.  The harvest result became winter fodder and the only feed for the herd of carefully bred Herefords.  Home grown, individually selected, broad beamed cows, their gestating calves to be, range bulls imported from Red Bluff, CA, this year’s weaners, and last year’s yearlings were all the beneficiaries of open field winter feedings that were hand pitched daily from a low-rider hay wagon.  It was a cycle that was self sustaining, season driven and largely powered by machines that had replaced the preWWII one, two, and four horse powered teams hitched to primative iron wheeled implements.

Now, rubber shod Ford tractors were fitted with mowing machines and blades that were carefully sharped daily, a canvas canopyed WWII jeep pulled the winnow rack, and the power hay bucks, pickup victims of road kill that were rescued, repaired and given new life in the winter shop. darted about the field like hounds fetching rabbits.  A big green stationary John Deere diesel was outfitted with a long ponderosa pine fork received the catch for stacking.

The machine operators were mostly family high schoolers who gathered from around the state to bunk out at Uncle Orrin’s ranch, help in the kitchen, feast and put on weight around Auntie Christina’s huge table, man the equipment, and shoot some spirited pool in the basement after the evening chores were finished.  Teen age cousin John was an only child, so he particularly benefited from the kid gathering.

One memorable summer, Jimmy Howard , a towny, and I were the designated power hay buck jockys.  We had a spirited racing competition.  Our cockpit perches were open ai, the wind and bugs were in your face, and your saddle like seats were unbelted.  The game was to see who could deliver the most hay to the stacker from soggy and slippery ditch banks and from the far fences bordering the fields. The hazards included the ignomy of getting stuck in the mud or running a fork down a gopher hole.  The competition continued after dinner around the green felt pool table in ranch house basement with Uncle Orrin quietly and approvingly looking on.
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His ancient fiddle and his player piano was by that time mute and unused upstairs in the parlor where Strawberry Mountain to the south was framed in a picture window.

The times, they do change.  The ranch was a major part of my uncle’s life.  He had passed on college to inherit the property from Grandpa Clyde.  That was the verbal bargain they made made many years prior and he had no regrets.  However, were he alive, he would have been saddened, if not despirited, by recent news.  The ranch has been sold by the third generation to the Consolidated Indian Tribes of the Warms Springs, now the largest private land owner in the state.

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[ Thursday, May 01, 2008 09:59 ]

Legacy Journal: May Day Musings: Muddling through the Maize

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Climate Change

Summary:

Sacred Cows seem to be falling and reinvented by the Hour. Consider the evidence:

* Gas was first too cheap and polluting, then it too scarce and taxes on diesel fuel was taking bread and tacos off the table of trucker’s kids.

* Americans was being going crazy and driven to the grave because of a diet of corn products; now it is time to wear hair shirts because of an global shortfall in stable cereals in the Third World, due partly because of drought, climate change, agricultural protectionism, and an emerging plague of wheat rust from Uganda.

* First there was the separation of church and state; the a presidential primary candidate from Chicago publicly divorces his pastor of 20 years after a voluntary and consensual association that included conversion, church membership, marriage, children’s baptisms, and Sunday service attendance.

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[ Thursday, April 17, 2008 12:30 ]

Legacy Journal: Steve Chu of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Section:

Briefs

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Chu is a University of Rochester graduate and trustee.  As a major university based research administrator, Nobel Prize winner, national energy policy expert, his lecture today to an overflow crowd was up to date, fast paced, fact filled and well received. Dr. Chu is Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has been the formative influence in establishing Helios. Steve is the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and professor of Physics and Cellular and Molecular Biology of the University of California, Berkeley

“ We do not do nuclear weapons research.”

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Amount his practical problem points are the following:

* California is a leader in energy efficiency legislation standards, research and capital investment in retrofitting and renewable sources of power generation.

* The industrial production of nitrogen fertilizers from ammonia and the “Green Revolution” prevented the food crisis predicted by the Malthusian popular professor of butterflys at Stanford, Paul Erhlich in his 1969, the Population Bomb..

* Heartland farmers should be putting 35 million acres of farmland back into producing crops for domestic and foreign food consumption, not alcohol for fuel. World price increases and shortages of basics like corn, wheat, rice, and soybean expose weak currency nations to the flame and flood of food riots.

* Diesel and jet fuel can not be biogenerated.  Termite power in the form of multiple gut microbes may be a model for converting lignan protected cellulose (wood) into simple sugars.

* The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Helios Project concentrates on renewable fuels Jay Keasling is an colleague.

* Nuclear power production needs to increase.  Current nuclear power plants are safe and waste problems are being solved

* The national electrical grid needs a DC upgrade to the tune of $ one Trillion dollars.

* The general approach should be a multi layered, but results oriented.

* Photovoltaic cells, Wind generators, fuel cells and gas turbines,at present, are orders of magnitude more costly than coal, hydro, and geothermal.  Klamath, Oregon and the state of Utah are geothermal hot spots.

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[ Saturday, March 29, 2008 06:29 ]

Legacy Journal: Saturday Style and Substance

Section:

Almanac

Summary:

“ It is we who are trouble.  The earth is OK.” ---- Bad news. Good News.



* Somalia is unraveling, East Africa is in tribal turmoil, Tibet is troubled, diesel fuel and rice are up, the dollar is down, and global warming is starving the eco-tourist’s long suffering friend, the migrating grey whales. 

The good news comes from the NCAA MBB tournament site in Detroit is that the number 10 seeded Davidson College Wildcats, Stephen Curry, and Coach Mc blindsided the Badgers of Wisconsin.





** Daniel Boone is part of the North Carolina heroic story.





*** Meanwhile, for an MIT chemistry professor, all is worry and woe on the energy war frontiers as reported from the Aspen Institute and National Geographic conference in Colorado.  The whine is “ we need funding to do the research that will save the World from ourselves.” UofR will be hosting alum Stephen Chu from California at an energy big picture update on 17 April.





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[ Friday, March 28, 2008 12:38 ]

Legacy Journal: Friday Final Edition:  Philanthropy, mandates, and Spring in the Rockies

Section:

Almanac

Summary:

* George Will recently brought to our attention that Compassionate Conservatives a better givers than Liberals

** That reminds us of a recently passed health insurance coverage mandate in Arizona.  It is for an expensive, intense, and unproven treatment for early childhood autism.  This is an example of a non-evidence based public policy favoring a small group at the expense of others including rate payers and those denied benefits of expensive but clinically effective treatments like organ transplants.

*** This week a group of global warming gurus are meeting in Aspen, Colorado where the ski season has been spectacular.  One story has been on large sea ice sheets become detached and exposing the face and underbelly advancing glaciers.  One Stanford based “Climate Scientist” with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering appears to be concerned about the heat generated by the rock on rock rubbing at the glacial - gravel interface.  The result is water that lubricates and accelerates the glacially march to the sea where may tend to change local salinity and raise ocean levels over centuries. Hum.

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:  It appears that Conservatives contribute both time and treasure to causes that are often faith based. Yes, Mormons are expected to tithe.  Environmental
preachers are not.

::  Special interest insurance mandates are an example of an economic moral hazard.  In the case of mandating coverage of chest spiral CT for screening smokers for early lung cancer appears to also included an unknown financial conflict of interest on the part of at least one Columbia University Weil Medical Center radiologist.

:::  Meanwhile, the temperature in Aspen last night was a cool 29.

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[ Tuesday, March 25, 2008 06:16 ]

Legacy Journal: Tuesday Lessions: Maps, Tall Tales, Western Trails

Section:

Almanac

Summary:

“Some politicians can put more words into small ideas than most other folks.” --- A. Lincoln





* Maps:  The National Geographic Society, NG the Magazine, and GeoPedia have a Strong feature on Permafrost with a carbon twist.

** Tall Tales, embellished recollections by office seekers are as American as Apple pie.

*** Who was the first American to make the Pacific coast to Atlantic coast overland crossing on all U.S territory?


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:  It is claimed that Permafrost locks up more than 800 Gigtons of carbon dioxide.

::  Hillary Clinton now states that she misspoke when she claimed to have been under the threat of snipper fire when she visited Bosnia ten years ago.  Her campaign has recently ken on the desperate appearance of a long death march..

:::  Recall the year that New Albion moved from Mexican (Californio) to Americano control during the Polk Presidency with persistent prodding by Senator Benton of St. Louis, Missouri.  The year was 1846, called the Decision Year by Bernard DeVoto in his 1943 historical narrative of the 750,000 sq. mile addition to the bicoastal continental U.S, and the runup to the Civil War to preserve that Union.

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[ Monday, March 17, 2008 05:15 ]

Legacy Journal: Happy St. Patrick’s Day and Go Green

Section:

None

Summary:

On St. Patrick’s Day in Rochester, N.Y. all is well.



* The temperature is 20, the sun is out, and the streets are dry.

* The green wearing school kids on the corner have mounted the steps of the yellow bus and are launched for the day.

* The green and yellow Ducks of Oregon are off to Little Rock as a #9 seed and the NCAA Men’s BB Tournament.

* The Republican National Convention in St. Paul, MN follows the Democrats in Denver, CO .  Is that live home field advantage in baseball?


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# The climate good news is that no warming is in sight.  Snow is reported in the hills of San Diego. CA, and the Oceans continue to buffer their pH in the historic 7.8- 8.4 range , reliably pump and sequester carbon dioxide, bicarbonate, and carbonates into the pelagic deep.  One source on the science is AP 2001, Vol 1, Encyclopedia of Ocean Science, Carbon Cycle, pp 390, By Carlson, of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Ocean science seems to be the forgotten man in the AGW game on that the serious ocean scientists are beginning to weigh in on pH stabiliity, temperature consistency, and corral health.

## The greening of the Summit Dr.spring garden near Highland Park has started with a well lighted, home made, basement seed nursery of flowers, vegetables, and herbs .

### The Ducks are the # 6 team in the Pac-10. A very good ASU team was left at home.  All the best to Ernie Kent and the loyal Duck fans. Do not forget to bring your A game with a first half offense, and a second half defense.

#### The Democrats including the Super Delegates are concerned about the unhealthy spectacle of an international spotlight on a Delegate credentials fight in Denver in late August as the Bejing Summer Olympics are having their closing Ceremony. The Republics will mounting the pulpit in St. Paul in early September with a forum to launch their National
Campaign. 

Meanwhile, the migratory birds from the south are starting to show up in Rochester at about the expected time according the local birds watchers and counters. 

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