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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. Chandler Hereford’s of Baker, Oregon agrees.

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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 primitive iron wheeled implements.

Now, rubber shod Ford tractors were fitted with mowing machines and blades that were carefully sharped daily, a canvas canopied 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 overshot loose hay stacking in the field

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. My red haired teen age cousin John was an only child, so he particularly benefited from the youthful annual gathering of the youthful hay crew.

One memorable summer, Jimmy Howard , a Prairie City townie, and I were the designated power hay buck jockeys. We had a spirited racing competition. Our cockpit perches were open air, the wind was in our unprotected faces, the bugs between out teeth , and our 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 today, he would be 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 out of Madris on the Deschutes River near Billy Chinook Resevoir. The tribe is now the largest private land owners in the state.

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[ Saturday, April 12, 2008 06:38 ]

Legacy Journal:Ranch Memoires

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Sons and Daughters

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* Mission Ranch, Carmel, CA

“Make my Weekend !”

* The sea side Gathering Place.

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[ Saturday, February 09, 2008 09:35 ]

Legacy Journal: Tornados, Darwin, and Right Sizing

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Columns

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* Andrew Revkin, the nytimes writer covering the environment from his blog a Dot Earth seem to be on to something significant--- the real nature of Weather Science, Records, and Tornados.

Charles Darwin, his fellow 19th century Victorians, and the Royal Navy were also keenly aware of the complexity of weather, ocean currents, and natural events like volcanoes. Janet Browne, professor of the History of Science, Medicine and Biology, among others, reminds us of the importance of a historical frame of reference.

* 4 Giga (billion)tons of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning added to the atmosphere seem like a sure burden with consequences. But, each of our nucleated cells has 6 billion DNA base pairs , my thumb drive has 2 Gigs of memory, and each cubic kilometer of ocean water contains one billion gallons or 4 billion pounds of water.

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: So, what is the cause and effect relationship between atmospheric carbon dioxide, Gulf of Mexico surface water temperature, and the frequency and severity of mid west tornadoes? One of the discussant to the Tornado blog article presents graphic evident that suggests that this winter, Arctic Ocean ice has be restored to its historic norm. The story of the arresting photo of polar bears apparently stranded on a summer ice float at sea is interesting.

:: Darwin is coming to the fore yet again. Next year will be the Bicentennial celebration of his birth. Multiple events are planned around the world.

::: Meanwhile, the general level of math, science, and technology Literacy appears to be rather low. Even this week’s brainy PhD student appearing on Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader? missed the answer to the the million dollar question. The answer was Chuck Yeager. What was the question?

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[ Friday, January 25, 2008 12:59 ]

Legacy Journal: Science on the Run, Media Muddle, and the Local Weather

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Environment

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* New junkies are getting whiplash. First ABC evening news nice guy, Charlie Gibson, polishes his exit with a pretty picture of the first sign of spring. It is a brief view of the sun peaking over the horizon at Pt Barrow Alaska. Then the ABC GMA sunrise crew chirps in with a full light clip on the use of mobile Arctic Norwhales being tagged by a research team with temperatures sensors. The sensors record realtime water temperatures as the pod cruises for food in the open Arctic channels off the west coast of Greenland. The team is assisted by noble and knowledgeable native kayak builders, paddlers, and hunters. Franz Boas of Baffin Bay fame must be smiling. Yet another early morning weekend crew the recent California rain, snow and avalanche deaths to yet further evidence of AGW . They almost came unglued over pictures of a cute Zoo born Polar bear cub.

The disconnect is the light. Most fifth graders know that the Arctic regions are cold and dark in winter. Yet, the GMA report fails to date and time their picture. Is there a problem here?

Meanwhile, primary politics is piling up and piling on. It is five men standing on the Republican side. One woman, two men and one proxy standing on the
Democrat side. The good news is that one field of candidates appear to be serious about civility and putting their best public faces, feet, and voices forward. The controversy focused media is not pleased, but voters are ecstatic.

* Today the D&C and ABC WHAM, weather guy, Glenn Johnson explains that space satellites can report images, infrared date, and atmospheric water vapor information. That data can report on jet engine contrails and open ocean water channels through the summer Arctic Ocean ice packs. Apparently, satellites are not able to accurately report the temperature on the earth side of clouds. Nor are they able to take photographs of the North Pole in the dark of winter.

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: Meanwhile, Revkin of the nytimes Dot Earth blog has a piece that outlines the scientific framework of his views. His lead is begins, The world’s largest group of earth scientists says “the human footprint on Earth is apparent.” The UGS, incorporated in Washington, D.C., and its active 12 subgroup leadership including the Atmosphere group are examples. Revkin also mentions the AGS and includes part of their October 2006 policy statement.

“The Geological Society of America (GSA) supports the scientific conclusions that Earth’s climate is changing; the climate changes are due in part to human activities; and the probable consequences of the climate changes will be significant and blind to geopolitical boundaries. Furthermore, the potential implications of global climate change and the time scale over which such changes will likely occur require active, effective, long-term planning. GSA also supports statements on the global climate change issue made by the joint national academies of science (June 2005), American Geophysical Union (December, 2003), and American Chemical Society (2004). GSA strongly encourages that the following efforts be undertaken internationally:

(1) adequately research climate change at all time scales,
(2) develop thoughtful, science-based policy appropriate for the multifaceted issues of global climate change,
(3) organize global planning to recognize, prepare for, and adapt to the causes and consequences of global climate change,
(4) organize and develop comprehensive, long-term strategies for sustainable energy, particularly focused on minimizing impacts on global climate.”

:: TimeInc has a Climate Change piece called Winds of Change. It is not serious science. Sadly, the article is sophomoric in style, superficial in analysis, and scant in originality. Here is an example.

“You have Republicans and Democrats getting on board with this,” says Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, “and the reason why is because the public is increasingly there already.” Think about the logic and the grammar: “ increasingly there already”. As Mrs Van taught in the fourth grade, “ Either we have arrived at the station, or we have not.” End of story.

::: Finally, a very cool blog. Snow biking in Alaska. Now there is something that Californians transplanted to western upstate New York can identify with.

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[ Tuesday, January 15, 2008 13:32 ]

Legacy Journal: Polls, Surveys and Statistics; Lip-Synching; the Persian Gulf

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News: International

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“Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.” --- Mark Twain

* The average American does not trust polls or pollsters, they do not like phone calls at mealtime from bucket shop mills conducting survey, and they are wary of statistics and models when they proport to predicate the future of complex events like life span any particular aging person, national economies, climate.

A Middlebury College Physics professor, in part of a Video Course on using science to reconstruct, model or simulate the earth’s temperature record over the past 4.6 billion years, was unable to give one example of how the proxy studies of tree rings or oxygen isotopes are yielding reliable and verifiable temperature data today.

* Bush in the U.A.Es and Saudi Arabia is flying the flag and promoting two bedrock keystones of American Foreign Policy since WW II, the containment of nuclear weapons and flow of oil out of the Persian Gulf.

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: The Pew Trust does some good work. Eileen Clausen is their geocrat director of their Center on Global Climate Change.

:: the winter OLLI series at Osher RIT includes an offering taught by Tim McDonnell titled Amazing Life of Earth. He is funny, fast paced, and fact based. His experience as a presenter is evident. He has no notes, his Power Point slides have a point, and his handouts are clear and concise. Good stuff. A follow on “science class” on Global Warming was a less successful effort to “ lip-synch” the IPPC and Al Gore.

::: Meanwhile, the good news is that at least one F-16 Falcon U.S. pilot, a Persian Gulf pro, will be back in country in time to do some serious snow skiing in the Rockies. Way to go Major!

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