Sunday, May 25, 2008
Friday, May 23, 2008
Idaho's version of the Giant's Causeway
http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2008/05/23/features/outdoors/137319.txt
The Wandering Geologist
Lawrence P. Growney
"Most aficionados of geology have heard of the Giant's Causeway, a distinctive area of perfectly formed hexagonal basaltic columns that form a "stone bridge" that juts eastward into the sea from Northern Ireland and has an equivalent counterpart along the coast of Scotland. While Idaho can't claim to possess a similarly impressive counterpart, Cassia County can lay claim to a small-scale version of this rocky causeway."
"Most aficionados of geology have heard of the Giant's Causeway, a distinctive area of perfectly formed hexagonal basaltic columns that form a "stone bridge" that juts eastward into the sea from Northern Ireland and has an equivalent counterpart along the coast of Scotland. While Idaho can't claim to possess a similarly impressive counterpart, Cassia County can lay claim to a small-scale version of this rocky causeway."
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Idaho's forgotten war
Remember the Kootenai Tribe's struggle against the feds in 1974?
Now's your chance to learn:
http://www.idahostatesman.com/life/story/388225.html
Now's your chance to learn:
http://www.idahostatesman.com/life/story/388225.html
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Sunday, May 11, 2008
The gospel according to Ron Gillett
http://www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.Article?article_id=17691
Fiery advocate against wolves connects with a small farm town
ASHTON, IDAHO
The West’s traveling anti-wolf evangelist, Ron Gillett, brought his crusade to this rural community a couple of weeks ago.
It’s a good venue for him. Hundred-pound wolves prowl among people and livestock and elk around here, on the western border of Yellowstone National Park, stirring up waves of fear and anger.
In mid-April, naked dirt showed in the farm fields, and the higher-elevation public lands held the ruins of winter in melting snowdrifts. The town of Ashton is nothing fancy, just a few blocks of small businesses and a scatter of houses around a stand of grain elevators.
About 120 of the locals turned out to see Gillett on a chilly Thursday evening. They parked mud-splattered pickups and SUVs at the Ashton Community Center and along side streets, by the Log Cabin Motel and the Zion Lutheran Church. As they filed into the metal-roofed, brick-walled community center, the sky glowed with sunset. A nearly full moon was rising, and the snowy tips of the Tetons brightened the horizon. The sound of cattle bawling came from a nearby feedlot.
Friday, May 9, 2008
Episode No. 8: The stony lava flow of Bennett Mountain
http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2008/05/09/features/outdoors/136354.txt
The Wandering Geologist
Lawrence P. Growney
The Wandering Geologist
Lawrence P. Growney
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