A great old watchtower built on the south rim of the Canyon in about the 1930s (?) as a tourist attraction (as if one is needed!) by white locals to simulate the Hopi stone work and architecture.
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Monthly Archives: March 2014
About a dozen of these elk came wandering through town….. we learned later that they had learned where the mules are fed. Smart! Why go through all the work of searching for something in the dry lands?
Crazy! Safety and caution carried to an extreme. This sign would lead someone (say PJ) from say, the big city somewhere to think that Mountain Lions are everywhere and dangerous….. common as deer which in fact kill ten times as many people…..
Just in case we forget that we’re in cowboy country now.
Do you have to get out of the car? Do you have to remove your shoes? Ah, convenience. (Placerville, California)
Very unfortunate name for an unfortunate business….. Placerville, California, business should at least change its name.
Carson City, Nevada, sign on a casino door…… PLEASE!
Fancy car! This car was decorated (glued on) with all manner of stuff from front to rear. Apparently stays on even going down the highway.
Mono Lake: an incredibly important water resource for the Eastern Sierra and Owens Valley areas. An example of how environmental battles are never quite actually won. An example of power over people. An example of just how really, really, expensive water is. After LA had pumped the Owens Valley dry, had drained Owens Lake into a dust bowl, eliminated almost all of the farming, the water interests began draining Mono Lake and shipping the water hundreds of miles to LA. Never mind that it is on the international flyway for ducks, is the nesting ground for most of California’ sea gulls, and many other species. Then, after more than a decade of fighting, LA was required by law to restore a prescribed level of water in the lake. After 20 years, LA still has not raised the water level to the specified level and the consequences continue.
What remains of Mono Lake today. The smaller of the two islands in the center of the photo is the nesting ground for most of the California coast gulls that fly over the Sierra to get here to nest each year. Due to the lower water levels, the gull population has been hit. The duck population is 2% of what it was before LA started pumping water away from the Lake.
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