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  • My take on Tim Treadwell-

    Ralph Maughan

    One reader asked that I post an essay I wrote about Tim Treadwell (and Werner Herzog). This is from my old web site, written about a year ago when “Grizzly Man” came out.

  • "Wild Bill" says "the America the Beautiful Pass sends a strong message"

    Ralph Maughan

    . . . and the message is a negative one. Read his column in New West. He points out that the entire newly imposed structure of fees to fund recreation on our public lands has been established by “midnight” riders to appropriations bills, “temporary programs” that somehow became permanent, or provisions buried deep within complex…

  • Nature programs' goal: No child left inside

    Ralph Maughan

    There was a story in the LA Times today by Julie Cart (no link, it’s a link unfriendly newspaper) that visits to national parks are dropping and there seems to be a general ignorance of actual outdoors by today’s children due to lack of experience. Here is a story on at least a beginning at…

  • Weekend photo. Pass Creek Gorge. October 2006

    Ralph Maughan

    Pass Creek gorge is one of the two routes dirt roads take to cross over the Lost River Range in east central Idaho Pass Creek Gorge. Lost River Mountains, Idaho. Copyright Ralph Maughan

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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