Airborne crud from the China boom is settling in the High Sierra, according to this story my employer published today. For China, the 21st century holds boundless possibilities. The awakening economic giant could surpass anything that has come before it.…

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AktoMan has a colorful solution: I’d thought of this technique before, but tried it for real at the weekend, and it seemed to work. Instead of contorting yourself trying to angle a mirror to those difficult to reach places trying…

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Yesterday, Melissa and I were hunched over the computer once again, watching the Falcon Cam. The male among the three baby peregrines was better described as a gangling adolescent after the growth spurt. He was milling around on a ledge…

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Found this link to his “Wilderness Letter” at the WTA blog. Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned…

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Another priceless animal video: a white tiger that will plunge under water for scraps of meat. Hat tip to Go Blog, where Climb_Ca, in a blog bonding ritual with Ebomb, has ridiculed the Bombster’s news judgment and questioned his grasp…

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I noticed this cool post at the Dzonoqua’s Whistle blog from last weekend. It starts with a rather tragic description of an abandoned duck’s nest, the moves on to an interesting passage about a wild turkey hen and her chicks.…

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Excellent YouTube video from somebody’s South African safari vacation: Lions attack baby buffalo next to water hole; crocodiles try to steal the baby from the lions, and fail; buffalo herd returns and rescues the baby from the lions’ grasp. Check…

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Mushroom hunting requires a lot of hiking, right? Here’s a story about tracking them down in the wilds of Washington state. One guy takes a reporter and photographer along on his hunt but forbids them from revealing the location of…

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This one’s in the Channel Islands off the California coast. It has sound, too. (Link via National Parks Traveler.)