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April 20, 2023
Yet more from that book project (see the owl article for the back-story, and the hornbill article for another of the book's sections).
October 17, 2021
From about 1000 BC to AD 1450, eastern North America witnessed the rise and fall of three distinctive prehistoric cultures known as the Adena, Hopewell ...
June 4, 2021
Again, more recycled text from the Mesozoic bird section of the fieldguide...
March 16, 2021
Reedsport to Brookings, places to stay; winter deals Initial contact with this part of the southern Oregon coast was quite peaceful, made in 1792 by George Vancouver. However, by the 1850s the U.S. had a bad case of the Manifest Destiny and a wrathful lust for land and gold. Any treaties with local tribes were routinely disregarded, and things came to a head quickly in proto-Port Orford when Captain William Tichenor arrived with nine men in a steamship in 1851. The problem was they showed up w...