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Housing and Development Newsletter Arriving at sun-blasted Ray’s Camp by 9:30 a.m., I was surprised that there was merely a trickle barely flowing at the normally copious waterstop (once called “First Water”). From the photo at the site, you can easily imagine how harshly the sun beats down during a long, hot July day. Beyond the photo of Wild Pete in his blue shirt, a steep slope leads down to the meandering Manzana. Scrambling down with difficulty, I was able to retrieve some water, but I used it only to pour over my head against the inferno building around us. Filter this water if you plan to drink it.
Housing and Development Newsletter Photographer-naturalist Chuck Graham’s "Carizzo Plain — Where the Mountains Meet the Grasslands" contains splendid photographs and a thoughtfully succinct text accompanying them. I’ve visited the Carrizo many times. Generally my interest has lain with the incredible pictographs displayed at the vulva-shaped Carrizo rock. As one of our last large natural grasslands, the Carrizo needs additional protection against commercial interests. A third book may seem off topic, but it’s not at all. Michaeleen Doucleff’s riveting "Hunt, Gather, Parent" follows what I call the “paleo-fad” thinking, but I subscribe to some paleo-thinking, too. Doucleff, who has a Ph.D. in chemistry, flipped out trying to raise her 3-year-old while working for NPR as a science reporter. The family lived in three areas outside the United States — rural villages in Mexico, in Tanzania and in Canada — and, of course, Doucleff observed very cool “paleo” ways of raising kids in those places.