US Department of Interior, May 30, 2013 – Sometimes you have to look up to appreciate the beauty of America’s great outdoors. @SequoiaKingsNPS
You didn’t believe in Ents, and then you met the redwoods
June 19, 2013
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Posted by Ed Darrell
Note to hikers in Provo Canyon: This is not Bigfoot
November 26, 2012Not Bigfoot:
Bear on the Misty Falls Trail, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks – photo by Spencer Darrell, rights reserved
Assume that thing in the brush is a bear if it looks vaguely like a bear; if you’re filming, do so as you back up, and only through a very long telephoto lens (bears can sprint up to 30 mph; you want a 300-yard head start). A bear can do more damage to you than Big Foot; don’t mess up the bear’s thing with tourists looking for cryptofauna.
Tip of the old scrub brush to Spencer Darrell, one of Our Men in California.
More:
- Alleged Big Foot Sighting Goes Viral (abcnews.go.com)
- Is Bigfoot lurking around Provo? (abc4.com)
- Bigfoot-like beast has hikers running scared in Utah (myfox8.com)
- Cryptozoology – Re: Provo Bigfoot Encounter (disclose.tv)
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Posted by Ed Darrell
Wish we were there: Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks
November 6, 2012You got the Tweet?
Miter Basin, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California; photo by Kristin Glover, NPS (public domain)
Photo from NPS employee Kristin Glover, at Miter Basin.
We should go see for ourselves, no?
If you go today, vote before you go. This is one of the areas to be opened to energy exploration — oil and gas drilling or other mining — under Mitt Romney’s “energy plan” and the GOP National Platform.
More:
- Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, NPS site
- Sequoia National Park Turns 122 (theepochtimes.com)
- Giant Sequoias — Safe at Last? (sierraclub.typepad.com)
- California ‘Big Trees’ Focus of Campus Colloquium (gantdaily.com)
- 1 of 2 hikers missing in Sierra Nevada found safe (sfgate.com)
- Protecting One of Earth’s Greatest Treasures (ecowatch.org)
- Search Efforts Suspended for Missing Hiker Larry Conn at Kings Canyon National Park (yubanet.com)
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Millard Fillmore's Bathtub 