tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59230214746038398922024-02-07T09:29:00.238-08:00Question of PowerCreating a visual voice for social justice, environmental and health issues resulting from the energy industrialization of Native American Homelands and Sacred Places.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger336125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923021474603839892.post-249004567795196852022-05-27T15:47:00.001-07:002022-05-27T15:47:52.810-07:00<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Dine’tah: Oil and Gas Industrialization</span></b></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHRKIk7RHNNtpeZlAGhZul_t2NAYi8YlEk20c6jh7n2t-A6tqp9Bqvypjg1n-KjxSEIOsTCzgnIZC9p1DElqZ4pciUhM2tFXPmUobCjyPjY1niR4g7PXkRzFGfmn5nZXGJqyXGj2UQRaKYXfl3JR3xUGSy2y23qfX0f4xFMnchiOcvXfrjGxHZYMQi/s1914/Devil'sRanch_cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1077" data-original-width="1914" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHRKIk7RHNNtpeZlAGhZul_t2NAYi8YlEk20c6jh7n2t-A6tqp9Bqvypjg1n-KjxSEIOsTCzgnIZC9p1DElqZ4pciUhM2tFXPmUobCjyPjY1niR4g7PXkRzFGfmn5nZXGJqyXGj2UQRaKYXfl3JR3xUGSy2y23qfX0f4xFMnchiOcvXfrjGxHZYMQi/w640-h360/Devil'sRanch_cover.jpg" width="640" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p><p style="color: #3c4044; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Dinétah is the traditional homeland of the Navajo. Much of this Navajo homeland is beyond the jurisdiction of the Navajo Nation government. This part of Navajoland is the cradle of Navajo culture. Over 20,000 oil and gas wells have desecrated the landscape.</span></p><p style="color: #3c4044; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0c0c0c; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Located in NE New Mexico in Dine'tah near Gobernador Knob Don and Jane Schreiber's 3000 acre ranch contains over 120 active oil and gas wells. The Schreiber's strive to bring awareness of the devastating issues of methane poisoning caused by the oil and gas industrialization of the cultural landscape.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0c0c0c; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0c0c0c; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UcDBDQF9r8" target="_blank">Follow this link to video the film:</a> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0c0c0c; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0c0c0c; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">be strong, be safe, Carlan</span></p><p> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923021474603839892.post-20109532884717951622022-05-27T15:29:00.001-07:002022-05-27T15:34:18.731-07:00<h4 style="font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 25px; margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong>Elected Officials Urge Interior and White House to Permanently Protect More BLM Land</strong></h4><div><strong><br /></strong></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">On May 24, 2022, The Mountain Pact released a letter signed by 123 local elected officials from Western states that calls on the Biden administration to protect more Bureau of Land Management lands as part of the administration’s America the Beautiful initiative. The initiative is an effort to protect, conserve, connect, and restore 30 percent of the nation’s lands and waters by 2030 in response to the warning by scientists that globally we must conserve and restore at least 30 percent of lands and waters by 2030 if we hope to preserve biodiversity and ecosystems and mitigate the impacts of climate change. … “Nationally, only 14% of BLM lands are permanently protected. As a result, many of the areas important to our citizens and visitors are at risk of being unnecessarily degraded or lost.” </span><em>The Mountain Pact</em></span></div><p> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923021474603839892.post-203303721211529282021-03-09T09:32:00.002-08:002021-03-09T09:34:21.036-08:00<p><b><span style="font-family: arial;">San Juan Solar Project</span></b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqG1C3NCK4D2iZElyWTZgNDLYoGzaesQFoO6Rj9VFZlIy0YGEuuNw9CKO5MOeDxYfTK1RvM8FrvwtDui2gSogQSEYrk-URqH6ab4wjd1ho-k1w3PdgEsPJD814BWgkhPjZHF73LQLM5P4/s600/SJSP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="402" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqG1C3NCK4D2iZElyWTZgNDLYoGzaesQFoO6Rj9VFZlIy0YGEuuNw9CKO5MOeDxYfTK1RvM8FrvwtDui2gSogQSEYrk-URqH6ab4wjd1ho-k1w3PdgEsPJD814BWgkhPjZHF73LQLM5P4/s16000/SJSP.jpg" /></a></b></div><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; caret-color: rgb(3, 3, 3); color: #030303; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Four Corners region of the Southwest is seeing the remarkable shift to investment in renewable energy. The Four Corners Solar Center is an approximate 1,400 MW solar photovoltaic and battery storage facility proposed by Photosol Development US, LLC (Photosol). The San Juan Solar Project is part of this historic energy transition.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #030303;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(3, 3, 3); font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://youtu.be/qRV_g4uJwOs" target="_blank">To view the location of this historic project click here.</a></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; caret-color: rgb(3, 3, 3); color: #030303; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">be strong, be safe, Carlan</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923021474603839892.post-56023735678794198122021-01-27T09:31:00.000-08:002021-01-27T09:31:14.718-08:00<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Sixty Day Pause </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfyOEqeB0R11ryVQcPcfoHXRU29T5MQNIJqObko7Pr1dsg9FrMn2o7S2zcT16kdfmttjckJtjouyNV1tLaP2wPjx1dPGrqQp70xZI1NMEURgJ2bs2DheUIbd6l7Rot1v2e_VB1KAnYSwo/s600/chaco.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfyOEqeB0R11ryVQcPcfoHXRU29T5MQNIJqObko7Pr1dsg9FrMn2o7S2zcT16kdfmttjckJtjouyNV1tLaP2wPjx1dPGrqQp70xZI1NMEURgJ2bs2DheUIbd6l7Rot1v2e_VB1KAnYSwo/s16000/chaco.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #5f5750;">President Biden and his administration have put in place a 60-day pause on new oiled gas leasing and permitting. They have frozen the nearly finished BLM-BIA resource management plan amendment (RMPA) and environmental impact statement (EIS) work for the Greater Chaco-Farmington area. These are all excellent steps forward. More needs to be done. The Greater Chaco Landscape needs the permanent protection of a bill that passes both houses of Congress and is signed by President Biden. The All-Pueblo Council of Governors, the Pueblo of Acoma, and other Pueblos and Tribes have called for the protection of Greater Chaco for years. Now is the time to create this important and necessary protection for all future generations.</span></span></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #5f5750; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(95, 87, 80);">be strong, be safe, Carlan</span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923021474603839892.post-59443322826526604822021-01-06T09:20:00.002-08:002021-01-06T09:21:11.536-08:00<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Deb Haaland's Nomination to Interior </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;">The nomination of Deb Haaland to be Interior Secretary is not just a historic but a redemptive act. For the first time in our history, a Native American will hold a Cabinet-level post. As secretary of the interior, Haaland will play a key role at a crucial moment in our nation’s relationship with its more than 450 million acres of public lands, and will have a chance to reverse our exploitive history toward our country’s first people. </span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;">Haaland will also serve as a powerful counterweight to President Donald Trump’s original choice as Interior Secretary, Ryan Zinke, who resigned amid ethics controversies and whose signature move was the massive reduction of Bears Ears National Monument in southeast Utah, the only national monument to grow out of the thinking, planning and advocacy of Native Americans.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial;">be strong, be safe, Carlan</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923021474603839892.post-19815282420405382202020-10-28T09:30:00.001-07:002020-10-28T09:32:22.022-07:00<p><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Shiprock Solar Project</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi51wcaPoGV6zs8VYz9aykXpUr7cSFPFsOWZXFqRy3V6dp7XgL0FI2dK54aR9HQVwWX8rfW6krlZFrY8icQYdK4H_E2HGek2ea5VI75eobepFLhJDBGBuvmL-DXhyysL0epC98Zt8a8GSo/s600/shiprock+solar.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi51wcaPoGV6zs8VYz9aykXpUr7cSFPFsOWZXFqRy3V6dp7XgL0FI2dK54aR9HQVwWX8rfW6krlZFrY8icQYdK4H_E2HGek2ea5VI75eobepFLhJDBGBuvmL-DXhyysL0epC98Zt8a8GSo/s16000/shiprock+solar.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span class="x-el x-el-span c1-82 c1-83 c1-b c1-6f c1-6g c1-6h c1-6i c1-6j">New
Mexico Public Regulation Commission (PRC) voted unanimously to replace
the San Juan Generating Station power with 100% renewable energy when
the coal-fired power plant is retired in 2022. This decision will
modernize power generation, improve public health, and stabilize the
local economy. We will document this historic transition over the next
two years to educate and create an historic record for future
generations. To better understand the importance of this historic transition <a href="https://youtu.be/EJU6LrQzxCk" target="_blank">click here for the video</a>.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="x-el x-el-span c1-82 c1-83 c1-b c1-6f c1-6g c1-6h c1-6i c1-6j">be strong, Be safe, Carlan<br /></span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923021474603839892.post-10214224351965874462020-09-22T11:27:00.000-07:002020-09-22T11:27:42.596-07:00<p><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong>Chaco-Area Sacred Sites Drilling Plan Expedited</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong></strong></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIygLyoYKPqF7B6rAo2tNyc57m6RLwKTvoOxDIMSj0DlTl1EBJ-Ggg6BrZ-TdFG6T-FFyByGQFRqIWhIpJXHtEaoLyCuhAzA0KLvtryISA6AP8pVH-MLQO5LoFssixlDsRIGt5HynE3sU/s600/c_sacred.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="385" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIygLyoYKPqF7B6rAo2tNyc57m6RLwKTvoOxDIMSj0DlTl1EBJ-Ggg6BrZ-TdFG6T-FFyByGQFRqIWhIpJXHtEaoLyCuhAzA0KLvtryISA6AP8pVH-MLQO5LoFssixlDsRIGt5HynE3sU/s16000/c_sacred.jpg" /></a></strong></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><strong></strong></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">A proposal that would increase oil and gas drilling in the Greater Chaco region of northwest New Mexico is one of a long list of energy projects that are being “expedited” by the U.S. Department of Interior during the COVID-19 pandemic, under the direction of the Trump Administration. The information was revealed in a letter dated July 15 from the DOI Deputy Secretary Katharine MacGregor and obtained by the Center for Biological Diversity through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.</span></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">The BLM ultimately granted a 120-day extension, which will run out
September 25, but the agency has refused to halt the process until after
the pandemic. Instead, it has held a series of webinars for public
engagement, including several held at the end of August. </span></p><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The BLM Deputy Director William Perry Pendley argued in April that
online information sessions would actually increase public
participation. But for many of the communities directly impacted by the
proposal, accessing broadband to participate in the webinars presents
its own challenges. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">
Sixty percent of Navajo Nation residents currently lack access to broadband, according to Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Tribes, Congress, and the public have repeatedly demanded the Bureau of Land Management keep its promises to protect the culture, communities, and climate of the Greater Chaco Landscape. The BLM is exploiting the COVID-19 crisis to drill more than 3,000 new fracking wells, and refuses to include Tribal-led efforts to protect sacred sites during the planning process.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">be strong, be safe, Carlan<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923021474603839892.post-4366014041124655152020-08-27T13:02:00.001-07:002020-08-27T13:04:11.377-07:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Remembering Molly</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguoYJVgQedvX8ui3DKUU6QNlczZ7qajm17zV1kmqz_4vqRs7qg79rApsC8rh3_psckIR7-BAXc2tWL00M4m8DXVIyZxyVrbvS2Oe8WEegycdDRCvlIqdST5g7cXDc1zqXpyoTNgWRNIeQ/s600/QP_Molly.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="391" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguoYJVgQedvX8ui3DKUU6QNlczZ7qajm17zV1kmqz_4vqRs7qg79rApsC8rh3_psckIR7-BAXc2tWL00M4m8DXVIyZxyVrbvS2Oe8WEegycdDRCvlIqdST5g7cXDc1zqXpyoTNgWRNIeQ/s0/QP_Molly.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Covid-19 has impacted all of us around the world. Here in the Southwest the Navajo Nation has experience Covid at it's worst. Many community members, families, and close sisters and brothers have experienced it first hand. The losses have been devastating. Molly was one of them. She journeyed onto the next life this summer. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Molly lived in Burnham, NM on the Navajo Nation. She was a powerful voice with Lucy Willie standing strong and tall against the proposed Desert Rock coal power plant. The two women were rocks. Not willing to move or budge until things were set straight.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF4D88oYQ1VVJttNtYWh7ehIfo_X6mTluJMcfTOqoUtJ8pxIXP8QL4jhMiA8Sl4RklZHi0GdNolhrtVoI_GYPOwmLjd20JzMVD69YUVEaVmesvHkHsryPs46xWPxF77YZBmiBz01XztEg/s600/QP_Molly2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF4D88oYQ1VVJttNtYWh7ehIfo_X6mTluJMcfTOqoUtJ8pxIXP8QL4jhMiA8Sl4RklZHi0GdNolhrtVoI_GYPOwmLjd20JzMVD69YUVEaVmesvHkHsryPs46xWPxF77YZBmiBz01XztEg/s0/QP_Molly2.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Working with both of these incredible Navajo women for many years was both an honor and life long experience. Their words were spoken with truth and integrity. Molly always listened carefully long before she spoke. Lucy and Molly are together again. I know that in my heart. That thought alone brings a warm smile filled with love and respect to my face. Thank you my sisters for everything you have done for your families, community, and Mother Earth. Safe journey.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">be strong, be safe, Carlan</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923021474603839892.post-76705865212804529142020-06-20T09:29:00.000-07:002020-06-20T09:29:37.983-07:00<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Public Health and the Greater Chaco Landscape</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Chaco park and other parts of the canyon are protected from drilling through a congressional funding <span style="color: black;">bill</span>. But there are some 250 outlying sites spread throughout north-west New Mexico, said Michelle Turner, an archaeologist studying the region. Many of those sites are connected by ancient roads, she said, which are gradually being erased by drilling-related development.</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923021474603839892.post-88187561079806705502020-03-06T15:21:00.000-08:002020-03-06T15:22:02.055-08:00<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Looking Back</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The New Mexico History Museum will be opening an exhibit called "Looking Back: Reflecting on Collections." Four photographs from the Naamehnay Project Navajo Nation Four Corners work will be featured in the exhibit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The exhibit will be up for about a year. The public opening and reception will be on Sunday, March 8 from 1to pm.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Look forward to seeing you there.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">be strong, be safe, Carlan</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 16px;">A yearlong federal moratorium on oil and gas leases within 10 miles of the Chaco Culture National Historical Park ended this past Saturday. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Today the Bureau of Land Management Farmington Field Office and the Bureau of Indian Affairs Navajo Regional Office<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">released</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">joint Draft Resource Management Plan Amendment (RMPA) and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for lands surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Trump administration announced it was opening two national monuments to development. The culturally and geologically significant Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments will be available for cattle grazing, mining, and oil and gas development. Five tribes had formed a coalition in 2015 to promote protection of the Bears Ears region; dozens more tribes have expressed support for their effort.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Interior Department’s release of a formal land-use blueprint for the approximately 861,974 acres of land will allow oil, gas and coal companies to complete the legal process for leasing mines and wells on land that had once been part of Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, established by President Bill Clinton. In December 2017, President Trump cut the monument’s acreage about in half, aiming to open the newly unprotected land for drilling and development. At the same time, he removed about a million acres from another Utah monument, Bears Ears. Together, the moves were the largest rollback of public lands protection in United States history. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Under the plan, much of Bears Ears and nearly 1 million acres in and around Grand Staircase are open to grazing. BLM will also make two new routes in Grand Staircase open to off-road vehicles, which archaeologists and conservationists are concerned could damage vulnerable artifacts and natural features. “These plans represent the lowest common denominator for BLM stewardship,” Stephen Bloch, legal director for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, one of the plaintiffs in the monuments lawsuits, said in a statement. “One of the wildest landscapes in the lower forty-eight states will be lost if these plans are carried into action over the next few years.”</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">be strong, be safe, Carlan<br /> </span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923021474603839892.post-80594284373917681742020-02-07T10:23:00.001-08:002020-02-07T10:23:35.171-08:00<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New Mexico in Black and White</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The light in New Mexico is magical. Dawn to dusk. Clear skies to storms. Each day each moment changing. Stunning landscape to create black and white photographs. March 22 - 27 I have the pleasure of teaching Expressive Black and White Landscapes and Fine Art Digital Printmaking at the Santa Fe Workshops. Join me as we travel across the New Mexico landscape capturing once in a life time moments and creating exhibition black and white prints. For more information and to register visit <a href="https://santafeworkshops.com/workshop/expressive_digital_landscape_in_black_and_white_10/" target="_blank">Santa Fe Workshops</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Look forward to our paths meeting in Santa Fe for an exciting week of making photographs together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">be strong, be safe, Carlan</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923021474603839892.post-52471473696260082592020-01-04T15:03:00.001-08:002020-01-04T15:07:40.529-08:00<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Two Weeks, Two Wheels, and Two Lanes</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the past five years I have been criss-crossing the US, north to south, and east to west, on the old two lane US Highways. Making photographs, meeting folks along the way, collecting stories. All on two wheels. On editorial assignments for Harley-Davidson HOG® magazine. Many of you have followed this blog and have been side by side with me on these incredible journeys. Thank you all for that special companionship.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This past July I rode, photographed, slept, and ate across America on US Highway 2 dubbed the Great Northern. Began the journey in St. Ignace, Michigan. Crossed Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, ending just north of Seattle, Washington. Just over 2800 miles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The concept for the story was going Bronson-style "lightening up" as Nancy calls it. Just the basics: photo gear, cell phone, paper maps, and a duffel with a few essentials. For two weeks I never turned on the TV. Sparing myself from everything that appears to be wrong. By the time I reached Seattle, my spirit had been gratefully renewed with everything that is perfectly right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My trusty companion on the ride was Ol' Sport. Simple, basic, lightening up. Ol' Sport and me - what a ride we had - a couple of buddies traveling down that ribbon of highway that connects us all together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The published story is in the current issue of Hog® magazine. I was excited to see they used one of my images on the cover as well. <a href="https://www.carlantapp.com/HOG/HWY2.pdf" target="_blank">If you would like to read the story click here for a pdf copy.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Wow! What a Ride".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">be strong, be safe, Carlan</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Congress took action last week to protect Chaco Culture National Historical Park from oil and gas drilling. The appropriations bill ensures that there will be no more leasing on federal lands within ten miles of the park, pending needed studies and consultation with tribal communities. The ten-mile zone around the park is particularly important, as it includes more than a dozen Chacoan great house communities, ancient roads, and thousands of other significant cultural resources. Thank you, Senator Udall, Congressman Lujàn, and the entire New Mexico congressional delegation for securing these important protections.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank all of you for your support to help make this happen. A good note to end the year on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The clock is ticking. It has been almost exactly six months since Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt agreed to halt oil and gas lease sales within a ten-mile buffer zone surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park for one year. That means we are halfway to the end of Interior’s temporary ban on new developments near the park, and the fate of the Greater Chaco Landscape remains in limbo. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Chaco is like no other place on earth. It is a living cultural landscape with significant architecture, pictographs and petroglyphs, and other resources that are reminders of the economic, agricultural, and ceremonial hub. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span style="color: #ea0c0b;"><a href="http://bit.ly/36lgQ2W">http://bit.ly/36lgQ2W</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><a href="https://protectchaco.wordpress.com/2019/12/05/time-running-out-to-protect-chaco/" target="_blank"> </a>– </span></span><span style="color: #383838; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-style: italic;">By Paul Reed, Archaeology Southwest</span><br />
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<span style="color: #383838; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(56, 56, 56);">Please take a moment to follow the link to learn more. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Greater Chaco Landscape connects the people of the American Southwest to our shared heritage, and it must be granted official federal protections before it is lost forever.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #383838;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">be strong, be safe, Carlan</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923021474603839892.post-30141809623241857292019-11-30T17:48:00.002-08:002019-12-11T11:46:24.300-08:00<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Guadalupe Outlier - Greater Chaco Landscape</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Over twenty years ago I was wandering around out in the Greater Chaco Landscape of New Mexico. Nancy and I were living in Seattle. A conversation with a friend had led to me making a trip to New Mexico and spending some time in his family's cabin near Cuba, NM. Driving north from Albuquerque Cabezon loomed large on the horizon. Over the next week I explored dirt roads leading out into a stunning landscape. Stopping often to make photographs, it was a photographer's holiday. Meeting a local rancher, he asked "are you looking for the old Indian ruins"? He pointed me in the direction along the mesas by the river. I found Guadalupe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Much has changed over those twenty years. The site was discovered in the early 1970's. Located on BLM land it is the responsibility of the BLM for the stewardship of this sacred site. Nancy and I have returned numerous times to this very special place. We have seen many changes. Most not for the better. Once a location found as it was when the Ancestral Chacoans left, today the BLM has desecrated the site with metal roofs placed on sacred kivas, cemented walls, and the removal of most of the signs of the Pueblo People. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last week I flew the site to document and record the site conditions. My heart was saddened by what I saw. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">be strong, be safe, Carlan</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923021474603839892.post-24870303212833541732019-11-29T11:17:00.000-08:002019-11-29T11:17:54.859-08:00<b><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">America's 11 Most Endangered Places</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">On May 30, 2019, the National Trust announced its annual list of 11 most endangered places. </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">is a list of places in the United States</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">that the National Trust for Historic Preservation</span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">considers the most endangered. It aims to inspire Americans to preserve examples of cultural heritage that could be "relegated to the dustbins of history" without intervention.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">At the top of the list is Ancestral and Sacred Sites of Southeast Utah. This includes Bears Ears, Combs Ridge, and Hovenweep.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Since taking office, the Trump administration has offered almost 19 million acres of public land for oil and gas leasing—an area larger than the entire state of West Virginia. All this is being done at the same time the administration is revising the management plans for more than 24 million acres of public land and proposing to slash conservation protections by 80%.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Help us as we </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">strive</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> to document and </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">preserve cultural, sacred sites, and endangered landscape in the Southwest. To learn how you can help visit <a href="http://www.questionofpower.org/support.html" target="_blank">Question of Power</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">be strong, be safe, Carlan</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923021474603839892.post-25882793152018184922019-10-25T15:04:00.002-07:002019-10-25T15:04:27.063-07:00<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>112,000 Acres of Public Lands Leased by the BLM </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since the beginning of 2018 the BLM has leased 112,000 acres of Public Lands in Southeast Utah. This is all part of the Greater Chaco Landscape. In many cases as little as 2% of the recently leased land has been surveyed for cultural and sacred sites. There are 1700 known sacred sites in three recent lease sales. The Trump administration immediately targeted this region for development by reducing the size of Bears Ears National Monument by nearly 85% and leaving that previously protected landscape open to mineral, oil and gas development.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last week I spent time in part of the Bears Ears previously protected landscape, an area called Valley of the Gods. Standing under a brilliant blue sky surrounded by red sandstone mesas, buttes, and towers, all </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">remnants of an ancient landscape, it was a time and place to renew my soul. Difficult to imagine the long term effects of opening up this and the surrounding landscape for oil and gas industrialization now that protection for the areas has been removed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Follow this link to experience the beauty of <a href="https://vimeo.com/368852441" target="_blank">Valley of the Gods</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">be strong, be safe, Carlan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Conservation and tribal groups are criticizing the Bureau of Land Management for its latest oil and gas lease sale of more than 70,000 acres of public land in Utah. The sale, which occurred this week, brought in around $1.63 million, according to the BLM, more than half of which came from 32,027 acres in San Juan County. The sale is the third since March 2018 to include land between Bears Ears and Canyon of the Ancients National Monument, much of which conservation groups say should not be leased. “This area has more archaeological sites than any other area open to oil and gas drilling in the United States,” said Josh Ewing, director of Bluff-based conservation group Friends of Cedar Mesa.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The All Pueblo Council of Governors; San Juan County Commission; the Navajo Utah Commission; the Town of Bluff and the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) were among those that sent letters to the BLM and Utah Governor Herbert, asking them to stop the leases near Hovenweep National Monument from advancing.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923021474603839892.post-9618883849261537832019-08-04T22:02:00.001-07:002019-08-04T22:13:22.779-07:00<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">HWY 2 - Day 12 - Cashmere, WA - End of HWY 2</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Final day traveling the Great Northern. Filled Ol' Sport with the last tank of high test. Filled me with a big breakfast and several cups of steaming hot coffee. Heading into Tumwater Canyon HWY 2 sweeps through the evergreen conifer forests winding along the raging Wenatchee River. Rolled on the throttle, leaned and pressed into the turns...WOW...What a Ride! Shadows on the road filled with cold air. Couldn't help but think of the past two weeks on the road with O'l Sport. Didn't want it to end. Maybe we could just keep going down the road together forever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the crest of the Cascades the road climbs up and over 4,061 foot Steven Pass. The highest and northern most Cascade pass. A popular ski area, Stevens Pass dishes out grand views of the surrounding peaks. Stopped to take it all in. Didn't want the moment to end.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From Stevens Pass it is a downhill run to the end of HWY 2 in Everett. A few miles down the narrow curving asphalt a small pull-off provides access to one of the regions prettiest and most powerful cascades of bone-chilling snowmelt. Deception Falls is the perfect example of a classic roaring waterfall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Far too quickly I was out of the tranquility of the Cascades and on the final leg of my 2800 mile journey. Pulling into Emerald City Harley-Davidson to drop off Ol' Sport I was met by my two beautiful granddaughters and family. The perfect ending. My daughter made a special dinner of fresh caught local salmon tonight. As we sat around the table talking and laughing about some of my road stories, it became clear what I had experienced the past two weeks on the road. I had experienced America. The land, the places, the people that make up our great country. America the Beautiful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O'l Sport and me. Just a couple of cool dudes traveling light and simple down that ribbon of highway which connects us all together. Gonna really miss O'l Sport. Handed over his key with a misty eye. Had a hard time walking away. Stopped and took one final look back. Put a big smile on my face. O'l Sport and me. What a time together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A favorite Hunter Thompson quote keeps running over and over in my head tonight...</span><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "</span><b style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Wow</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">! What a </span><b style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Ride</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">!"</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kickstand down western end of HWY 2 - 136 miles. Missing having' O'l Sport's key tonight hangin' on my belt loop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">be strong, be safe, Carlan</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923021474603839892.post-3837421884832397942019-08-03T20:55:00.000-07:002019-08-03T20:59:05.977-07:00<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">HWY 2 - Day 11 - Wilbur, WA - Cashmere, WA</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Peaceful sleep last night in Wilbur. Hope they get the relaxation bed fixed before my next visit. The Columbia Basin has been the centerpiece of massive project dams and reclamation projects. Beginning in 1934 Grand Coulee Dam is one of the civil engineering wonders of the world. At the southern end of the dam project HWY 2 crosses Grand Coulee. A big body of beautiful blue water. The area is a popular spot for boaters and anglers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the last of eastern Wahington's unirrigated landscapes is the Moses Coulee. The Coulee is an 800-foot deep gorge bounded by vertical walls of brown and black volcanic basalt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From the rolling plains above, HWY 2 cuts down into the coulee, then back up the other side, passing through some of the Columbia River Basin's sole remaining sagebrush and giving a strong sense of how profoundly irrigation has change the region.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Standing at the center of fertile wheat fields 10 miles east of the Columbia River backed off the throttle entering Waterville. The town was built in 1886 with a population of 1162 strong individuals today. Stopped for gas, but the pumps weren't working.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the road for eleven days now. R</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hythm</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> of the road is deep in my soul. Been missing some good fresh fruit. Feil Orchard...The Good Fruit People. Two brothers growing some of the best peaches, apples, and pears in the greater Wenatchee area since 1906.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pulled to a stop. Put the kickstand down, had one of the sweetest, run down your arm </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">juicy</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> as you bite into it, peaches I have ever eaten. Size of an apple, absolutely melted in my mouth. Could go on but I won't. Wenatchee is the commercial center of the Wenatchee Valley, and one of the world's most productive apple growing regions in the world. Not to mention peaches!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With the rugged Cascade Range on the horizon HWY 2 left the lower plains and headed directly into forest covered hills and glacier carved peaks. Stopped in Cashmere tonight. World famous for Applets and Cotlets. Visited the factory. Ate my way through the sample room. Highly suggested when you are in the area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hard to think about putting the kickstand down on Ol' Sport tomorrow at the end of HWY 2. Actually...don't want to even think about it yet...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kickstand down Cashmere, WA. 162 Miles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How many cords, chargers, batteries, memory cards...list goes on and on...does it take to be a photographer in this current age of technology. Biggest challenge on the road is to make sure each morning everything is rounded up, coiled up, packaged up, and loaded up before you saddle up. Let's see, sure don't want to miss any ups. Sweep the room. Triple check all the outlets for devices.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Light rain this morning gave me a reason to delay taking off early. Chance to do some laundry in the room. Conair works as a good dryer while sipping coffee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stopped in at AJ's Cafe in Priest for some breakfast. All the 6 AM regulars have their own coffee cup with name in this three calendar cafe. Reminded me of my grandfather's barber shop in Arizona where every regular customer had their own shaving mug. Nice to know these kinds of communities are still part of our country today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The past two weeks have seen and stopped in a lot of small towns along HWY 2. Some are deserted, some just holding on, some striving to be renewed. Good to see a breath of new life along the way. Hope would be for the renewal not to be one which loses the original character which build the foundations of these communities. Time will tell.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leaving Idaho HWY 2 becomes 150 miles of rolling farmland east of the Cascades. Dark spots suddenly appear from the side of the road. Ol' Sport and me sweep quick to the left and then to the right. It's a flock of wild turkeys deciding to cross the highway. A blip of the throttle and Ol' Sport has those turkeys rushing back into the wheat fields where they belong. Good thing. Wrong time of year for a Thanksgiving dinner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Small-scale framing limped along here for over a century. The region underwent a wholesale change after WW II. Irrigation water from reclamation projects turned sagebrush plains into the proverbial amber waves of grain spreading to the horizon against an (almost) always blue sky filled with never ending clouds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Handlebars straight. Not a curve in sight. Directly across the heart of this sparsely populated, nearly treeless region to Wilbur, WA. where an old service station has been brought back to life as a drive-by expresso stand. Must be getting close to Seattle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hoping for some relaxation after 10 days on the road...disappointed in Wilbur tonight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kickstand down Wilbur, WA - 165 windy miles (that's headwind windy miles)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">be strong, be safe, Carlan</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923021474603839892.post-1461761380980480792019-08-01T22:04:00.000-07:002019-08-01T22:09:05.785-07:00<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">HWY 2 - Day 9 - Kalispell, MT - Priest River, ID</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This morning in Kalispell I was searching for a good breakfast. Hungry...ready eat. Eating across Montana has has been an interesting experience. Whenever the word "interesting" is used the actual meaning may be up in the air. Sometimes Goggle or Trip Advisor works...sometime not. Took a chance. Plugged in The Knead Cafe in Google Maps. Rode up and stopped in front of a nondescript building. Open? Not Open? Tried the door. Sure happy I did. Alissa met me with a smile, filled a cup with local brewed coffee, and served up the best carrot scone I have ever eaten. She also shared local information on some places down the road not to miss.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ordered up a mouth watering breakfast that did not disappoint. Now maybe I am carrying on a bit about a breakfast. Here are the facts: been on the road for 10 days, almost forgotten what great food tastes like. To tell the truth couldn't eat it all. Eyes bigger than my stomach. Wrapped up that tasty scone and enjoyed it down the road a ways.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">HWY 2 west of Kalispell was a perfect two laner. Hardly another car, smooth road, enough twistys to satisfy any biker, scenery out of this world. Doesn't get any better. Took a break at McGregor Lake to take it all in and finish that incredible carrot scone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How big is Montana? It stretches for over 650 miles east to west. HWY 2 takes you all the way across. The state covers an area larger than New England and New York put together, but has a total population small the that of Hartford, Connecticut.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Between Libby and Troy the Kootenai River weaves it's course along the road. It hits it's lowest point at Troy which is nearly the state's lowest elevation - 1,892 feet above sea level.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A popular stopping point is called the Kootenai Swinging Bridge. The rickety old swinging bridge sways from cables suspended 50 feet above the green water of the river. Walked out to make a photograph from the middle the bridge. It never stopped swinging...and swaying.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Crossing into Idaho roughly five miles east of the Washington border, Priest River is a busy lumber town with two huge Louisiana Pacific mills dominating the local economy. Watering the logs to keep them cool. Has to be done. Prevents instant combustion from the heat generated from stacking the logs together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So many bugs on my leathers. Ol' Sport is covered from headlight to taillight with them. Have to stop every few miles to clean my dark glasses. Even the bears in the area know that "Bikers Taste Like Bugs". Makes you feel much safer knowing a bear might rather eat a bug than a biker...maybe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kickstand down Priest River, ID 210 Miles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">be strong, be safe, Carlan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923021474603839892.post-13027051406401407992019-07-31T20:07:00.000-07:002019-07-31T20:13:15.405-07:00<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">HWY 2 - Day 8 - Shelby, MT - Kalispell, MT</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Met Anthony and Alex this morning as I was saddling up in Shelby. Black Barons from South Africa. Harley riders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They had picked up rental bikes in San Francisco. Ridden up the coast. Headed east on HWY 2. Were on their way to Sturgis and points beyond for the next three weeks. Shared road stories. Even touched on world politics. The world is a small place these days. New brothers together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Air was cool and fresh. So cool it felt good wearing most of the clothing I had packed for the trip. Cut Bank is popularly known as the coldest city in the US...mostly thanks to the presence of a US Weather Service monitoring station. But then again...who is to question a 27 foot-tall pengiun making a weather statement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Twenty-two miles west of Cut Bank, a much abused monument along HWY 2 points out the most northerly point reached by Lewis and Clark on their cross-country expedition. On July 23, 1806 Lewis searching for the headwaters of the Marias River made it to this spot he called Camp Disappointment before turning back because of bad weather. Couldn't help but think how Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce had saved the lives of Lewis and Clark's entire expedition during one long winter when they were without food and shelter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's hard heading west on HWY 2 to believe that, despite having covered nearly 2,000 miles of undulating Pine and Prairie Plains I was yet to see and reach the mountains. Cresting a hill suddenly there they were...the rugged Rocky Mountains.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Parking my trusty Sportster took a moment to breathe in the fresh mountain air. A major realization hit me hard right between the eyes. All bikers name their motorcycles. Why was I still calling my bike a Sportster? How impersonal. Had I not the past few days experienced some difficult road conditions...yet handled them with confidence and style on the Sportster. This bike has to be one of the funnest Harley's I have ever ridden. Not named yet? What have I been thinking? Suddenly standing along the road it came to me. Ol' Sport. Yes, it's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">a friendly term of endearment used between equals, like buddy or the decidedly more modern... dude. Ol' Sport and me from this moment on heading down the road together...just a couple of cool dudes.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">HWY 2 runs along the southern border of Glacier National Park. Traffic turning into the Park was congested and bumper to bumper. But </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Ol' Sport and I spent the rest of the day pressing and leaning into the twisty turns along the Flathead River on HWY 2. A beautiful ride together into Kalispell, MT. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Be strong, be safe, Talon and Ol' Sport</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0