Frontiers 60: Our Bond with Bears
Our relationship with bears is as old as the human race, but it’s a complicated one. In many parts of the world, they are revered for their power, almost sacred. In Alaska Native cultures, it’s not uncommon to hear advice from elders to announce your entry into bear country — and to occasionally sing or talk to the bear, to let him know you are sharing the woods and mean no harm.
In this program, we look at the bear from a variety of perspectives, thanks to the International Bear Association’s week-long conference in Anchorage.
Some of the highlights:
A visit to the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, where we take you behind-the-scenes of the brown bear exhibit. A chance to see the public and private life of three bears who live on an 18-acre preserve, the largest of its kind in the nation.
We hear from scientists from all over the world,who gathered in Anchorage to share their work and further understanding of the bear, an animal of many mysteries yet to be solved.
Dan Bigley, a bear attack survivor, tells his story — how in a matter of moments his life changed forever.
Our guest is John Hechtel, a retired Alaska Fish and Game Biologist from Fairbanks, who has studied bear attacks for more than three decades.
Also, check out this week’s Frontiers Web Extra. We hear more from John Hechtel and Elizabeth Kruger from the Anchorage office of the World Wildlife Fund. Kruger worked with the village of Wales to set up a polar bear patrol program to keep children safe.
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Single Track Laps | Big Bear, Ca
Trail is Old Fall Line and is accessible via the Snow Summit lifts or a loop climb. Good single track to mix up your park days.
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On The Road With The NFO - Ely, NV. - Nevada Filming Location
Ely, NV., a small town of about 4,250 residents, is situated in a nice central location with a lot of great parks nearby such as the Great Basin National Park, Cave Lake State Park and Ward Charcoal Ovens State Historic Park as well as the state parks of Lincoln County, NV.
Ely is also home to the Nevada Northern Railway Museum and the preserved part of the First Transcontinental Railroad known as Ghost Train of Old Ely.
Ely, NV. Just one of many great Nevada filming locations!
Driving in Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge Nevada State Route 140
The Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge is a 573,504-acre (232,089 ha) national wildlife refuge located on the northern border of the U.S. state of Nevada. A very small part extends northward into Oregon. It is managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service as the Nevada component of the Sheldon-Hart Mountain National Wildlife Refuge Complex, which is headquartered in Lakeview, Oregon. The Sheldon Refuge is noted for its population of wild horses.
In 1931, the refuge was established under executive order to carry out three central goals: First, the refuge was to provide a habitat for the antelope (more properly called the pronghorn), an animal whose population was in decline during the early 1900s. Second, conservation efforts were put forth to protect native fish, wildlife and plants. Finally, the refuge was to serve as an inviolate migratory bird sanctuary.[3]
Advocates characterize Sheldon as one of the few intact sagebrush steppe ecosystems in the Great Basin, one that hosts a variety of wildlife endemic to the unique environment.[4] Desert fishes, greater sage-grouse, migratory birds, mule deer and the pygmy rabbit are all residents of the refuge.
The Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge occupies an arid zone of volcanic terrain. Rockhounds search for semiprecious stones such as fire opals. Geothermal hot springs provide some water. The dominant ecosystem plant life consists of drought-tolerant species such as sagebrush, juniper, mountain mahogany, bitterbrush, and aspen. The elevation ranges from 4,100 feet (1,200 m) to 7,200 feet (2,200 m) above sea level.
Nevada mustang featured on state quarter
In this forbidding landscape lives a large population of free-range fauna, with the American mustang, the so-called wild horse of the American West, being the best known. There are also large herds of mule deer, an estimated 3,500 pronghorn, and a small but self-sustaining population of bighorn sheep.
The bighorn are not strictly native to the Sheldon Refuge, having been extirpated there during the frontier era and successfully reintroduced about 1930.[5] The pronghorn antelope played a key role in the history of the Refuge, as approximately 94 percent of the current protected land area was originally set aside as the Charles Sheldon Antelope Range in 1936.[6]
The Refuge is the home of an endemic fish species of limited geographic distribution, the Alvord chub.
Nevada State Route 140 traverses the refuge from east to west and is the only paved road within the refuge. The nearest community of any size is Denio, Nevada, 14 miles from the Refuge's eastern boundary. The nearest divided highway is Interstate 80 in Winnemucca, Nevada, approximately 100 miles to the south.
Proposals to cull some of the alleged excess population of mustang in the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge were drawing public concern as of 2008. The official Fish and Wildlife (USFWS) position, as stated on their Refuge website, was that horses and burros are not native to Sheldon Refuge. They are descended from domestic stock turned loose around the turn of the twentieth century.The population of Sheldon horses are the descendants of horses used by the US Army. Harry Wilson was one of the ranchers that sold horses to the US Cavalry. When the Wilsons owned the Virgin Valley Ranch, they worked with the Army, which provided thoroughbred stallions that were bred with the Wilsons' standardbreds. [9]
State Route 140 (SR 140) is a two-lane state highway in Humboldt County, Nevada. It serves a sparsely populated section of the state, connecting northwestern Nevada to southern Oregon. Most of the highway was originally part of State Route 8A, and was later improved through an effort to provide an all-weather highway linking northern Nevada to the Pacific northwest.
State Route 140 begins at a junction with U.S. Route 95 about 32 miles (51 km) north of Winnemucca in the Quinn River Valley. From this point, the highway heads west towards the sparsely populated regions of northwestern Nevada. SR 140 crosses into the Desert Valley before entering a branch of the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation. Inside the reservation, the route crosses the Quinn River. Upon exiting the Indian territory, SR 140 curves northwest to parallel the Quinn River for about 10 miles (16 km) as it rounds the northern edge of the Jackson Mountains. As the river turns southeast towards the Black Rock Desert, the highway continues its northwest trajectory through the valley between the Bilk Creek Mountains on the east and the Pine Forest Range to the west. The route crosses over the 4,820-foot (1,470 m) Denio Summit before reaching Denio Junction. State Route 292 intersects the highway here, providing access to Denio, the only town in this region of Nevada.[2]
Minnesota Snowshoeing with Patch
This is a video about my daily snowshoeing hike with Patch, our hunting dog, during the winter of 2010-2011 in Minnesota
Driving in Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge Nevada State Route 140
The Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge is a 573,504-acre (232,089 ha) national wildlife refuge located on the northern border of the U.S. state of Nevada. A very small part extends northward into Oregon. It is managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service as the Nevada component of the Sheldon-Hart Mountain National Wildlife Refuge Complex, which is headquartered in Lakeview, Oregon. The Sheldon Refuge is noted for its population of wild horses.
In 1931, the refuge was established under executive order to carry out three central goals: First, the refuge was to provide a habitat for the antelope (more properly called the pronghorn), an animal whose population was in decline during the early 1900s. Second, conservation efforts were put forth to protect native fish, wildlife and plants. Finally, the refuge was to serve as an inviolate migratory bird sanctuary.[3]
Advocates characterize Sheldon as one of the few intact sagebrush steppe ecosystems in the Great Basin, one that hosts a variety of wildlife endemic to the unique environment.[4] Desert fishes, greater sage-grouse, migratory birds, mule deer and the pygmy rabbit are all residents of the refuge.
The Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge occupies an arid zone of volcanic terrain. Rockhounds search for semiprecious stones such as fire opals. Geothermal hot springs provide some water. The dominant ecosystem plant life consists of drought-tolerant species such as sagebrush, juniper, mountain mahogany, bitterbrush, and aspen. The elevation ranges from 4,100 feet (1,200 m) to 7,200 feet (2,200 m) above sea level.
Nevada mustang featured on state quarter
In this forbidding landscape lives a large population of free-range fauna, with the American mustang, the so-called wild horse of the American West, being the best known. There are also large herds of mule deer, an estimated 3,500 pronghorn, and a small but self-sustaining population of bighorn sheep.
The bighorn are not strictly native to the Sheldon Refuge, having been extirpated there during the frontier era and successfully reintroduced about 1930.[5] The pronghorn antelope played a key role in the history of the Refuge, as approximately 94 percent of the current protected land area was originally set aside as the Charles Sheldon Antelope Range in 1936.[6]
The Refuge is the home of an endemic fish species of limited geographic distribution, the Alvord chub.
Nevada State Route 140 traverses the refuge from east to west and is the only paved road within the refuge. The nearest community of any size is Denio, Nevada, 14 miles from the Refuge's eastern boundary. The nearest divided highway is Interstate 80 in Winnemucca, Nevada, approximately 100 miles to the south.
Proposals to cull some of the alleged excess population of mustang in the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge were drawing public concern as of 2008. The official Fish and Wildlife (USFWS) position, as stated on their Refuge website, was that horses and burros are not native to Sheldon Refuge. They are descended from domestic stock turned loose around the turn of the twentieth century.The population of Sheldon horses are the descendants of horses used by the US Army. Harry Wilson was one of the ranchers that sold horses to the US Cavalry. When the Wilsons owned the Virgin Valley Ranch, they worked with the Army, which provided thoroughbred stallions that were bred with the Wilsons' standardbreds. [9]
State Route 140 (SR 140) is a two-lane state highway in Humboldt County, Nevada. It serves a sparsely populated section of the state, connecting northwestern Nevada to southern Oregon. Most of the highway was originally part of State Route 8A, and was later improved through an effort to provide an all-weather highway linking northern Nevada to the Pacific northwest.
State Route 140 begins at a junction with U.S. Route 95 about 32 miles (51 km) north of Winnemucca in the Quinn River Valley. From this point, the highway heads west towards the sparsely populated regions of northwestern Nevada. SR 140 crosses into the Desert Valley before entering a branch of the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation. Inside the reservation, the route crosses the Quinn River. Upon exiting the Indian territory, SR 140 curves northwest to parallel the Quinn River for about 10 miles (16 km) as it rounds the northern edge of the Jackson Mountains. As the river turns southeast towards the Black Rock Desert, the highway continues its northwest trajectory through the valley between the Bilk Creek Mountains on the east and the Pine Forest Range to the west. The route crosses over the 4,820-foot (1,470 m) Denio Summit before reaching Denio Junction. State Route 292 intersects the highway here, providing access to Denio, the only town in this region of Nevada.[2]
Alien UFO Surgery Art Bell Dr Roger K Lier Implants alien Abduction
Let's talk Aline UFO SURGERY with Art Bell and Dr. Roger K Lier and what about Alien Implants, Alien Abductions and MORE.
This is his Art Bell Dark Matter Files with the late great Dr. Roger K Leir Dr. Roger K. Leir was an American podiatric expert and ufologist best known as an analyst of insisted untouchable supplements. Leir made books, for instance, The Aliens and the Scalpel, and appeared on changed radio and TV programs, including, ensuring he had discovered confirmation of non-terrestrial experimentation on man.
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Leir formed The Aliens and the Scalpel in 1999, depicting his implant surgery. His next book, Casebook: Alien Implants and Alien abductions, was dispersed in 2000. He began appearing on changed radio and TV programs and talked at UFO social affairs. In 2001, an essayist heading off to his office in Ventura, California reported that it contained UFO magazines and a rack stacked with bug-took a gander at pariah dolls. In 2003 he made an excursion to Varginha, Brazil to investigate the charged crash of a pariah carry, and conveyed a book in 2005 titled UFO Crash in Brazil.
His enthusiasm for extraterrestrial-related wonders developed in his initial youth. His want to discover answers identified with this mysterious subject generated a journey enduring about twenty years. Dr. Leir, a Podiatric Surgeon, kept up a private practice in Ventura County, California for over forty years. He ended up entranced with asserted outsider embeds subsequent to expelling a remote question from a patient's foot in 1995. He shaped a non-benefit association called An and S Research Inc. to explore these bizarre items. He and his surgical group performed fifteen surgeries on claimed alien abductees, bringing about the expulsion of sixteen articles they accept are outsider inserts.
Dr. Leir additionally investigated UFO cases, including the 1996 Varginha, Brazil case in which an extraterrestrial was purportedly observed by various witnesses and caught by the military, and the 2007-2009 UFO sightings in Kumburgaz, Turkey. He additionally created a few UFO/ET-related books.
A few witnesses introduced declaration to a board of previous Congress individuals at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on a 2013 occasion titled the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure. Dr. Leir was among the witnesses.
Ely Historic Rehab - State Theater
Explore the force behind Ely's historic make-over with Making It Up North. Tanner Ott & his family have taken on ten buildings in the city with an eye toward re-use. Catch up with the historic State Theater & Salerno building projects in part three of our tour.
Ely, MN
Biggest spider I've seen in Minnesota, Minnehaha
Minnehaha creek
Minnetonka
Minnesota
June 2013
This lively & lovely expectant mom was found
Are there larger spiders here?
Name of this species?
Hitch-N-Post RV Campground in Panguitch
Reservations: . . .. .. ... . . . . . . . . . Hitch-N-Post RV Campground 420 N. Main Street Panguitch 84759 Hitch-N-Post RV Campground is located in Panguitch, just 10 minutes' walk from the town centre's shops and restaurants. Guests can access ATV and OHV trails directly from the campground. Offering free WiFi, the campground offers mountain views. An outdoor seating area with BBQ facilities is available. At Hitch-N-Post RV Campground, guests can relax in the property's shared lounge or games room. A vending machine is also available onsite. The property offers free parking. Panguitch Creek is 15 minutes' drive away. Haycock Mountain is 30 minutes' drive from the campground.
Job-creating transmission line possible because of Recovery Act
Senator Reid announced final approval for the new ON Line clean energy transmission line, which was made possible in part by the Economic Recovery Act. The project will create 400 construction jobs in the short term and lead to the creation of hundreds if not thousands more following this first major step toward making Nevada energy independent and a net exporter of clean, renewable power. It will also lead to lower energy bills for all Nevadans.
Uptown Multi Cultural Art Center
Music Assemblage from annual tshirt art harvest fest
Cowboy with Dreadlocks, Electric Medicine, Gomez, Valerie Voshell, Jaik Wilis, General Patton and his privates, Matthew, Happy Butterfly Foot, Belmondos, Monocles, Riess, Drew, Robert
Tour of the Mustang Ranch legal brothel in Nevada
Sand Springs Pony Express Station, NV with Chip Hoehler
Sand Springs Pony Express Station is found about 28 miles east of Fallon, NV off of HIghway 50. When you get to the turn off for Sand Mountain State Park take that left, and then another left on a washboard dirt road about another 1/4 mile. The dirt road is about another 1/4 mile in length, and lets you off at a sandy trailhead. The station is about 2 clicks up the trail.
Signs give a great narration for the station; basically it was built in 1860 specifically for the Pony Express, and was used until about 1900 as a general freight station. The station was rediscovered (covered in sand) and excavated in the mid 1970's. Here is a brief description (taken from the BLM site) of the station in 1860:
Sand Springs deserved its name. Like the Brazas de San Diego and other mauraises terren near the Rio Grande, the land is cumbered here and there with drifted ridges of the finest sand, sometimes 200 feet high and shifting before every gale. Behind the house stood a mound shaped like the contents of an hour-glass, drifted up by the stormy S.E. gale in esplande shape and falling steep to northward or against the wind. The water near this vile hole was thick and stale with sulphury salts; it blistered the hands. The station house was no unfit object on such a scene, roofless and chairless, filthy and squalid, with a smoky fire in one corner, impure floor, the walls open to every wind, and the interior full of dust. Hibernia, herself, never produces aught more characteristic. Of the employees, all loitered and sauntered about desoeuvre's as cretins except one, who lay on the ground crippled and apparently dying by the fall of a horse upon his breast bone. The music: Chip Hoehler Big Band with a swinging yet restrained version of Stella By Starlight.
Welcome Station RV Park, Well, Nevada Ruff Road Review
Who are we?
My name is Sharon and my husband's name is Gary. We are full-time RVers traveling this beautiful country with our two dogs, Terra and Luna. They keep us young! We stumbled across full-time RV living when looking at options for our retirement life. We both loved the idea and the rest is history! Here we are, two years later, living and loving every day.
We continued traveling I80 on our trip west from Colorado and spent three peaceful nights in Wells, Nevada at Welcome Station RV Park. This is a little gem of a park right off of I80. Now if you are thinking about traffic noises, I think you'll find the way this park is tucked in the trees with birds singing and the creek gurgling, you'll forget all about I80 across the street. The highway never bothered us and we found it most convenient to exit and turn right, drive a short distance and there's the park.
Let me describe it this way:
Soft green grass
Sprawling trees with rustling leaves
Birds singing and hopping about
Two gurgling creeks
Sitting areas all around in peaceful locations
Mountain backdrops
Well maintained and clean
Wonderful owners and former full-time RVers
As described before a little oasis in the middle of the high desert
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Heads up though, if you have Verizon, expect spotty service for updoading, downloading, internet. We could text and call fine, though.
What is there to do here?
Chillax - For all the above reasons, just enjoy this space.
Visit Trail of the 49ers Interpretive Center in Wells, Nevada. There is a little museum there and outside a collection of old buggies and farm equipment. The museum is free but donations are accepted.
Drive the Angel Lake Scenic Byway and visit Angel Lake Recreation Area. You can hike, picnic, fish, kayak, or just take pictures of the stunning views at clear blue Angel Lake.
Watch Ruff Road RV Life You Tube channel for Angel Lake, Nevada coming very soon.
If you are traveling along I80 in Nevada, check out Welcome Station RV Park, Wells, Nevada. You'll be glad you did.
Welcome Station RV Park Website
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Outdoor Nevada | Full Episode 18: Fire and Ice
In this episode host John Burke is in Ely for the famous Fire and Ice Festival. Learn more:
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COLUMBUS NM...HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM
rusty78609...At the intersection of hwy 9 and hwy 11 in Columbus is a museum. A collection of items mainly from the early 1900's forward. A LINK TO AMAZON PRODUCTS: thank you for using the AMAZON LINK!!!
Flight over Delta, Utah
Cessna 172 flight over Delta, Utah. Ariel views of white sage subdivision, pendre subdivision, and golf course area.
Bryce Cuellar (aka FisherOfMen) Prison Parole Board Meets on March 5th, 2018
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Ely State Prison
PO Box 1989
Ely Nevada, 89301
Elko, Nevada
Elko is the largest city and county seat of Elko County, Nevada, United States. The population was 18,297 at the 2010 census. The city straddles the Humboldt River.
Elko is the principal city of the Elko Micropolitan Statistical Area, a micropolitan area that covers Elko and Eureka counties and had a combined population of 48,594 at the 2010 census. It is the largest city for over 130 miles in all directions, making it, as its city motto states, The Heart of Northeast Nevada.
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