Southern Rockies Nature Blog: Restoring Shortgrass Prairie for Native Plants and...
Southern Rockies Nature Blog: Restoring Shortgrass Prairie for Native Plants and...: Fendi Despres ( right ) and a prairie-restoration volunteers. (Photo: Fendi Despres via 5280 ). 5280 Magazine describes how the 1,100-acre...
Lex Anteinternet: Blog Mirror: ATV Trails Could Boost Wyoming Econo...
Lex Anteinternet: Blog Mirror: ATV Trails Could Boost Wyoming Econo...:
Blog Mirror: ATV Trails Could Boost Wyoming Economy, But Also Trespassing And Traffic
In a world in which human technology has made it increasingly easy for the lazy and inconsiderate to go anywhere, to the detriment of nature, the natural world, and a sense of being in nature, do we really need this BS?
ATV Trails Could Boost Wyoming Economy, But Also Trespassing And Traffic
One of the best, and most condemned, actions in the last 30 years was making a lot of rural areas "roadless" and taking out roads. Just recently, an area I've fished for 60 years had its access roads cut off and made a "walk in area", and its been great. The too lazy to walk have gone elsewhere.
I know that, living in Wyoming, a person is supposed to believe that ATVs don't damage anything, that there's no chance at all that petroleum is harmful in any way to anything whatsoever, and that Chuck Gray knows something about Arizona's last election, but ATVs are a menace. Along with cell phones, if I could wish them all away to the deepest part of the Mariana Trench, I'd do it. I can't, of course, but along with routinely killing their users, they're just bad in every single way, and I mean every single way.
Enough of this already.
Lex Anteinternet: Lex Anteinternet: Put On A Broad Brimmed Hat (and ...
Lex Anteinternet: Lex Anteinternet: Put On A Broad Brimmed Hat (and ...:
Lex Anteinternet: Put On A Broad Brimmed Hat (and keep a real shirt ...
Lex Anteinternet: Put On A Broad Brimmed Hat (and keep a real shirt ...: Emma @agwithemma Is this what happens when you actually have to work? rip to my very sun sensitive skin and my lack of ability to learn to...
A reminder.
Start young.
Lex Anteinternet: Put On A Broad Brimmed Hat (and keep a real shirt ...
Lex Anteinternet: Put On A Broad Brimmed Hat (and keep a real shirt ...:
Put On A Broad Brimmed Hat (and keep a real shirt on).
This is my annual agricultural hat public service announcement.
I subscribe to a bunch of Agricultural Twitter feeds. In contrast, I think I subscribe to the feeds of two lawyers, but not because they're lawyers. I note this, as I subscribe to this young woman's Twitter feed.
Why?
Well, when it started, she was on the harvesting tour. I've seen the combines come through here and I knew that they start in one North American location and go north, which is interesting. I'm not sure how many people realize that harvesting large grain farms is a contract job, it's not actually, usually, the farmers doing it.
Anyhow, I kept the subscription up as it's an agricultural feed. I keep up the feeds from a half dozen ranches, two large Canadian ag outfits, etc.
I should note, I particularly like this one:
Father & Husband. Farmer. Bagpiper. Trying to live in a good way.
This is a bit of a disclaimer, as any Twitter post by any young woman brings at least a small selection of "Jane Doe, you're so beautiful. . . " type posts, from the Net Desperate, I guess.
Well, anyway you look at it, or her I guess, letting this happen to your skin is going to mean you're not going to be beautiful or handsome by your 40s. The skin damage is going to catch up with you. Fair skinned people in particular are going to get it.
People who worked outdoors used to know how to dress. At least ranchers and cowboys still do, as a rule. Farmers, for some reason, and people who work on farms, much less so. It's odd.
Broad brimmed hats, shirts with sleeves. Put them on.
This too, I'd note, for outdoorsmen. Outdoorsmen seem to spend piles of money on specialized clothing, and yet I'll still see some that aren't wearing much. Not a good idea at all.
The girl with the steer. Maybe we can't go home again, but you can sure see why we wish we could.
We just linked this in.
I'm doing son again.
Lex Anteinternet: The Steer. 1942.: 
The Steer. 1942.
Annual agricultural show at the state experimental farm at Presque Isle, Maine. Prizewinning "baby beef", raised by a daughter of a Farm Security Administration client.
I don't know how old this woman is, but given that she's indicated to be the "daughter of a FSA client", my guess is that she's in her late teens. Probably somewhere between 17 and 19..
Looks older, doesn't she?
She certainly looks more mature.
I hate to go down that "everybody was better" in the past road, as it simply isn't true. But a lot about this photograph is really remarkable. A young woman, some would say girl, but she looks too mature for that, is posed with a serious animal. She has a serious look on her face.
She's clean, turned out in a dress, and not bedecked with tattoos. Her hair no doubt isn't green, violet or pink. She undoubtedly isn't having doubts about her gender or fascinated, like so many are today, about her own organs to the extent she basis her identity on satisfying them.
Some things, indeed, truly were a lot better in the past.
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