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Return To Scene Of Lion Standoff

I returned to the place of the lion faceoff, to measure the distance between us on that day; the most memorable day of my life in the Santa Ynez Mountains of Condor National Forest. Using the yard...

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The Elusive and Fleeting Fire Poppy

I found the fire poppies once more, trailless along a tributary fork of a coastal creek high in the Santa Ynez Mountains. Five years had past since my last sighting. I think the fire poppy, Papaver...

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Native American Trout Gutter

April 2023 A place in the canyon caught my eye.  The character of the mountain. The viewshed through the canyon of the Pacific Ocean and Santa Cruz Island. Geography and aesthetics. I felt compelled...

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Brian Sarvis In Noozhawk Echoes Jack Elliott, No Hat Tip

Jimmy J merch. Prototype run, January, 2023. After six years of silence, Sarvis suddenly spoke. He once more found his voice, in somebody else’s writing.  We made it easy by providing inspiration and...

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Renaming Los Padres: Names Of the 1930s

Detail showing Abel Mtn. on a 1938 map of Los Padres National Forest. Backstory I’ve long had an interest in place, in the particularity of natural settings and the composition of undeveloped scenes,...

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Big Bummer At Baron Ranch: Trashing the Place To Save It

Yikes. Alright already, sheesh. A wall of nearly impenetrable willow needs no sign. Nobody is going in there. And we destroy everything we can find And tomorrow when the human clock stops and the world...

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Indian Head Test Pattern (1939)

In my years at University of California earning a degree in American history with a minor in Native American studies I never heard tell of the Indian Head Test Pattern. I first learned of it reading...

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Figueroa Mountain Bug Bloom

Along the road to bugville in autumn.  Springtime wildflower blooms on Figueroa Mountain capture all the attention. But I’ve long marveled, too, at the winter ladybug blooms of the mountain. December...

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The Twelve-Inch Experience, Baron Ranch Corridor

Humboldt lily seed pod. “Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to...

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The Mysterious Three Stone Stack

What does this look like? It looks like three stones stacked by human hands to me.  Who? Why? When? The rocks did not fall from the wall or ceiling of the cave that I could tell. There is no trace of...

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