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Wolverine Sighted in Shasta County, California
2008-10-08 04:51:00 There was an unconfirmed sighting of a wolverine in Shasta County, California two weeks ago, on Friday, September 26, 2008. The sighting occurred at 1 PM on a sunny day. The wolverine was crossing Highway 89 from north to south. It was walking fast more than running.It was described as paler than most photos the observer had seen - more of a dark tan. This color is actually common for wolverines, and if this was an actual California wolverine, this subspecies was known to have a much lighter coloration. He observed it crossing the road at about 50 feet away until it vanished into the forest.The observer assumed it was a pretty common animal until he went on the Net and did some research and found out how rare it was. He reported the sighting to this blog, and I believe him. Anyone who wants to talk to the observer about this sighting can try to contact him via me at my email on the top right of my blog page.This area of California has actually had a number of wolverine sightings in ...
By: Robert Lindsay
On Spotted Owls
2008-09-08 00:24:00 There are three subspecies of spotted owls in the US. The Northern Spotted Owl (NSO) ranged from Oregon and Washington down into the California coast ranges and over into the Siskiyous and Cascades. The California Spotted Owl (CASPO) lives in the Sierra Nevada, down into the Tehachapis and and into the mountain ranges of Southern California.The Southern California population is isolated in mountain ranges that are not connected and is projected to go extinct over at most 100-200 years. Before mass settlement of Southern California, CASPO may have moved from range to range via river corridors, but now that is not possible. The Techachapi CASPO is probably not sustainable either. CASPO also lives in the Coast Ranges south of San Fransisco.The Mexican Spotted Owl lives in the Southwest, mostly in Arizona and New Mexico. It was listed as threatened recently and recently had a huge amount of critical habitat set aside. It seems to be threatened by cattle grazing, but I forget how. Seriou...
By: Robert Lindsay
List of Homes Burned in Telegraph Fire
2008-07-31 20:50:00 The following homes are confirmed to have burned in the Telegraph Fire. The list is not complete, as damage assessment is ongoing.5667 West Whitlock Road5673 West Whitlock Road5754 West Whitlock Road (2 residences)5755 West Whitlock Road5805 West Whitlock Road5809 West Whitlock Road5831 West Whitlock Road5845 West Whitlock Road5882 West Whitlock Road5897 West Whitlock Road5897A West Whitlock Road5916 West Whitlock Road (2 residences)5939 West Whitlock Road5997 West Whitlock Road5880 Mt. Bullion Ridge Road5889 Mosher Road5896 Sherlock Road6040 Sherlock Road (2 mobiles lost, residence okay)6164 Sherlock RoadJohn and Wendy Vittands property on Mt. Bullion Road (their horses were saved and are at the Fairgrounds).Jennifer and Harry Strawbridge property on Mt. Bullion Road.Jon Curry property on Whitlock Road.Kelly McLard property.Katrina Stone's parents property.Mary Briggs property.
By: Robert Lindsay
Missing Dog From Telegraph Fire
2008-07-31 20:35:00 A very nice older dog was found in the area of the Telegraph Fire on July 28 or 29 and taken to the fairgrounds under animal control. The dog has a skin condition and a collar (which may not be the dog's own collar) that says My Name Is Chester. People looked up the phone number on the tag, (209) 966-5732, under reverse search, but there was no answer as the address had been evacuated.The address is 5903 Sherlock Road, Midpines, which is the property of Darlene Hales. If anyone knows where Darlene is, let her know about here and tell her to contact Mariposa Animal Control immediately at (209) 966-3615. Time is of the essence.
By: Robert Lindsay
Blacks in Paradise Are a Problem
2008-07-13 05:32:00 The Concow Fire, or Humboldt Fire, is a fire burning near a town called Paradise in northern California. It's in Butte County in the foothills of the Northern Sierra Nevada Mountains.I've never been to the area, but I was in Yuba City in 1973 (30 miles away). I went fishing in the Yuba River and caught a smallmouth bass on a lure (Yay!) and went fishing in a strange place called Sutter Bypass, which is a sort of endless twisting mess of bypasses, channels, fake streams, and whatnot, apparently diverted from the Sacramento River.We also used to stop in a place called Orland and buy really great olives in these little farmers' stores. This part of the Sacramento Valley is infernally hot in the summer, and there are all kinds of weird flying bugs out in the evenings, when it barely cools down. There's a lot more water in the Sacramento Valley than in the San Joaquin Valley (farther north), and you see many fields flooded with water to grow rice.The Humboldt Fire is one of the huge ...
By: Robert Lindsay
Black Bear Seen in Ripperdan, California
2008-07-12 05:23:00 Updated July 13:Incredibly, a California Black Bear (Ursus americanus californiensis)was spotted on the floor of the San Joaquin Valley at Ripperdan on June 23 around 7:30-9:30 PM. That's very unusual. I looked on the Internet and could not find any other reports of bears roaming around on the Valley floor.Even historically, it was not common. Back in the old days, Black Bears tended to reside in the foothills at the lowest. Sometimes they would come down from the foothills in times of scarce food to feed on carcasses of some of the vast herds of ungulates that roamed in the Valley.At that time, the California Grizzly Bear was the most common bear in the Valley, and it roamed all up and down this great Valley. They were also very common in the foothills. With the coming of the White man, conflicts were inevitable between settlers and Grizzlies.They were shot all up and down California for over 100 years. By the late 1800's, they had become quite rare. The last California Grizzli...
By: Robert Lindsay
The Sierra Nevada Red Fox
2008-06-16 02:26:00 Updated June 22:This was formerly part of another post, More California Wolverine Photos in the Sierra, that I decided to cut up into two posts in order to focus this one on the Sierra Nevada Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes necator). This fox is very rare in the areas and it seems to qualify as endangered on the basis of the Endangered Species Act. I think it needs an emergency listing.The only confirmed population is a tiny population of only 10-15 foxes in and around Lassen National Park where the Northern Sierra meets the Southern Cascades.This area has historically seen more sightings than any other part of California (sighting map for Northern California). This concentration is focused in Lassen, Tehama and Shasta Counties in and around Lassen Park. There have also been a few sightings in Modoc, Siskiyou and Trinity Counties.The existence of the Sierra Nevada red fox has recently been confirmed by a team led by John Perrine of UC Berkeley. The team has located a small population of 10-1...
By: Robert Lindsay
Oakhurst, California
2008-06-13 05:11:00 Updated June 18:Commenter huy (his blog is here) responds to the World O' Crap, Meet World O' Lies post with this very astute comment, that sums up completely a town where I spent 16 years of my life - Oakhurst, California. He's captured the Zeitgeist of this town, and really all of White small town rural California perfectly. My comments follow: huy: It's annoying to see Republicans call liberals elitist.Its playing to the stereotypical backward small town white Americans. "Us Republicans are like you guys only richer and with more class. We hate blacks and Homos. We love guns and bashing immigrants. We hate feminists. We are real men just like you, and the liberals are all mocaccino-drinking art fag homos unable to accept reality and the competition and ruthlessness of capitalism."The Republicans try to give the image that they share more personality traits with the white small town American (despite the fact that their policies shoot them in the foot) while the liberals are ...
By: Robert Lindsay
Sorry About Lack of Posts
2008-06-10 05:38:00 Updated June 18:This is one of the worst times of year for me - early June. My allergies go nuts and I'm extremely tired all the time. Bottom line is I don't feel like doing much of anything. I sleep 9-15 hours a day and I need to take stimulants (asthma medication) and drink about five cups of coffee to even make a 100-mile round trip drive. If I don't do that, I will fall asleep on the road and crash my car.I'm getting allergy shots once a week now, and it's the only thing that helps with the fatigue. I also drink quite a bit of coffee every day and I need to take multiple hits off the stimulant asthma inhaler just to make through the evening without nodding off.This is a really bad time of year for the pollens, especially in the Sierra foothills, where I am at the moment house-sitting at my parents' house (I live 33 miles away in the Valley) for my 86-yr-old father (he can't be left alone) while my mother and sister are visiting my aunt in the Chicago suburbs.It's times o...
By: Robert Lindsay
Beer Review Friday - Sierra Nevada?s Summerfest
2008-05-09 17:00:00 Thank God it’s Beer Review Friday. I spent last night drinking Sierra Nevada’s Summerfest Lager and watching The Office. As usual, Michael Scott continues to amaze me. Anyways, on to the beer review. Hopefully you can include Summerfest in your summer getting-fucked-up repertoire. Our Summerfest® is a refreshing, pilsner-style lager. Its incredible smoothness ...
Fuente de Don Manuel. Sierra Nevada. Pincha en este enlace para saber más.
2008-05-06 22:34:00 Daguerrotipo de la Fuente de Don Manuel. Parque Nacional de Sierra Nevada. Granada. Abril de 2008.
Fuente de Don Manuel. Sierra Nevada. Pincha en este enlace para saber más.
2008-05-06 22:34:00 Daguerrotipo de la Fuente de Don Manuel. Parque Nacional de Sierra Nevada. Granada. Abril de 2008.
Mountain Yellow-Legged Frogs in the Sierra Nevada
2008-05-06 11:21:00 I don't write much about amphibians on here, but I am amphibian nut, in addition to being a mammal, reptile and bird nut. I would be a plant and insect nut too if I could only figure out how to identify them. I'm interested in fish, but they are a little harder to observe in the wild unless they are at the end of your hook.Anyway, I have long taken an interest in amphibians here in California and to a much lesser extent, throughout the entire West. I am particularly interested in threatened and endangered amphibians here in the state.The mountain yellow-legged frog has declined disastrously here in the state, starting with heavy fish stocking in the Sierras by pack mules, and then declining wildly with arial stocking of high country lakes via airplane that began after World War 2. This arial stocking has since proven to be one of the stupidest things that the California Department of Fish and Game has ever done.Every year, countless fingerlings were dropped into lakes all up and d...
By: Robert Lindsay
Tahoe Wolverine is Not From California
2008-04-13 10:16:00 The first wolverine detected in California in 86 years, photographed at a camera station at Sagehen Creek near Lake Tahoe on February 28, 2008, has now been shown to be not from either California or Washington.Scientists located wolverine scat near where the photo was shot and analyzed it for genes. A single gene was sequenced, the wolverine was shown to be a male, and the gene has been reported only from wolverines in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. It is also found in southern Canada.The only conclusion possible is that the wolverine is from the Rocky Mountains and is not a native California wolverine. No one has any idea how it got to California. It's pretty hard to live-trap these things and transport them unless you are a wildlife biologist.It doesn't make much sense that this wolverine cruised down from the Snake River region in Western Idaho along eastern Oregon to the Cascades, then down the Sierras to Tahoe.At least they are back in California, but I never thought they left a...
By: Robert Lindsay
Pilot - Sierra Nevada Corporation - Reno, NV
2008-04-03 03:21:00 Seeking a part time Cessna 404 pilot for test work on government programs. Duration can range from a few days to several weeks. Aircraft is based in Reno, NV . testing will require travel to many other locations. Candidates must possess AMEL, commercial and instrument ratings, minimum of 2500 hours TT,1000 hours multi engine, 400 ...
By: JetEmployment
Discover Skiing at the Sierra Nevada Ski Resort
2008-03-29 06:00:00 Located in the Penibetic mountain range in Andalucia and blessed with the highest summits in the Iberian peninsulas, Sierra Nevada is Europe’s southernmost ski resort. Skiers can look forward to 61 km of ski slopes spread over 39 runs, with 45 splendid pistes as well as 6 amazing off-piste routes covered in snow almost five ...
By: Resources zone
More California Wolverine Photos in the Sierra
2008-03-23 11:11:00 Following up on our earlier post on the first positive detection of a California wolverine since 1922, that sighting led an interagency group of researchers on an intensive hunt for wolverines in the area, and that hunt has now revealed an incredible two new photos of wolverines in the area north of Tahoe.A side view of a wolverine in a photo from 10 days ago probably taken within 15-20 miles of the original photo location at Sagehen Creek in the Tahoe National Forest. That is a hair trap that used to have some bait on it, but the bait was eaten by some other animal. The photo indicates that this is a wolverine all right. It can't be anything else.It is not known if the three photos depict one, two or three separate wolverines, but this is great news.The interagency team consisted of researchers from the Forest Service, California Department of Fish and Game and Katie Moriarty, the Oregon State University grad student who took the original shot. A 150 square mile around the origin...
By: Robert Lindsay
California Wolverine Re-discovered After 85 Years
2008-03-07 09:54:00 In stunning news, researchers at Oregon State University snapped a photo of a California Wolverine (Gulo luscus luteus) north of Lake Tahoe between Truckee and Sierraville in the Tahoe National Forest.A photo of the first California Wolverine documented since 1922. This wild region where they were found in being proposed as a wilderness area by Senator Barbara Boxer. The photo shows the wolverine from the rear view. It is probably next to a Red Fir. In the background is what appears to be a White Fir and the tree in the foreground looks like some kind of pine. In this part of the Sierras, the Red Fir Zone (where this photo was probably taken) starts around 7,000 feet elevation.A much larger version of this pic, too large to put on this blog, is available here on the researchers' website.The area is in the northern Sierra Nevada Mountains in northern California.What they mean by confirmed sighting, is that it has to be backed up by a photo, fur or scat. This is not the first Califor...
By: Robert Lindsay
Vista de Sierra Nevada. Pincha en este enlace para saber más.
2008-02-07 20:37:00 Estupenda panorámica realiza desde la estación de Borreguiles, en Sierra Nevada. A lo lejos se pueden divisar las provincias de Murcia y AlmerÃa. Enero de 2007..
Sierra Nevada Storm
2008-01-04 16:33:00 Wow.. I can not even comprehend this amount of snow but in the Sierra Nevada the NWS is forecasting the possibility of 7 to 10 feet of snow. I would love to experience that some day. They are also forcasting hurricane force winds. They’re saying snow will fall at six inches an hour and maybe ...
Tree Deaths in California?s Sierra Nevada Increase as Temperatures Rise gov
2007-08-10 00:00:00 Life is increasingly uncertain for trees in California's Sierra Nevada. A new study by the U.S. (...)
Sierra Nevada Wins
2007-07-24 16:33:00 If you thought cream cheese must be, by definition, mass-produced and over-processed, consider Sierra Nevada Organic Cream Cheese. This is not Philly brand. The cheese is hand-made in small batches, and is attracting a following in northern California these days. To be sure, Sierra Nevada doesn't rank among the world's great cheeses -- the variety is just too basic -- but it's mighty tasty, nevertheless.In fact, at the recent California State Fair, Sierra Nevada was named "Best in Show." And that was against some famous competition. Check out the full list of winners by clicking here.
By: A Cheese A Day
Discover Skiing at the Sierra Nevada Ski Resort
1969-12-31 19:00:00 Located in the Penibetic mountain range in Andalucia and blessed with the highest summits in the Iberian peninsulas, Sierra Nevada is Europe’s southernmost ski resort. Skiers can look forward to 61 km of ski slopes spread over 39 runs, with 45 splendid pistes as well as 6 amazing off-piste routes covered in snow almost five ... |
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