State of Wilderness

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  • Lake Livingston State Park

    On the Fourth, we headed about an hour and forty five minutes northeast of us to a state park that I particularly like, Lake Livingston.  Lake Livingston itself is the second largest lake in Texas, being 39 miles long and 7 miles across at its widest. It covers 93,000 acres, 635.5 of which belong to…

  • Environmental Issues: Burials and Cremations

    In the beginning of the book “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”, the main character, a nine year old boy, muses on the increasing world population in terms of where there will be room to bury all the dead.  He throws out the idea that there are more people alive right now than have died in…

  • Gryes of the World, and Great Pacific Garbage Patch

    I have been obsessing about the “garbage patches” in the gyres of the world since reading some information about them I hadn’t previously heard. In the book “The World Without Us”, by Alan Weisman, he tells the story about Captain Charles Moore, who in 1997 inadvertently steered himself into the largest collection of garbage in…

  • Future Plans May Include…

    So, I am mostly improved from my injury and basically walking again.  I am still having a little problem with negotiating grade changes; yesterday I was unable to make it up a very small hill to get into the woods to go caching, and J told me I was pushing myself too hard and needed…