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#nature#mountains#hiking#landscape#new mexico#forest#waterfall#Santa Fe#Santa Fe national forest#rio nambe
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Photographer - Calla Klessig Sentić, aka @callalikethelilly on Instagram - "Another from that gorgeous snowy #sunset day. Looking forward to getting back up in the mountains soon. ✨"
Aspen Vista Trail, outside of Santa Fe
#travel#newmexico#roadtrip#new mexico#landscape#scenic#nature#day trip#hiking#Santa Fe National Forest
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Ready to become a wood sprite and never leave ❄️
#literally one of the most beautiful days I’ve ever seen on the mountain#winter#aspen vista#santa fe#santa fe national forest#snow#new mexico
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#photographers on tumblr#lensblr#nature photography#landscape photography#original photographers#new mexico#mountains#santa fe national forest#rocks#pines#pine trees#pine tree forest#lichens
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Forestry partners lay out reasons to continue prescribed burns
Forestry partners lay out reasons to continue prescribed burns
By KAY MATTHEWS
I recently spoke with two northern New Mexicans involved in critical forest restoration projects about the fallout over prescribed burning as a restoration tool after the Hermits Peak and Calf Canyon Fire burned over 370,000 acres of forests, homes, fields, and acequias. Matt Piccarello is the New Mexico Forest Watershed and Health Manager for The Nature Conservancy (TNC), and…
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#Carson National Forest Supervisor James Duran#Cerro Negro Forest Council#Forest Stewards Guild#Greater Santa Fe Fireshed#Hermits Peak and Calf Canyon Fire#J.R. Logan#Matt Piccarello#Pueblo of Tesuque#Rio de las Trampas Forest Council#Rio Grande Water Fund#Santa Fe Mountains Landscape Resiliency Project (SFMLRP)#The Nature Conservancy
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My grandpa was one of the last to work for La Forestal. They came to the Argentine Chaco to extract tannin from the quebracho tree. He tells me that every time a huge quebracho was cut down, it fell on the new little trees, not giving the forest time to grow back. A job from sun to sun, on lands stolen from the native peoples of the Chaco, who, along with criollos and immigrants, were also forced into gangs to cut down trees so hard that broke down axes, with trunks meters in diameter, to be pulverized in sweatshop factories and sent as tanin podwer to European industries. La Forestal did not pay you in pesos; you had a coin (my grandpa still has his, it says "Obrero N° 14"), which you presented at the company store, and they gave you whatever (food, booze) they cared to give you, or what they said they had; after all, as my grandfather says, if you didn't know how to read or write, how would you know you were getting less than they said?
And if you went on strike? And if you formed a union? And if you wanted to resist, like the indigenous peoples did? Some boys with a blood-red cap, the Cardenales, criminals taken from prison, would come and kill you, in broad daylight if you were striking, in the middle of the forest if you were alone. Many books tell about hacheros yelling one last long sapucai before killing themselves, because they couldn't stand it anymore.
Who were the owners of this terrible company? English. In the La Forestal HQ in the north of Santa Fe, a beautiful mansion (I understand that it is now a ruin) while the workers lived in mud huts with roofs of palm leaves, every day, the Union Jack was hoisted over Argentine soil, and of course, at five o'clock it was tea time, while all the tannin, loaded on barges and on railways worked by Argentines but owned by the British, went to Europe, and the wealth, of course, to London.
My grandfather lived through the last of this. Perón already came by that time, with worker's rights, unions, rural schools and clinics, the nationalization of railways... Nevertheless, he still had to hunt to eat and work from a young age at the machines of the company, as the company was leaving the country and couldn't even bother to pay a pittance to its workers. It eventually closed most of its operations and came into Argentine hands. But don't think it was because the English had a change of heart. They just found a better source of tannin, the acacias in their African colonies. God knows what crimes they committed there, if this is what they did in the territory of a 'sovereign' country.
And this is the side of the story I know. I cannot yet speak for all the territories the British owned in the Patagonia, some of which are still owned by English millionaries today. Don't come to tell me that the poor innocent English had nothing to do with the genocide that was done to the indigenous peoples in this country.
#cosas mias#argentina#imperialism#history#I can't believe you braindead pelotudos actually think the British Empire is an innocent entity who had no influence in South America#and did nothing wrong they just had some sheep in some islands! well.#let's not forget: they would also have owned the whole of Patagonia if they could#in fact they tried to take over Argentina before it was even independent#do you think we dislike them just because of football?
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santa fe national forest, santa fe nm
#new mexico#photographer#photography#be here now#santa fe#nm#hiking#signage#art#new mexico photography#woods#camping#nature#outdoors
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This hidden waterfalls in Santa Fe National Forest looks so stunning with the vibrant color rock walls surrounding it!
(Photo by @anni.hanna via Instagram)
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Ever since I was in high school (in the before times, in the long, long ago) I had dreamed of taking road trip. Just me, my car (in high school it was a Cadillac Hearse that got absolutely awful gas mileage and high school me used to bitch about gas when it went over a $1 a gallon), and the open road, but I never managed to do it. Sometimes it was money, sometimes it was lack of opportunity, sometimes it was just the fear of doing something new.
In my mid-30s I finally did it and let me tell you it was one of the best experiences of my life.
A few years ago (2022 to be exact) my boss made me take a vacation in the spring (mostly because I had two years of pto from not using it during the lockdown years, but also because he was legitimately concerned with my stress levels, but anyway) and that year I decided to take two weeks to see all three Meow Wolf locations in one big trip. (Convergence Station is the coolest one btw, with Omega-Mart a close second.)
I70 through Kansas is a zen experience if you make the drive at night. Endless fields of stars and farmland, accompanied by whatever podcast you queued up for the drive.
Visited family in Denver, spent a day at Convergence Station, and the drive to Santa Fe was like driving through a postcard!
The House of Eternal Return was neat (IMO it relies a little too much on backstory you can only really get from sitting down and reading a lot of the SCP-style documents lying around the house, but unless you rented the entire place for the day you're competing with dozens of other people who are also trying to read the same thing.), I stayed at this cool, fully restored Route 66 vintage motel called the El Rey Court (A++, would stay again), and then I was off to Las Vegas.
There's a trick i40 plays on you. You'll be driving through some incredibly beautiful but still harsh desert wasteland (I passed more than one husk of an abandoned building on that stretch of highway) and then all of a sudden you're in a lush green forest. It was seriously as close to passing from one Minecraft biome to another as you can get in real life. (I also stopped at Meteor Crater National Landmark. It was cool.)
Just outside of Vegas I got two incredibly singular experiences. The first was seeing a tumbleweed in real life for the first time. I swear, I was alone in my car and I said out loud "Holy shit they're real!!!" The second was driving through an actual sand storm. In hindsight I should have pulled over and let it pass, but no one else on the road was doing it, so I just crawled through it at 30mph.
I spent a few nights in Las Vegas. Visited Omega-Mart (super cool, I recommend it), watched Blue Man Group (also very cool, also highly recommend), got to see a Penn & Teller show live (a fucking dream of mine since I was a little kid!!!), and had the best meal of my life.
Honestly, before that trip if you told me there was a difference between a $20 steak from Longhorn and a $100 steak from an actual steak restaurant I'd have called bullshit. I was in Las Vegas, I figured "This is likely the last time I'll take a trip like this, fuck it, why not splurge."
Oh my sweet raptor christ! The $100 steak was worth every cent!
What followed was a day of driving through beautiful parts of Nevada, Utah, and Colorado, including the most nerve-wracking stretch of highway through the mountains (literally through them in one spot. The Eisenhower tunnel is a little more than a mile and a half of tunnel bored straight through the spine of the Americas). A brief stop to sleep, and then 14 hours straight on home.
It was a fantastic trip. Two weeks away from home, from work, from any responsibility, the first time off since 2019. Two weeks of moving to my own schedule and crossing things off of the bucket list.
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(potential spoilers for firewatch the game, not my au)
i find it interesting that it was against regulation for ned goodwin to have his son brian with him in the lookout, with delilah keeping it secret for them since she liked brian. i'm sure it's likely that things were stricter in the 80s, but this excerpt from a 200 page USFS history paper i found suggests that, at least for a while within the santa fe national forest, that families/children were absolutely allowed:
"Most years the Forest allowed or even encouraged family members to visit, and many lookouts had their spouses and (often many) children living with them for their entire season."
i also have a National Park Service fire lookout handbook from 1958 that specifically talks about the desireability of man-wife lookout pairs, since the wife would be able to cover for the husband whenever he was off hours. this has come up a few times in my other research, too. this document doesn't say anything about children other than to "not let them play on the tower catwalk" under the safety section--could mean anything to visitor children to the lookout's own children, i guess.
idk, it's just interesting. it's like how earlier i assumed that a pet would be prohibited, only for half the things i read to involve lookouts with dogs.
i imagine it would still be against regulation for brian goodwin to be in his father's tower all the time in secret, and it's possible that either the rules were stricter in the 80s or that shoshone national forest had different rules (it seems that some stuff differed by location.) a lot of my sources are from different decades. however i can say that children definitely weren't always prohibited by US forest service regulation, i guess
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I took hundreds of pictures last March/April, but here's just a taste of the big trip we took last year. I'll post individual posts about specific places going forward, but here's a nice little overview of some of the places so you can get the general vibe.
(Pictured: Joshua Tree, Canyonlands, Arches, Canyonlands, The Las Vegas Neon Museum, Bigfoot shop outside Yosemite, Inyo National Forest (Bristlecone Pines), Joshua Tree, Yosemite, The Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest, Painted Desert/Holbrook, Area 51 Alien Center (THIS IS A BROTHEL...), Lone Pine, Inyo National Forest, Newspaper Rock (Bears Ears), Rhyolite Ghost Town, Monument Valley, Meow Wolf Santa Fe)
#the travel bug#I think I got pretty good pictures!#considering there were major dust storms the entire time#see: why I have very few usable pictures of the OUTSIDE of petrified forest national park#the bristlecone pines were literally 11k feet up I felt like I was gonna die#that's like 3350 meters for everyone else#but the trees are like 4k-5k years old and by god I was going to see them or die trying
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It’s a beautiful August day, and Saige Copeland couldn’t bear to stay indoors! She brought her easel and canvas outside, with her dog Sam, to put the finishing touches on her latest work. The painting features the beautiful, rugged Sandia Mountains that border the city of Albuquerque to the east.
While she paints, Saige is going to share some facts about her hometown that you probably didn’t know!
Saige lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The population is around 500,000. That makes it the most populous city in the state, but it is not the state’s capitol. That honor goes to Santa Fe, about 60 miles northeast.
The state of New Mexico was added to the union in 1912, making it the 47th of 50 states. Prior to statehood, it had been a territory since 1848, when the US forcibly seized it from Mexico as a means to repay Mexico’s debt. It was a colony of Mexico from 1821 to 1848. Before that, it was occupied by Spain from 1598 to 1821. No other state in the US has seen three different flags flying over it.
Albuquerque was founded in 1706, which is about 100 years after Santa Fe was founded. But indigenous people have lived (and still live) in the area for centuries prior, living in pueblos, or small densely populated settlements.
Bordering the north of the city is Sandia Pueblo, and to the south is Isleta Pueblo. Both places have been continually inhabited for close to 1000 years. Pueblos are similar in concept to reservations, but have a few differences. There are 19 pueblos in total in New Mexico.
The Rio Grande (Spanish for “great river”) flows right through the middle of the city. It’s very wide and shallow in this area. It starts in the Rocky Mountains far to the north in the state of Colorado, and flows southeast into Texas, where it forms the border between the United States and Mexico until it ends at the Atlantic Ocean.
Albuquerque sits at an elevation of around 5,300 feet, a little over a mile high, or 1600 meters. That’s actually a bit higher than Denver, Colorado, which is known as the “mile high city”!
The weather conditions are near perfect for most of the year, with the city enjoying 310 days of sunshine every year! Spring and autumn are beautiful. Early summer does have a few very hot days, but those cool down closer to July and August. Those two months are the monsoon season, when it rains nearly every day, but rarely last longer than a couple of hours. Winters are mild, with only one or two heavy snowfalls a year and a few smaller snowfalls.
The Sandia Mountains, which Saige is painting, rise to a height of 10,678 feet or 3,254 meters. That might sound very high, but they are by no means the highest mountains in the state! There are many higher peaks farther north. Sandia is the Spanish word for “watermelon”, because they turn lovely shades of watermelon red and pink when they catch the light of sunset. At the top, you can stand at the scenic lookout point, do some more hiking through the beautiful forest, stop by the cafe and gift shop, and then ride the ski gondola all the way down to the bottom.
That’s right: there’s a ski resort at the top of the mountain! It’s actually on the east side of the mountain, facing away from the city, since that gets colder temperatures and more snow. If you don’t want to climb on foot or take the ski gondola, you can just drive to the top. The Sandia Crest Scenic Byway starts at the bottom on the east side, and goes up 3000 feet/ 914 meters to the top, passing through several different ecosystems. As you go up, the trees change from pine to spruce and aspen, and you can still see snow on the ground as early as October or as late as May.
Both Saige and I love spending time in the Sandia Mountains. Where she is set up painting is part of Cibola National Forest, and it’s set right up against the mountainside. It doesn’t even feel like you’re so close to the city! There are miles and miles of hiking trails and plenty of scenic viewpoints.
All finished!
Thanks, Saige, for sharing! Your painting looks beautiful!
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