Readers write: Questions re: local flora and fauna …
Editor, and Jennifer and John:
Congratulations and good work on the Town Crier column. The James Reserve is highly esteemed and the column should be...
Creature Corner: November 20, 2014
Boomer just can’t believe he has lived at ARF for more than a year now. His birthday is Feb. 27, and even though he...
Readers write: Not everyone is terrified …
Editor:
In a recent Town Crier article, Sue Nash of the Mountain Communities Fire Safe Council was quoted as saying, “We’re terrified … Everyone wants...
Readers write: More trash on the side of the road?
Editor:
Yes, you can expect to see more trash on the side of the road from illegal dumping. Why? Because someone has decided that you...
Journal from the James: Shepherds of nature …
Greetings from the James Reserve. In the first installment of our column, we introduced the James Reserve and promised further “peeks into the natural...
Fashion Jack: Tags and numbers …
Q. When should the tags be taken off new clothes? -Wally, Escondido
A. You can’t take the tags off right away or people won’t...
Out Loud: Photography …
I can tell you from experience, if you can’t handle a photograph of a half-dozen firefighters and EMTs valiantly trying to save a man’s...
Dr Know It All: Too much chatter …
Dr Know It All can answer any of your questions. He just happens to know everything. Dr Know It All selects a few letters...
Past Tense: November 13, 2014
65 years ago - 1949
A group of volunteer searchers plucked a lost deer hunter out of the rugged North Fork canyon just as he...
Off the Main Roads: A wall of green …
If you’re similar to most of the Hill populace, many of your trips into nature are characterized by toiling up a dusty path through...