Steve Sergeant


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  • 7/30/2008 9:35 am - Telegraph Fire Closing in On Yosemite National Park : The [url=http://www.fire.ca.gov/index_incidents_telegraph.php]Telegraph Fire[/url] started on Friday afternoon. By about 6pm on Saturday, the smoke was pouring over the Sierra Crest into the Hoover Wilderness, 50 trail-miles northeast of Tuolumne Meadows. It looked like a storm coming in, except for the orange sunlight. By 10pm, I was awakened in my backcountry ...
  • 3/19/2008 12:06 pm - Studies Show Bear Spray More Effective Than Guns Against Grizzlies : Fred Miller wrote:[quote]This issue isn't about bears. It's about rights[/quote] I guess I misread Kurt's title of this article: [i]Studies Show Bear Spray More Effective Than Guns Against Grizzlies[/i] I suggest that you're failing to examine the issue of your rights more deeply. A gun, narrowly defined as a device ...
  • 3/17/2008 5:53 pm - Crews Remove Garbage From Marijuana Farms in Sequoia National Park : Someone wrote:[quote]Ah, what the liberalism of the 60's has wrought....[/quote] It's interesting where the Park Service is putting the blame. Here's a bit of [url=http://www.wildebeat.net/scripts/E019.html]the transcript[/url] of my interview with Alexandra Picavet, the media relations officer for [url=http://www.nps.gov/seki/]Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Parks[/url]:[quote]There's always been a small problem in many national parks ...
  • 3/17/2008 11:37 am - Crews Remove Garbage From Marijuana Farms in Sequoia National Park : This article doesn't mention one of the most interesting aspects of this sad, ongoing story: The non-profit volunteer groups that provided most of the on-the-ground labor to clean up these sites. One of the most active of these groups is the [url=http://www.trailcrew.org/]High Sierra Volunteer Trail Crew[/url]. These volunteer groups are ...
  • 3/11/2008 2:55 pm - Bear-Proof Food Canisters Mandatory for Most Backcountry Travel in Grand Teton National Park : I typically fit 8 days of food, at about 3,000 calories per day, into [url=http://www.wild-ideas.net/b_weekender.html]mine[/url]. It all depends on what you choose to take. There's some advice here: http://www.sierrawildbear.gov/foodstorage/packingabearcanister.htm And there are [url=http://www.wild-ideas.net/b_expedition.html]larger canisters[/url] that are still lighter than the standard park-issued models. __________ The WildeBeat "The audio journal about ...
  • 3/11/2008 8:49 am - Bear-Proof Food Canisters Mandatory for Most Backcountry Travel in Grand Teton National Park : In the Sierra Nevada, they started out loaning them for free. Now you either have to rent them, or bring your own. For standards and requirements in the Sierra Nevada, check out: http://www.sierrawildbear.gov/ __________ The WildeBeat "The audio journal about getting into the wilderness" 10-minute weekly documentaries to help you ...
  • 3/10/2008 3:59 pm - Bear-Proof Food Canisters Mandatory for Most Backcountry Travel in Grand Teton National Park : Bear-resistant food canisters are also required in most of Sequoia/Kings-Canyon National Park as well. In addition, large areas of wilderness on Forest Service land in the Sierra Nevada also require you to use such canisters. We explored the history and effectiveness of bear cans in a two-part edition of the ...
  • 2/15/2008 9:19 am - National Park Visitation Debate -- Here We Go Again : Erik wrote:[quote] wonder if they attempted taking the demographic changes the US has experienced into account in their models.[/quote] By demographic changes, do you mean the decline of caucasians as majority, or something else? Somewhere I have a link to the work of an entire team of sociologists the NPS ...
  • 2/12/2008 3:39 pm - National Park Visitation Debate -- Here We Go Again : From my own perspective, I think two data points on backcountry and wilderness use might be more telling than over-all park visitation statistics. (Note: These are not "official" numbers. They were given to me by anonymous staff of these entities without official vetting by their media relations office.) The first ...
  • 2/06/2008 6:44 pm - Venturing Into the Backcountry of the National Park System : If you ever want to plan that Kings Canyon trip, let me know. I'll find a club or a non-profit to take you there who'll be just as qualified as a commercial guide service, minus the luxury fee. (Who knows, I might even be the leader.) If you enter Sequoia/Kings ...