http://www.lvrj.com/news/45285857.html
http://www.lvrj.com/news/45285832.html
Kent Olson, 68, a historic log cabin restoration expert, on Tuesday checks out the Hidden Forest Cabin in the Sheep Mountains. The Hidden Forest Cabin is undergoing a $30,000 restoration. Historians believe the cabin was built in the late 1800s and was used by hunters, trappers, prospectors and maybe outlaws. Kent Olson flipped open his pocketknife and jabbed it into the bark of a log inside Hidden Forest Cabin. The blade stuck with ease.
"None of this lasts forever," he said, pulling the blade back out. "Pine doesn't do good getting soaking wet. Then you have the summer heat."
Olson, a mountain man from Husum, Wash., just north of the Oregon border, is the 68-year-old saw-slinger the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service sent last week to replace four rotting logs in the rare, century-old cabin and repair its leaking roof...
"Click on link for photographs of historic cabins in the Las Vegas, Nevada area"
Showing posts with label preservation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label preservation. Show all posts
Monday, May 18, 2009
Saturday, May 9, 2009
At age 80, USFS cabin is still in shape, and it’s historic
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090509/NEWS0107/905090445/1006/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01
The small log cabin near Elk Lake has been a summer base for U.S. Forest Service guards and their families and, more recently, an interpretive center for visitors.
And now, 80 years after it was built, the Deschutes National Forest’s Elk Lake Guard Station has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building, located about 30 miles west of Bend off Cascade Lakes Highway, was added to the list because of the role it played in local events, said David Bogan, communications coordinator for the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office. The building’s application for the National Register notes that the guard station helped make the area a center for recreation.
"Paul Claeyssens says it in a nutshell...Historic buildings listed on the National Register still need a purpose, just like people, in order to survive. It sounds like the old Elk Lake Guard Station continues to have a purpose, long after its use as a guard station is long gone."--aggie castronuevo
The small log cabin near Elk Lake has been a summer base for U.S. Forest Service guards and their families and, more recently, an interpretive center for visitors.
And now, 80 years after it was built, the Deschutes National Forest’s Elk Lake Guard Station has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building, located about 30 miles west of Bend off Cascade Lakes Highway, was added to the list because of the role it played in local events, said David Bogan, communications coordinator for the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office. The building’s application for the National Register notes that the guard station helped make the area a center for recreation.
"Paul Claeyssens says it in a nutshell...Historic buildings listed on the National Register still need a purpose, just like people, in order to survive. It sounds like the old Elk Lake Guard Station continues to have a purpose, long after its use as a guard station is long gone."--aggie castronuevo
Stimulus to help NPS
http://www.inyoregister.com/content/view/120871/1/
Obama stimulus bucks headed for Death Valley
Friday, 08 May 2009
By Mike BodineRegister Staff5-7-2009
National parks are getting a chunk of President Barack Obama’s Economic Stimulus money. Congress has approved more than $900 million in stimulus funding to make long-overdue improvements to infrastructure at more than 500 parks, including Inyo County’s own Death Valley National Park.It’s been just a little over two months since Obama signed the bill into law on Feb. 16, and already park officials are deciding where to spend the cash.However, the decision will not be very difficult to make, as the list of items in need of repair or upkeep is long after years of inadequate funding. Terry Baldino, Death Valley Park’s public information officer, said Tuesday that all national parks have had insufficient funding to keep up with maintenance for years, and so the money will go to repairing necessities such as roads and employee housing.
"It's good to see that money is finally getting to programs that have suffered in recent years; especially those that preserve and protect our Heritage resources. Unlike natural resources, vestiges of our heritage are not renewable, once they have succombed to time, disrepair, and the effects of vandalism." --aggie castronuevo
Obama stimulus bucks headed for Death Valley
Friday, 08 May 2009
By Mike BodineRegister Staff5-7-2009
National parks are getting a chunk of President Barack Obama’s Economic Stimulus money. Congress has approved more than $900 million in stimulus funding to make long-overdue improvements to infrastructure at more than 500 parks, including Inyo County’s own Death Valley National Park.It’s been just a little over two months since Obama signed the bill into law on Feb. 16, and already park officials are deciding where to spend the cash.However, the decision will not be very difficult to make, as the list of items in need of repair or upkeep is long after years of inadequate funding. Terry Baldino, Death Valley Park’s public information officer, said Tuesday that all national parks have had insufficient funding to keep up with maintenance for years, and so the money will go to repairing necessities such as roads and employee housing.
"It's good to see that money is finally getting to programs that have suffered in recent years; especially those that preserve and protect our Heritage resources. Unlike natural resources, vestiges of our heritage are not renewable, once they have succombed to time, disrepair, and the effects of vandalism." --aggie castronuevo
Thursday, May 7, 2009
COURT DECISION: OTERO MESA
http://wilderness.org/files/TWTD-NM-Otero.pdf
http://wilderness.org/content/otero-mesa-drilling-court-decision
Our victory on New Mexico's Otero Mesa this week took a turn for the pithy in the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals' decision rejecting the Bureau of Land Management's drilling scheme for the mesa.
If you're not familiar with Otero Mesa, it occupies a blank spot on the map between Las Cruces and Carlsbad, and, at 1.2 million acres, it's the largest untouched Chihuahuan Desert grassland found anywhere in the United States.
http://wilderness.org/content/otero-mesa-drilling-court-decision
Our victory on New Mexico's Otero Mesa this week took a turn for the pithy in the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals' decision rejecting the Bureau of Land Management's drilling scheme for the mesa.
If you're not familiar with Otero Mesa, it occupies a blank spot on the map between Las Cruces and Carlsbad, and, at 1.2 million acres, it's the largest untouched Chihuahuan Desert grassland found anywhere in the United States.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Mount Taylor Endangered
http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/44086517.html
The National Trust for Historic Preservation named Mount Taylor, near Grants, N.M., to its 2009 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. This annual list highlights important examples of the nation’s architectural, cultural and natural heritage that are at risk of destruction or irreparable damage.Located in the southwestern corner of New Mexico’s San Mateo Mountains, midway between Albuquerque and Gallup, Mount Taylor, with an elevation of nearly 12,000 feet, is a startlingly beautiful, sacred place. Visible from up to 100 miles away, the mountain has been a pilgrimage site for as many as 30 Native American tribes, with special significance for the Acoma people...
The complete list of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 2009 Endangered Sites:• Mount Taylor, Grants, N.M.• Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, Calif.• Miami Marine Stadium, Fla.• Dorchester Academy, Midway, Ga.• Lãna’i City, Hawaii• Unity Temple, Oak Park, Ill.• Ames Shovel Shops, Easton, Mass.• Memorial Bridge, Portsmouth, N.H. & Kittery, Maine• Human Services Center, Yankton, S.D.• Cast-Iron Architecture of Galveston, Texas• The Manhattan Project’s Enola Gay Hangar, Utah
"see link above for entire article"--aggie castronuevo
The National Trust for Historic Preservation named Mount Taylor, near Grants, N.M., to its 2009 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. This annual list highlights important examples of the nation’s architectural, cultural and natural heritage that are at risk of destruction or irreparable damage.Located in the southwestern corner of New Mexico’s San Mateo Mountains, midway between Albuquerque and Gallup, Mount Taylor, with an elevation of nearly 12,000 feet, is a startlingly beautiful, sacred place. Visible from up to 100 miles away, the mountain has been a pilgrimage site for as many as 30 Native American tribes, with special significance for the Acoma people...
The complete list of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 2009 Endangered Sites:• Mount Taylor, Grants, N.M.• Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, Calif.• Miami Marine Stadium, Fla.• Dorchester Academy, Midway, Ga.• Lãna’i City, Hawaii• Unity Temple, Oak Park, Ill.• Ames Shovel Shops, Easton, Mass.• Memorial Bridge, Portsmouth, N.H. & Kittery, Maine• Human Services Center, Yankton, S.D.• Cast-Iron Architecture of Galveston, Texas• The Manhattan Project’s Enola Gay Hangar, Utah
"see link above for entire article"--aggie castronuevo
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Old Packwood Ranger Station
http://www.columbian.com/article/20090424/NEWS02/704249948
"According to the newspaper article published in the Columbian and the Seattle P-I, the old Packwood Ranger Station in Gifford Pinchot National Forest is being sold after a 45-day waiting period. I first learned of this Ranger station in the 1980s while reading Tatoosh--female fire lookout, Martha Hardy's account of life atop Tatoosh Mountain watching for forest fires and enduring the loneliness inherent in that job. Like all old ranger stations, Packwood will be remembered as a part of Forest history; and this one as a part of the history of Gifford Pinchot NF, Mount Rainier, Tatoosh, and Packwood Ranger District.--aggie castronuevo johann"
"According to the newspaper article published in the Columbian and the Seattle P-I, the old Packwood Ranger Station in Gifford Pinchot National Forest is being sold after a 45-day waiting period. I first learned of this Ranger station in the 1980s while reading Tatoosh--female fire lookout, Martha Hardy's account of life atop Tatoosh Mountain watching for forest fires and enduring the loneliness inherent in that job. Like all old ranger stations, Packwood will be remembered as a part of Forest history; and this one as a part of the history of Gifford Pinchot NF, Mount Rainier, Tatoosh, and Packwood Ranger District.--aggie castronuevo johann"
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
An Ancient Place to Wonder about our Survival
'It’s a fairly pristine desert landscape. When former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt recommended national monument status for the area to President Clinton, he said, “this landscape offers us a chance to study an entire culture, one that may have been as rich and diverse as the one we have today.” He argued that archaeological sites should not just be protected individually, “but rather as part of a landscape or ‘anthropological ecosystem.’”'
He said, “The real science on these landscapes doesn’t come out of digging out a room and extracting a few pots. The real discoveries today come from asking the deeper question of ‘How did communities live in spiritual and physical equilibrium with the landscape?’”
...a question I often ask; a question relevant for the past, as well as for the present. Native Americans seem to have lived as part of the landscape, as part of the entire universe. They did not command control over the earth, rather they showed immense respect for the environment that supported them through their lives. The footprint left by prehistoric and modern Native American peoples is slight compared to that being created by non-natives of today. Compare the pueblo dwellings with the concrete and skyscrapers of modern American urban environs.
http://www.archaeologynews.org/Link.asp?ID=306241
He said, “The real science on these landscapes doesn’t come out of digging out a room and extracting a few pots. The real discoveries today come from asking the deeper question of ‘How did communities live in spiritual and physical equilibrium with the landscape?’”
...a question I often ask; a question relevant for the past, as well as for the present. Native Americans seem to have lived as part of the landscape, as part of the entire universe. They did not command control over the earth, rather they showed immense respect for the environment that supported them through their lives. The footprint left by prehistoric and modern Native American peoples is slight compared to that being created by non-natives of today. Compare the pueblo dwellings with the concrete and skyscrapers of modern American urban environs.
http://www.archaeologynews.org/Link.asp?ID=306241
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