Bigfoot - The True Story - Son Speaks Out about the Patterson/Gimlin Film - Police Sketch Artist Interviews Witnesses and All the Drawings Looked the Same...

There was a large man who ran away from his job at the California Conservation Corps near Eureka, CA. He lived in the woods fishing the Trinity River and took a Hoopa Lady as a wife. Her father made up the story of Bigfoot to explain the abduction of his daughter. It's a better story than "the white man stole her". Real Man, Exaggerated story.

Famous Bigfoot Film by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin.

At the man's funeral, his son said that the movie was a fake. The other people who lived in Willow Creek objected strongly to his stating the truth in public. So he retracted his statement. There are many tourist business that depend on the Bigfoot Legend to bring customers to remote Humboldt County.

I read a book about Bigfoot where the author interviewed many Hoopa Indians. He brought a Police Sketch Artist along with him and the Indians described what Bigfoot looked like... ALL THE PICTURES LOOKED THE SAME... None of the People Interviewed Knew What their Neighbor's Sketches Looked Like... a Totally Honest Experiment... 
 https://harveypratt.com/bigfoot/

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Great Backpacking Trips in Northern California

Hetch Hetchy: A level path goes around the lake. A good place to camp about 5 miles in. We used it as a base camp for "free climbing" granite. Be careful of accidentally slipping into the river... I did upstream of Wapama Falls.

Link to Google Map:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hetch+Hetchy+Valley,+California+95321/@37.9429661,-119.765467,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x80971f8a91c736fd:0x423983ee122b8b47

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wapama_Falls


Canoe Creek Trail - Avenue of the Giants - Humboldt County.
A hidden footbridge over the Eel River lets a person explore in a virtually human free zone. Walk from the Garden Club of America Grove to the river, walk upstream about a quarter of a mile and That's where the footbridge is...  The Roads and civilization are all on the other side of the river... I Don't Know if that Bridge is Still There... However, One Day I Was Feeling Stressed and When I Got to The Other Side of The EEL... I Felt Relaxed... 

Link to Google Map:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Garden+Club+of+America+Grove/@40.2932599,-123.898538,16z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0000000000000000:0x49a50404452ac4ab?hl=en


In 1972 we went backpacking in the Yolla Bolly Middle Eel Wilderness. Liz Dunbar, myself and two brothers. The brothers were hang gliders. I wonder what ever happened to them. We had a great time. The brothers taught us an acapella singing technique. One person would act as a conductor and whenever he pointed at you, you sang your short bit. A percussive scat singing... like "dink ka dink ka do wah", "badda badda shoop shoop" or "diddy wah diddy"... Then the conductor would sing an improvised melody.

Link to the map on Google:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Yolla+Bolly-Middle+Eel+Wilderness/@40.1630015,-124.3261205,8z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x54d4a7fe0bdc6501:0x2ead91827000bd48?hl=en

Another great place to backpack is Hobo Gulch in the Trinity Alps off #299. Joe Franck showed me where is was... Granite, Cold Crystal Clear Lakes... melted snow.... Above timber line we navigated using topo maps and just walked where there were no trails...

Link to the map on Google:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hobo+Gulch+Campground/@40.9289597,-123.1555172,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x54d23113a261e7af:0x942df68dd1f5e5d5?hl=en

Big Sur: Sykes Camp Hot Springs. 12 mile hike in at Pfeiffer State Park on the Pine Ridge Trail up the Big Sur River. Very Hot dry difficult hike. Take two days... Stay at Barlow Flats to rest... Ranger maintained and totally natural hot spring seats 4 comfortably. There is a Parking Lot at the Big Sur Trailhead... 

Link to the map on Google:
https://www.google.com/maps/search/big+sur+sykes+camp+hot+spring+pfeiffer/@36.2448162,-121.7780059,16z?hl=en

Mount Shasta, California. A bicycle ride down from 7,000 feet - and Native American Tales of Power - Mis Misa

I drove to the end of the road and let my friend Mike off. 

He rode a Bicycle down and we met again at Panther Meadows... 

A Sacred Spring for the American Indians...

Mount Shasta California 2014

Exit Highway 5 at Mount Shasta City.

We stayed at the Alpine Lodge... a fine place.
reasonable price, good quality.
The Lady at the office was accurate about Driving directions
to visit Mt Shasta.Use Everitt Memorial Highway A10.. 
(South Washington Drive)

Mt Shasta CA

Mike J on the road to Mount Shasta, CA

Greg Vanderlaan (me)

View looking South from half way up Mt Shasta, CA

The Parking Lot at the Trailhead.

Rock Sculpture at Mount Shasta.
a triangle and 4 spirals...

Peace Sign rock sculpture

Mike J at the Start of his Ride Down The Mountain

Welcome to Panther Meadows sign

Trail to Panther Meadows

bicycling down Mount Shasta

view from Mt Shasta looking South as we descend...

after this journey, it's time for lunch in Mount Shasta City

Google Map...

I Drove Up Everitt Memorial Highway... A10...

(South Washington Drive)

Ask a Local for Driving Directions...  

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mt+Shasta,+CA+96067/@41.3741685,-122.2898535,12z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x54cde0d325020841:0x8e6a2d01c84b8607!8m2!3d41.3098746!4d-122.3105666

Cosmic Art

Voyage Beyond Time and Space

MindSprout 42

Isn't debating theology on Facebook Pointless?
Why not read a good book?
For Example: 'Write your own Religion' by Timothy Leary. 

The Harmonic Convergence 1987 was Held at Mount Shasta... That Was a Global Meditation Event...
 https://wearethemutants.com/2019/07/18/the-new-age-will-be-televised-harmonic-convergence-at-mount-shasta-1987/

Thousands flock to Mount Shasta for meditation event.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Mj-7aQEvU

Mt. Shasta Lore:
            Indigenous people from Northern California and Southern Oregon are primarily the Pit River Indians, Modocs, Wintu, Karuk, Hupa, Shasta and Yurok tribes.

Mt. Shasta’s peak has been used as a spiritual and geographical locator.  At 14,179 ft. elevation and an active volcano, Mt. Shasta towers above all other surrounding mountains.  Native people do not reside on Mt. Shasta because it is considered so powerful.  Spiritual ceremony is conducted in areas below the timberline and when finished, the surroundings are returned to nature, with nothing left behind.  Medicine men and shamans are often taken to Mt. Shasta for training.  There is much Native lore telling how the mountain has healed through prayer, songs, dancing, doctoring and through nature.  The mountain yields a sacred spring and areas for collecting plants and herbs for ceremony and healing.  The mountain is called ‘grandfather’ as it represents the paternal grandparents of the Pit River Tribe.  Their powerful spirit called Mis Misa is said to live inside the mountain and serves to keep the universe in balance.  They consider Mt. Shasta the beginning of all life and the end of all life, where one can ascend into the sky along the Milky Way to the beyond.

The Native peoples report many tunnels within Mt. Shasta.  The Wintu say the mountain generates sound that provides information and guidance.  The Wintu lore says another realm exists inside the mountain and access might come through doorways, such as vents in caves.  Mt. Shasta must be approached with great care and respect as it is guarded by certain spirits.  Mt. Shasta is so powerful that only short visits are appropriate.  It is said that “It has it all”.  During ceremony, the Wintu frequently hear and know the presence of the “little people”, called the Mountain Boys, who live deep within the mountain.  A shaman can communicate with the little people.  The shaman also uses the bubbling brook on the mountain to gain spiritual information. 

When visiting the mountain, silence is important for meditation and fasting. The mountain spirits command respect.


METAPHYSICAL LORE


As early as the 1880s, writers began their association of the lost continent of Lemuria with Mt. Shasta.  Even though these theories cannot be proved, the power of the mountain remains supreme.  People worldwide visit Mt. Shasta to be close to its spiritual energy, to meditate, to communicate with the spirit world and to be healed.  The concept of Lemurians living within the mountain has become widely popular and anyone visiting Mt. Shasta will be amazed by the abundance of literature on the topic as well as practitioners working within the vortex of an important spiritual community.

https://www.npr.org/2015/06/07/412098380/a-mountain-of-many-legends-draws-spiritual-seekers-from-around-the-globe

Native American stories.

"The Native Americans have always felt that the mountain was the sacred center of the universe," Ashalyn says. "They even have stories that talk about it being the home of the creator."

Mount Shasta straddles the territories of the Shasta, Wintu, Achumawi, Atsugewi and Modoc tribes. Not surprisingly, the imposing mountain shows up in a lot of tribal myths and stories. It's especially important to the Wintu tribe, who trace their people's origin back to a sacred spring on the mountain.

"They have always done their sacred ceremonies there, and they continue to do them to this day," says Ashalyn. "Every August they do their ceremonies for just the tribe and their invited guests."

Then there are the "ascended masters." In the 1930s, a businessman named Guy Ballard was hiking on the mountainside when he encountered a mysterious figure, who claimed to be an "ascended master."

"Those are beings who have had many lifetimes on this planet," explains Ashalyn, "and no longer need to come back to that birth-death cycle that we're in, because they've learned to master the physical plane."

As Ballard would later write, this particular ascended master passed on his teachings and took him on a cosmic journey through space and time.

Ballard, along with his wife, Edna, soon started a religious movement called the "I AM Activity" — a mix of Christianity, theosophy and fierce nationalism (Ballard claimed to be George Washington reincarnated, and said that America was spiritually superior among nations). At the height of its popularity, the I AM Activity had about a million followers. They were eventually charged by the U.S. government for swindling their followers out of millions of dollars, and the group fell into obscurity.


Finally, there's the legend of Telos.

According to Ashalyn, Telos is a crystal city inside the mountain, inhabited by higher-dimensional beings called Lemurians.

"That goes all the way back to the ancient continent of Lemuria that was in the North Pacific Ocean many thousands of years ago," she says. "It actually was inhabited before Atlantis was inhabited."

As the story goes, Lemuria and Atlantis got into a thermonuclear war and sank their continents. The Lemurians fled into Mount Shasta, and that's where they've remained ever since. Mostly.

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"Well, there's a couple stories from the 1940s where the Lemurians were actually seen walking into town," says Ashalyn. They were 7 feet tall, dressed in long white robes and sandals. They went to the general store to buy supplies, and paid for their purchases with chunks of gold. "The shopkeeper would take the gold, turn around and try to give them change, and the Lemurian would be gone."


These days, no one reports eyewitness accounts of Lemurians in the flesh — but some locals believe the smooth, saucer-shaped lenticular clouds that often gather at the summit of Mount Shasta are engineered by the Lemurians to camouflage alien cargo ships docking at Telos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_of_Mount_Shasta

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American History: The Humboldt County Timber Wars... A Hostile Takeover of Pacific Lumber Company and The Extreme Logging of Old Growth Redwoods in Northern California. MAXXAM SUXX

In 1985 Charles Hurwitz borrowed money (Junk Bonds) from Michael Milken and bought the company Pacific Lumber, located near Eureka, California. Then Hurwitz increased the rate of logging in the Redwood Forest and cut down all the highly profitable trees. Then he split his corporation MAXXAM into two divisions. One division was used to do actual logging and sawing of boards and the other division was used to hide the profits. When the bill came due on the Junk Bonds, Hurwitz declared bankruptcy and took the money back to Texas. Including the pension funds that paid retirement benefits for employees...

Photo of a Car in front of a Giant Pile Of Redwood Logs at A Lumber mill in Eureka CA - EARTH FIRST

Then the Pacific Lumber Company was purchased at a foreclosure sale by The Fisher Family. They had made a fortune selling clothes at a chain of stores called "The Gap". They reintroduced the business plan called "sustainable logging" where the Lumberjacks would only cut down as many trees as grew during the year. This plan was invented by the original owner of Pacific Lumber, Simon J. Murphy... The concept was to cut 1% of the forest every year and plant new trees so that in a hundred years the new trees would have grown big enough to harvest.

Earth First!

During this time there were many ecology protests in Humboldt County. Including "Tree Sits" where forest protectors would build a treehouse in the upper branches of a giant Redwood in order to prevent Lumberjacks from Chainsawing the tree down. It would be possibly fatal for a tree sitter to be in a tree that was falling and the corporations were not willing to risk actual Human Life for profit. (Bad Publicity)... At the Tree Sit I attended MAXXAM Hired a Local man to "Evict" the Tree Sitters by climbing the tree and wrestling with the people... eventually carrying them to the ground where the Police arrested them.

Others committed "Tree Spiking" where large metal nails were driven into the wood of a tree and then the heads of the nails were clipped off. That way, if a tree was at the sawmill and the blade hit the metal, the blade would explode killing millworkers. Once again the corporation was not willing to risk people's lives and so trees that were spiked, were not cut down. The Forest Protectors spray painted the spiked trees so that the Lumberjacks would be aware of the danger.

Still others went to the Offices of Political Leaders and staged "Sit-Ins" where they would handcuff themselves to each other and chant/sing songs while being filmed by TV Cameras... At one of these events the local police used pepper spray on the protestors who were young women. The young women screamed loudly... and it was filmed by TV Stations. When this was broadcast on the TV News it outrages the citizens of California... There is a biological reaction to young women being harmed... This Media Event lead to a massive protest Statewide and the California Legislature Bought a Large Tract of Land and created the Headwaters Forest Park... The park protecting a stand of Old Growth Redwoods near Fortuna, California. It is a pretty park with a paved trail that is popular with people that have wheeled vehicles like bicycles, wheelchairs, skateboards and baby buggies. The hike from the parking lot to the Giant Redwood Trees is about five miles and simply too far for most people to walk but it's easy for people on wheels.

Another technique used to stop the logging was Scientific Ecology Studies that concluded that the Spotted Owl was losing it's habitat and it was in danger of going extinct. See Illustration below...

Two members of the Ecology Group Earth First! were bombed by the FBI in Oakland. There was a Trial and the FBI agreed to award the Survivor a large cash settlement but denied doing anything wrong. Judi Beri died and  Darryl Cherney Survived. He has retired from Activism but still performs as the leader of a musical group. They sing satire protest songs...

Interesting Movie: Who Bombed Judi Bari? 
https://www.imdb.com/video/vi742497305?ref_=tt_pv_vi_aiv_1

Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were falsely arrested for car-bombing themselves on May 24, 1990 while on an Earth First! musical organizing tour for Redwood Summer. They sued the FBI for violations of the First Amendment, claiming the FBI knew they were innocent but arrested them to try to silence them. Having survived the bomb but now stricken by cancer, Judi Bari, a leader of the movement to save California's old growth redwoods, gives her on-camera, deathbed testimony about the attempt on her life and her colorful organizing history with the radical environmental movement Earth First.

—Anonymous

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1754621/

Who Bombed Judi Bari? is an American historical documentary about an assassination attempt on the life of Judi Bari, an American environmental and labor activist, which occurred on May 24, 1990.^[1]

While driving through Oakland, California on their way to a benefit concert for the Redwood Summer campaign to save California's coast redwood trees, Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were injured when a pipe bomb detonated under the driver's seat of their car.^[2] Bari, who was driving, was critically injured. Oakland police and the FBI approached the explosion as a terrorist incident, arrested Bari and Cherney, and tried to prove that they were transporting their own explosive device which accidentally detonated. The two were never charged with a crime. In 2002 they won a lawsuit and were awarded $4.4 million for civil rights violations by the FBI and Oakland Police Department.^[3] The authorities allegedly did not investigate any other suspects.^[1] Discovery during the lawsuit revealed crime scene photos that clearly showed the bomb was located under Bari's seat, not in the back seat as investigators had alleged.^[1]

In 2012, a federal judge ordered the FBI not to destroy another pipe bomb that had only partially detonated at a lumber mill about a week before the car bombing, which investigators agreed had been built by the same bomber. Attorney for Darryl Cherney, Ben Rosenfeld, had requested that an outside lab perform DNA testing on the Cloverdale bomb, which the FBI claimed it had never performed, a request which the judge upheld.^[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Bombed_Judi_Bari

Full Text of a Newspaper Article I wrote for The Humboldt State University Lumberjack Newspaper about a Tree Sit in Freshwater, California
http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/freshwater-tree-sit-near-eureka-ca-2003.html

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-headwaters-forest-coloring-book.html
Link to the Headwaters Forest Coloring Book.

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-mill-creek-trip-with-save-redwoods.html
Photographs and Description of events at the Dedication Ceremony of the Mill Creek Park with the Save the Redwoods League.

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/04/two-pinecones-in-humid-weather-and.html
Photographs of a Hike in the Headwaters Forest.

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/04/photographs-of-clearcut-logging-in.html
Photographs of Clearcut Logging in Arcata, California on Fickle Hill Road up in the mountains behind town...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Lumber_Company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headwaters_Forest_Reserve

https://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Forest-Californias-Redwood-Timber/dp/0816653259

Photo of a Clearcut a couple of years later. Once You Cut Down the Redwood Trees, It's Sunny and the Pampas Grass Thrives... Greenwood Heights, CA Near Arcata

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A Newspaper Article: American History: Junk Bonds and Redwood Trees in Humboldt County

Milken's Unpardonable Redwood Felonies - 
BY J.A. SAVAGE
https://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/milkens-unpardonable-redwood-felonies/Content?oid=16723085
Some crimes cannot be forgiven. There's Harvey Weinstein's sexual assaults, the Sackler family's (alleged) opioid proliferation and, for Humboldt County, Michael Milken's junk bonds.

So when President Trump pardoned "Junk Bond King" Milken for his criminal offenses last week, the message to Humboldt was clear: No matter how many ancient forests you plunder, it's an admirable undertaking — as long as it makes money.

Milken's felonious financing was a primary cause for Maxxam's massive clearcutting of big redwoods in the 1980s. Maxxam used Milken's junk bonds to leverage a hostile takeover of Pacific Lumber Co. But junk bonds have huge interest rates because they're deemed risky investments and the exhausting interest on those takeover bonds was repaid with the hard currency of ancient trees.

When Milken started using investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert to create the financial underpinnings for forest destruction, Humboldt was already reeling from nearly a decade of Enviro v. Logger politics. The attitude toward forests was tearing apart the social fabric of Humboldt County at the time. It was a one-industry economy, logging, and it was tanking. Jobs were scarce. The community grew polarized. The factions got violent. It got bloody. Entire watersheds were denuded.

Enviromentalists were in fist fights with loggers in Eureka's streets. The timber industry, backed by Humboldt State University and the Times-Standard, was promoting giant clearcuts. In the name of "silviculture," clearcuts were followed by dropping napalm for controlled burns after logging, then helicopters spraying the components of Agent Orange – 2,4,5-T (until it was banned) and 2,4-D. The herbicides' aim was to kill all wide-leaved vegetation before it could compete with the next softwood cash crop.

Humboldt's reality in the early 1980s sounds like the plot to a horror film or perhaps, an insufferable documentary. But that wasn't bad enough. No, Michael Milken's junk bonds entered the scene and made it much, much worse.

Until Milken premiered his rapacious financing scheme in Humboldt, junk bonds had been a finance mechanism of last resort. His criminal actions changed the industry to parlay those bonds into huge investment opportunities and enormous profits. Through the investment firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, Milken's junk bonds were specifically channeled by the newly formed Maxxam corporation to Pacific Lumber's 1985-1986 takeover. Until then, Pacific Lumber was a family-run business that cut and milled redwoods in relative sustainability.

As a result of Milken's maneuvering, vast swaths of ancient trees were clearcut in order to pay off debt. To service junk bonds' enormous interest rate, Maxxam immediately doubled or tripled (depending on which data to believe) Pacific Lumber's previous rate of cutting down ancient forests. For those of you who can translate, that was 285 million board feet a year to pay off $900 million in debt, with much of that in Milken's junk bonds.

Repaying the enormous interest rates on Milken's junk bonds led to the devastating of entire watersheds. Ancient redwoods, once cut and milled, could wholesale for $100,000. And that, according to the former chief executive officer of Maxxam, Charles Hurwitz, was the reason behind Pacific Lumber's acquisition.

After Maxxam started paying off Milken's junk bonds with ancient forests, tree-sitters moved in to offer redwoods their personal protection. Julia Butterfly Hill was the most well known but forests were secretly scattered with dozens like her. Conflict escalated with the deaths of forests activists like Judi Bari (car bomb) and David Gypsy Chain (felled tree).

"It led to many years of timber wars," Sharon Duggan, the Environmental Protection and Resource Center's attorney during that time, said in retrospect.

While "wars" is military glib, those facing down a phalanx of Milken-financed Maxxam D9 Caterpillars could understandably describe it as one.

The "wars" only lasted a few years before the trees, and their profitability, were plundered and Humboldt reeled. The rapacious harvesting left Humboldt's economy a wreck. Maxxam was facing bankruptcy. Milken and his ilk started being picked off by prosecutors for violations of all sorts of financials laws enforced, at the time, by the federal government. Humboldt's tree-sitters wobbled back to earth.

It was 1990 when Milken pleaded guilty to six felonies. That was on the heels of the federal government's 1988 takeover of Maxxam, at a cost of $1.6 billion. (A resulting deal created the Headwaters Forest Reserve.) To round off the failures surrounding Milken, illegal activities forced Drexel Burnham Lambert, Milken's junk bond bank, into bankruptcy in 1990.

Milken suffered just a little for the criminal behavior. Trump's pardon last week wasn't necessary to get him out of prison — he's been out for a long time. He only served two years of a 10-year sentence for his criminal activities surrounding junk bonds. He is still a wheeler-dealer, hosting international conferences for capitalists. He's the kind of man who networks openly at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. His net worth was $3.8 billion as of the day of his pardon, according to Forbes.

When the White House announced Milken's pardon, it defended him as "one of America's greatest financiers. [He] pioneered the use of high-yield bonds in corporate finance. His innovative work greatly expanded access to capital for emerging companies."

J.A. Savage witnessed forest destruction as USFS Six Rivers post-clearcut crewmember, a forest firefighter and an Los Angeles Times stringer. She prefers she/her pronouns.

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Photographs of Woodley Island Marina in Eureka - Humboldt State University - and a Journey to the Mad River Beach in Arcata, California - BEAUTIFUL NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

 Pelican at the Woodley Island Marina in Eureka

Gather Rainbows Now! in Eureka, CA

 Humboldt State University- CCAT Mayday Celebration.

Note the Maypole on the Left...

 Arcata 'Bottoms' Dairy - Between The City of Arcata and the Pacific Ocean.

 Sun Valley Floral Farms - Supplier of Pro Flowers Bouquets

 Mad River Railroad Bridge

The Hammond Trail is 5 Miles and goes along the

Coast of Northern California from Arcata to McKinleyville

 Humboldt Fire Boat at the Woodley Island Marina in Eureka.

 Graffiti says "Wish You Were Here" 

My Question is... Am I Not Already Here Now?

 The Mad River was Named because of an 
Argument that Occurred Here.

Pioneers had a Disagreement as to 
Travel North or South when they

got to The Mouth of the Mad...

So, they had a Fistfight and 
half walked North and Half walked South.

 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

'Ah! Well a-day! What evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the albatross
About my neck was hung.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner

Bird is the Word. Woodley Island Marina in Eureka

'Selfie' of Me Wading in the Pacific Ocean.

Of the 7 Billion People on Earth. I Could Not Find

Anyone to Hold The Camera, so I took a 'Selfie'.

There was One Dreadlocked Man doing

Tai- Chi and There was another person Walking a dog.

I did not want to annoy them.

I Did Pet the Dog.

(Concept by B.D. of Merryland)

Water, water, every where,

And all the boards did shrink;

Water, water, every where,

Nor any drop to drink.

Pacific Ocean - Arcata, California - USA

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Greenwood Heights Drive in Freshwater, California

Site of a  MAXXAM clearcut, 12 years later

It has grown back. Pampas Grass 

and 20 Foot Tall Redwoods.

Axe Chopping Competition at Redwood Acres Fairground   Eureka CA

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Sculpture behind Doctors Office on Harris Near Redwood Acres in Eureka CA

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Photographs of Elfin Glen Gift Shop - Chainsaw Carvings of Redwood Trees - on Highway 101 Just South Of Eureka in Northern California - and Pictures of Antique Logging Equipment at the Timber Heritage Association Show

Gift Shop Sign Elfin Glen
on Highway 101 in Northern California

Eagle Sculpture

Eagle and Bear

Bear Chainsaw Carving

Seahorse

Sculptures of Lumberjacks Climbing a tree.

Photographs of Antique Logging Equipment in Eureka, California - Steam Driven Machines used in the Timber Industry. Including the Dolbeer Steam Donkey.

An Exhibit by the Timber Heritage Association

https://timberheritage.org/

Antique Tractor used to Haul Logs

Buffalo Springfield Paving Machine
The Band Named Themselves After a Tractor...
I Guess That Made Sense in the Sixties...

Machine designed to Pick Up a Log

Chopping Competition - Hand Ax

Dolbeer Steam Donkey
a Machine designed to haul logs out of the forest
replaced animal power

Steam Train used to haul logs

Dolbeer Steam Donkey

Let's use The Bark from Redwood Trees to Prevent Weeds instead of RoundUP! We use Bark in our garden and it works great. AND! It doesn't kill people... It's a One Time Cost for the Farmer and the Money is Kept within the State of California... Currently, a Giant Barge of Redwood Bark and wood chips Leaves Eureka, California Every Week headed for China... We also ship entire logs... They don't want the logs sawed up into boards because they have their own sawmills... and it's cheaper to employ Chinese Slaves to do the Work. 

Farmers have to pay for RoundUP every year and The Costs of all those Lawsuits MUST be passed on to the Farmers and the people that buy the Food. AND! We Eat That Poison! We could have healthier Food if we just used Redwood Bark and Wood Chips to Prevent Weeds. 

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BIOMASS Electric Power Plants Could Dispose of the Millions of Dead Trees in California that are a Fire Hazard. Before we have another Disastrous Wildfire like we had in Paradise last summer, we could remove the fuel from the forests and use it to generate electricity. 

"The number of biomass plants, another option for disposing of trees, has fallen to about two dozen from 66 in the 1990s, in part due to the expiration of government price subsidies." - according to the California Energy Commission.

Why not REOPEN those unused BIOMASS plants and clean up our forests before we have a Disaster? 

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Photographs of the Avenue of the Giants - on the Eel River Humboldt County California - Chainsaw Carving of Bigfoot - Dolos make the Harbor Jetty

Mom's Car under the trees

Eel River

Chainsaw Carving of Bigfoot at the Elfin Glen Gift shop on Highway 101

July 4th Carnival

Dolos - giant Concrete Shapes
used to Make The Jetty Protecting
the Channel into Humboldt Bay

Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue OX
at the Trees of Mystery

Mural of St Francis in Willits

Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox Sculptures at the Trees Of Mystery - Roadside Attraction - Highway 101 Northern California

Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue OX

Mural of Salmon at
The Forest Cafe across the street

Redwood Trees 

https://www.treesofmystery.net/