Showing posts with label Oregon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oregon. Show all posts

Klamath River Un-Dammed - 2002 Fish Kill Disaster... Trinity River Memories... NorCal & Oregon

The Klamath River Basin in California and Oregon has been obstructed by different dams for over 100 years. The first dam was constructed in 1908, and the last was erected in 1962. In 2002, a catastrophic fish kill resulted in over 70 thousand salmon deaths, and this kicked off the fight to restore the Klamath River Watershed to its original glory. 4 of 6 dams are slated to be removed over the next few years.

Golden Bear at the Klamath River Bridge Highway 101

Golden Bear at the Klamath River Bridge 
on Highway 101, Northern California...

I have a Personal Feeling about the Klamath River... My Brother in Law Came all the way from Maryland to Fly Fish that River... It's a Classic Trip involving Hiring a Local Guide, Renting a Room and Eating at Restaurants... 

However, in 2002, George (American Idiot) Bush the Son DIVERTED the Water to Potato Farmers in Oregon. More Water, More Potatoes, More Profit... What He Didn't Realize was that the Lack of water would KILL the Salmon... How would he know? He's just a BOUGHT Politician and the Potato Farmers Bribed Him... 

anyway... The Oregon Tourist Business Lost a Fortune because... without FISH... NO Fishermen come to Visit... No Rooms Rented, No Guides Hired... and No Restaurants Selling Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner... The Bottom Line was that the Tourist Money LOST was MUCH GREATER than the Increased Profit from selling Potatoes... 

I learned that the Salmon have a Five Year Cycle... They get Born, Swim to the Ocean... spend Five years out there and Then Swim Back to the Same Place that they were born... So the Fish Kill of 2002 did NOT effect the 2003, 2004, 2005, or 2006 Salmon Runs... but 2007 was a bad year to be a fish... and 2012... 2017... 

I have swum in the Trinity River... it flows into the Klamath... On a drive along Highway 299 coming home I got stuck in a construction zone traffic Jam... and it was over a Hundred Degrees... NO Air Conditioning in the Car... so as soon as we were free to proceed... I drove to the First Place to Jump in the River... and BLISS!

Jerry Garcia's Father Drowned in the Trinity... 

My Father, Uncle and Grandmother Camped by the Trinity When They Wanted to Save Money instead of  Paying Rent... and they ate Trout FISH that They Caught in the River...

When I was a Student at Humboldt State University we had a Guest Lecturer... Derrick Jensen... Who OFTEN Spoke of Un-Damming the Klamath. He is a co-author of Deep Green Resistance, and the author of Endgame, The Culture of Make Believe, A Language Older than Words, Bright Green Lies, and many other books.

He was named one of Utne Reader’s “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World” and won the Eric Hoffer Award in 2008.

Klamath River Bear - protest

Klamath River Bear - protest - Arcata Parade
All Species Parade in Arcata, CA
"Un Dam the Klamath Protest"

Headline: The world’s largest dam demolition has begun. Can the dammed Klamath River finally find salvation?
https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/08/klamath-river-dams-demolition/


I met a Lot of Yurok Tribe People when I worked in the Welfare Office in Eureka. 

They Fish the Klamath for Salmon but Do Not Catch ALL The Fish because the Hoopa People Upstream also need to Eat... Somehow they managed to Cooperate for Thousands of Years... WISDOM... 






Zzyzx - Where the Wildfires are Burning Today - 9/4/2023 California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arizona...

This website has a Zoomable Map so you can see Exactly what's Burning in Your Neighborhood...
wildfire map USA

Northern California
wildfire map NorCal





Zzyzx is an unincorporated community in San Bernardino County, CaliforniaCurtis Howe Springer made up the name Zzyzx and gave it to the area in 1944, claiming it to be the last word in the English language.[2][3] He established the Zzyzx Mineral Springs and Health Spa in 1944 at the spot, which was federal land, after filing mining claims for 12,000 acres (4,900 ha) surrounding the springs. He used the springs to bottle his water and provide drinks for travelers through the hot desert. 
Location of Zzyzx, California

Integratron:
 <--- Link to Official Website!

Integratron building in SoCal


The Integratron is the fusion of Art, Science and Magic

The Integratron, circa 1954, is located in Landers, California, 20 miles north of Joshua Tree National Park. Its creator, George Van Tassel (1910-1978), claimed that the structure is based on the design of Moses’ Tabernacle, the writings of Nikola Tesla and telepathic directions from extraterrestrials. This one-of-a-kind 38-foot high, 55-foot diameter, all wood dome was designed to be an electrostatic generator for the purpose of rejuvenation and time travel.

Map to Integratron in SoCal Desert


The location of the Integratron is an essential part of its functioning. It was built on an intersection of powerful geomagnetic forces that, when focused by the unique geometry of the building, concentrate and amplify the earth’s magnetic field. Magnetometers read a significant spike in the earth’s magnetic field in the center of the Integratron.

The Integratron is privately owned by three sisters who have been part of the restoration and maintenance of the structure and property for more than 30 years. Their focus is to restore and preserve the structure while sharing its amazing acoustical properties with the world via the Integratron Sound Bath.

This unique structure was listed in 2019 on the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service.

Virtual Journey: West Coast USA - A Drive North From San Francisco on Highway #1 and #101 - Photos and Maps of the Pacific Ocean, Redwood Trees... Plus Links to Many Other Virtual Journeys!

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco as Viewed From Marin County... 

Golden Gate Bridge - San Francisco, CA
Click on the Pictures to See Them Bigger!

The Lone Sailor sculpture Marin County, CA
The Lone Sailor sculpture Marin County, CA. 
Rest stop near the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County. We always Stop Here when Driving North because of the Great View of the Bridge and City... and We Can Finally Relax because WE ESCAPED THE CITY! and We're Going Home... 

Rest stop near the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County. 

Golden gate Bridge as Seen from Marin County

Map: H. Dana Bowers Rest Area & Vista Point 


Map of Marin County and San Francisco, CA


Robin Williams Tunnel in Marin County highway 101 going North from San Francisco

Robin Williams Tunnel in Marin County on Highway 101 going North from San Francisco

Marin County Courthouse by Frank Lloyd Wright
Marin County Courthouse Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright

exit off highway 101 going to highway 1 in Marin County, CA
The Highway #1 Exit from Highway #101... 

Muir Beach in Marin County, CA
Muir Beach in Marin County, CA 

Map of Muir Beach in Marin County, CA
Map of Muir Beach and Muir Woods

Path in Muir Woods. Marin County, CA
Path in Muir Woods. Marin County, CA

Sign announcing Muir Woods. Marin County, CA.
Sign announcing Muir Woods

slice of Redwood Tree in MUIR Woods showing Dates.
Slice of Redwood Tree showing Significant Dates in Human History.

View from the Top of Mount Tamalpias in Marin County, CA
View from the Top of Mount Tamalpais

Map of Mount Tamalpais, Marin County, CA.

Stinson Beach - Marin County, CA - Bolinas Bay
Stinson Beach - Marin County, CA - Bolinas Bay

hand painted map of Marin County CA
Hand Painted map of Marin County CA

Olema California near Point Reyes
Olema, California Crossroads... near Point Reyes...

Song: Hippie From Olema #5 -- Youngbloods 



Link to the Map of Olema...

https://goo.gl/maps/UhPGBr7ShNLyTRBGA




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many more photographs to upload

but I'm Done for today!

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OTHER Virtual Journeys!

LINK: Set of Photographs of a Drive from San Francisco to Santa Cruz on Highway #1... 

photo of San Francisco to Santa Cruz Trip by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan

Sutro Tower... Located In San Francisco: High on a Hill in the Center of the City, It Broadcasts ALL forms of Wireless Signals... TV, AM Radio, FM Radio, Police Radio, Military and Cell Phones... It has a Line of Sight Visibility from My Father's House in Los Gatos, CA - 50 Miles Away.

photo of San Francisco to Santa Cruz Trip by gvan42 Gregory Vanderlaan

Another View of Sutro Tower... Taken from the Beach at the End of Judah Street.


LINK: Set of Photos of Our Journey From Arcata, CA to a Cabin in the Woods of Mendocino... Hand Built by a Friend... Whole Lotta Hippies Live in those Woods!

Pacific Ocean Near FT Bragg

Back Deck on a Mendocino Cabin

LINK: Photos of the Yurok Loop Trail - Wetland near the Klamath River in Northern California - and Photos of the Golden Bear on the Klamath River Bridge on Highway 101 (near Oregon)

Klamath River Bridge - Golden Bear Sculpture - Highway 101 Northern California


LINK: Virtual Journey: Eureka, Arcata, Trinidad - Visit Northern California's Coast. We Have Our Own Little World Here Behind The Redwood Curtain!

Duane Flatmo Painting on the Side of Pierson'r Lumber in Eureka, CA, USA
Duane Flaymo Mural showing The Pink Lady House and other Victorian Mansions in Eureka.

St. Francis Mural in Willits, CA, USA

St. Francis of the Redwoods Mural in Willits.
On Highway 101 Half Way Between 
Santa Rosa and Eureka.

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PBS had a TV Show Called "Great Drives" - Actress Teri Garr Drove the Pacific Coast Highway from The Start South of San Diego all the Way North to Fort Bragg... Worth Watching! a Beautiful Woman in a Convertible Sports Car on the Most Beautiful Road EVER! That's Entertainment!

I Can't Find a Free Copy Online... Sorry! 

But Here is a Drone Video of Highway 101... 


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Other Journeys

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Virtual Journey: Canada Tourist Guide & Autobiography. We Went on our Honeymoon to Vancouver, BC. We Rode a Bicycle built for Two in Stanley Park... and Many More Wonderful Places to Visit.


Virtual Journey: Trinity Alps, CA, USA - Drive the Bigfoot Highway (299) From Arcata on the Coast to Redding in the Central Valley. White Water Rafting! Gold Rush Ghost Towns!


Virtual Journey: to the Star Wars Flying Motorcycles Redwood Forest on Hwy 36 in Remote Humboldt County, CA, USA - and the Bridgeville UFO Festival, The Town of Mad River. 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/03/virtual-journey-hwy-36-remote-humboldt.html


Virtual Journey: Lost Coast, CA, USA on Highway 211 - From Victorian Ferndale to The Beach, the Mountains of Mateel to the Avenue of the Giants. Humboldt County. 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/03/a-virtual-drive-thru-remote-humboldt.html


Virtual Journey to San Francisco - Boat Ride on the Red and White Fleet. Under the Golden Gate Bridge and Around Alcatraz Island... and MORE!


Virtual Journey: The Smithsonian and Washington DC. Instead of Buying Gasoline and Driving There, Take this Magic Trip Instead! A Guided Tour to the Places My Family Wanted to See... 


I Deleted over 5 Thousand Emails... What a Huge Waste of Disk Drive Space AND ELECTRICITY... They Are Totally Unimportant Now. Fewer Servers Needed in The Cloud...

I sorted my Emails into Two Folders... I Kept Everything From People I Know and Put Everything Else in the Trash and then Dumped the Trash.

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I also deleted 321 Unimportant Photographs from My Google Drive. As a Hobby, I take Screenshots from my Laptop and Make them Into MEMES for Sharing on Social Media... After the Memes are Done, The Screenshots are No Longer Needed and are Simply a Waste of Storage Space... 

Google's Massive Server Farm in The Dalles, Oregon
Google's Massive Server Farm 
in The Dalles, Oregon

What IF everyone deleted unimportant emails? Google could power down thousands of Servers - Save a LOT of Electricity currently wasted... 

Remember THE DALLES, Oregon? Both Microsoft and Google have giant warehouses filled with servers there... They chose that location because it's close to Bonneville Dam... Cheap reliable electricity... Hydro Power... Years ago Aluminum Refining companies located there for the same reason... cheap power...

Google is proud to call Oregon home to Google's first owned and operated data center.
We opened our data center at The Dalles in 2006 — over time investing $1.8 billion in The Dalles and establishing a long-term commitment to the region and state. Now a fully operational site, we've created over 200 total jobs, and we work hard to support the communities in which our employees live and work.
Since 2009, Google.org has awarded over $14 million in grants to nonprofits and organizations based in Oregon. Since 2006, our employees based in Oregon — with matching contributions from Google — have donated over $3 million in charitable giving to nonprofits.

Many More Photographs of The Dalles Data Center...

Here's another Total Waste of Electricity... 
The NSA UTAH DATA CENTER
The NSA UTAH DATA CENTER... Simply Unplug all these Servers... That would Reduce Power Consumption on the Grid...

Marijuana Farmers! Unplug Your Grow Lights and Use the Free Sunshine! All That Electricity is Generated Somewhere... In Nuclear Power Plants, Coal, Natural Gas, Solar, Wind and Hydro... Less Pollution means Less Global Warming...
Marijuana Leaf: Free Coloring Book by gvan42





and "SG" Said: Email uses very little space. I have over 20000 emails... 

I replied: and most of them are unimportant... delete 19,000 and Google could turn off a disc drive... Some of my emails have jpg attachments (large files) and others have pdf attachments (really large files) - and I don't need to look at any of them... 

and I found a SPAM folder with thousands of useless files... I was reminded of this waste of electricity by an article about BITCOIN MINING... How people buy custom designed computers in order to make fantasy money... that goes way way way UP and then POOF! It's Worthless...

and "SG" Said: yeah pdfs are larger but 19000 emails are nothing (without attachments ) but it’s a waste to get rid of them you will have to keep deleting them every day I won’t bother

and I Replied:  I did find some gems I had forgotten about... Pictures and Movies of The Family... Wonderful to watch them again... and Every Email my Father Sent. He has Passed Away and It's Good to read his words...




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and Now for Something Completely Different.
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We Could Make Social Security Solvent by allowing immigrants to move to the USA where they would take jobs and pay into the Social Security System. There are Thousands waiting at the USA Mexico Border that would love to WORK HERE in the USA and Pay Taxes...

In Fact: In the USA, Baby Boomers Voluntarily Chose to use Birth Control and Now there are Not Enough Young People Paying Into the Social Security System to Pay all the Old People That Are Surviving Longer than Ever Before...

But That's Not the Case In Mexico, Central America or South America... In Catholic Countries They Made Plenty of Children...



This photo shows the USA on the Left and Mexico on the Right.
This photo shows the USA on the Left and Mexico on the Right.


US Navy Decides to Bomb Whales & Dolphins off the Coast of California... Causing Deafness. Public Input Apparently Ignored...

 

Save the Whales Drawing by gvan42

I Went to a Protest at the Wharfinger Building in Eureka, CA. The US Navy was planning to Train Sailors how to deploy depth charges off the Coast of California...

The US Navy Held a "Meet the Concerned Citizens" Event... They are Required by Law to Get Public Input and this was the Third Meeting About this Training. One in Seattle, One in Portland and us in Eureka, CA  

Those huge explosions underwater cause DEAFNESS in Whales and Dolphins. Being DEAF is the Dolphin Equivalent to Being BLIND as they use echo-location...  Whale Song is Ruined if They are Deaf... They Locate Food Using Sound. 


anyway... they hed their "Inform the Public" meeting where Sailors were there to Answer any Question a Concerned Citizen might ask. So we asked... and They answered... Obviously they Had a LOT of Practice Answering our Questions. 

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And then 2 Years Later I got an Email Stating that the US Navy Had Decided to Do the Training anyway... absurd... How much training could POSSIBLY be needed? 
I think the main reason they wanted to train was as a cure for boredom... Sailors during Peacetime don't have much to Occupy their time... Blowing Things UP! is FUN! 

Wharfinger Building Eureka, CA


Here's the Email Informing Me, Concerned Citizen, that The US Navy Will Be Bombing the Whales...  
Oct 1, 2021

https://mailchi.mp/e78ee21d296d/rod_nwtt_seis?e=5fc64a047f

Northwest Training and Testing
Supplemental EIS/OEIS
Record of Decision for the Northwest Training and Testing Supplemental EIS/OEIS Available
The U.S. Navy, after carefully weighing the operational and environmental consequences of the Proposed Action, is announcing the release of the Record of Decision to continue training and testing activities at sea and in associated airspace within the Study Area as described in the Northwest Training and Testing (NWTT) Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement/Overseas Environmental Impact Statement (EIS/OEIS).

The Record of Decision documents the Navy’s decision to continue training and testing activities within the Study Area as described in the NWTT Final Supplemental EIS/OEIS under Alternative 1, the Preferred Alternative. Implementation of the Preferred Alternative will allow the Navy to fully meet current and future training and testing requirements. The Navy is committed to being a good steward of the environment and will continue to implement mitigation measures to avoid or reduce potential environmental impacts from training and testing.

The Navy made this decision after considering its operational needs; the potential impacts training and testing activities may have on human, natural, and cultural environments; and comments from elected officials, government agencies, tribes, nongovernmental organizations, and the public on the proposal and environmental analysis. The Navy also considered comments received following the publication of the Final Supplemental EIS/OEIS. New and major substantive comments are addressed in the Record of Decision.

The Navy is committed to providing the public an accessible version of the Record of Decision during COVID-19 conditions. The Record of Decision, Final Supplemental EIS/OEIS, and supporting documents are available online at www.NWTTEIS.com.

If you need assistance accessing the document or have media inquiries, please contact Ms. Julianne Stanford, Navy Region Northwest Public Affairs Office, at julianne.stanford@navy.mil or 360-867-8525. For all other queries or if you require additional information about the project, please contact Ms. Jackie Queen, Project Manager, at projectmanager@nwtteis.com.

For more information, or to view the Record of Decision, please visit www.NWTTEIS.com.

The Navy strived to keep the public informed throughout the National Environmental Policy Act process. Thank you for your continued interest and participation in this important project.

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Northwest Training and Testing Supplemental EIS/OEIS
www.NWTTEIS.com

 and then I realized that the USA Tested Atom Bombs underwater. Causing a Giant Noise... Perhaps Causing Deafness in The Entire Pacific Ocean...

and an alert reader said: They've been blowing out the hearing of whales and dolphins for years now when submarine testing in the open sea. The pings emitted by a sub's transceiver have sound waves louder than a jet engine.


https://www.askqotd.com/sonar/ 

A sonar ping can be as loud as 235 decibels. To the naked ear, this can be shatteringly loud, as human eardrums can only withstand around 160 decibels. 

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