Trail: building, science, art, journeys, and gear
Trail: building, science, art, journeys, and gear
While I admire dry stone artistry, walls, fences, borders, and enclosures stir up mixed emotions for me. Walls were not the cause of Manorialism and Enclosures, nor nation-state borders and landlordism, but in my mind they helped spell the end of liberty in the form of dispossession and expropriation via the realization of primitive accumulation. […]
Great Zimbabwe’s Stone Ruins Read More »
Another one for the “bucket list.” What better use for an old coal mine than a whole new universe? This is just what the Duke of Buccleuch and architect Charles Jencks did with an open cast coal mine located within Scotland’s Lowther Hills. read more
From Mine to a Universe of Rocks and… Read More »
Today is actually Summer Solstice in this hemisphere, but Tau day is a only a few decimals away…the 28th: Happy Tau Day To berm or not to berm, the turn, is sometimes a question.
… no red lights, no trucks, just a clear, smooth lane more I’m not sure what their (dirt) trail infrastructure is like.
Germany gives green light to bicycle highways Read More »
The 2017 Trail Conference Conservation Corps has started…looking forward to another great year.
Anyplace-America contacted me about adding a link to Trailism’s mapping resource page. After a little surfing on the Anyplace-America website I decided it might be worth creating a post to say it’s worth checking out. Their trail page is a good start. The PDF topo maps seem to be geo-referenced, but I have not confirmed
Keesing and Ostfeld, who have studied Lyme for more than 20 years, have come up with an early warning system for the disease. They can predict how many cases there will be a year in advance by looking at one key measurement: Count the mice the year before. continue
Forbidding Forecast For Lyme Disease In The Northeast Read More »
TRAIL SAFE! is a unique safety training program designed specifically for National Park Service (NPS) Trail Volunteers, but is useful to everyone! It’s based upon NPS Operational Leadership Training, where the Human Factor of safety is explored. Trail Safe! captures the core learning objectives of the 16 hour Operational Leadership course while allowing volunteers to
OSHA published its final silica rule in the Federal Register on March 25, 2016. The rule is comprised of two standards, one for Construction and one for General Industry and Maritime. The final rule is effective on June 23, 2016. Start-up dates for specific provisions are set in 29 CFR 1910.1053 for general industry. This
Silica Exposure- New OSHA Rules Read More »
I continue to be amazed at the volunteer trail efforts I have seen firsthand, or read about all across the world. This recent post (related), stumbling upon Trails Foundation, and a slew of groups in the southeast (like the many branches of SORBA), made me want to volunteer some of my time to finally write
Trail Volunteerism Read More »