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| Up in the foothills |
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| Descending into the lower desert |
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| This butterfly was flopping around on the trail |
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| Into the verdant desert |
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| West of the tortoise |
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| We were at least four times further away from Centennial than this |
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| More bad news for the mountain? |
Saturday, September 28, 2013
A Good Hike Totally Spoiled
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Forest Hike, Cloudcroft Visit
Cottonwoods alongside Highway 82 We did the same forest hike behind the cabin that we've done the past three days, and the same one we&#...
4 comments:
Beautiful butterfly photo. Let's hope we can keep development off of the mountain.
I agree, Dr. K: the butterfly image was just fine. I fear that this encroachment on the mountain is going to be a constant, Packrat. What a terrible shame. It brings to mind a phrase coined by famous ecologist Daniel Janzen when he was talking about assaults (like invasive plants) pressing-in on all sides in protected natural areas: "the eternal external threat". Even the audio pollution was an external threat this morning. Will you be attending the meeting? Keep us posted.
Scott:
We knew when they decided to build that high school near the mountain that the consequences could be dire. I haven't decided yet whether to attend the meeting about development; it'll be one more thing, I'm sure, to aggravate me about the lack of critical planning skills. Not only that, our "good" county commissioner, Karen Perez, resigned her position months ago and Governor Martinez appointed a young Republican to the position (the first time a Republican has held the post in decades), and he is decidedly pro-business. I'm not sure how much I can stand to be irritated about this mess.
I hear you, Packrat. I'll bet you're in the unincorporated portion of Dona Ana County, but poor planning could happen just as easily inside the city limits, too, I'd wager. Absolutely astonishingly, our county, a bastion of Republicanism for the last century, now has a Democratic majority in terms of voter registration and we have two Democratic commissioners and one minority (i.e., Republican) commissioner. However, the previous Republican administration was dysfunctional (the newspapers, deservedly, had a field day with those clowns) and really ran the county into the ground financially, so the Democrats are trying to claw their way out of the fiscal hole and (as a result) are acting more fiscally-conservative Republican than might have been anticipated. And, I live in one of the three wealthiest counties in Pennsylvania; we shouldn't be in this mess.
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