Ballarat, California is a town on the edge of nowhere, a collection of mud huts and tin shanties in one of the most hostile deserts in the world. The town was born to serve those fortune hunters known as the Rainbow Chasers. The Rainbow Chasers hunted minerals all around the Mojave Desert. One of the …
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Make the Border Wall an Asset, Not a Liability
Back when I was growing up in a small town on the Rio Grande, the border with Mexico was just a line in the sand - sometimes a barb wire fence, sometimes a totally imaginary line stretching across those hundreds of miles of desert. We’d go out in that desert to explore old lava …
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Can’t Farm Enough? Here’s your App
If you don’t get enough farming from your day job, you can farm on your phone now, with farming games that have become amazingly popular. You could even make some decent wages with that game, if you’re good at it. I’m not talking about the Facebook game FarmVille = we’re way beyond that now. …
Did You Celebrate New Year’s The “Right” Way?
People around the world ring in the new year with their own traditions. Here in the US, many of us sit around the television and watch a silver ball drop in New York and fireworks flying over the Las Vegas strip. Others have specific actions they must do to insure a good new year. …
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Manage the Forest to Control Wildfires
Throughout the west, and especially in California, wildfires have become a devastating problem. With the terrible loss of life and property, it is obvious we have to do better at identifying why these fires are so destructive. We have to identify the problem and get it under control. Wildland fire is the main topic …
