Best campsite we ever scored, and at Stanley Lake in #Idaho, no less. We pulled in just as the current occupants were leaving. That site is now blocked and it's near impossible to reserve sites in the upgraded campground. #ThrowbackThursday
the GOES-west satellite fire temp loop shows the #HaydenFire did bed down quite quickly after sunset and showing no heat yet this morning. This is largely due to night time temperature and humidity recoveries which aren't bad right now. The weather station at Leadore creek reported overnight lows in the mid 40s and humidities in the low-mid 60s.
you can see the fire in this image active just before sunset. an hour or so after shows nothing.
There's no official fire perimeter yet (I'm assuming it'll be on tonight's mapping flight). But here's my VERY rough estimate of a fire perimeter based on satellite detections, stated size, photos, etc. #HaydenFire#Idaho
New Horizons Hazy India Pale Ale is the latest in the Project-X series from Mother Earth Brewing. Made with hops El Dorado, Idaho 7, Mosaic, and Strata; the end result is a beer with notes of tropical citrus, stone fruit, cooking herbs, orange citrus, and some pine.
More thoughts here, https://www.instagram.com/p/CuSeo0Hygjt/#Beer#Photography#Idaho#California#MotherEarthBrewing
"Duck Valley Paiute-Shoshone Council Member Addie Parker appealed to the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues today, describing the disastrous lithium mining and hydrocarbon plume her people suffer from in northern #Nevada. Parker said there has been extensive #mining here for over 150 years.
"The "new green gold rush" for lithium batteries has brought devastating lithium mining and 'green colonialism.' Currently, there are 70 lithium mining applications in Nevada alone. The so-called 'green' solution actually creates an #environmental nightmare, including the disposal of #batteries.
Parker said there must be a rights-based approach and pointed out that Nevada mining laws are archaic. Paiute Shoshone of #DuckValleyNation opposes more mining and Nevada's new law for increased revenues from mining.
"Since the signing of the Treaty of Ruby Valley in 1863, there has been no mechanism for tribes to share in the benefits of mining. The mining companies are multi-national #corporations and most are from #Canada. They are not required to compensate the people.
"'It violates our Indigenous rights,' Parker said, listing international law violations, including the fre prior, and informed consent as mandated in the UN Declaration on the Rights of #IndigenousPeoples.
President #Biden's order to consult with #tribes is also being violated.
"Describing the illegal exploration of their resources, she said Paiute-Shoshone children are suffering because of it. 'We can't even get money to build a new school,' Parker said, describing how children are forced to attend school on a #toxic site.
"More than 100 members of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Nation, on the Nevada #Idaho border, have died over the years due to #cancer. It is a large number for a tribe of about 3,00 people, reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal. There was one thing they had in common: they all attended the same school on the reservation.
"The 70-year-old Owyhee Combined School, where tribal members have been educated for generations, sits adjacent to hydrocarbon plumes that lie underneath the town, Chairman Brian Mason said. He thinks the school, where drinking water was once #contaminated by the plumes, is the root of the problem.'"
#venmo#Idaho#privacy
I'm reconciling this afternoon. That includes having to look up at what I've paid whom via Venmo by button mashing around the app.
...and accidentally found somebody - in Idaho - paying somebody and saying it's for a pregnancy test.
Please tell your friends:
Venmo publishes 100% of your transactions to everyone in the world unless you change that. It's all there for everyone to see. You, your friends, your foes, and proliferz and their friends in the police dept.
Friendly reminder that Priscilla Giddings, the #Idaho state legislator who released the contact information for 19 year old rape victim #JaneDoe and encouraged her harassment, has her own home phone number and address listed publicly on the Idaho legislature website.
It would be a shame if she experienced even a fraction of what her victim went through, so definitely don’t call her.
Utah transportation officials unveiled plans to state lawmakers Wednesday that call for evaluating the idea of a Boise-Las Vegas rail service that could stop in Salt Lake City.
I'm about to go off for a weekend running the #Lochsa in #Idaho. River is running at about 11,000 cfs, which will be some of the biggest water I've paddled. I'm ready, but I'm about sixteen degrees of nervous/excited/anxious. Here's what I'm in for:
OC A male California Quail perched at the top of a fencepost. he needs a high vantage point to keep an eye out for any ladies! Southwest Idaho, 6/18/23
OC A Greater Bee-Fly (I think) sampling some nector from a tiny flower. Southwest Idaho, 6/16/23
Train connecting Las Vegas, Boise to Salt Lake City may be studied in fall (www.sltrib.com)
Utah transportation officials unveiled plans to state lawmakers Wednesday that call for evaluating the idea of a Boise-Las Vegas rail service that could stop in Salt Lake City.
OC A flock of wild turkey in the foothills of Southwest Idaho. 2/28/23