This was a nice adventure near the Arkansas/Missouri border. I'd love to go back in the autumn with cooler weather
The article is a bit long to post here, so here's the link: https://newenglandbushcraft.wordpres...sh-wilderness/
This was a nice adventure near the Arkansas/Missouri border. I'd love to go back in the autumn with cooler weather
The article is a bit long to post here, so here's the link: https://newenglandbushcraft.wordpres...sh-wilderness/
My blog, New England Bushcraft
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
~ Abraham Lincoln
"Be prepared, not scared."
~ Cody Lundin
Excellent post - thanks for sharing
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
Robert Anton Wilson
Thanks .
And here's an add-on; I found it yesterday at the ranger station, a letter from Aldo Leopold to Bob Marshall:
It's a little hard to read due to the typewritten words, so here's the text -
'Dear Bob:
When I visited the "Irish Wilderness" of Missouri in 1929 there was nearly a county of woods substantially roadless. I have recently seen a map of recently constructed and projected state and federal highways in this area. The largest remaining fragment is 14,000 acres. This is officially labelled as a wilderness area and turkey refuge. I hear it is being fenced. I need hardly point out to you that aside from the Superior and the Porcupine - whose history I need not recount - this was the only large wild spot in the Upper Mississippi Basin. There must, of course, be pros and cons in this question which I am unfamiliar with, and cannot easily find out about. Except as a private citizen, it is also none of my business. On the surface, though, it looks like another case of chopping up a wild area and then labelling one of the chips as wilderness. I don't want to burden you, or Lyle Watts, with a report on the question I have raised. I don't even expect a letter. I would, however, like to make sure that somebody with a sympathetic view of all the conflicting interests has has given these plans a "once-over" to make sure that the road engineers have not been running wild. I have a special affection for this area, and to an old Service man it is disquieting to feel that conversation into a National Forest or Park always means the esthetic death of a piece of wild country.
Yours sincerely, Aldo Leopold'
My blog, New England Bushcraft
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
~ Abraham Lincoln
"Be prepared, not scared."
~ Cody Lundin
"Chopping up a wild area then labelling one of the chips as wilderness". Brilliant.