Tis nearly the season of Thanksgiving. I'm excited because mum and Becky are going to be here tomorrow. They're staying in the guest bedroom and we're going to go get warm beverages at Interzone and hang out and have a grand time. Then on wednesday after my natural resources test we'll head home for the holiday. Mum was persuaded to purchase an organic, free-range turkay for Becky and I. Yes, we're both breaking our quasi/moral-objective vegetarianism for Thanksgiving. It'll be kind of weird! I hope my stomachly processes can adapt to incorporate poultry flesh.
Last Saturday was the FW Club trip that I organized. Six of us traveled via large van to various sites near Corvallis, following a long-time trapper. He mainly does work on forest land to alleviate bear and mountain beaver damage, but also does some trapping for small businesses and private landowners. Our first stop was at a beaver pond on some property owned by a woman who is a third generation forest land owner. Basically the beavers have done really well there and wiped out their preferred food supply so have taken to eating the outer bark of the fir trees. That translates into dead unusable trees. He checked some underwater conibear traps and caught a small beaver and nutria. The landowner had an adorable dog that looked like a white shepherd/lab with floppy ears.
We also visited a pond where he had trapped otter the previous year and part of the Starker forest where we saw lots o' bear damage. They peel the bark off the trees to get at the sugary inner layer which kills the trees. Turns out ODFW does coast-wide fly-over surveys to plot the locations of dead trees, visible by their red needles. Many of these trees are bear-killed. He demonstrated how to snare a bear by the foot and told us tales of having to wrassle cougars he'd accidentally caught. He also caught an elk once, and a guide from Montana that was working for him at the time had to lasso it and bring it down to the ground in order to release it. Yeah, that's a pretty sweet job. We saw a tree where he'd anchored a snare to that had caught a bear last year - there were super deep claw marks in the bark. It was pretty nifty.
So yeah, we only have one FW Club meeting left, and it's bowling and pizza in the MU :) It's been a fairly successful term I do believe.
Today Joy and I finished up our video project. I put the first bit of "Those to Come" by The Shins at the beginning title screen and the the 10 to 30 first seconds of "Jezebel" by Iron and Wine at the end credits. We thought we would have to re-do our audio for a while as the speaker was giving us a lot of feedback, but it turns out it's just the computer system's problem. Thank goodness, cause the edit bays are pretty much booked. I'm so glad to have the lectures for that class over. Super freaking boring class. But a legit. assignment and good way to become familiar with video editing.
Matt wants to be mentioned. Consider yourself mentioned! :) Heart. Exclamation mark. Star. X0.
Last Saturday was the FW Club trip that I organized. Six of us traveled via large van to various sites near Corvallis, following a long-time trapper. He mainly does work on forest land to alleviate bear and mountain beaver damage, but also does some trapping for small businesses and private landowners. Our first stop was at a beaver pond on some property owned by a woman who is a third generation forest land owner. Basically the beavers have done really well there and wiped out their preferred food supply so have taken to eating the outer bark of the fir trees. That translates into dead unusable trees. He checked some underwater conibear traps and caught a small beaver and nutria. The landowner had an adorable dog that looked like a white shepherd/lab with floppy ears.
We also visited a pond where he had trapped otter the previous year and part of the Starker forest where we saw lots o' bear damage. They peel the bark off the trees to get at the sugary inner layer which kills the trees. Turns out ODFW does coast-wide fly-over surveys to plot the locations of dead trees, visible by their red needles. Many of these trees are bear-killed. He demonstrated how to snare a bear by the foot and told us tales of having to wrassle cougars he'd accidentally caught. He also caught an elk once, and a guide from Montana that was working for him at the time had to lasso it and bring it down to the ground in order to release it. Yeah, that's a pretty sweet job. We saw a tree where he'd anchored a snare to that had caught a bear last year - there were super deep claw marks in the bark. It was pretty nifty.
So yeah, we only have one FW Club meeting left, and it's bowling and pizza in the MU :) It's been a fairly successful term I do believe.
Today Joy and I finished up our video project. I put the first bit of "Those to Come" by The Shins at the beginning title screen and the the 10 to 30 first seconds of "Jezebel" by Iron and Wine at the end credits. We thought we would have to re-do our audio for a while as the speaker was giving us a lot of feedback, but it turns out it's just the computer system's problem. Thank goodness, cause the edit bays are pretty much booked. I'm so glad to have the lectures for that class over. Super freaking boring class. But a legit. assignment and good way to become familiar with video editing.
Matt wants to be mentioned. Consider yourself mentioned! :) Heart. Exclamation mark. Star. X0.
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