While browsing a post in a Backpacking forum, I can across a concept that hopefully we all practice, but now has a buzz-word. “Negative Trace”- the process of leaving our wilderness areas beteer and more natural than when we arrived. See it here

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Uncooped,  a great blog focusing in on the environment has a short article,  and a link to patterns to make you own reusable plastic bags.   What is great about these is they are made of recycled materials themselves.   If we all make a commitment to stop using disposable plastic bags,  we will make this world [...]

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I was perusing a kayak site I discovered today, and I found one of the most curious things I have seen in a while.
Go to the news site of the Roll or Drown website: click here
Scroll down to the July 3, 2007 entry to see a picture of Blue Whale Poop.
Who ever [...]

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I received my copy of Canoe & Kayak magazine on Friday, and was browsing through it, and came across a short article about an Oil spill in San Francisco Bay, and the frustration of the civic minded volunteers wanting to help manage this disaster, and being turned away at best, [...]

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for those of you that subscribe to Western Outdoor News,   there is good article by Pat McDonald on the timetables of the possible Closures of Southern California fishing grounds.  Finally I am seeing voices of reason come through on this process from the anglers perspective.  Mr. McDonald writes about an interview he had with Tom [...]

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Here are a few of my favorite outdoor books that I have read in the last year. I will post more as I think of them.
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The family headed out to Blair Valley in the Anza-Borrego Desert today to do a couple of hikes to Yaquitepec and the Pictograph trail. The drive through Julian was very cold and very rainy. The rain let up as we descended the Banner grade into the desert, but it never was warmer than [...]

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To those of you in San Diego looking for something good to do with your winter,   Wilderness Basics starts on Tuesday at the Scottish Rite Center in Mission Valley.   Class Starts at 7:00.   See you there.
Wilderness Basics

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I decided that I would take a quick paddle around Mission Bay this morning before the Charger Playoff game started. My plan was to circle the bay, and take a little break admiring the penguins that Sea Word has living on the rocks across from Fiesta Island. Unfortunately I found [...]

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Now for a little good news to go along with my rant of last night.
It was reported in the San Diego Union that the Nature Conservancy has purchased 1,000 acres of land at a price of $2.3 Million with plans to preserve it in its natural state,  and add it to the Anza-Borrego State Park. [...]

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