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Month: April 2011

  • Natural Lands Trust Geo Search

    Natural Lands Trust, a collection of conservation areas in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, hired me to customize their Geo Mashup implementation with a Google-like lettered marker display of geo search results, and some improved handling of the KML-based boundary maps for individual preserves like the Glades Wildlife Refuge. I think it really brings the reality…

  • Lake Lowell Bike Loop

    Those who love to see a smug recumbent rider suffer will enjoy this. I set out to do some errands on my swish recumbent bike, get haughty and decide to ride the 30-mile loop around Lake Lowell first, and can barely stand when I reach the store. Something about the shape of the seat on…

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  • Celebration Park to Swan Falls

    Ann did this hike solo and recommends it, so I give it a try on my own today in cool temperatures and blue skies. High water is still the topic on my mind when I look at the river. Last week I noted that the Boise river was full to the brim, and on Thursday…

  • Reynolds Creek Hike

    It’s spring in the open prairie, and the bird songs can get bewildering. Instead of letting my mind push the confusing sounds away into the background, I’m determined to identify at least one. I pick one I’ve been hearing all my life: The Western Meadowlark. They perch on high rocks and sage bushes to sing,…

  • High Water at Black Cliffs

    We break out a new rope and enjoy it on a few easy climbs at the Black Cliffs outside Boise. The weather is about perfect, but the interesting thing in the canyon today is the state of the river. We climb just above a diversion dam that marks the beginning of the big New York…

  • Calling Vultures at Jump Creek

    One of the things we learned at the birds of prey center yesterday is that turkey vultures are one of the only raptors to make significant use of their sense of smell to find food, which would be dead and rotting carrion in their case. Today while enjoying some sunny weather in the volcanic Jump…

  • World Center for Birds of Prey

    This facility is the world headquarters for the peregrine fund in Boise, Idaho. Their primary mission is to preserve endangered raptor species through captive breeding, but they have impressive education programs that make it an amazing place to visit. If you’re like we were and aren’t entirely clear about what a raptor is and what…