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Canceled (cancelled). Of the four things planned for this week, only the first happened.
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\n On Tuesday, Jocelyn (Jos) Akins came up from Hood River and presented in the Geography slot for “A Bite of Science” — the monthly informal gathering of College of the Sciences’ folks from Biology, Chemistry, and Geography. I met Jos a couple of years ago. She is a wildlife biologist {and a good geographer} that studies and works to conserve elusive mountain carnivores in the high Cascade Mountains.
\nVia email, I introduced Jos to Megan and Jennifer, geography profs, and when it was Geography’s turn to fill the Bite of Science slot, Jen made it happen. The cover story of the Smithsonian is actually about the photos and photographer Gretchen Kay Stuart, while Jos and the Cascades Carnivore Project <\/span> are mentioned. I saw one of the small foxes in 2006 while doing trail work with Washington Trails Association — about 4 miles NW of Mt. St. Helens.
\nI was also able to transfer the Orca cooler to Jos {it fit in the back seat of her F150. I won the cooler in October of 2024.
\nThursday is the regular day for the P\u00e9tanque gathering. Cool and windy caused cancelation.
\nFriday was on the scheduled for one of the monthly Scholarship Lunches at CWU. Only three of us were available, so it was canceled.<\/p>\n

Saturday is still on the agenda, but I will have to cross the Cascades, and the weather is winter-like. The trip would be to Kathy & Fran’s 3rd annual Barn Party. Distance is about 140 miles, with Snoqualmie Pass involved. Overnight temperature is expected to be 32\u00b0F with rain and snow – accumulation not expected. Rain and snow to continue with a high of 41 on Saturday. Further, once into the Puget Lowland, Hwy #18 is involved. Traffic on 18 is usually crazy. The combination of traffic and temperature is not conducive to a visit. Besides the high at the destination is 51\u00b0 with rain. Well, the gathering is in a nice barn, but I guess I’ll go another time.
\nI keep brushing, mowing, and working on firewood. Nothing new.<\/p>\n

Keeping Track
\non the Naneum Fan
\nJohn <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Canceled (cancelled). Of the four things planned for this week, only the first happened. On Tuesday, Jocelyn (Jos) Akins came up from Hood River and presented in the Geography slot for “A Bite of Science” — the monthly informal gathering of College of the Sciences’ folks from Biology, Chemistry, and Geography. I met Jos a … Continue reading “Jos presents at Bite of Science”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-3Ej","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14031"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14036,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14031\/revisions\/14036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}