Can you still find “Wilderness” today?
How many places still exist where you can go and avoid any sign of man?
There are many green places, but are they wilderness? If you look up you can see the contrails of intercontinental jet airplanes. At sunset on some days you can see the International Space Station as a bright dot streaking across the sky in near earth orbit.
Furrows still exist where Mormon hand carts and Conestoga wagons trudged west 150 years ago. How many different courses of abandoned and now unused “Old Road” still have intact road surface and hillsides scarred for cuts and fills to level the grade. Even if an old railroad was abandoned, odds are that “Rails to Trails” has converted it into a bike path and maintains the arrow straight earthworks and bridges.
If you walk between Maine and Georgia, you will likely cross a white arrow made from the letter “A” on top of the letter “T”, as a blaze along a well packed furrow called the Appalachian Trail. Many call the area astride the trail pristine, but with a blazed and well-traveled foot path, is it wilderness?
How many places still exist where you can go and avoid any sign of man?
There are many green places, but are they wilderness? If you look up you can see the contrails of intercontinental jet airplanes. At sunset on some days you can see the International Space Station as a bright dot streaking across the sky in near earth orbit.
Furrows still exist where Mormon hand carts and Conestoga wagons trudged west 150 years ago. How many different courses of abandoned and now unused “Old Road” still have intact road surface and hillsides scarred for cuts and fills to level the grade. Even if an old railroad was abandoned, odds are that “Rails to Trails” has converted it into a bike path and maintains the arrow straight earthworks and bridges.
If you walk between Maine and Georgia, you will likely cross a white arrow made from the letter “A” on top of the letter “T”, as a blaze along a well packed furrow called the Appalachian Trail. Many call the area astride the trail pristine, but with a blazed and well-traveled foot path, is it wilderness?
Click a link below, or copy and paste to your browser, to go there!
A little bit of prose, some poetry,
and a song- all about the environment.
http://billyholcoutdoors.blogspot.com/2012/05/whose-garden-was-this.html
A frank discussion about wilderness
and nature.
http://wmgcenter.blogspot.com/2012/05/can-you-find-wilderness.html
Facebook pages about the outdoors.
Outdoor Photography
Hiking Trails, Boardwalks, and outdoor
recreation construction topics
http://willwalkforfun.blogspot.com/
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