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When Phil was Up-Looking 'Un-Restrained,' and other Tales from the Federal Reserve
The credit derivatives market is imploding. There is no overstating the issue: it's imploding as you read this.
A phenomenon that was supposed to have been contained inside the definitional boundaries of "sub-prime" mortgages is spreading across all classes of debt, now that the formerly gluttonous consumers of dubious paper have reached their limit.
Stuffed to the proverbial gills, the former buyers have pushed away the scrap-filled mortgage plate on the table before them and are refusing offers of all sorts of paper, sub-prime or not.
Thus we read about the suspension of debt offerings by not just highly leveraged buyouts such as U.S. Foodservice and Myers Industries, but also proper corporate debt-issuers, such as steel giant Mittal's newest acquisition, Arcelor.
Even companies you've never heard of are having a hard time accessing capital.
One such is Magnum Coal, a West Virginia company about which we have no facts to report owing to the fact that the company has the least informative corporate website in the industry, hands down.
What we do know is that Magnum is a large Central Appalachian coal producer, and while Central Appalachian coal is wonderfully low in sulfur and high in BTUs, it also tends to be found underground. Thus, Magnum's key asset is only recovered by union workers toiling in dangerous environments.
The company recently delayed a third-of-a-billion junk bond deal.
Another lesser-known victim of the credit seize-up is Catalyst Paper, a Canadian company whose business has been in something of a down-cycle lately—last quarter's $14 million (Canadian) EBITDA being less than the $18 million of interest expense reported on page 22 of a very lengthy press release.
Catalyst recently pulled a fifth-of-a-billion junk bond deal.
What happened in sub-prime has most indisputably not stayed in sub-prime.
Of course, nobody wants to shout 'fire' in a crowded movie theater, least of all the Federal Reserve Board, which, like Hitler in his bunker, appears to believe it is still in control of the forces unleashed by Alan Greenspan's free-money policy of some years back, which triggered the whole you-too-can-afford-this-house mortgage mess now showing up on the balance sheets of major Wall Street brokerage houses..
Nevertheless, you might expect a bit more of a reaction out of the Federal Reserve Board than merely eliminating the word "elevated" from its interest rate policy statement.
Yes, while the Chinese call on natural resources takes commodities to new highs, and Russian oligarchs and Middle East sheiks bid up all manner of assets, both hard and soft, leaving U.S. consumers fully employed but tightly squeezed, the members of the Fed are literally tinkering with adjectives.
Herewith my reconstruction of the dialogue among Fed policy bigs as they prepared their most recent missive to the outside world:
Chairman: "Last month we said 'economic growth was moderating.' We have a motion before us to replace 'moderating' with 'slowing.' The motion has been seconded. The floor is open for discussion."
1st Board Member: "Why 'slowing'? Why not 'moderating.'? I liked 'moderating.'"
2nd Board Member: "I prefer'slowing.' We haven't used it in a while."
1st Board Member: "Well I don't care for it. How about 'restrained'?"
3rd Board Member: "Why 'restrained'?"
1st Board Member: "Because we've never used 'restrained' and I've always wanted to use 'restrained.' (He lapses into a reverie, as if quoting from a book.) 'She restrained herself as his strong hands grasped her heaving shoulders—'"
Chairman, interrupting: "Er, that's fine, thank you. But I don't care for 'restrained.' The markets might worry. They might think that we think that something is restraining growth that needs to be un-restrained."
3rd Board Member: "Mr. Chairman, forgive my impertinance, but, is 'un-restrained' a proper word?"
Chairman, a bit testily: "Well I believe so. I'm almost certain... I recall we used it during the Barings crisis of '94..."
2nd Board Member: "I'll look it up."
4th Board Member, quite grumpy: "Jesus God, what are we doing here? Can't we just say 'The economy is okay and if things change we'll let you know'?"
Chairman, calmly patronizing: "Please settle down. The discussion will continue while the word 'un-restrained' is being looked up."
3rd Board Member: "Is 'being looked up' proper English?"
1st Board Member: "I think that depends on whether 'up' is being used as an adverb or preposition."
4th Board Member: "This is absurd." (He rises from the table, refills his coffee cup from a pot on the credenza, and stares out the window at the traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue.)
3rd Board Member: "Shouldn't we really say, 'being up-looked'?"
5th Board Member: "Frankly, I thought the proper usage was 'Up which it is being looked'."
4th Board Member, turning sharply away from the window: "How about 'up yours'?"
Chairman, banging his gavel: "Please! We will have none of that. Now, where were we?"
5th Board Member: "Phil was looking up 'un-restrained.'"
3rd Board Member: "I'd prefer 'Phil was up-looking 'un-restrained.'"
4th Board Member: "How about 'Phil was up-looking your big hairy nose'?"
Chairman, sharply: "Ladies and Gentlemen, I will not have this type of disrespectful behavior. The secretary will strike the previous remarks from the record."
Secretary, reading from note-pad: "Starting where? Starting with 'How about Phil was up-looking'? Or starting with 'big hairy nose'?"
Chairman, stroking his beard: "Hmmm...where to begin the striking of the records. That is a conundrum. I recall a similar situation during the Asian crisis of '98. Do I have a motion?"
3rd Board Member: "Mr. Chairman, I move that we start with 'How about Phil was up-looking.'"
Chairman: "Excellent! Is there a second?"
4th Board Member: "I move we all stick needles in our eyes, because that would be more fun than I'm having right now."
5th Board Member, looking harshly at the 4th Board Member: "I second the previous motion, that we start with 'How about Phil was up-looking.'"
Chairman: "Moved and seconded." He puts down his glasses and looks around the table. "Is there discussion?"
2nd Board Member: "Mr. Chairman, before we discuss that motion, I'd like to report that the term 'un-restrained' is not proper English."
Chairman, startled: "Is that right? Are you sure?"
2nd Board Member: "Quite sure."
4th Board Member: "Oh puh-leeze. I've had enough of this..." He is getting something out of his briefcase. It is a small, metallic object. The security guard at the door eyes him nervously.
Chairman, somewhat preoccupied: "Well then, all those in favor of starting the striking of the records at 'How about Phil was up-looking,' say 'aye.'
(A chorus of 'ayes' is heard.)
Chairman: "All opposed?"
(A gunshot rings out. The 4th Board Member slumps across the table. The security guard rushes over and checks for a pulse, then somberly shakes his head.)
3rd Board Member: "Mr. Chairman, I note the presence of a dead body on the table. Would you like a motion to remove the body?"
Chairman, somberly: "First let me express my shock and surprise—(He pauses and clears his throat, amid solemn murmurs and nods around the table)—that the term 'un-restrained' is not proper English."
Other Board Members: "Hear, hear."
Chairman, more brightly: "As for starting the striking of the records at 'How about Phil was up-looking,' the secretary will note five in favor, none opposed, and a dead guy on the table."
Jeff Matthews
I Am Not Up-Making This
© 2007 Jeff Matthews
The content contained in this blog represents the opinions of Mr. Matthews. Mr. Matthews also acts as an advisor and clients advised by Mr. Matthews may hold either long or short positions in securities of various companies discussed in the blog based upon Mr. Matthews' recommendations. This commentary in no way constitutes a solicitation of business or investment advice. It is intended solely for the entertainment of the reader, and the author.
11 comments:
- fivetonsflax said...
It's "hear, hear," not "here, here."
- buckeye1 said...
It seems to me like if the Fed is responsible, they will allow the junk bond market implode or at least become more rational. As you have commented on several times previously, the debt market is currently in a bubble that is now showing signs of deflating. In my opinion, that is a good thing, although it also could be a sign of bad things to come for asset prices. It is time for Ben to shake off the legacy of Greenspan and allow the liquidity filled euphoria to end.
- David said...
>>The derivatives market is imploding. There is no overstating the issue: it's imploding as you read this.<<
Too simplistic. I've been writing about this over at my blog, and while the subprime ABS derivatives market very well may be imploding, the derivatives market as a whole is not imploding, at least not yet.
That said, spreads in the cash and synthetic corporate and CDO markets (sorry, all debt markets) got way too tight, and eventually that mispricing of risk will get its due reward when the credit cycle turns. Aside from lower junk rated credits, most investment grade corporate balance sheets are in pretty good shape, so I'm concerned, but not deeply worried yet.
- wsf said...
That was hilarious, and reminiscent of a Churchill story. After an editor had rearranged a sentence to avoid ending it with a preposition, Churchill fired this note back at him: "This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put!"
- Johnny said...
This post neglects, well most everything. And some pretty ample cherry picking of companies. US Foodservice makes the headlines but their financing fell apart for structural reasons, not price reasons.
Magnum coal is a middle market single commodity producer. Those deals fall apart frequently. See James River Coal
And Catalyst paper is ridiculously tiny. Sub $18mm EBITDA? You can draw something about debt markets from that deal struggling?
There is something going on in the debt markets, but it's nowhere near an implosion, it's barely a correction -- slight pushback from a buyside which has been letting weaker and weaker structures shoved down their throats, like PIK toggle on the HY side or covenant lite on the bank side.
- Anonymous said...
Jeff: I'm not sure I understand how you make the causal link between what's happening with derivatives of sub-prime mortgages (i.e., CDO's) and the "push-back" by investors in corporate debt offerings.
I would think the markets for derivatives in sub-prime mortgages and corporate bond offerings are quite dis-similar in terms of risk and how that risk is priced.
The only thing I can think of is that participants in the derivatives market are finding it diffiult to value their investments in light of the ongoing "melt-down" in subprime mortgages. Since derivatives are, as a general rule, illiquid investments, when the risk with illiquid investments is "mispriced", that, I think, is leading up to the "implosion" which you mention via a sell-off of assets (hello, Bear Stearns).
As for the debt offerings like U.S. Foodservice that investors are turning away from, I think investors feel they are not being "paid" an adequate premium for the risk they bear when buying more liquid investments such as "covenant-lite" loans or PIK-toggle bonds (yuk!).
I agree with Johnny's post above that these events seem more like a pushback by investors and less like an implosion among market participants in derviatives.
I could be wrong, though.
- jmf said...
:-) from Germany
- John M said...
JMF dropped by this morning to recommend this post, and he also contributed a link to the following article that speaks to some of the same issues.
"LBO Debt Alarms Fidelity, Lehman, TIAA-CREF Managers", by Cecile Gutscher and Caroline Salas, Bloomberg, July 5, 2007.
- GuruFocus said...
I am the editor of GuruFocus.com. I am wondering whether we can republish your blogs on GuruFocus.com. They are excellent!
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- Philip said...
awesome post jeff
- Jennifer said...
@ GuruFocus:
Get in line.
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Start by soaking up the history at The House of Glunz (1206 N. Wells St. 312-642-3000), a family-owned wine shop that's been selling spirits for more than 100 years.
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Chris Dodd Says MPAA Is On The Wrong Track; We Agree
from the well,-let's-see-some-leadership deptOver at the Cannes Film Festival, MPAA boss Chris Dodd apparently told Variety that the MPAA is "on the wrong track" when it calls infringement "theft."
"We're in a transformative period with an explosion of technology that's going to need content... We're going to have to be more subtle and consumer-oriented.... We're on the wrong track if we describe this as thievery."Now, I thought that was kind of interesting, because it appears that the folks who work for Dodd haven't received the memo. The MPAA website is chock full of his minions calling it "theft" every chance they get. There's an entire page supposedly dedicated to "types of content theft." There's a page on "rogue websites," that calls them "havens for theft." There's a link in the footer to a website called FightFilmTheft.org. There's also a link in the footer to the ICE website (you know, the government agency illegally seizing and censoring websites based on no evidence) saying to click the logo "to report IP theft." Then there's the MPAA's "blog," which as of this writing has the word "theft" on the front page a mere fifteen times (and "steal" or "stealing" another three times). So, er, Dodd might want to have a chat with his staffers.
Because, according to Chris Dodd, the MPAA is on the wrong track.
And, for once, I think we actually agree with Chris Dodd. Of course, some of us have been saying this since Dodd's first speech on the job -- which (of course) focused on saying how infringement was "no different" than theft.
There's also some history here. For a while, the industry focused on the word "piracy" to describe infringement. But about three years ago, a movie studio exec made the claim that the industry had "made a mistake" using the word "piracy," because it "glamorized" the practice (of course, Hollywood helped out with the glamorization thanks to some big blockbuster movies starring Johnny Depp...). Practically overnight, the use of "piracy" changed in the industry to "content theft." So, perhaps this is the start of a new phase...
Either way, it certainly doesn't seem like Dodd has really figured out just how disastrous things are going under his "leadership." Much of the story still has him blaming tech companies for stopping SOPA and PIPA. Until he realizes that it was the public the spoke up (and actually helped drag along those tech companies), he's never going to understand what happened, and never going to be able to lead appropriately. Hell, you can even see his dangerous framing in the short statement above. Notice he said they need to be more "subtle." He hasn't realized that their entire policy focus is wrong. He just thinks they're being too brazen about it.
We've asked Dodd (repeatedly, now) to actually come out and talk to the public. I'm sure the folks at Reddit would be happy to set up an AMA. We'd be happy to have him come and chat with our community as well. Yet, he refuses to do so. Instead, he continues to only lobby behind the scenes and blame the wrong parties in public. Things are never going to improve if he keeps on that path. He doesn't need to be "more subtle." He needs to actually understand what that public tried to tell him back in January. Instead, he seems to be sticking his fingers in his ears and taking random guesses.
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In David Cronenberg's 1986 adaptation of The Fly, Jeff Goldblum's half-man, half-insect hybrid goes insane and tries to merge his body with a pregnant Geena Davis to create "the ultimate family."
A less gruesome instinct informs the work of photographer Ulric Collette, who fuses family members together, bilateral symmetry be darned. In his "Genetic Portraits" series, Collette combines parents, children, cousins, and siblings Harvey-Dent-style to highlight the subtle genetic differences between relatives. Here's a sampling of his portraiture, which you can find more of on his website.
Daughter and father: Ariane, 13 and André, 55
Son and father: Nathan, 9 and Ulric, 32
Daughter and father: Amélie, 33 and Daniel, 60
Twin brother and sister: Alex & Sandrine, 20
Father and son: Laval, 56 and Vincent, 29
And for more heartwarming snapshots in the vein of 1980s horror flicks, check out Collette's Facade series. This group of photos is currently on display in Montreal and blends individuals' faces on the same heads, resulting in portraits of Thing-like proportions. [Via MeFi]


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Smith had a career-high 22 points in Lipscomb's 79-72 loss to Mercer Thursday. He was 10-of-10 at the free throw line. It was the 5th time in the NCAA era a Bison was perfect from the line with ten or more attempts.
Saturday Smith had his first career double-double with 16 points and 12 rebounds in Lipscomb's 75-52 win against Kennesaw State.
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This Wednesday, 740 kids from Niagara and Erie counties came out to enjoy a spectacular picnic filled with food, fun, and games. The Grand Island Lions Club Special Kids Picnic, an annual event dedicated to offering safe, supervised activities to developmentally disabled and physically handicapped children, has become a Grand Island tradition.
On this special day, the Grand Island Lions Club was welcomed by the Buffalo Launch Club for the children's activities. A large number of school programs for children with developmental or physical disabilities or impairments participated in the classic picnic-style event. Annette Lobl, a Grand Island Lions Club member and the chairwoman of the Special Kids Picnic, listed all the events that occurred this year, including boat and pony rides, car rides with the Shiners, visits from the Buffalo Sabres' Sabretooth, Pringles the Clown and the Lions Club mascot, magicians, face painting, and lots of food choices, including hot dogs, hamburgers, popcorn, soda and water.
It all started at 10:30 a.m., and busloads of kids from many school districts swarmed into the Buffalo Launch Club yard prepared to enjoy the extravaganza. The districts included Erie 1 BOCES programs from Clarence Middle School, Williamsville's Casey Middle School, and West Seneca Middle School, Heritage Education Centers, People Inc., and Sweet Home schools, as well as other students arriving with families.
As soon as kids were off the bus, smiling volunteers escorted them into the club's main parking lot to enjoy rides on the Shiners carts in the parking lot, meet with members of the Grand Island Fire Co. while sitting in a real fire truck, and enjoy pony rides. Volunteers accompanied participants to the docks where kids could take a relaxing scenic ride on the Niagara River on boats captained by Buffalo Launch Club members or on board The Richard A. Smith, a wheelchair accessible boat owned by Excalibur Leisure Skills Center. Later, characters like Pringles the Crown, Sabretooth, and the Lions Club Lion met and interacted with the excited children, whose faces lit up when they saw their favorite region-based characters.
The generosity of individuals in the Niagara County, Erie County and Canadian region is infectious and has allowed the event to expand to what it is today.
"This event is huge. We have volunteers coming from all over, we even have volunteers from as far as Merritton, a club in Canada (near St. Catharines)," stated Grand Island Lion Dick Crawford enthusiastically. He continued, "I've been helping this club for 20 years, and the community involvement is outstanding. We even have Grand Island High School groups like the cheerleaders and football teams helping students onto the boats, and the Grand Island Fire Co. showing kids trucks as well."
Throughout the sunny day, many eager volunteers from far and near assisted the visitors. Jerry Dubiel, a past president of the Grand Island Lions Club, signed in numerous volunteers from Grand Island High School and local organizations - such as the Grand Island Rotary, Boy Scout Troop 104 of Kenmore, GIHS cheerleaders and football players, even Kelly's Country Store, to name a few - while raving about their commitment to the picnic. He commented that the efforts of volunteers from both the Lions Club and other local groups make the event so meaningful to its participants. "The experience has been incredible. I have come every year since I joined the Lions Club, and we and other groups put this effort forward to offer the children (activities such as) pony rides, the picnic, boat rides, and more."
Volunteers from all over express their unbridled enthusiasm for the entire event. Tom Witkowski, the current president of the Grand Island Lions Club, noted that both the kids and volunteers can enjoy multiple activities or just the picnic component. Everyone enjoys everything: "There's really no preferred event at this festival, everybody involved (both kids and volunteers) really enjoys taking part in and putting together everything."
The giving spirit of the event made for a festive, lighthearted mood throughout the day. All volunteers were willing to help throughout the festival, manning new stations and staying for the entire event. Glenn Connell from the Merritton (Ontario) Lions Club expressed the easygoing nature commonplace at the festival when describing his volunteer placement. "This year I'm the bun man at the hamburger and hot dog stand," laughs Connell, "and take pictures for the Merritton Club, but I help wherever they can use somebody." John Shaffer, the district governor of area Lions Clubs, reflected this approachable attitude. Shaffer, who was making his first visit to this field day after receiving an invitation this Sunday, was willing to help out in whatever way he could. "I have been with the Lions Club for 15 years, and am now the district governor for a one-year term, but I haven't even been to this picnic before. I didn't even know about it! But I was just invited to come down this Sunday, and I wanted to come down and help out wherever I was needed!" Shaffer helped on the dock and visited with children throughout the picnic. He called the picnic "wonderful, because there are so many volunteers, even outside of the Lions, willing to come help this important cause."
The picnic is an inspirational event that was bound to bring out the best in its participants. Many of the children at the event have never been able to take part in picnic activities because of their challenges. This picnic offers them an opportunity to have the same kinds of fun other students their own age might take for granted. Connell notes that the reason the festival is so special to the children is because it is a rare opportunity for them. "This event is the highlight of the year for many children. I find it really important to be a part of this event." He is grateful to the Grand Island Lions Club for sponsoring the event. He says, "I'd like to thank Grand Island for coming out and doing this ... . This is the only event of its nature which I know about. No one else within driving distance and in Canada does a similar event. It's unique." Shaffer similarly replies, "I'll do anything for the kids here. It's so wonderful these kids have the opportunity to do things they don't normally get to do."
The Special Kids Picnic festival is a timeless event where all are welcome. It has proven to lift the spirits of both participants and volunteers alike. Dubiel notes that the festival should occur at its usual time next year as well, on the third Wednesday of the month. Anyone who feels their child would be interested in participating in the future should contact the Lions Club, no matter whether their child attends one of the programs whose school is involved or not. "Even if your school is not one of the groups coming to the event, you can come separately. We highly encourage parents to come to the picnic with their child if they can. They can contact the Lions Club of Grand Island to arrange this." With such a welcoming invitation, next year's picnic will undoubtedly be just as memorable.


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Harney County Sheriff Dave Glerup said the winds on Steen Mountain were too strong to fly safely, and they hoped for a break in the weather that would let them fly Saturday.
Dustin Self, 19, left his family home in the Oklahoma City suburb of Piedmont "to see if he could live in the wild," and to investigate some churches that practice a South American religion that uses a hallucinogenic tea as a sacrament, his parents said. One is in Ashland, and the other in Portland.
"I'm just so worried about him," said his mother, Tammy Self.
The Harney County Sheriff's Office and others searched for him on Tuesday on the northeast side of Steens Mountain after a rancher found his pickup truck had slid off a backcountry track and gotten stuck. Searchers on ATVs saw no tracks, but checked out remote cabins and worked their way up the mountain, with no sign of him before heavy snow and high winds curtailed their efforts, said Deputy Missy Ousley.
"We did everything we could to try to talk him out of it," said his mother. "He was leaving, no matter what."
The teen was well-prepared with gear he bought just before leaving, but had little experience of life in the wild beyond family camping trips, his parents said.
"He is not a survivalist," said his father, Victor Self, a manager at a box plant in Oklahoma City. "He is a very urban child."
His parents last heard from him March 15, when he called from the parking lot of a motel in northern Nevada where he was spending the night in the cab of his pickup. The next day, Dustin called his girlfriend in Austin, Texas, to say he was lost after his GPS had sent him onto a road along the east side of Steens Mountain in the high desert of southeastern Oregon.
Ousley said a storekeeper in Fields recalled him asking for directions to Lakeview, which would have taken him a different direction than where his truck was found.
A religious young man raised in a non-denominational Protestant church, Dustin had been searching for meaning in his life, his mother said. He read books like "Human Race: Get Off Your Knees," by David Icke, a former British sports reporter whose books about what he believes is really controlling life on earth are admired by conspiracy theorists. The last movie Dustin watched was "Into The Wild," about a young man who gives up his worldly goods to live in the Alaska wilderness. A clean-cut bodybuilder in high school, he had lately grown his hair long and wore a bandanna around his head.
"I think he got a lot off the Internet," his mother said.
Tammy Self said her son is a vegetarian, with no desire to kill animals to eat.
"He thought he was going to eat berries," she said. "We tried to tell him, berries don't grow in wintertime."
His father called the Harney County Sheriff's Office on March 17, but a search along the route from Fields to Lakeview turned up nothing. He also filed a missing person report with his local police. Then on Monday, Dustin's truck was found. His backpack and camping gear were gone, but the keys, his computer, his GPS and some of his supply of protein bars and other food had been left behind.
"We're worried sick," said his father. "I just hope he's alive."
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my toast post, my grandpa was a man who did things with great care. It might seem like such an exhaustive lesson on watering the garden would be boring for a kid, but I only remember those moments with affection and love. Whenever this task fell to me, I would ride my bike to their house on my way home from school and water the garden just the way my Grandpa had shown me. It felt very special to be alone in their yard, without their company, and I felt happy to be trusted to take care of their garden.
So, what on earth did they do with all that squash? Well, they were very generous people, and they were definitely happy to share with friends and family. But, like I mentioned before, they also both really loved to eat their veggies. My grandma's favorite thing was to slice and roast the butternut squash. This simple dish is a total family classic in our family.
This recipe is very simple, and I'm sure you could do all sorts of things to make it fancy... but I can assure you that is not necessary. These slices of roasted squash are absolute perfection: full of caramelized sweetness, bursting with flavor, and melt-in-your-mouth softness. They are glorious.
Grandmommy's Roasted Butternut Squash
1 butternut squash, big or small
a little bit of oil
First, preheat the oven to 375 F. Next, peel your squash. This can be a bit annoying, but if you have a Y-shaped peeler, that really helps. Then, cut off very ends and discard them. Use a good strong knife and cut the long part of the squash into 1/2-inch to 3/4-inch thick rounds. When you get to the bulbous part, use a spoon to scoop and discard the seeds, and cut the flesh into rounds or half moons (same thickness as before).
Arrange the slices on a large cookie tray and spray or rub on a little bit of oil (you really don't need to over do it). Bake for 45 minutes-1 hour, flipping them after every 15 minutes. Be sure to check on your slices so they don't burn. I think they are probably yummy after 45 minutes, but I like to wait until there are really some golden brown caramelized/roasted bits showing up - for maximum yumminess.


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Bisset and Eubanks won the monthly award for June 1999, and each has already received a $100 U.S. savings bond, a day off with pay and a plaque. All monthly winners are eligible to receive the annual award, which comes with a $500 U.S. savings bond, two days off with pay and a plaque.
Bisset and Eubanks were honored for their work on a project called SCADA - Supervisor Control and Data Acquisition. SCADA is a computerized instrumentation and automation software system scheduled to be installed at treatment plants throughout Lincoln.
"Mark and Richard spent countless hours as part of a project team mastering over eight new software packages in order to successfully implement the SCADA project," said Mayor Wesely at the awards ceremony. "They accomplished this with mostly hard work and diligence, receiving only limited structured training, and much of the work was done outside regular work hours."
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"Due to the high cost and frequency of replacements for these parts, Kevin and Larry took it upon themselves to look at alternative options," Mayor Wesely said. "After much problem solving and research, the idea of a small diesel generator was endorsed and eventually incorporated into the budget."
Supervisors say the efforts of Schuessler and Mitera saved the city more than $162,000 over the life of the facility.
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Chris Mooney | May 21, 2012
By Chris Mooney • Monday, May 21, 2012 - 11:12
This week, as the Heartland Institute commences its annual conference, the organization is clearly back on its heels. Funders, experts, and even some staff are bailing, reports The Guardian. Apparently pushed into defensive mode by Peter Gleick and his attempt to expose its funding, the Institute struck back with its ill-advised "you guys are kinda like madmen and murderers" billboard campaign—and, as they say, the rest is history.
Or is it?
If Heartland didn't exist, wouldn't some other organization simply take its place? And won't Heartland itself weather this storm? After all, new funders, like the Heritage Foundation and the Illinois Coal Association, have sprung to the institute's defense. (Whatever else you might say about conservatives, they know how to support the team.)
I think the only conclusion that one can reach is that while Heartland might be flailing right now, climate denial itself is far, far from over.
Let's think about this in perspective, and start with the good news.
On the one hand, those of us who stand up for science on this issue can cite a stunning amount of progress over the years. Time was, after all, when U.S. fossil fuel industry majors were united in a climate "skeptic" stance, under the aegis of the anti-Kyoto Global Climate Coalition. Nowadays, in contrast, even ExxonMobil has dropped off as a chief source of support for the climate denial machine—see investigative reporter Steve Coll's great new book on this–and the extreme to which the Heartland Institute went with its billboards says a great deal about the intellectual weakness of the climate denial case today.
The denial of global warming is no longer mainstream within corporate America or the fossil fuel industry, then–and that can only be considered a major achievement.
And yet at the same time, it is stronger than ever among Tea Partiers and the Republican Party itself. And this fact–that these traditional industry allies have themselves diverged with industry on the matter–surely demonstrates that this is not really a live scientific issue any longer. It is a political issue.
Accordingly, we are far past the point that any amount of science can resolve it. Nor, for that matter, can the individual blunders of denialist think tanks, or exposes about their funding sources, do the trick.
Don't get me wrong—all of this stuff helps. All of this is necessary to the fight. It's just that in the grand scheme, it isn't the kind of thing that will make climate denial finally go away (either because the deniers finally cop to reality, or because their view becomes marginalized, and thus ceases to be taken seriously in the media and by politicians).
To understand how to ultimately defeat climate denial, you first have to understand what it is: motivated reasoning on behalf of individualist values. What this means is that libertarian types–often white and male–who have decided that the climate issue is something that environmentalists concocted to impose global socialism will come up with any reason to attack the science that their minds can create. And the human mind can create an awful lot of reasons. Especially among the intelligent.
To stop climate denial, then, one would have to cut off its raison d'etre. You have to take away the motivation behind the reasoning—the emotional impulse that drives all this–so that individualist energies (which, likely, will always be with us) can burn themselves up somewhere else.
Individualists have fought many political battles in the past—this is just one of them. There is a constant dance to determine how vigorously the government regulates industry, say, or guns—and how much it backs off. In twenty years, with the climate debate resolved politically, it's very easy to imagine the Heartland types today with a completely different policy agenda, one having nothing to do with climate change whatsoever.
What would lead to that outcome? I'm afraid it's a paradox. What seems to me the most obvious denial killer is precisely what we're fighting over in the first place–namely, a national law in the U.S. to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, either through cap and trade or a carbon tax, or some other blended type of policy. Get that in place, and let it become the new normal, and finally, I think, your deniers would largely disappear (or be relegated to the fringe).
Why? In this scenario, there would be no more political oxygen for them to breathe. The status quo would be aligned against them, rather than for them. The lack of a policy solution is what's keeping them going and keeping them relevant; legislating one would change the terms of the debate in a way that no amount of science, and no amount of blundering on the part of deniers, could do.
Don't get me wrong: I think a lot of deniers would never change their opinions. There would be people griping about such a law decades after it passed, saying it was based on phony science. But there would be a shifted status quo, and for the most part, a new generation of libertarian individualists would consume themselves elsewhere, rather than here.
The question, then, continues to be how to achieve policy action on the climate issue. And of course, given U.S. elections, the solution appears no nearer than it ever has…or does it?
We're moving into summer, and then hurricane season, in a year that set staggering heat records in March. There's no telling what the weather will be like; but weather has always been the wild card in the climate debate, and the single most powerful agenda setter. So it may be that unpredictable events make global warming a mega campaign issue down the stretch—and finally set a serious policy solution in motion.
"Will climate denial , like, ever end"?
When hell, like, freezes over.
Great analysis, Chris.
David B. Benson replied on Permalink
And possibly
later than that.
lara jorgensen replied on Permalink
Great news!!!!
Peter Gleick has been cleared! At least according to Suzanne Goldenberg of the Guardian, sort of like the Climategate scientists were "cleared" by several investigations, right?
Does this mean he didn't do anything wrong at all???
Anyhow, I'm like SO relieved!
Go Peter!
chas rasper replied on Permalink
Wasn't that the Guardian article that, like, disappeared for 24 hours and then mysteriously was re-published?
Yeah, he was "cleared" alright, lol! He won't be going to prison after all, though he may have trouble finding another job as a "scientist".
Its not April 1...
I believe this was just the Pacific Institute's internal examination. It means that they bear no involvement in this issue.
Isn't heartland trying to bring charges via the police still?
"Peter Gleick has been
"Peter Gleick has been cleared! "
That is great news Lara, glad you thought it was great also!
The Shot Heard Round the World
re: "Does this mean he didn't do anything wrong at all???"
Yea, lara, a highly-respected climate scientist putting his livelihood & reputation on the line to obtain & release the confidential Heartland documents that expose the donors & machinations of an ultra-libertarian, anti-science denier front group for the fossil-fuel industry that incessantly lies & deceives the American public about the clear & present dangers of anthropogenic climate change is so wrong.
And if the Redcoats had caught Sam Adams & John Hancock at Lexington & Concord, they'd've hung from the gallows for being so wrong.
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.
Concord Hymn, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1837
You should be so wrong. We all should be.
Don't waste your time on her.
Just look at this picture and vote…
If you read the article you
If you read the article you would see that Glieck seems to be doing alright. That said the article is fuzzy and we will have to see if they produce more information about this investigation.
The thing is that after the billboard fiasco, it's easy to believe HI would produce a rather indiscreet memo, and there seems to be no need to believe it might have been forged..
stupidicus replied on Permalink
In the not so distant future
when they have to start paying a price for it.
I agree it is a "political issue", which is why throughout your many postings on the "repub/con brain", I've argued that the proximate cause for their denial masked by willful ignorance, etc, is morality, given the inseparability of morality and politics as noted by their demi-god St. Raygun, long ago.
This is why the road to acknowledgement and acceptance for them is so long and tumultuous, as the modern day anti-Galileo/Copernicans they are.
I also agree that the intelligent can manufacture a lot of walls/rationales, which is why I found the finding that denialism on the AGW issue has a disproportionate amount of the better educated, unsurprising. It's also why I noted the political/morality connection with the "libertarian" types on the AGW denialism issue in particular, because it goes directly to and undermines what they hold most sacred and fundamantal – property rights – which of course action on AGW would seriously curtail if not end in the form they desire, given what they do with their private property will be front and center on the issue, and their "freedoms" to do with it what they will, further limited.
Of course they don't want AGW acceptance to become the new normal, and the shame of being relegated to the "fringes" is what they fear, and particularly if is is shown – as I've long argued it will be – that their greed-based denialisms and the political machinations that have accompanied them can be shown to have made the problem far worse than it otherwise would have been due to the inaction they are entirely responsible for. After all, who other than the truly and thoroughly evil, want infamy as their legacy?
As I see it and have argued it, the same morality-based dynamics seen on the AGW front can be seen across the modern con/repub world view and issues they fight for, and is nothing more than a survival mechanism that keeps them CONstantly hovering over the Sea of Shame, living in CONstant fear of something cutting the mooring lines on the tangled web they wove through the mouths of those like Karl Rove.
You really don't have to look beyond their acceptance of the viability of Mitt Romney's vision of an updated version of Bush's econ policies to see this, which has the same in a very big way, world view at its core – "taxes are theft and regulations are sins" and infringe upon their Grisly Adams/rugged individualist identity needed to justify their pursuit of a system based on one of the seven deadly sins – unfettered greed. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=grover%20norquist%20nazi&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CAsQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Feconomy%2F2012%2F05%2F21%2F487465%2Fnorquist-billionaire-taxes-nazis%2F&ei=e627T7rfFoyE2QWuyoH-Bg&usg=AFQjCNFFLC5JOIHlluYME08CuFG9Qw4YbQ
Projection and deflection, lies in fact and by omission, are necessary evils from the modern con/repubs pov, which is why as the ones claiming the moral highground, they have no internal conflicts with their use either collectively or individually, because their ends – preserving their rugged individualism that grows increasingly incompatable in and with an increasingly interconnected world AGW highlights – justifies the means by which they pursue them.
I see no point in analysing the modern rightwing brain under the AGW umbrella alone, because it is imo in the final analysis, merely one of the many issues (practically if not all issues imo) in which it manifests itself as being off the reality reservation. After all, when will they learn that the only successful trickle down scheme they've ever engaged in, is the dummification program you're seeking an explanation for? Their trickle down econ schemes have been shown as factual matters (like their AGW rebuttals) to be complete failures, yet they cling to them like the gospel/bible too.
A focus on AGW alone stands in the way of the bigger picture, and imo, marrying their denialisms across the spectrum of political/morality issues doesn't require any new discoveries like say, those required to formulate a "Theory of Everything" that the inability to join relativity and quantum mechanics poses to the scientists they pooh pooh. Their greed-based, exclusionary, otherizing, etc, morality and the political positions it generates is the link between their faith-based unreality and their denialisms.
As we know, JC hated the poor and the burdens they pose to society, and especially if they are off-white, gay, or even worse, an atheist like me. The rising seas are nothing more but the Great Flood 2.0, which their greed will leave them well prepared for….lol
Sing it with me, no, lest your wickedness be your undoing as a truth-seeker, no?
And yet at the same time, it is stronger than ever among Tea Partiers and the Republican Party itself. And this fact—that these traditional industry allies have themselves diverged with industry on the matter—surely demonstrates that this is not really a live scientific issue any longer. It is a political issue.
Source: Desmogblog (http://s.tt/1cqVW)
And yet at the same time, it is stronger than ever among Tea Partiers and the Republican Party itself. And this fact—that these traditional industry allies have themselves diverged with industry on the matter—surely demonstrates that this is not really a live scientific issue any longer. It is a political issue.
Source: Desmogblog (http://s.tt/1cqVW)
Wow, they didn't like that
Wow, they didn't like that one Stupidicus! That cut a little close to the bone it seems.
stupidicus replied on Permalink
Sometimes I wonder
how committed CM is to his ideas.
I've seen him on other lefty sites/boards respond to high praise, but nothing in the way to challenges. That of course doesn't mean he hasn't.
The sad state of denialism he's studying and seeking explanations for certainly has many and varying explanations on an individual level, but when they are all looked at collectively, I've been convinced in the last decade and more that one cause predominates.
The common element/denominator in all their history revisionisms/denialisms is their being on consistently on the wrong side of the issue.
They are greedy in many ways, like with their gluttony for punishment…lol
Based on this, it was all too easy for me to predict to the rightwingers I use to "debate" daily during the aftermath of the Iraq War, torture revelations, etc, that they'd one day be denying to their kids and grandkids that they ever wholly supported "he who can hardly be mentioned these days" as they did.
The same will one day be true of the Heartland boys and their ilk when the poop hits the proverbial fan.
As to teh speculation in the last paragraph:
Not likely Chris, i.e. no "catastrophy" in sight that would change minds collectively. From what we know about weather and climate, it is more likely that weather extremes change frequency gradually, so it sneaks up on you. Only weather nerds (and the scientists who study it) noticed the changes that are already occurring. The broader public does not. And they (i.e. standard, not scientifically trained brains) also do not understand attribution science. People understand statements such as "this was caused by …", but not "there is a 80% chance that this heat wave was made worse by global warming" yaddayaddayadda. The extremes will have to come much more frequently and have even larger impacts than last year's Texas drought to affect people's thinking. It will have to heard badly in thei pocketbooks … They have to be what the deniers call "C"AGW, and we may have to wait for that for a while. "Naturally", it it is very likely be too late then … but that is another argument …
stupidicus replied on Permalink
I disagree
people are waking up, which is why those like Heartland are getting correspondingly desperate
That's Not All...
We've just ended a La Nina and ended the low half of an 11 year cycle. Temperatures are about to take off again. Correspondingly deniers MUST shift gears… They MUST agree, but I predict they will say its not that bad. (I swear this shift occurred right at the time of the Monkton Maneuver with Potholer54.)
They have to switch gears from total denial because otherwise they will be caught out by reality.
The real question is whether the general population can be duped again by their antics.
stupidicus replied on Permalink
anyone that understands and has stayed abreast of the issue is likely frightened by now, over the temps, etc, of the last decade, the things you noted, as well as the increasingly high potential for devastating feedbacks like the methane bubbling outta the permafrost and arctic ocean http://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/nasa-discovers-brand-new-global-warming-feedback-loop.html that will make the planet hell with higher waters sooner rather than later.
I'm inclined to think given those poll numbers, that the trend towards belief and faith in the climatologists will supplant that which has been placed in the deniers in the past, and those left will be shown the fringes of society as CM suggested.
The days of "I have no scientific qualifications…" http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/05/23/488801/heartland-denial-conference-special-guest-lord-monckton-goes-birther-admits-he-has-no-scientific-qualification/?mobile=nc clowns like Monckton being influential are about over.
stupidicus replied on Permalink
we see the same dynamics here
minus the billboards declaring those criticizing them and their irresponsible and immoral behavior to be _______ (fill in the blank).
The failures and denials of them leave the immoral and shameless little choice but to lie, project, deflect, etc.
It's been the same pattern over and over again since the con of the "conservative" movement began centuries ago – claiming nobility to mask/obscure their ignobility as slaves of or servants to the monied interests, whether old money or new.
Reality always prevails, it just takes longer sometimes, depending on the issue.


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Saturday, June 7, 2008
Salman's show
He needs many things if the show has to work - and those include a stylist, script writer and a brand new idea. Salman may have the best vanity van in the business. Maybe they should shoot a very different sort of show in it??
Am off to meet an Aussie lady whose idea of fun is to trek in the Himalayas. I envy her stamina and spirit. I love the idea of trekking. If only there were modern loos en route?? Oh.... I notice the reviews for 'Sex..." are pretty mixed. Love and Labels are what women want, right? I'll let you know after the show. Have advised my husband to take a sleeping pill. He loathes chick flicks. And his idea of sexy footwear for the ladies does not include CHOOS!
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- sanjuayyar said...
Hi Shobhaa,
I do agree that the Salman Show is nowhere close to being called interesting. Vanity Vans and Velvet Jackets apart, he also looked quite disoriented throughout.
Maybe he also needs a couple of sleeping pills so that the next time around, better sense prevails.
expecting to hear more on the lanka trip from you besides the bombshells.
- June 7, 2008 at 6:28 PM
- anand said...
Yes, it was not that interesting but the timing is good considering no big criket and monsoons.
Salman lacks intelectuality and that shows more often now.
- June 9, 2008 at 4:11 PM
- sheetaldc said...
A shirtless Sallu would be a great improvement for sure! But i think the main purpose of the show is to show "bad-boy" sallu in a more humane light...and that i think they have achieved!
If i sound liek a die hard sallu fan...sue me...I am! LOL
But seriously, its the same adulation, silly questions, celeb guests et all on all quiz shows....
Mr Bachan, however staid and aloof he may have appeared, did set a hitherto unsurmountable benchmark.
SIGH...I still see 10ka dum, if only to see sallu's dewy eyes!
- June 18, 2008 at 1:57 AM
- *Aham* said...
I abstain from forming strong opinions on anybody.
but salman khan, he is a brash young ass. he rams his vehicle on people who people who are sleeping in teh road, he kills some even the more very innocent chinkara's for fun, he bangs his girlfriends door in the dead of the night... throws attitude by the dozen, so much he does, but still he is popular. Jai Ho PR ki.
no matter how much I try, i cant get to like him.
i have zilch respect for this guy. i feel he is all pretention and no empathy. and yeah, he has no substance...
even the questions in teh show are so funny...
i saw one show of his where bhajji and yuvi were there... teh question was something like "kitne pratishat mard be jhijhak sab ke saamne hawa chodthe hain" which means "what is teh percentage of men who fart without any botheration midst everybody"... ohh as the show. so is salman. silly.
- June 26, 2008 at 8:18 PM
- ritz said...
ok well here i see there are hell lot of people who are against salman and his stuffs done in past.But i would like to let you all people know, lets assume it he's bad boy in bollywood, if thats so why do there are hell lot of fans still supporting him, why are his abundant fans cry or pray to god when he had been in jail? inspite of being such bad ass as u people call him so ? why do people watch his movies ? why is he called the superstar of both classes and masses? well the answer is simple .. you like it or you dont like it but you cant go off from salman khan, unlike any other star *srk* ... there have been obligations salman doesnt know how to act and so only he aint got any awards for best actor. Well answer for that salman doesnt do films for awards he enjoys his way of acting and living so only his fans do.And people go to watch his films only to watch him , well thats the impact of this superstar in indian film industry. And about the show dus ka dum , lemme tell ya its gaining one of the highest trp shows ever in sony television's history ,and thats all because of salman's presence
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Great pictures and history. I really enjoy these little known out of the way places you find. Thanx for sharing.
Up in the hills to the east of the Ohop Valley lies the minuscule community of Ohop. It's a place miles from the nearest other residences and located in the midst of lumber land where it seems that every time a resident leaves or passes on, the house is just left to nature.
From the little information I can gather and matching a historic photograph with the landscape using Google Earth, it seems that the town was at one time a lumber camp operated by the St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company and known as Camp No. 1. The company operated from 1888 to 1947, but i am unsure of the history of this particular camp. Where the camp gained the name "Ohop" as it is now labeled on maps, I am unsure of.
Photo of Camp No. 1 taken in 1926.
A couple of abandoned homes in varying states of decay:
A home that is still occupied. I feel this may be a surviving example of one of the homes seen along the road in the foreground of the historic image:
consider this an ongoing project. I may consider venturing back some day, perhaps as a group trip. Several residents seemed to take notice as I drove through, but did not necessarily seem "hostile."
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Great pictures and history. I really enjoy these little known out of the way places you find. Thanx for sharing.
This kind of photography makes me wanna move into one of the abandoned houses LOL!!!
"Give me a fish and I'll eat today. Teach me to fish and I'll eat tomorrow." Samuel Clemmins
The larger lumber companies in the NW accomplished most of the logging by RR prior to about the end of WW II. Since the logging operations could be some distance from the mill and town, they would establish logging camps as they logged the acreage they owned. Camp 1 would usually have been the first one (duh) and so on. Normally the housing was portable and was loaded on log cars and moved to the next camp, but not always. Camp usually consisted of very basic houses, a cook shack and maybe some minor repair facilities for the engine and cars. In the old photo linked to, the white painted houses appear to be along the RR right of way, but the larger houses do not.
If you Google Camp Eighteen, you will read a bit about it. The camp never was a logging camp, but is a most facinating place to visit if you love the history of logging like I do having grown up when the NW was booming after WW II.
There are some places that were more permanent. Tennant, CA was a Long-Bell Lumber Co logging camp located some forty miles from the mill which was at Weed, CA. Tennant had permenent houses, a repair shop and a large Buda generator, because at the time I was there it had no outside power. there were about thirty to forty houses that were being refurbished as a retirement community (1960's). I looked online and it currently has a population of about 61. It is about ten miles SE of Hwy 97 before you get to Butte Valley.
Sorry for rambling on.
Dave, i have no problem with the "rambling," it's great to hear a bit of informative background. I had figured there was something along those lines going on from the collection along the rails. Many other pictures from the St. Paul and Tacoma camps in the area show similar, if not the same portable houses. However, I kind of have to wonder the reasoning behind the permant housing.
It sounds like Tennant must be pretty similar to Ryderwood in southwest Washington, where the lumber town was later turned into a retirememnt community.
I guess a good question is whether or not thee camps should be considered true ghost towns if they were never really considered to be permanent? I kind of feel they should, as even if they only existed for a few years, people still lived, and probably in some cases were born and died in these rather anonomously named locales, maiking them as much of a community as any boomtown in my opinion.
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Fairlane, you raise a good point that I had not considered when I posted. Most of the true "Logging camps" were for workers only, which at that time were men. The only woman in camp might be a cook, but often that was a man also. If you were married, the wife stayed in a town, where home was, even if "home" was a rented room. If you were single, which many were, you got your "female companionship" in town on a weekend, where booze and women were available and those establishments worked hard at separating men from their hard earned wages.
The photos we have discussed, seems to show some portable quarters and some permanent ones, which may still exist from the current photo posted. In that situation you probably had married couples living in the larger homes, or they may have been management types.
Those logging camps that were truly portable would now only be a site and hard to identify due to time and because nothing much would have been left behind. I suppose that is not much different from a small mining location that never really was much more than tents and some holes in the ground, but the holes in the ground tend to stay around longer.
More rambling.
Very nice pics and write up as usual Fairlane! Thanks for sharing.
Many places in western oregon look like this.
I often wonder too, just how to classify these places. I think "ghost town" can be used as a term to describe a community, large or small. Carthage, (Africa), I think is a ghost town. And it was a great city. Minamosa, Japan (God rest their souls) is now being spoken of as the world's newest ghost town.
Pre-town settlements, ones that really had a potential to become a permanent settlement, but didn't, I call "embryonic towns." They could have grown into something.
My qualification for that is:
-good location (ample water supply for a population, proximity to a river, coastline with port, access to major roads/rail, ability to grow food nearby)
-reason to stay long-term
-buildings were constructed of permanent materials (not a tent city, log cabins ok)
So, in my book, many of the logging camps that happened to be placed on a location which could facilitate future growth are embryonic ghost towns. Many of them near the Tillamook Burn region of NW Oregon could have grown into tourist destinations for fly-fishing, back-packing, trail-riding, RV resorts, hunting, white-water rafting etc. They could have stayed involved with the timber industry and supported local loggin operations:
The giant forest fire destroyed them, and because the land was a virtual wasteland for the next 60-odd years, the towns died a permanent death.
That's why I call them embryonic. They really were going to grow into something. Vernonia, Oregon, survived because the fire missed it because of favorable wind changes. Vernonia is a chick place to live today.
Scoefield, Cochran, Salmonberry, Enright, Ryan's Camp (aka Idiotville,) Brown's Camp, Reeher's Camp...these places literally went toast. Some of them were on a major railroad line to the coast or were on rivers, but 60+ years is a long time to wait for the forest to grow back.
Tsarevna - nice post and discussion, as logging often gives rise to a different kind of settlement, than mining, or farming. You mention lots of names of places I have heard of and never visited. You might add East and West Timber, don't know if there is anything there now or not. At one time my Maternal Grandfather had a sawmill there, but it burned one night and he could not afford to rebuild. His partner who was not married, built a new mill in Lebanon and became a millionaire. When my Grandfather died, like many immigrants, he had little, but owed no one.
I will answer questions about Camp 1 as I am able to. Besides living there I am still friends with residents both current and past.
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