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I'm a professed 'social media' skeptic. I believe that much of the hype around social media is unjustified.
I believe anyone arguing that every corporation should be seeking out 'conversations' and becoming 'friends' with customers on social networks largely reflects a misguided and naive marketing philosophy.
That said, I don't doubt the power of 'connection' and 'community.'
Before the phrases 'Web 2.0' and 'social media' had even been coined, I had been intimately involved in the creation and development of websites with strong community components. All told, these websites had generated hundreds of thousands of thousands of registered users and millions upon millions of interactions in the form of message board posts, content uploads and user-to-user communications before Friendster had even launched.
I still employ 'connection' and 'community' to this day in several of my online ventures, although I would argue that artificial attempts at getting consumers to develop relationships around toothpaste and laundry detergent are not the best uses of these concepts.
If one considers that 'connection' and 'community' are the key components of 'social media,' there is perhaps no better recent case study highlighting how social media can be applied in a truly effective manner than the Twilight series of vampire-romance novels that teenagers have really bitten into.
If Twilight sounds familiar to you, it may be because the movie adaptation of the first Twilight novel (also called Twilight) was recently released and in less than 10 days grossed nearly $100mn. Blockbuster status, to be sure.
How did a then 32 year-old stay-at-home-mother named Stephanie Meyer, with no prior novels published, take a dream she had about a romance between a vampire and a teenage girl and turn it into every author's dream - more than 25 million books sold and a knockout Hollywood adaptation?
The Internet had a lot to do with it.
As the Los Angeles Times details, despite the fact that publisher Little, Brown paid $750,000 to win a bidding war for the Twilight manuscript, the book house initially only published 75,000 copies and created a less-than-inspired website to promote the new book.
That wasn't good enough for Meyer. So she created a personal website, StephenieMeyer.com, that was far more personal and intimate than the website Little, Brown developed. She posted blogs and was eager to engage personally with those who would comment. Not content to relegate the 'conversation' to StephenieMeyer.com, she went to other websites and interacted with individuals on their online turf.
In the process, Meyer built up a small but passionate fan base. She encouraged her fans and supported their efforts to build and contribute to the "community" that was growing around Twilight.
To be sure, it wasn't easy and success didn't come overnight. The Los Angeles Times notes that Twilight didn't 'go mainstream' until the third novel in the series was released in 2007. The rest is, as they say, history.
Before we praise Meyer's savvy use of the internet, however, we need to praise the quality of her product. Twilight's success is obviously not only the result of her promotional prowess but the result of the creation of a 'product' that appeals to its target audience.
If Twilight didn't have enough substance to spark readers' imaginations and to keep them turning the pages, no amount of strategic marketing would have taken the series as far as it has come.
In short, Meyer had a viable product and using many social media components, was able to help it get the exposure it needed to thrive in the marketplace.
Today's breed of social media proponents, of course, will extoll the virtues of Meyer's use of social media and they'll eagerly highlight how the same principals that provided promotional umph for Twilight can be applied by corporations.
Unfortunately, it's not that simple.
Twilight is a story, an idea, fantasy, entertainment. It is not toothpaste. It is not a commoditized consumer electronics product. It is not a soft drink.
People interact, engage and build communities around passions, causes, ideas, fantasies - not everyday products.
The same principles that Meyer employed to help gain exposure and build loyalty amongst readers can be applied by corporations but they're not likely to produce a similar result.
Of course, this isn't all that surprising.
One need only look at the popularity of virtual worlds like World of Warcraft and video games like the Legend of Zelda and the relative lack of popularity of most of the virtual world initiatives created by corporations to see that what people want to interact around is based on a lot more than the mere availability of something to interact around.
Twilight is a fantasy world in novel form and Meyer, through her personal interaction with readers and support of the formation of community around the fantasy world that original appeared in her dream, was able to inspire others to make the Twilight fantasy their own.
Fans were interacting with Meyer - the author of a book they liked - not a 'Community Manager' at a multi-billion dollar corporation that makes pet food.
Creating similar types of interaction around products like pet food and toothpaste isn't likely and trying to do so probably isn't a worthwhile investment for a consumer goods brand, which has a different set of marketing goals, different resources and more formal ROI criteria than Meyer did when she went online to engage in her own life's passion - the books she wrote.
In my opinion, the success of Twilight demonstrates perfectly the value inherent in taking a holistic approach to marketing. When evaluating which parts of the media mix are ideally-suited to achieving the desired outcome, one needs to understand his or her product and its place in the world.
Had Stephanie Meyer promoted Twilight in the same fashion that Gillette promotes shaving products, for instance, I probably wouldn't be writing about Twilight. Conversely, it's no surprise that as companies try to foster 'community', 'engagement', and 'relationships' around everyday products, I am not writing about their successes.
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This is well observed and is an excellent example of why businesses must take time to understand why people will interact. The need to be 'a part' of something drives all social interaction, mutual interest is key to this. Therefore it could be relevant for a 'toothpaste' brand to creat a social networking site if that brand was a sponsor for an important sporting or charity event wqhch was of interest to peole. This helps the 'social activity' and people have been empowered at no cost using a vehicle supplied freely. The knock on effect that the company promotes and sells more toothpaste creates a postive loop. (If the toothpaste turned out to rot your teeth then the realtionship would be flawed and so would the network).
So the answer is that social networking is not a science and it is not black and white in approach. Yes there is a lot of 'naive marketing philosophy' out there. But this is due to understanding and people taking a few risks and testing things which is good esepcially if done by bigger organisations who are able to use the learning and move on to better things.
What it all comes down to is, as ever, the quality of the idea. My daughter loves Twilight and was introduced as school and via facebook (I think!). But social networking is here to stay and will grow. They way it is used will change and we will learn from our mistakes.
Hasn't marketing become so much more fun!
I too am sceptical of this whole 'social media' malarkey [is it an age thing?].
As you allude to in your piece, however, it has its place.
The marketing mix may be considered old fashioned by the new wave of e-marketers, but the model has substance. I teach [and was taught] that marketing is like a recipe - and you pick out the ingredients that are appropriate to the brand/product/organization/etc that you are marketing.
Sometimes social media might be in that mix - it may even be the main ingredient - but for most marketing starategies it should just be left on the shelf.
I too am sceptical of this whole 'social media' malarkey [is it an age thing?].
As you allude to in your piece, however, it has its place.
The marketing mix may be considered old fashioned by the new wave of e-marketers, but the model has substance. I teach [and was taught] that marketing is like a recipe - and you pick out the ingredients that are appropriate to the brand/product/organization/etc that you are marketing.
Sometimes social media might be in that mix - it may even be the main ingredient - but for most marketing strategies it should just be left on the shelf.
Stuart: while I agree that that experimentation and risk are good things when done appropriately, I would argue that in the case of "social media," we shouldn't confuse experimentation and risk-taking with lack of knowledge and experience.
There are certainly people within the field of "social media" who have legitimate marketing backgrounds. But there are also a lot of snake oil salesmen and newcomers who are spewing nonsense and trying to take advantage of the hype to make money, usually from naive smaller businesses.
Want to boost sales 50%? You need to blog! I can set one up for only $5,000. Are you on Facebook and MySpace where all the consumers are? For only $10,000, I'll get you a page on both.
It's silly and it's less-than-honest in many cases. Social media isn't the panacea that many sell it as and there are plenty of costs that are usually hidden (setting up and managing "campaigns" is time consuming and there really isn't an effective cookie-cutter approach, etc.).
I would take a lot of the social media stuff more seriously if claims had been realistic and if there were more practitioners who had actually dealt with media buyers, understood basic marketing concepts, etc.
If the field of social media marketing is to advance as a serious long-term niche in the marketing world and not an interesting but passing fad, it needs to find fewer people who think that they're "marketers" because they know how to set up a blog or create a Facebook account.
This doesn't mean that everyone has to hail from Madison Avenue. I'd venture a guess that most of the top SEO firms in business today weren't started by Madison Avenue types. But they were probably started and run by people who knew what they were doing, built up some demonstrable experience and were careful not to promise more than they could deliver.
Alan: the irony is that the marketing mix has never been more important in my opinion. With so many options to choose from, marketers need more than ever to understand who they are, what their roles in the market and consumers' lives are and what type of marketing platforms fit in with their roles.
There's a place for social media but I think it will be quite limited for *most* brands. At first, social media was often pitched as a sort of social direct sales mechanism (i.e. Facebook Beacon). But lacking ROI, we've gone back to social media as "branding."
Some cite television as proof of the value of "branding." They essentially say: "Marketers waste tons of money on television commercials and those aren't really measurable so why not spend on social media?"
There's a problem with the argument though: over time, television has *proven* to be highly-effective at not only boosting brand awareness but sales. Advertisers aren't just buying spots on TV and forgetting about ROI because it's "branding" - they're buying TV spots because they have established that there is a measurable correlation between TV ads and sales.
Of course, for individuals whose only real credentials are "Knows how to set up a MySpace profile" or "Worked at a Silicon Valley PR firm," this is probably news.
Drama 2 : Seems we are singing from the same hymn sheet.
However, just to prove I am open to social media when used in the right context, take a look at the excellent marketingsherpa article called 'Generate Leads with Social Media Strategy: 6 Steps to Fill Up Sales Funnel' on http://www.marketingsherpa.com/article.php?ident=30946&pop=no
Note that I have no affiliation with marketingsherpa - but their newsletters have some really good case studies [you might need to register, but it is worth while]
Alan: interesting case study. I would observe the following:
1. BreakingPoint's strategy makes sense when you consider what they offer: technology solutions. The company's target audience is logically "online" and reading blogs, etc. If it's distributing through social media valuable information that appeals to people who work in technology (as the case study seems to be indicating), the content is just as important as the means of distribution.
2. We're told that 55% of leads came from the web. Knowing how many leads there were, how many turned into sales and how detailed the analysis showing a correlation between "social media" and leads was would be useful.
3. There's no ROI analysis. Authoring a blog, staying active on Twitter and distributing weekly press releases all have costs. One of the biggest problems reported with social media is the time cost. At some point, an ROI analysis has to be done - even if you've boosted your traffic by 155%, what was the real cost of that? How does it compare to other methods that have been used or could have been used (i.e. paid search, etc.)?
4. There's still the issue of scale. 10,230 unique blog page views in Q3, 280 Twitter followers and 141 LinkedIn Group members may be great numbers for a company like BreakingPoint but what works for BreakingPoint isn't going to work for a multi-billion dollar consumer goods brand. Gaining real interest in your social media efforts is difficult when you sell toothpaste. Additionally, it's hard to scale to the level required by those types of brands. I don't think many people appreciate how much it takes to "move the needle" at a company like Coca-Cola or P&G.
I'll be subscribing to MarketingSherpa and look forward to reading more. Thanks for the tip!
Drama 2.0 : ROI on social media is a massive issue - and easily forgotten because the cost is in time not cash [as with advertising].
Take our 'conversation' on this article alone : I have spent around an hour reading/thinking/typing. No problem for me, I am an academic/writer, this is part of my research into my subject - but how many 'workers' can do the same?
Breakpoint mention staff involvement - but how many person-hours? And those people must know what they are doing, the whole thing goes down the pan if you allocate the job to an inexperienced intern or office junior.
I have put many businesses off the idea of running a commercial blog simply because they thought it would take around an hour a week to maintain.
This is a very interesting article about marketing strategy, even used "Twilight" to explain important things about marketing.


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Margaritifera auricularia
|Scope: Global, Europe & Mediterranean
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Margaritifera auricularia Spengler, 1793
Common Name(s):
Pseudunio auricularius (Spengler, 1913)
Unio crassissimus (Ferrussac, 1844)
Unio margaritanopsis Locard, 1889
Unio margaritifera (Draparnaud, 1801)
Unio sinuata Lamarck, 1819
Unio sinuatus (Rossmassler, 1844)
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Haas (1910) has proposed the genus Pseudunio for this species, in order to distinct it from M. margaritifera. Pseudunio was then synonymised by Ortmann (1911). Pseudunio was used again by Haase (1969) to distinguish M. auricularia and M. auricularia marocana (Pallaray 1918) from the other species of the genus Margaritifera. More recently, the genus Pseudunio was used again by Smith (2001), Falkner et al. (2002) and Nienhuis (2003). We now know (Araujo et al. 2009) that M. margaritifera and M. marocana are different species belonging to a same clade (thus monophyletic), but it is still not clear if we should consider different sub-genus within Margaritifera (Huff et al. 2004).
To conclude, we propose not to use the Pseudunio any more, either as a genus or as a sub-genus, as long as no definitive phylogeny recommend it.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Critically Endangered A2ac ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Prie, V.
|Seddon, M., Gargominy, O. & Cuttelod, A.
|Araujo, R. & Cochet, G.
Over the last three generations (using a 30-year generation estimate), the population size of M. auricularia has decreased by more than 90%, as shown by direct observation and by the drastic reduction in its extent of occurrence. Furthermore, most of the subpopulations are not recruiting any more. It is therefore considered as Critically Endangered A2ac.
This mirrors previous assessment of Critically Endangered, under version 2.3, and whilst there has been progress in finding new populations and managing the habitats for previously known populations, the long generation time of this species means that more time is required to confirm any recovery.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This species was originally known to be widespread in Europe extending in the north to Denmark, east to Italy and to Portugal in the West. Nowadays, it only occurs in France and Spain and is extinct in the rest of Europe (Araujo and Ramos 2001). The current range of this species is recorded from part of the rivers Charente, Vienne and Creuse in France and part of the Ebro river in Spain. Therefore, the species is known from four locations, namely the Charente, Vienne, Creuze and Ebro rivers, with a possible fifth one which has to be confirmed (Dronne river in France). In parts of the range the species has been extinct for hundreds of years (UK), whereas in other regions the decline and disappearance happened in the last century.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:France (France (mainland)); Spain (Spain (mainland))
Regionally extinct:Belgium; Czech Republic; Denmark; Germany; Italy (Italy (mainland)); Luxembourg; Netherlands; Portugal (Portugal (mainland)); United Kingdom (Great Britain - Native)
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|Currently in France, reproduction is very scarce in the Ebro and Vienne rivers and therefore these subpopulations are decreasing. In the other rivers, no recruitment is observed at all and most of the subpopulations will have disappeared in the next 20-50 years. The subpopulation from the Oise river (France) was probably extirpated in the last few years.
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|Habitat and Ecology:
|This species occurs in slow-flowing large rivers. It is dependent on well-oxygenated gravel substrate for juvenile development. It relies on the presence of its fish host (which is believed to be the Common sturgeon Acipenser sturio, nearly extirpated in most western European rivers). Nevertheless, the Mediterranean populations (Ebro river) may reproduce thanks to an other fish host (River Blenny Salaria fluviatillis).
|Continuing decline in area, extent and/or quality of habitat:
|Generation Length (years):
|Use and Trade:
The species' shell has nacre which was used to manufacture knife hilts, especially in the riverside village of Sástago near the Ebro river, where there were abundant M. auricularia populations. Traces exist indicating that this activity probably began two centuries ago. Álvarez (1998a, b) summarized all the available data on this activity. In the Charente River, M. auricularia's nacre was used to make clothes buttons. With regard to freshwater pearl production, it seems that M. auricularia is not a real pearl mussel, as no reference to pearls is available, at least, none comparable with the pearl production reported in M. margaritifera (Hessling, 1859).
Another threat arising directly from people is the possible capture of specimens by poachers, once the risk to the species is known. Collectors may be interested in having specimens of M. auricularia for their value as pretty objects (nacre) and because it is a rare species.
|Major Threat(s):
|Main threats are/were due to human activities, either by direct killing of individuals or by habitat modification. In particular, dams seriously threat this species, both through habitat modification (siltation) and impeding the migration of the host fish. River regulation, dredging, water pollution and pesticides (there are very large irrigated fields along the banks of the Ebro) and water availability are among the most important reasons for M. auricularia's decline. Irrational water use in the area is behind all these problems and represents the main threat to the species (Araujo and Ramos 1989).
|Conservation Actions:
This species is protected in France and in Spain. It is listed in the Annex 4 of the Habitat Directive and the Annex II of the Bern Convention. Species Action Plans have been elaborated in France (2009) and Spain (2005).
It is necessary to take major actions if we want to ensure the survival of this species: surveys in southwest France will allow to discover remaining populations, research on the ecology (water quality requirement, host fish, population genetics), management of the habitat, in particular of the dams and water quality, the restoration of host fish populations, designation of special protected areas and captive breeding programmes.
|Prie, V. 2010. Margaritifera auricularia. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T12798A3381899. . Downloaded on 19 August 2018.
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Costume Delays on the Western Line
Just a quick note to say: I haven't forgotten the blog. I've just been off on a costume binge.
Years ago, when I was sixteen or seventeen and just beginning college, my desire in life was to be a costume designer. I loved costume, and still do. However, when I took classes in the subject there were two things that deterred me:
1. The emphasis seemed to be on sewing, to the detriment of anything else (mask-making, fabric painting, etc.). The people in costume seemed to be people obsessed with extremely perfect and detailed reproductions of ancient seam techniques. I'm much more of a make-something-that-looks-good type, using whatever materials come to hand.
2. In order to do costume design as a college course of study, you had to major in theater. This meant acting. If there is anything I hate more than performing in front of people, I can't imagine what it could be, so I dropped the idea. Later, I went on to design school and learned clothes patternmaking and design (thus my sojourn in the garment industry... and I wanted to get away from sewing??).
Now, of course, with the advent of people like Julie Taymor (director and costume designer of the Broadway production of The Lion King), this has all changed. Ms. Taymor has a background in mask and puppet design and studied in Japan, where puppetry and the use of masks are an integral part of traditional theater. So costume isn't just sewing anymore, and I look back on my easily-intimidated younger self and wish I had pushed a little harder for my own vision. Perhaps the acting part could have been easier; perhaps I could have got by with working backstage most of the time.
To be honest, I was too easily swayed by the kind of people I found in the different groups working in the theater department. I liked the work the stage techs did: hands-on building, painting, and hanging things. I didn't particularly like the girly-ness of the costume people, either the older, harder ones or the younger, more obsessive ones; and I was too inexperienced and shy to know that this was only a sampling of people, that this might be the product of a small town's college theater department. Lacking in social skills, I didn't know how to make myself liked by the tough stage hands or the hardened costume designers. I think I probably came across as too quiet, too young and blonde, and possibly helpless in my naivete. In any case, I gave up and went into a slightly less flamboyant career - the garment industry, which was dull and repetitive and very hard to get a leg up in. Which only proves that the choices we make out of anxiety aren't always the best ones: I have regretted the loss of the costume design, but never regretted leaving the garment industry.
In any case, to bring a long-winded and roundabout monologue to the actual point: I have had a chance to be the costume designer for the local elementary school's production of The Lion King. So that's where I've been: following my early dream on a small scale, and immersing myself totally in the Making of Wonderful Illusions. Julie Taymor's book on the production, its planning and implementation, is so luscious, so incredibly beautiful, that I've gotten carried away. I've hardly slept in the last few weeks, and I've been so insanely focused that things like grocery shopping, laundry, writing, and loved ones have kind of gone by the wayside. It's been interesting, because it's making me re-examine some of the choices I've made about my life. If I love the making of things so much, why aren't I doing more of it?
It's been fascinating figuring out how to do a high-quality production for under a hundred dollars. I've built lioness masks from plaster, papier mache, and plastic gallon milk jugs, and hyena masks from milk jugs, old burlap sacks, and newspaper. I found a roll of jute twine somewhere and made all the lion's manes out of that. And so on. It's amazing what you can do with found stuff and a little ingenuity (and hot glue). I'm thinking of doing a couple of Youtube demos on some of the stuff I've discovered.
So my apologies for ignoring the blog. I'll be posting more in the next week or so. And I'll post pictures soon, I promise.


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A Chicago children's doctor killed in Afghanistan often told young medical trainees that the financial sacrifice was worth the privilege of helping the world's neediest patients, colleagues said Friday.
A day after Dr. Jerry Umanos' death, co-workers described him as an early riser who never seemed to tire and became a father figure to young patients on Chicago's West Side. When he traveled periodically to Afghanistan as a volunteer, he came back eager to share his experiences.
His love for the Afghan people convinced others at Lawndale Christian Health Center in Chicago to volunteer their time in the war-torn nation.
"His enthusiasm was very contagious," said Dr. Bruce Rowell of the health center, who followed Umanos' example by joining volunteer trips to Afghanistan in 2007 and 2010.
Umanos died Thursday when an Afghan security guard opened fire at Cure International Hospital in Kabul. Cure International spokesman Ben Martin said two other Americans killed were Umanos' guests at the hospital. The U.S. Embassy in Kabul said the family has requested privacy and their names will not be released.
Dr. Wayne Detmer of Lawndale Christian Health Center, where Umanos worked more than 25 years, said the slain pediatrician recognized similarities between Chicago and Afghanistan in practicing community medicine.
A fatal shooting Thursday in the clinic's Lawndale neighborhood -- just hours after Umanos died in Kabul -- reminded Detmer once again of the risks that Umanos knew well, along with the rewards of working in the poorest neighborhoods at home and abroad.
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Down in the valley
The moment the road to Reds Meadow opens every summer, it's like a green light goes on. Mammoth's economy jumps into hyperdrive and doesn't slow again until Labor Day.
An average of about 100,000 visitors come through Mammoth just to get to the Reds Meadow valley, many bound for the Devils Postpile National Monument. They spend about $2.8 million every summer in Mammoth and the surrounding communities.
It's a big number and some might say Reds Meadow is to Mammoth summers what Mammoth Mountain is to Mammoth winters.
"The number one question visitors ask when they call in is about the Devils Postpile," said Mammoth's tourism chief, John Urdi. "It's a huge benefit to this economy."
That means getting Reds Meadow Road open is a high priority. In the past, the snow depth defined when that happened.
This time, though, after one of the driest winters on record, during a spring that should have seen an early opening day record, it's the trees.
On the night of Nov. 30 and into the cold dark hours of the morning of Dec. 1, the big lodgepole and red fir forest of the Devils Postpile and Reds Meadow Valley got a haircut.
Hundreds and thousands—tens of thousands—of giant, 100-foot-tall-plus trees crashed to the ground, the victim of a once-in-a-century freak windstorm that would later be named, appropriately enough, the Devils Windstorm.
When the clear morning light hit Reds that first day of December 2011, the valley was transformed.
Campgrounds lay completely buried under hundreds of jack-knifed trees piled 20 and 30 feet deep. Uprooted trees, roots as big as houses, towered over tiny bathrooms, crushed bear boxes, and splintered picnic tables.
The road down to Reds was impassible, covered with dozens of trees just in the first few miles, trees that dented the pavement with the force of their weight and fall and destroyed sections of the road.
Trails, including the famous John Muir and the Pacific Crest trail sections that run through Reds Meadow Valley, were covered with trees piled on top of each other tens of feet deep, sometimes with as many as 500 trees in a mile.
It was like a giant's game of pick-up-sticks, except there's no giant to pick up the sticks.
Trees can be removed with chainsaws and logging trucks and chippers and backhoes and in every developed area of the valley, that's what is happening. Although no official will commit to an exact date, the road to the valley and some campgrounds and facilities are expected to be open by July 4.
But what about the places where the law prohibits machines, like the heavily-used PCT and John Muir trails that run through federally designated wilderness areas? And even when chainsaws are not prohibited—or where they are but there has been special permission to use them (as is the situation on a case-by-case basis with oversight of the district ranger in many of the high-use trails in Reds)—you can't get a backhoe in to haul the trees that have been felled by chainsaws out.
There's simply no way to get any kind of machine up those trails.
And wet red fir and lodgepole pine are heavy. Very heavy.
One 17-foot-23-inch-diameter tree section weighs just about a ton. There are five such sections on one, 100-foot tall tree—and that's considered a small tree. Many of the trees that blew down are four and five feet in diameter, many taller than 100 feet, and there are tens of thousands of trees down on the trails.
The sheer weight of what needs to be removed to open the trails defies the imagination.
Although the Inyo National Forest and Devils Postpile National Monument have both received federal funding to help clear the blowdown away from developed areas and trails in Reds (the Inyo is a National Forest funded by the Department of Agriculture; the Postpile is managed by the Department of the Interior and has its own programs underway to remove the trees), the sheer volume of work still to be done will take months, days, even years to complete.
The hard way
On a hot, Monday afternoon along the PCT trail near Upper Soda Springs campground, Inyo National Forest trail crew supervisor Clancy Nelson is moving wood.
Lots of wood.
He's got a 17-foot, 23-inch-in-diameter lodgepole exactly where he does not want it—in the middle of the trail. It has taken him and a group of volunteers from the Pacific Crest Trail Association's "Can Do" crew an hour just to make two cuts with a big, hand-powered bucksaw to untangle the log so they can move it off the trail.
That was the easy part. Now for the hard part.
"Grab it there," he said, pointing one volunteer to the front of the log. A group of volunteers grab giant log grapplers and grab onto the front of the log, one person on each side of the big log.
Another volunteer is assigned to make sure the log rolls on the three little logs used as rollers under the big tree section. Without these rollers, the big section of pine would simply dig into the trail when the crew tries to move it and go nowhere.
"Paul, put the rockbar there, under the middle, to keep it from rolling down the hill," Nelson said, pointing another person to stand on the downhill side of the tree.
Two more people grab the big grapplers at the other end. Another volunteer grabs another rock bar and stands at the back end of the section, ready to push.
By the time everyone is lined out, there are seven people gathered around the log.
"One, two, three, go," Nelson said.
Seven people push, pull, lift, hold.
The log moves six inches off the trail.
They do it again. Another six inches. And again. This time, it moves a foot.
This goes on for five minutes.
Finally, the log slides into place exactly where Nelson wants it—on the downhill side of the trail where it will remain for decades as a kind of trail wall.
The crew, which has been at it since early this morning, gets ready to do the same thing all over again with the next section of the tree.
And the next.
It just took seven people more than an hour to cut and move one section of one tree a few feet.
One section of one tree out of tens of thousands.
The Red Zone
Michael Morse is the wilderness and trails supervisor for the North Zone (Mammoth area and north) of the Inyo National Forest.
Twenty years ago this summer, a giant fire swept through the Reds Meadow area, (The "Rainbow Fire") dropping hundreds of trees on the trails and burning up just as many. Then, like now, it was his job to make sure the trails stayed open.
He and many of the Inyo National Forest staff have had some practice and it shows.
"We have divided the entire area into three zones," he said. "The Red Zones are the most heavily impacted areas, trails with hundreds and hundreds of jack strawed trees down per mile. The Yellow Zones might have 60 or so trees per mile and the Green Zones have sporadic trees down."
The forest has also prioritized the trails by use. Heavily used trails in the Red Zone, for example, are on the high priority list to open; low-use Green Zone trails can wait. He's ordered in highly trained smoke jumper fire crews to do the most complicated and intricate chainsaw work—places where huge trees are layered two-stories high and jackknifed every which way—and after six weeks, 55 miles of about 155 miles are now open.
"We started in early May as soon as they got the road cleared of trees," he said. "I know some people think because there's no snow, Reds should be open by now, but actually, we are about on the same schedule that we would be on if it were a normal snow year and we are ahead of where we would be for a big snow year."
But that's not to say this whole thing isn't one, giant mess.
"It's impossible to describe the amount of work that still has to be done," Morse said. When it's snow that keeps the valley closed, you just wait for it to melt and plow,h he said. This is something else entirely.
"That's why it is absolutely imperative that we work with as many volunteer groups, as many other groups, as possible."
As a wilderness manager, mechanized equipment is prohibited in most of Morse's country and he relies on people who know how to get things done the old-fashioned way—with primitive tools and sweat.
Like the PCTA's Can Do crew and volunteers like PCTA veteran Paul Cardinet.
Cardinet has been down in Reds for almost two weeks with a group of like-minded volunteers. All of them love this area of the Sierra, and over the past 11 years, they have put in countless hours on the PCT trail sections in Morse's backyard.
"It's a lot of work, yes, but it's also a lot of fun," Cardinet said. "We can't think of the big picture, really, we just need to stay on task and get each project done, one at a time. But it's satisfying, to be able to help, to give back to this place we love so much."
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Welcome to the Virtual Walkabout Tutorial!
The following pages provide a short tutorial to help you carry out a simple fieldwork project in which you will collect images of an archaeological monument, then present the images that you have gathered with an interactive display
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When T.R. Knight said he was looking forward to some time away from Grey's Anatomy this summer and trying new things, well, looks like he wasn't kidding. He's changed his hair color!
The lovable TV doctor and best friend of Katherine Heigl sported this new 'do in Hollywood last week while shopping at the trendy John Varvatos store.
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The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals commends New York legislators for passing A.2596/S.1079, to increase criminal penalties for the intentional killing or injuring of a police animal, including both police dogs and horses. Sponsored by Assemblyman Kenneth Zebrowski, D-Rockland, and Sen. George Maziarz, R-Newfane, A.2596/S.1079 passed unanimously and now heads to the desk of Gov. Andrew Cuomo for his signature.
"Police dogs are on the front lines detecting dangers, apprehending criminals, and rescuing victims every day," said Bill Ketzer, senior state director of ASPCA government relations for the northeast region. "The loss of a police animal is a loss to the entire community, and we applaud New York legislators for passing this bill."
A.2596/S.1079 increases penalties by making it a Class E Felony to intentionally kill or injure a police animal. It will also expand the criminal liability to include circumstances when a police animal can be reasonably identified as a police animal by means of its presence in a marked police or emergency vehicle or enclosure. Previously, inflicting serious harm or killing a police animal was a Class A misdemeanor, limited to only protect the animals when they were in the line of duty or under police supervision.
"A.2596/S.1079 will honor the sacrifices of these highly trained animals and acknowledge the priceless value that police animals have to law enforcement and the citizens of New York," added Ketzer. "We urge Gov. Cuomo to sign this important legislation to protect these heroic animals and recognize their role in assisting police officers."
"I am excited to see that canine members of law enforcement agencies are getting the recognition and protection that they deserve," said Brad Shear, executive director of the Mohawk Hudson Humane Society, and president of the New York State Animal Protection Federation. "The Mohawk Hudson Humane Society maintains the K9 Memorial site in cooperation with the Capital District Police K9 Training Group, and we have long recognized the importance of working police animals in our communities."
At New York Voices for Animals Day, held in Albany on May 6, A.2596/S.1079 was a priority bill that citizen advocates lobbied their legislators to support. The need for this bill was brought to the forefront after an incident in March, when "Ape," an FBI police dog, was shot and killed in Herkimer County while in pursuit of an at-large gunman. He was mortally wounded by the gunman during the shootout and died after efforts to save him by a veterinarian on the scene were unsuccessful. Ape had been on duty for less than a month.
For more information on the ASPCA or to join the ASPCA Advocacy Brigade, visitwww.aspca.org.


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114-116 St Johns Rd, Edinburgh, EH12 8AX 0131 334 8235
114-116 St Johns Rd, Edinburgh, EH12 8AX 0131 334 8235
Here at Toby we know how important it is that Santa's little helpers have full tum's to start their day. That's why on the 16th, 17th, 23rd and 24th December you can bring your little helpers for Breakfast with Santa. Whether they prefer My Little Pony or if Transformers are more their style, Santa will have a small gift for them to unwrap whilst they enjoy the kids cooked breakfast and a drink, all for just £5
We know Christmas isn't just for the little ones, so we have plenty of tasty Christmas treats for grown-ups too meaning you can all enjoy a great family breakfast together at Toby
Children's breakfasts are only available for children 10 and under. All children must be accompanied by and under the supervision of an adult during their visit. Space is limited and subject to availability at individual restaurants, all visits must be pre-booked. Please contact the site for any questions or for any special requirements we need to be aware of before your visit.