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Never give up...never surrender. I want that on my headstone when I die. I'm not even going to get into the kind of day I've had. But one good thing that came out of it was....I somehow managed to get my Flip to work. My preeeeeecious Flip that has 60 minutes of video on it just waiting to be downloaded.

Never give up...never surrender. I want that on my headstone when I die. I'm not even going to get into the kind of day I've had. But one good thing that came out of it was....I somehow managed to get my Flip to work. My preeeeeecious Flip that has 60 minutes of video on it just waiting to be downloaded.

The current scourge of the Rocky Mountain region — the mountain pine beetle — has been decimating lodgepole pine populations, leaving millions of acres of dead trees in its wake throughout western North America.

Mountain Pine Beetle Killing Rocky Mountain Forests As Well As Altering Local Weather And Air in: Big Problems, Historical Perspectives, New Discoveries, New Viewpoints, Science & Technology News, analysis   Mountain pine beetles appear to be doing more than killing large swaths of forests in the Rocky Mountains.

I’m sure everyone has noticed in every picture I take and publish on this website of landscape, there are ‘red trees’ in the photograph. It’s hard to focus in on just the perfect spot so that I eliminate the majority of the ‘red trees’. In some areas, it’s an impossible feat.

Bush breaks yet another record.  George Bush’s disapproval rating is the highest of any President.  Ever. Palin can’t answer questions. Pine beetles are also eating at Utah’s forests.  Part of a Utah newspaper story: the complex relationship between climate change, pine beetles and wildfires.

Art as Engine for Small Towns In rural BC, arts and culture are fueling future plans.By Amanda Follett [Wednesday, 17 Sep 2008]

Republican John McCain wants to raise taxes. On health care from your employer. Does your health care count as income? John McCain thinks so and he wants to tax it. Gas gouging again? Chicago’s worst rain in 137 years. Since records began, Chicago hasn’t seen as much rain in one 24-hour period as they did Saturday.

Check out Keith Olbermann’s 9/11 TM Special Comment. Yes, Senator McCain, if you know right now how to capture Osama bin Laden, you should go tell some responsible party that incredible information. Otherwise, you are aiding and abetting bin Laden.

The evening sun shines on the rusty red of dead pines on a ridge just outside Logan Lake. The light makes it harder to tell, but many of the trees on the hillsides behind are also dead. As mentioned already, they were killed by the infestation of the mountain pine beetle that has ravaged most of