Wow, Don; I 'm going to have to read your journal more frequently. We had
beavers when/where I grew up, I don't remember "beaver guards"?
This is the first I've read your journal since August, I think you were
working on the big yellow tractor then. I'm going to have to go back and see
what I missed ....bobford
----- Original Message ----
From: Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 8:01:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Simplified life ?
> My brother, Don and I recently visited the log cabin built for Starker
> Leopold, son of Aldo Leopold, author of A Sand County Almanac and
> considered by many the father of natural resources conservation. The
> cabin is in Caney Mountain Refuge, about six miles from Heartwood. The
> cabin site is magnificent, atop huge rock formations and looking out
> over heavy woods and creek bottom. Starker was hired to be the first
> manager of the refuge, which is nearly eight thousand acres and where
> most notably the Missouri deer and turkey population was built up from
> very few animals in the forties.