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...ultimate goal--legalization--is always in sight...
...shallow tidal waters near Knight Inlet Lodge, in British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest, I catch sight of two grizzlies, the first I have ever seen in the wild. Four-year-olds, they hang out and fool around, rather like human teenagers. Then five more bears stroll out of the forest--a female with a golden cub and another mother with two cubs. The mothers nurse the 18-month-old cubs and scoop up some of the hundreds of thousands of salmon on their way up the inlet to spawn and die. Then another bear appears, followed by tiny triplets...
...importance of good guides is confirmed again on my second afternoon at the lodge. In a boat on Johnstone Strait, we catch sight of three orcas, otherwise known as killer whales. Paul Chaplow, who has spent the past 10 years in these waters, reveals the identities of the three orcas. What were moments ago little more than anonymous dorsal fins zipping by in dark waters became R2, a 62-year-old mom, and her two sons, R3, age 44, and R12, 34. Because their society is matriarchal, the sons will remain with their mother until she dies. The whales, remarkable...
...wrote a column the other day saying I thought the Bush-is-a-moron business (can't pronounce big words, malaprops hilariously) was a little unfair. The sight of a lynch mob is always distressing, especially when they're looking to string up a dyslexic. Even if he does wear cowboy boots...
...fire season lies ahead. It's going to be a long September. The flames will go out only when the rains and snows come in October. Millions of acres of the West will lie blackened for a long time, and in some places will never regenerate. The sight of all that devastation will make the culture war even more intense. But nature is resilient. Life eventually reclaimed even the devastated moonscape left behind by the explosion of Mount St. Helens...