Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The K-Turn and Mountain Roads Our family has a long tradition of learning how to drive from other family members and we all recall episodes of the lessons. The Footloose Forester takes pride in teaching things, and...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Professional Forest Management Integrating soil/site aspects in planting strategy This essay/story evolves from a critique about a real-time, first-rate example of forest management and real-time planning of forest plantations in Ireland. Thanks to the Irish Forestry...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Holiday at Cam Ranh Bay It wasn’t often that the Footloose Forester chose to pick up his suitcase and walk from the air terminal to his destination, especially when he was in Viet Nam during the height...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Cheetah at the Waterhole As time passes, so also do some of the details of even favorite adventures. The great fun trip to the Laikipia Plateau of Kenya in 1991 was one of them, and last...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek On Fear An innocent Internet meme about fear was the first disturbance that summoned the specter of fear to return, to creep closer. The second incident was a horrific movie about World War II, the very same day...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Planting by the Numbers Most adults have planted a tree or two and gained satisfaction from having done so. Perhaps they also mused about how tall it would become and if the fruit would ripen for them...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek A Closer Look at a Picture Worth a Thousand Words Flamengos Tree Nursery, Cape Verde Some people are proud of their humble beginnings. Others are impatient to move on and forget about the past. It was many...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Rainforests or Not? Discussing rainforests is not the same as explaining rainforests and reporting from a rainforest is not the same as reporting about rainforests. Likewise, discussing rainforests does not and should not imply that the reporter or...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek A Day in the Cholistan Desert We met in a sparsely furnished office building whose windows rattled when the wind blew. Two young and eager Pakistani soil scientists had been assigned to escort us to one of...
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On the road…again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Concept of Rainforests When a respondent to the Quora.com website explained why rainforests are so hot and so wet, the Footloose Forester was jolted into composing a rejoinder. The contributor, an airline pilot and...
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On the road…again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Durian Express On the road again…!!! is an appropriate place to be when the mission is all about the Durian Express. You see, the durian fruit grown in SE Asia and marketed in some...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek On the road…again!!! in 2018 On the road again …is not just a line from the Willie Nelson tune of the same name. On the masthead of the older Chronicles of a Footloose Forester , the catchy expression...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Paying for School Essays is Cheating There are plenty of self-help books out there. Some are long and fairly comprehensive. Others are short and to the point. Tips on building, painting, wiring, or baking come in many...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Words Matter, No Matter What Maybe some words attain the distinction of earning copyright protection, maybe some words are so vulgar that they are not accepted in polite conversation, and maybe some often-repeated words are so vapid that...
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On the road…again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Googling Pyramid Peak Another day, another dream, and another chronicle about nagging problems. The long-festering issue about which screen capture photos from the Internet are free of copyright restrictions welled up again in last night’s...
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On the road…again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Siberia From the Air You can’t see much from the small oval window of a jetliner but if you don’t look out you won’t see anything of the world below. There is much you can learn...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Ezekiel Was a Prophet, Not a Horticulturist Show me the person who thinks that every single word in the Bible is literally true, and I will show you a person who will be hard-pressed to explain...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Moss and Mumblety-peg The game of mumblety-peg is so old that even Mark Twain mentioned it as one of the favorites enjoyed by young boys. It was outdoors, in the summer, and played in the grass. To do...
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On the road…again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Pani Pulau Snippets of memory, the stuff of legacy stories… That was the theme of a recent chronicle by the Footloose Forester . Today another snippet of a distant memory was jarred loose during a period...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Rosewood By Any Other Name Most everyone agrees that truth in advertising is a policy that should be followed simply because everyone wants to know what they are getting and to get what they are paying for. ...
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