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By Howard ‘Kibble of Kenny Lake
I looked out over Kenny Lake yester
day morning and noticed a flight of
what I thought were very large geese
till they made another leg of their
approach, and in'doing sc, turned in
to the sun. Then I saw that they were
snow-white, and surmised they were
ciwa n .
I sort of let my fancy loose, and
back-tracked them far up over the Ar
tie barrens to some remote bay where
they may nest and flock in by the thou
sands ( if they congregate in those
numbers l); anyway, what an awesome
sight that'many of those huge, so
white birds would make against a blood
red horizon - from a sun that never
quite set- as they circled in to land.;
// On the way out to Copper Center via
the - ’’old” Ldgerton cutoff, there are
two places that a slow traveler can
reach the bluffs above the Copper Riv
er by a short jaunt a foot from the
road. The view from either place is
entirely different and I think would
make a good site for a state camp
ground. Furthur along* oward town, on
the Richardson Highway, there is a
certain place where, with a little
vision of the future, one can picture
a huge lake, created by Woods Canyon
Dam, stretching up and down the coun
try for miles.f canTt quite figure out
from a layman’s listening post, wheth
er Woods Canyon project is just lost
under the welter of sound and rever
beration from Rampart’s proponents,
or whether the thing has been shelved
in favor of an all-out push for that
’’solution'to all inls on the Yukon1’.
I sincerely hope not.
The Roy alley homestead has a field
that borders the road, and for the
past week or so, an old bull buffalo
hat made it his particular domain, anc
from all appearances, is'going to re
main for the winter. This field had
oat hay mowed off it, and the shatter
ed grain must be talking him into
tarrying awhile. Anyway, he’s becoming
an institution at Kenny Lake.
I brought up the subject,of raising
them for meat at a meeting L attended
at Palmer and was drowned in the der
isive snorts, ”If you could afford
the kind of fence that would hold a
buffalo, you wouldn’t need to raise
anvthine to sell’.,f ( cont. next col.!
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However, In 'Montana and at Pinedale
Wyoming, I saw herds of buffalo
grazing behind regular wire fence.
I’m going ro raise some buffalo
burgers on the hoof I think. I may
have to do most of my roundup riding
across the Copper and up in the Chu
gach’s, but I’ve always had a sort
of nostalgic feeling for those huge
hairy mountains of meat and for the
era in history they bring to ones
mind.
In by-gone years from between the
covers of many a book I’ve wintered
along the Yellowstone, or made the
fur rendezvous with such old moun
tain men as Wilson Price Hunt, Jim
Bridger, Ole Bill Williams, William
Wi 11 iam Sublette', and ’’White Head'1’
Fitzpatrick.
I’ve followed them over the trails
in ’’South Pass” across the Rockies;
:gazed at their ’’hell raisin’ stomps”
in Taos, what is now New Mexico. I’ve
stood at their elbows as ..they traded
’’plows’’ or beaver skins for powder,
shot, knives, and i?doins” at Bents
Old Fort on the Arkansas.
And woven through all their wild,
short wonderful lives was the ,fbuf
.faler”. When he left the plains so
did they.
I see that when I see ”01e ’Bull”
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• Radioactivity
Four GE scientists from Richland,
Washington, have Conducted tests show
ing that the Eskimoes living above
the Arctic Circle in Alaska have lev
els of cesium-137 at a rate of 3 to
as high as $0 times as great as that.
of Washington State residents. This ia
because their main diet of caribou and
reindeer have high levels of,-radio
activity . The animals, acquire their
radio-activity by eating lichens that
have picked up heavy fallout from A
bomb tests, particularly those in
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