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Thursday, March 11, 2010 - Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM

Snag, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, February 25, 2010
Snag, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, February 25, 2010

A managed environment

The Bosque is a carefully managed environment. Hang around a while and you begin to realize water levels in the ponds and wetlands are constantly monitored and adjusted. Food is grown and distributed for the wildlife. The ponds are drained and the grasses mowed. Even the snags the raptors to perch on grew up elsewhere.

Night camp

Site 16 - Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, San Antonio NM

A Theory of the State

States have a peculiar dual character. They are at the same time forms of institutionalized raiding or extortion, and utopian projects. The first certainly reflects the way states are actually experienced, by any communities that retain some degree of autonomy; the second however is how they tend to appear in the written record.

Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, David Graeber, pg 65

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