Friday, March 25, 2011 - BLM Campground, El Malpais National Conservation Area, Grants NM
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10,000 Watts, BLM Campground, El Malpais National Conservation Area, Grants NM, March 25, 2011
What are they thinking
See that, up there under the ridge? That's an array of 48 photovoltaic panels, each rated at 220 watts. You think that might supply enough power to keep a camp host from wandering off to find a place to plug in an air conditioner? Bet it would.
Night camp
Site ? - BLM Campground, El Malpais National Conservation Area, Grants NM
- This is a new, small, quiet BLM campground with shelters and fire rings at each site and vault toilets - no water, power, or dump station available.
- Good Verizon cell phone service
- Good Verizon EVDO service
- Locate this campground on my Night Camps Map
- Go to BLM El Malpais National Conservation Area website
- Get a BLM map
- Check the weather here
We Are Clearly a Species Worth Saving
Our world is entering a time of profound and perhaps catastrophic change. My hope is that by getting people to care about and learn about what is in their backyard, they can be made to realize that while it seems like we are destroying the planet in out greed and excess, what we are really destroying is ourselves. The planet and life in general has dealt with catastrophe many times before. Cataclysm on Earth is a creative time and evolution can handle it. Culture is much more fragile and we as individuals are more fragile still. I think that it is time for people to come to terms with the fact that our own behaviors put humanity at risk. While people have always done atrocious things, I believe that we are a species capable of beautiful, amazing and important things as well and we are clearly a species worth saving.
Jon Piasecki