Monday, March 28, 2011 - Davis Camp Park, Bullhead City AZ
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Five Active Nests, Great Blue Herons, Burro Creek AZ, March 27, 2011
Five
Look! - there are FIVE active nests on this cliff over Burro Creek. I'm not sure but I think all five have moms hunkered down out of sight in this sunset picture.
Night camp
Site ?? - Davis Camp Park, Bullhead City AZ
- No Verizon cell phone and Broadband service are available here.
- Visit the Mohave County Parks Department website
- Locate Davis Camp Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Heliograph routes of the 1890 Practice
The date was May 15th, 1890, and the Army's Department of Arizona had just completed a major heliograph practice; it was, in fact, the largest the world had ever seen. I call it the "Volkmar Practice", after the man responsible for it, Col. Wm. J. Volkmar, the Assistant Adjutant General and Chief Signal Officer for the Department of Arizona. Although the practice lasted only sixteen days, preparations for it took months of reconnaissance and preparation. Involved in the long range signaling maneuvers were twenty-five heliograph stations stretching from Whipple Barracks near Prescott to Fort Stanton near Ruidoso, New Mexico. My guess is that close to two hundred men were involved, both cavalry and infantry.