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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

Politics and the English Language

....Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's own habits, and from time to time one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase -- some jackboot, Achilles' heel, hotbed, melting pot, acid test, veritable inferno, or other lump of verbal refuse -- into the dustbin, where it belongs.

George Orwell 1945

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