Cindy Blogs the Sierra Comments http://www.cawblogsierra.net An unofficial and unauthorized, analysis, rambling commentary, and pondering about the future of the Sierra National Forest. en Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:52:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.2.2 by: Dennis Stine http://www.cawblogsierra.net/index.php?p=116#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:54:19 -0400 2124:116@http://www.cawblogsierra.net You have made my day. I am sitting here in Sky Harbor waiting for a connection home. I was about to delete your link thinking you had been sucked up in the “Teams” vortex. I’m really glad you decided to continue and I like your outline. If by a miracle and a new administration the Forest Service doesn’t implode you would be a front runner for Chief in my book. Witnessing the death of Surveying on the San Bernardino was hard for me to see. You have made my day. I am sitting here in Sky Harbor waiting for a connection home. I was about to delete your link thinking you had been sucked up in the “Teams” vortex. I’m really glad you decided to continue and I like your outline. If by a miracle and a new administration the Forest Service doesn’t implode you would be a front runner for Chief in my book. Witnessing the death of Surveying on the San Bernardino was hard for me to see.

]]> by: Annette http://www.cawblogsierra.net/index.php?p=115#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:51:13 -0400 2123:115@http://www.cawblogsierra.net Dear Cindy - I never got sick of hearing you say, “I need to move on.” I am just so happy for you that you finally acted it out, and now the need to say it is no longer there. I wish you all the best with your adventures in your new wonderland! Annette Dear Cindy - I never got sick of hearing you say, “I need to move on.” I am just so happy for you that you finally acted it out, and now the need to say it is no longer there. I wish you all the best with your adventures in your new wonderland! Annette

]]> by: Annette http://www.cawblogsierra.net/index.php?p=111#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:06:15 -0400 1791:111@http://www.cawblogsierra.net Dear Cindy - Thank you for going to Washington and sharing what you found out. If you’re satisfied, so am I, because I trust your judgement. They look like a happy group in the WO. I always thought an End User was someone who sits down all day. Annette Dear Cindy - Thank you for going to Washington and sharing what you found out. If you’re satisfied, so am I, because I trust your judgement. They look like a happy group in the WO. I always thought an End User was someone who sits down all day. Annette

]]> by: Annette http://www.cawblogsierra.net/index.php?p=108#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:09:59 -0400 1524:108@http://www.cawblogsierra.net Dear Cindy - What a great experience for you. It made me think of my own journey into the Forest Service, where I had the opportunity before life with FS to experience another government agency, and another country’s government agency to boot. I worked with the Philippine Bureau of Forestry, better known as the BFD, and what a fitting acronym that was. I had absolutely no direction, not too much unlike my first permanent job with the FS. But unlike the FS, no one in the BFD cared. Their biggest concern was for my wallet. You can buy us this and you can buy us that but we don’t want you to move into the barrio because you will be so lonely. How can you be lonely with 100 people staring at you all day and constantly following you around? The barrio was heaven compared to the city life. And the FS is heaven compared to the BFD. And when it was time for me to leave after 2 years, they asked me to stay. I bolted so fast they didn’t even see me go. And no one showed up to bid me farewell. How’s that for gratitude. Here’s to many more great adventures for you, and hopefully they will all be better than the last one. The FS is lucky to have you, and don’t let them or you think otherwise. And like Dorothy, I am also proud of you. Annette Dear Cindy - What a great experience for you. It made me think of my own journey into the Forest Service, where I had the opportunity before life with FS to experience another government agency, and another country’s government agency to boot. I worked with the Philippine Bureau of Forestry, better known as the BFD, and what a fitting acronym that was. I had absolutely no direction, not too much unlike my first permanent job with the FS. But unlike the FS, no one in the BFD cared. Their biggest concern was for my wallet. You can buy us this and you can buy us that but we don’t want you to move into the barrio because you will be so lonely. How can you be lonely with 100 people staring at you all day and constantly following you around? The barrio was heaven compared to the city life. And the FS is heaven compared to the BFD. And when it was time for me to leave after 2 years, they asked me to stay. I bolted so fast they didn’t even see me go. And no one showed up to bid me farewell. How’s that for gratitude. Here’s to many more great adventures for you, and hopefully they will all be better than the last one. The FS is lucky to have you, and don’t let them or you think otherwise. And like Dorothy, I am also proud of you. Annette

]]> by: dorothy http://www.cawblogsierra.net/index.php?p=108#comments Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:05:38 -0500 1493:108@http://www.cawblogsierra.net Cindy, This is one of your best blogs yet! How many times have I heard complaining about the Forest Service this and the Forest Service that, and this place sucks, and I want a job with the Park Service, or Fish and Wildlife Service, or gaaaasp….NOAA! There really is no place like home. Thanks for “bringing it home” so eloquently. I am really glad you learned to spell “anadromous". I am proud of you. dorothy Cindy,

This is one of your best blogs yet! How many times have I heard complaining about the Forest Service this and the Forest Service that, and this place sucks, and I want a job with the Park Service, or Fish and Wildlife Service, or gaaaasp….NOAA!

There really is no place like home. Thanks for “bringing it home” so eloquently. I am really glad you learned to spell “anadromous".
I am proud of you.
dorothy

]]> by: Cindy http://www.cawblogsierra.net/index.php?p=97#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:04:05 -0400 760:97@http://www.cawblogsierra.net Emmy, You are a sweetheart! Thank you for reading. I just keep blogging because I’m sure somebody is out there, and I’m glad you are there. I do have something that may work for the newsletter. I and a dozen Forest Service women staffed a booth at the Central California Women’s conference. We used the same display that the HSVTC used at Big Hat Days, and we handed out brochures for the HSVTC. Before, we just handed out Smokey stuff, but this year, we also encouraged the women at the conference to volunteer. It was great to talk to Valley women and encourage them to get out and experience our National Forest. I also took a few photos. I’ll send you an article within the week. /Cindy Emmy, You are a sweetheart! Thank you for reading. I just keep blogging because I’m sure somebody is out there, and I’m glad you are there.
I do have something that may work for the newsletter. I and a dozen Forest Service women staffed a booth at the Central California Women’s conference. We used the same display that the HSVTC used at Big Hat Days, and we handed out brochures for the HSVTC. Before, we just handed out Smokey stuff, but this year, we also encouraged the women at the conference to volunteer.
It was great to talk to Valley women and encourage them to get out and experience our National Forest. I also took a few photos. I’ll send you an article within the week.
/Cindy

]]> by: Emmy Duxbury http://www.cawblogsierra.net/index.php?p=97#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:56:32 -0400 759:97@http://www.cawblogsierra.net Just was looking for you to consider some more for the newsletter and found out where you are since I do read your blogs! This sounds like a great experience, one that will enrich all of you as people. That’s something that can be treasured. In my field of high school teaching, things like this are rare. We have to create our own. Baltimore is a great place, but one that’s getting colder as we speak! I had a friend in college who lived there. Just wanted to tell you how much I’ve appreciated getting to “know” (in the virtual sense) you and wish you good things from this experience! Emmy Duxbury Just was looking for you to consider some more for the newsletter and found out where you are since I do read your blogs! This sounds like a great experience, one that will enrich all of you as people. That’s something that can be treasured.

In my field of high school teaching, things like this are rare. We have to create our own.

Baltimore is a great place, but one that’s getting colder as we speak! I had a friend in college who lived there.

Just wanted to tell you how much I’ve appreciated getting to “know” (in the virtual sense) you and wish you good things from this experience! Emmy Duxbury

]]> by: Annette http://www.cawblogsierra.net/index.php?p=94#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:00:05 -0400 708:94@http://www.cawblogsierra.net Hey Cindy - I am truly sorry I missed the big reception, but yesterday morning when I went to visit your display, there were plenty of people there, just no little sandwiches nor cheap wine. I will attend your next reception where ever it may be, unless I come up with another lame excuse like I’m on vacation on the other side of the Country. Oh, and I did enjoy gazing at your photos, especially the giant pinecone. Hey Cindy - I am truly sorry I missed the big reception, but yesterday morning when I went to visit your display, there were plenty of people there, just no little sandwiches nor cheap wine. I will attend your next reception where ever it may be, unless I come up with another lame excuse like I’m on vacation on the other side of the Country. Oh, and I did enjoy gazing at your photos, especially the giant pinecone.

]]> by: Howard Whitman http://www.cawblogsierra.net/index.php?p=94#comments Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:57:38 -0400 698:94@http://www.cawblogsierra.net So can I still stop by and see this? I’ll be in town next week after coming back from the ranch. And, of course I have my own copies of some of the photos that you sent me, and I finally got frames for them. Sounds like a good project for this weekend: find good places in the house for them. Maybe i’ll put them near my little display of pictures (and a poem I wrote) about Mission Carmel (my favorite). I have a drawing my great-Aunt made in 1902 before the restoration, a professional drawing I bought at the Mission, and a photo my son Sam (who did actually major in Art!) made. Let’s see: four California artists, with subjects dear to my heart, there has got to be a “commonality” (as we say in the FS) here. Am I lucky or what, knowing all you folks? So can I still stop by and see this? I’ll be in town next week after coming back from the ranch. And, of course I have my own copies of some of the photos that you sent me, and I finally got frames for them. Sounds like a good project for this weekend: find good places in the house for them. Maybe i’ll put them near my little display of pictures (and a poem I wrote) about Mission Carmel (my favorite). I have a drawing my great-Aunt made in 1902 before the restoration, a professional drawing I bought at the Mission, and a photo my son Sam (who did actually major in Art!) made.
Let’s see: four California artists, with subjects dear to my heart, there has got to be a “commonality” (as we say in the FS) here. Am I lucky or what, knowing all you folks?

]]> by: Howard Whitman http://www.cawblogsierra.net/index.php?p=92#comments Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:34:24 -0400 681:92@http://www.cawblogsierra.net I agree with Susan 100%! There was nothing, and I do mean nothing, like finding my first original corner: one that nobody else had found, and was given up for lost. That, all by itself, made me a surveyor. Like they said in the movie Platoon, all the rest is gravy. I agree with Susan 100%!
There was nothing, and I do mean nothing, like finding my first original corner: one that nobody else had found, and was given up for lost. That, all by itself, made me a surveyor. Like they said in the movie Platoon, all the rest is gravy.

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