Picto Diary - 7, 8, 9 September 2018 - Echo Park

Above: Renai Bodley-Miller, GM KPCW, speaks to La Societe Deux Magots. Wasatch Bagel. 07 September 2018.

"History majors, Poli Sci majors, make better journalists than Journalism majors." — at Wasatch Bagel Café

Above: Bishop and TIMDT out exploring. Echo Park. Dinosaur National Monument. 08 September 2018.

Confluence of the Green and the Yampa rivers.

Rivals Blue Nile Canyon.

One of a kind vista. — at Dinosaur National Monument.

The canyon arching to the left, just above the Bishop's cap, is Ladore Canyon through which the Green River runs. A small section of the Yampa can be seen at 10 o'clock from TIMDT behind Steamboat Rock. The confluence of the two rivers is behind steamboat rock and cannot be seen directly in the image.

There are no dinosaur exhibits or quarries in the Colorado section of the park. The dinosaur bone quarry is on the Utah side... but, most of the park acreage is on the Colorado side. We've visited the quarry on the Utah side before, and won't have time to see it again on this outing. I'd like to visit the quarry soon, though, before my recent surfeit of paleontology study clouds in my brain. KAT and I were at Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, a huge source of Jurassic bones, mainly Allosaurus, two days ago.

The dinosaur bone quarry area in Utah, 80 acres, was designated as a national monument in 1915 by President Wilson. In 1938 President Roosevelt extended the national monument acreage to 200,000 acres to "protect" the Echo Park area, in Colorado, shown in the image.

Admittedly, the scenery at Echo Park is "over the top." The canyons seen here are deserving of national protection, if Bryce, Zion, Capitol Reef or Cedar Breaks set the standard for national protection.

But, don't think that Presidents Clinton (Grand Staircase) or Obama (Bears Ears) were the first to use National Monument designation to sequester huge tracts of public lands making them off from mixed use... grazing, energy exploration, other than limited motorized vehicle travel. Roosevelt was right there setting the precedent.

There are four federally protected fish species that can only survive in the muddy, undammed, Yampa. These fish require silty water, which is no longer available in the Green, where clear water runs from below Flaming Gorge Dam.

In the 1950's, controversy arose over a proposal to build a dam for water storage and power generation in Dinosaur National Monument directly below the point where TIMDT and Mwah (sic) stand in the above image. Many people protested that Echo Park, the Green and Yampa Canyons, deserved to remain in their natural state. Ultimately, the protests were heeded and a dam was instead built at Flaming Gorge, 70 miles up stream on the Green River from Echo Park.

Above: Flags. Dinosaur, Colorado. 08 September 2018.

Just "deplorable!"

Bishop doesn't encourage trespassing on this private property. — in Dinosaur, Colorado.

Above: Bucket Drum Busker. Park Silly Market. Park City, UT 09 September 2018.

Addendum:

Steve,

I suggest that you and the other dinosaur and adventure fans at to your reading list Dragon Hunter a biography of multidimensionally fascinating Roy Chapman Andrews, led the three Central Asian Expeditions which discovered the Flaming Cliffs in Mongolia, the source of over half of all of the dinosaurs in museums around the world. Interestingly Roy Chapman Andrews was inspiration for Indiana Jones. You will be amused that my most recent copy of the book from Amazon for something like $35 however, it came with a $2.00 price tag from Deseret Books, demonstrating that arbitrage is alive and well in our mutual home state.

Park Avenue,
New York City, NY/Park City, UT

Much appreciated recommendation. I'm putting your book recommendation on my list... particularly as I am immersed in the subject at the moment. But, not before reading "Darwin's Doubt," by Stephen C. Meyer.... currently on top of the pile.

Joe Parent RIP

She was alerted by Jennifer, Nathan’s wife, that Joseph Parent was in bad shape and was on a respirator. Today she called again that he chose to be taken off respirator and died this afternoon. He asked to be cremated and taken to Oregon to be spread around Karen’s grave. He died at Provo Hospital. Nathan was with him.
I don’t know many particulars as I’ve not been in contact for at least 2-3 years.
❤️❤️
Joyce
We have some smoke again from that terrible fire down Shasta way.

RIP, Joe. Joe stopped by our house about ten years ago. Said he and his second wife were building someplace in the Uinta Basin. I'm sorry we lost touch. He was a good, decent man... a good father.