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Nicky

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Now here are some scenery pics. I did a get a new camera this summer :) It's a Sony H7, with a 15X zoom. We love it! We also tried a Canon S3 IS but we liked the Sony alot better. These are all taken with the Sony except for the ones of the bear. The Canon took real good pictures but it turned on slower and focused much slower.

A real pretty sunrise
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A big windfarm is going in all around our leased rangeground. There are 25 where this pic was taken, it borders our leased ground. They are saying there will be 4-500 when they are all done. The guy who owns the ground we lease will probably be putting 30 - 60 on his place
:???: We aren't thrilled about that.
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Took lots of hummer pictures :)
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A helicopter dumping water on a fire
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A view of the Elkhorns...PPRM lives on the other side of them
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Moonrise
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A Praying Mantis wanted to help put out protein
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A young momma bear with twins, very cute
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I better put the rest in another post, or they will never download :P
 
When I bought my flat screen TV's the nerd @ the electronics store said always by electronics/cameras that are made by a company that starts with an " S"...he said you can't go wrong.


I know we love those Sony TV's
 
I like the photo's AND the windchargers!!!!

Do we want our nation more energy independent......or not????

I drove through a fairly large windplant in sw MN earlier in the fall. There was either farm ground, or grazing land under th towers. Looked good to me....but then, I've not seen much green grass the last six years or so.

I'm hoping one day before long, we can put in at least one windcharger....for our own use, and to sell excess to the electric company.

Seems like a sensible deal to me to have some landowner/farmer/rancher owned power plants scattered around the countryside, sharing with power companies and other consumers, at a profit to us, the power produced without imported oil or other fuels.

It may be a great idea to save some of the most scenic vistas in our extensive parks and current government owned land for posterity. Maybe it is time to release some of those extensive lands in the west for privately owned ranches. Privately owned, well managed cattle ranches ARE the verifiably some of the best examples of true ecological and scenic uses of land.

mrj
 
mrj said:
I like the photo's AND the windchargers!!!!

Do we want our nation more energy independent......or not????

I drove through a fairly large windplant in sw MN earlier in the fall. There was either farm ground, or grazing land under th towers. Looked good to me....but then, I've not seen much green grass the last six years or so.

I'm hoping one day before long, we can put in at least one windcharger....for our own use, and to sell excess to the electric company.

Seems like a sensible deal to me to have some landowner/farmer/rancher owned power plants scattered around the countryside, sharing with power companies and other consumers, at a profit to us, the power produced without imported oil or other fuels.

It may be a great idea to save some of the most scenic vistas in our extensive parks and current government owned land for posterity. Maybe it is time to release some of those extensive lands in the west for privately owned ranches. Privately owned, well managed cattle ranches ARE the verifiably some of the best examples of true ecological and scenic uses of land.

mrj
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Stop and THINK mrj----- every mw of power used while the wind blows has to have a backup when the wind goes down,so where is the saveing? All I have to say is"NIMBY".
 
Juan said:
mrj said:
I like the photo's AND the windchargers!!!!

Do we want our nation more energy independent......or not????

I drove through a fairly large windplant in sw MN earlier in the fall. There was either farm ground, or grazing land under th towers. Looked good to me....but then, I've not seen much green grass the last six years or so.

I'm hoping one day before long, we can put in at least one windcharger....for our own use, and to sell excess to the electric company.

Seems like a sensible deal to me to have some landowner/farmer/rancher owned power plants scattered around the countryside, sharing with power companies and other consumers, at a profit to us, the power produced without imported oil or other fuels.

It may be a great idea to save some of the most scenic vistas in our extensive parks and current government owned land for posterity. Maybe it is time to release some of those extensive lands in the west for privately owned ranches. Privately owned, well managed cattle ranches ARE the verifiably some of the best examples of true ecological and scenic uses of land.

mrj
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Stop and THINK mrj----- every mw of power used while the wind blows has to have a backup when the wind goes down,so where is the saveing? All I have to say is"NIMBY".
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First I love the pictures that is some pretty country.

Second I'm not sure the wind chargers are all they are cracked up to be. I was talking to a guy who has some in Minnesota and he said the blades are made of fiberglass and if they break, get struck by lightning or damaged the fiberglass scatters and then they have to clean it up before the cows eat on it. One guy lost a whole field of second cutting alfalfa because he couldn't get the fibers out of the hayfield.

Anyway I think they are pretty good energy source but I think they have some disadvantages.

have a cold one

lazy ace
 
Thanks everyone :)

katrina said:
Great pictures......... Can you send PPRM smoke signals over them mountains??LOL :D And how close was you to that bear??? It looked way to close for me....... :D
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There were some smoke signals sent this summer but I couldn't read them...all the smoke ran together.LOL

We were across the draw from the bear, that's why I wanted a big zoom on my new camera. A friend was with us, and she a 3 or 4X zoom and said she barely tell it was a bear.
 
Great Pics Nicky....I guess I will have to start paying more attention to the smoke, LOL....

NE Oreogn has a ton of Bear...Unfortunately, cougar population has gotten out of hand...

MRJ,

I think most of us see the benefit of alternative power. It is the extent of these "Farms" and the placement.....Milton Freewater it has seemingly worked well...A lot of Grain Farmers are getting a good rent income and there isn't the scenic views of Baker County...Yet, these Windmlls stretch from There to the Pasco area.

It reminds me a lot of one time Elk Hunting. A lot of us are looking for something to be proponents of. On one hand, we are against the Forests being locked up and not managed. Yet, looking at a lot of the last Public Logging and Logging being done on Private land....Welll, it is not even close to the Stewardship Principles we were taught growing up......

So, yes, we are a bit apprehensive about large scale projects done by those that don't have to live with or by the results,

PPRM
 

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