Why do people do this?
What is the motive? can it be known? Is education a key? Can we ever build a nation of stewards? Or do we merely gasp at the scene and turn away? (graffiti on Camp Rock and Register Rock).
Misc
Packrat Paleobotany
Single-leaf pinyon pine is a surprisingly recent arrival at the Reserve and neighboring mountains. Our tour guide to this transition is the humble packrat (Neotoma). Before there were field botanists there were packrats. A packrat industriously gathers, hauls and piles snippets and bits of everything it finds within a few hundred feet of its, well, …