Yosemite Farms

Lucrative new spot for climbers: Wind turbines ; Growth of clean energy provides demand for veteran rope workers
International Herald Tribune; 12/26/2009; 1046 words; ...workersByline: Kate GalbraithType: NewsAs wind farms have sprouted across the world, rope...repairing offshore oil platforms. But as wind farms have sprouted across the world, rope...conquered El Capitan and Half Dome in Yosemite National Park in California -- headed...

As sexy as watching grass grow
The Nelson Mail; 11/21/2009; 895 words; ...ll observe, but what if a baler malfunctions? I visited a farm once during haymaking and marvelled at the rectangular blocks...researchers says he got the idea while on a visit to California's Yosemite National Park. Perhaps he was inspired by the thought of the...

Drug war would ease at bit with legal marijuana.(News)
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 10/25/2009; 872 words; ...marijuana operation with a street value of over $6 million. Pot farms have been found in, among other places, Redwood National...ban on marijuana and they cant even keep the cartels out of Yosemite. What purpose does this spending serve? A new Gallup Poll...

There are benefits to terminating the war on marijuana
Sunday Gazette-Mail; 10/25/2009; 815 words; ...marijuana operation with a street value of over $6 million. Pot farms have been found in, among other places, Redwood National...on marijuana - and they can't even keep the cartels out of Yosemite. The National Park Service, meanwhile, frets about diverting...

Career not first choice, but a joy anyway
Charleston Daily Mail; 10/23/2009; 655 words; ...My paternal grandparents came from the farm, my maternal grandfather was a farmer...graduated from high school. Being around a farm was an important part of my early life...would keep me outdoors. I had dreams of Yosemite and Yellowstone. OU had a two-year pre...