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Park Ranger, former cultural property policy wonk, CCC obsessive, escaped historian.
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This is another very thoughtful reflection on the military parade, focusing more on the perspective of the troops involved. Col. Urban (ret.) is a veteran (I am not) and brings a soldier and a scholar's persective.

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

Former United Railway and Electric (Baltimore Md) trolley line, now a trail at North Point State Park.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Welcome to folks who followed me lately from the parade thread. Fair warning -- this account is mostly just sporadic pretty park pictures and nerdy CCC history.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

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Gloomy gusty evening at North Point State Park.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Terrestrial snail, tentatively an eastern whitelip. Seen while rangering around at North Point State Battlefield yesterday.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Frank Bruni's shout out to Maria McKee in his newsletter this week reminded me how much I adore this album: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Is...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

10 miles-- six of which were straight along my trail network. Spent the rest of June and July chainsawing.

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Now that's a provenance: Jane Birkin's Birkin -- THE Birkin--goes under the hammer at Sotheby's. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/06/...

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the Inhuman League

submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments

Urban and front country park rangering today is much more challenging that it was even a mere 10 years ago. Rangers are often tasked to try to resolve difficult situations, driven by large social forces, that manifest suddenly in specific parks and places. www.abc10.com/article/news...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

This is a great thread on the inner experience of depression, and how hard but imperative it is to overcome self-isolation.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments