Green Mountain National Forest

Green Mountain National Forest is a national forest located in Vermont, a forest area typical of the New England/Acadian forests ecoregion. The forest supports a variety of wildlife, including beaver, moose, coyote, black bear, and white tailed deer. It also supports an abundant variety of bird species, such as wild turkey and ruffed grouse. The forest, being situated in Vermont’s Green Mountains, has been referred to as the ‘granite backbone’ of the state.

The forest was established in 1932, as a result of uncontrolled overlogging, fire and flooding.[3] It consists of 399,151 acres (1,615.31 km2); and is the biggest contiguous land mass in the state. If Finger Lakes National Forest, which is managed as a unit of the Green Mountain National Forest, is included within it, GMNF is one of only two national forest northeast of the Pennsylvania-New Jersey barrier; the other being the White Mountain National Forest. Split into the southwest and central areas, GMNF has a total of eight wilderness areas. These were designated by Congress beginning with the Wilderness Act of 1964 to be areas off limits to mechanized gear down to and including bicycles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Mountain_National_Forest
http://www.fs.usda.gov/greenmountain

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I spent a lot of time today working from my laptop, enjoying the cool breeze up north here in the Green Mountains. We don’t have the heat and humidity here compared back home in the city, although the weatherman says that will change come tomorrow.

Inflation, Deflation

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Inflation, Deflation

7/1/2020 by NPR

Web player: https://podplayer.net/?id=109100182
Episode: https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510289/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/npr/pmoney/2020/07/20200701_pmoney_pmpod1012-e111bee6-2f6b-460c-9e61-4f50e63ca8be.mp3?awCollectionId=510289&awEpisodeId=886036317&orgId=1&topicId=1017&d=1452&p=510289&story=886036317&t=podcast&e=886036317&size=23179985&ft=pod&f=510289

After decades of relative stability, prices in the US may be about to go through the roof — or the floor.

Relocating the fire pit

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I relocated the fire pit at this campsite because it was falling apart and kind of in the middle of the campsite which limited where you could park.I carefully moved the ash and brick to the new site, building the fire pit where there was a no roots and laying down a deep layer of ash on the ground. I then leveled out, removed any ash, metal and rock from the old site, restoring it down mineral soil and removing any nails I found.