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MAY 18, 2014 |
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Range Magazine with CJ Hadley |
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www.RangeMagazine.com |
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guest: CJ Hadley |
publisher/editor, RANGE
magazine |
| Caroline
Joy "CJ" Hadley |
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RANGE is an
award-winning quarterly publication that has worked as an
advocate for resource providers for 25 years. Our focus is on
cowboys and sheepherders, mostly in the "public lands" western
states. We also publish stories about farmers and loggers. We
have subscribers in all 50 states plus 22 foreign countries and
RANGE is distributed on select newsstands nationwide. Our
readers number about 170,000 each quarter. RANGE is a small
magazine with a big fist. |
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Sadly, I have numerous examples of bad behavior by federal
employees. USFS, BLM, NPS, USFWS. Our own government is
destroying our country. After gaining citizenship in 1972, I
became a liberal democrat from New York City. Now I'm a
conservative democrat from Washoe Valley, Nevada. My former boss
at Sports Illustrated calls me a "right wing Nazi." A retired
rancher found RANGE in a coffee shop in Kona Hawaii and the
issue had a raptor on the cover so he thought it was published
by Audubon Society. After he read it, he wrote an angry letter
to the editor (which I printed), saying, "CJ and RANGE readers
are nothing but cousin-marrying, Shepler-shoping troglodytes."
But RANGE has also been called "a breath of fresh air." One
reader says, "I laugh, I cry and I can't put it down," and a
California rancher says that "RANGE is the voice of reason
amidst a cacophony of madmen." |
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Your listeners can call
1-800-RANGE-4-U for a very cheap subscription or a sample copy
($15 for 5 issues instead of the usual $19.95 for 4 issues).
They can also get a copy of our Wrangler-award-winning book
called "Brushstrokes & Balladeers: Painters and poets of the
American West" for $20, usually $42 (I picked up the bronze
statue of cowboy on horseback on April 12 in Oklahoma City). And
they can pre-order a 2015 Real Buckaroo Calendar for $10 (reg.
$12.95 and available in September). Or they can have all three
items for $40 (U.S. delivery only). Or to check us out further,
go to
www.rangemagazine.com . |
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For subscriptions and/or information: |
1-800-RANGE-4-U
(1-800-726-4348) |
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24 Years ago
today Mount Saint Helens erupted. |
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15 Miles from
Ground Zero
RANGE MAGAZINE/
Jim Peterson |
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PHOTOGRAPHY BY MIKE McMURRAY |
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8:32 A,M. on
Sunday, May 18, 1980, a primeval force up from the
basement of time decapitated the crown jewel of
southwest Washington's Cascade Mountain Range. In a
single killing moment, more than a cubic mile of Mount
St. Helens' splendor rocketed into the heavens. It would
fall back to earth in the form of a powderlike ash that
blanketed communities as far away as Kellogg, Idaho. I
know this because my mother filled a quart Mason jar
with the stuff, declaring on a handwritten label that
she had collected it on the back patio. I still have the
jar, which I keep as a reminder that my mother never
threw anything out, including volcanic ash. |
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| The
rock-filled blast that accompanied the mountain's
beheading moved 23 square miles of debris across its
heavily timbered north-northwestern slopes for 18 miles
at more than 650 miles an hour - roughly the speed of
sound - smashing everything in its murderous path. |
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| Within 15
miles of ground zero, 670-mile-an-hour winds blew at 680
degrees Fahrenheit, ensuring that what was not flattened
or pulverized was incinerated, if not by searing winds,
then by the 1,300 - degree pyroclastic flow that rushed
down the mountain at some 200 miles an hour. The rushing
Toutle River mudflow swept away 221 homes and GOD only
knows how many vehicles before reaching the Columbia
River, where it plugged shipping channels. |
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| The thermal
energy released by the blast was later pegged at 24
megatons (24 million metric tons of TNT), more than
1,900 times the energy released by "Little Boy", the
9,700 pound, 12.5 kiloton atomic bomb that flattened six
square miles of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, instantly
killing 60,000. |
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| In the
eternal moments that followed the Mount St. Helens'
eruption, 57 lives were lost, together with an estimated
5,000 black-tailed deer, 1,500 Roosevelt elk, 200 black
bears, 15 mountain goats, and countless millions of
songbirds, small mammals, salmon, and steelhead. Gemlike
Spiret Lake was transformed into an 600-foot-high wave
that rushed up the slopes on its north end, momentarily
draining itself before rushing back downslope, sucking a
debris avalanche of some 350,000 acre-feet of pyrolized
trees into its bed. Several resorts around the lake
simply vanished. |
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| The force of
the blast flattened almost 150,000 acres of timberland,
including 68,000 acres of the Weyerhaeuser Company's St.
Helens Tree Farm, and 64,000 acres of the adjacent
Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Huge trees, some over
250 feet tall, were snapped at their base like wooden
matchsticks and lay in jackstraw piles 10 to 20 feet
deep. The thought of anything surviving was unthinkable. |
| Read more of
this article at:
www.rangemagazine.com |
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