The trading post had been raided and several people killed; in the name of conservation. Chief Tenaya and his tribe, renegades among their own people, were feeling the encroachment of the miners and settlers closing in. Through retaliation, they sought to conserve the land they called Ahwanee. The year was 1851.
The miners and early American settlers had their own definition of conservation. So they captured and drove the Chief and his Paiute renegades from the land and, as was customary among 18th century Europeans, renamed the land. The name chosen was » More: The Sierra Club
I visit without a timepiece; without identification; and without any contact device to the modern world from which I come. I anticipate an insightful experience transcending time and space itself. Cañon del Oro is the name of the Sonoran desert river wash in which I have grown accustomed to walking and reflecting the past 3 years, since moving to Tucson. This time, the fresh morning rains have provided a rare setting of flowing water in which to frame the moment. The moist ground reveals the tracks of my ever-present yet rarely seen, 