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Yes .. it DOES matter ... You are mixing up several bears and thier ranges. The fish-eating "coastal grizzly" you refer to is actually a sub species (Ursus arctos middendorfii .. or Kodiak Brown Bear) and lives around the Gulf of Alaska. One of the other posters accurately noted that its...

I'm wrong alot too ... just ask my wife ! :D And yes, I do love a good map too.

Tramper, I may be behind the curve on this technology stuff. And I may never develop a product for market. I am just riding the wave at this point and seeing where it takes me. At the very least I hope to produce some eye-catching and informative maps of an area(s) that have special...

Tramper ... at this point I am looking at a software and hard copy package. Ideally, I would like to package a high-resolution image of the mountain(s) or range with a companion CD-ROM that includes different layers of geographic information and 3-D panoramic flyovers from different...

Good points Papa Bear .. and well taken. I obviously can't compete with the likes of the corporations you listed. But I can do something that they are not as inclined to do ... I can focus in on a niche market and custom design maps to target a very specific demographic. Topozone and the Nat...

3-D Hiking Atlas of the Presidentials I am looking for a little anecdotal information from the users of this board about the feasibility of marketing 3-D maps of selected destinations in the White Mountains. Are there enough map-philes like me that would cough up a few bucks for some new and...

I agree ... :)

My point was that humans AND certain animals can over-reproduce even in poor habitats. I could have done a better job clarifying it. Nonetheless, the fact remains that sheer numbers alone are not a good gauge of the carrying capacity of the environment. Look again at the Audobon article and...

Actually, Africa and some Southern Asian countries have development indices that would indeed classify those areas as "poor habitat." Yet the human population is exploding there. If sheer numbers of animals, or people for that matter, are used as a measure of how healthy a habitat is, I suppose...

It is a little bit of both ... In the Northeast, there certainly has been extensive habitat recovery in the past 100 or so years and the mix of landcovers have helped once decimated deer populations to rebound. But it is also true that "we" are moving farther and farther into territory that...

I'm gonna bug outta this one now before it closes ... I made my point ... but must add that ... since I don't have TV, it would be kinda hard for me to watch "desperate housewives." LOL Try not to assume to much ! be well and hike more ! roberto

If you re-read my post RFG1, I don't think you will find me calling you an "evil mad man raping the land for profit" Like I said, I am not anti-logging and I made no personal attack on you or how you make your living. But you, and some of those in agreement with you, make a lot of off the cuff...

Sorry, but I have to take issues with some of the circular logic I see going on here. I suppose one might come to the conclusion that global warming must be good for forests too because, after all, trees need C02 ... I am not anti-logging. And I concur that a properly managed forest will...

There are some interesting Landsat 7 images available on the NASA site ... the resolution is so fine that you can even see the clear-cuts ... https://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid/mrsid.pl I am working on a 3-D rendering of Mt. Washington and the Presidential Range ... complete with trails ...

There is a pretty good message board for Whitney related climbs at ... http://www.whitneyportalstore.com/ You can get up to date trail info ... do a search and find answers to just about every Whitney question you could have ...

Welcome to the Golden State ! Looks like you got some good advice already. I'd like to turn your attention to Point Reyes and the North Coast ... breathtaking stuff starts just over the Golden Gate Bridge ... http://www.backcountry-explorer.org/NORCAL/index.html I found Pt. Reyes in...

I feel sorry for the victim and the lion in this case ... It is unfortunate that the woman was attacked. It was very brave and heroic of her companions to fight off the attack and rescue her. What will compound the tragedy is if the reactionary political forces use this, and other recent...