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7 & 1/2 weeks into the "Walkabout". The jitters, anxiety and uncertainty of eddying out of the mainstream have disappeared. We've already logged a lot of miles and a lot of firsts, it's the year of "yes", even to algebra.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

2nd week--Tavaputs

Fishing on Currant Creek.
Seth and Grant enter data while Eric looks on.

Open Range Consulting, Inc. (our company) completed a monitoring job on the Tavaputs Plateau at the old Preston Nutter Ranch outside of Price, Utah.  We fished Curant Creek on the way to Price, met up with Eric and his well-organized array of electronic devices, met with the Wildlife  biologist and then climbed to 10,000ft where we bunked at the ranch.  Grant learned to use the GPS devices, entered data on the laptops & drove the truck. Blair and Cretia Eastman, the ranch manager and his wife were excellent hosts.  Grant and I had not been on a monitoring job in several years but Seth, a seasoned 'employee' assured us that this was the best living situation he had experienced on the job as yet.   Grant and I mixed up our monitoring experience with a trip over to the Tavaputs Ranch to take a tour of Range Creek with Butch Jensen.      
View from the Tavaputs lodge.

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