tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80796639297203090912024-03-12T21:17:00.240-04:00Imperial DreamsTim Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930445694831642950noreply@blogger.comBlogger96125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079663929720309091.post-32742561570705709462024-02-27T15:50:00.012-05:002024-02-27T16:29:20.334-05:00Twenty years ago today, in an Arkansas Bayou, my life changed forever<div class="separator"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUCRj5rMH95kYgEmxEzFptIuiM-qZ5cW5WGzMbecbADmxTuWyhRHgY2rmeE1ESJ-xwIprbdFEboYX6_lsWQFTbMJLaAUzcGOgbHhvA84iQSl5IhcdGKIWE14iOvoC0QH-RDGYeImFPyw/s1600/Tim,+Bobby,+and+Gene-2.jpg" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUCRj5rMH95kYgEmxEzFptIuiM-qZ5cW5WGzMbecbADmxTuWyhRHgY2rmeE1ESJ-xwIprbdFEboYX6_lsWQFTbMJLaAUzcGOgbHhvA84iQSl5IhcdGKIWE14iOvoC0QH-RDGYeImFPyw/s1600/Tim,+Bobby,+and+Gene-2.jpg" width="640" /></a>From left to right, Gene Sparling, Bobby Harrison, and Tim Gallagher at Bayou de View, shortly after their Ivory-billed Woodpecker sighting on February 27, 2004.</div><p> <span style="font-size: large;">February 27, 2004; Bayou de View, Arkansas—It is shortly after one o'clock on a clear afternoon in late winter as we paddle our canoe down the bayou, me in the bow and Bobby Harrison in the stern. Gene Sparling is up ahead somewhere in his kayak, looking for the place where, less than two weeks earlier, he'd seen a huge black-and-white woodpecker that fit the description of an Ivory-bill.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">As we move slowly with the current, transfixed by the movement of the murky brown swamp water, we both catch sight of a large bird flying up a side slough toward us. It's one of those things you pick up in your peripheral vision and without even thinking about it your mind runs through the possibilities—large, swift flying, black and white. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOPwAkfPmGFCPeU3P4fTWIwZpt-6OiLP8jdr0dpoG44ntbMtfrwobMqR27EuL7-ReI0qOiHuF6PCvmbbh6wdP0RyQq9urkJ_4Ir2F0Q2qLZB1c62Q9yyFA2N7o4IlW1ZMTTw50M2BaPQ/s1600/Ivory-bill+by+Larry+Chandler.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOPwAkfPmGFCPeU3P4fTWIwZpt-6OiLP8jdr0dpoG44ntbMtfrwobMqR27EuL7-ReI0qOiHuF6PCvmbbh6wdP0RyQq9urkJ_4Ir2F0Q2qLZB1c62Q9yyFA2N7o4IlW1ZMTTw50M2BaPQ/s1600/Ivory-bill+by+Larry+Chandler.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">Ivory-billed Woodpecker by Larry Chandler.</div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">And then it bursts into full view right in front of you, exposing the</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">deepest, darkest black coloration, but what really catches your eye are the snow-white trailing edges of its wings, the unmistakeable field marks of an Ivory-billed Woodpecker. And just as it pulls up to land on the trunk of a tupelo less than 100 feet away, you both shout simultaneously, "Ivory-bill!" And the bird veers away into the woods, landing a couple of times on the backs of tupelo trunks and then continuing on as you ram your canoe into the side of the bayou, jumping out and abandoning it while you struggle to move as fast as you can through the muck and mire, scrambling over huge fallen logs, tearing your clothes on broken branches and shrubbery. And fifteen minutes later, practically in cardiac arrest from the excitement and sheer exertion of the chase, you collapse against a massive fallen tree as Bobby sobs, "I saw an Ivory-bill...I saw an Ivory-bill."</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">And all these years later, on the 20th anniversary of this sighting, the moment is still so vivid, so amazing, so unlike anything you've ever experienced, your heart still races whenever you think about it.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWQ-Ni8w09U82q0Twt-Jz9yCKF-wZRgWgWFNIQ1b4XMhEuMoh49jtxhwcxS0eA36PaWaHhcyXRS1kxmB_ZhmG3IRJbgVbOehWVa_ecyxTxUPLggjXZ-sHHmpfuMo_LmgUosmOC5lil2w/s1600/Tim_and_Bobby_5341.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWQ-Ni8w09U82q0Twt-Jz9yCKF-wZRgWgWFNIQ1b4XMhEuMoh49jtxhwcxS0eA36PaWaHhcyXRS1kxmB_ZhmG3IRJbgVbOehWVa_ecyxTxUPLggjXZ-sHHmpfuMo_LmgUosmOC5lil2w/s1600/Tim_and_Bobby_5341.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span>At the very spot we saw the Ivory-bill, 10 years to the minute later, I drink a toast with Bobby—unfortunately it's Mountain Dew, not Champagne. Photo by Clara Gallagher</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIr2XROFnVI1YpUACPAieAqeSdvaTV7bD_9WPdJGA9868E9hTYoAApB3ES7j45n_UODC9AsryY1ST28Y9_dabImm1OKOBWFVpwdGrVesWVv_YamkzOR3ugNr1zZe6eT7Jr2rT1Fc-U1g/s1600/Screen+Shot+2014-03-02+at+9.57.17+AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIr2XROFnVI1YpUACPAieAqeSdvaTV7bD_9WPdJGA9868E9hTYoAApB3ES7j45n_UODC9AsryY1ST28Y9_dabImm1OKOBWFVpwdGrVesWVv_YamkzOR3ugNr1zZe6eT7Jr2rT1Fc-U1g/s1600/Screen+Shot+2014-03-02+at+9.57.17+AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Bobby Harrison discusses the February 27, 2004, Ivory-bill sighting in George Butler's documentary, <i>The Lord God Bird</i>. Below, Ed Bradley interviews Tim and Bobby for an episode of "Sixty Minutes!" Photo by Ron Rohrbaugh.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQhP_oFiI8OMeVk44S1HJXc2eZDm05Cx2iZ2A2UAoM112kWxoYeGaPmMej4_5g0z0WCystWAtT0BicuzXRkXN365PERneDXLzYlrqA_jKJ4MVuAb6Cjt9DepCcI1mu6T9FMHE1lA5zhw/s1600/60+Minutes+interview.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQhP_oFiI8OMeVk44S1HJXc2eZDm05Cx2iZ2A2UAoM112kWxoYeGaPmMej4_5g0z0WCystWAtT0BicuzXRkXN365PERneDXLzYlrqA_jKJ4MVuAb6Cjt9DepCcI1mu6T9FMHE1lA5zhw/s1600/60+Minutes+interview.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div>Tim Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930445694831642950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079663929720309091.post-12806834197592471492024-02-21T22:30:00.007-05:002024-02-28T21:13:44.861-05:00Desolation Row<p><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lately I’ve been thinking about the time I spent five months in the county jail for possession of one ounce of cannabis. Fresh out of high school, it was my first offense of any kind, but I guess I needed to be taught a lesson I would never forget. Here’s a piece I wrote about the experience. The names have been changed to protect the innocent—and the guilty.</span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_61DtTgMow3sATxkSRo50chxxSVk_q51w6w-Gw2FSmmJ5r7NDYUE6Ot8CZZT7vGmqRJPbyGtdJPEQxXvC-MVv3itXNscwB4BPifKkQtaNGJXgG0lod_AhXUEoJxheoF9jKhJpWW8201gXRLKS3AmmuY8jH1PfR-CJjurs1Vpb2BvOG3ZWKgYwIOYy/s1514/Desolation%20Row.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1226" data-original-width="1514" height="518" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_61DtTgMow3sATxkSRo50chxxSVk_q51w6w-Gw2FSmmJ5r7NDYUE6Ot8CZZT7vGmqRJPbyGtdJPEQxXvC-MVv3itXNscwB4BPifKkQtaNGJXgG0lod_AhXUEoJxheoF9jKhJpWW8201gXRLKS3AmmuY8jH1PfR-CJjurs1Vpb2BvOG3ZWKgYwIOYy/w640-h518/Desolation%20Row.png" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">When I entered my guilty plea, the public defender arranged a two-week stay in the imposition of my sentence to give me time to get things in order and prepare myself mentally and emotionally for jail. But the judge made a special point of telling me that if I was late turning myself in at 5:00 p.m. two Fridays from then, I would be considered an escapee and would face an additional year and a day of imprisonment—which meant I would go straight to a state prison; one year is the maximum county jail sentence in California.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">Maybe I should have taken a look at the municipal complex in Santa Ana a few days before I was scheduled to begin my sentence. I just didn’t think it was necessary. I had seen the huge, square, three-story gray concrete edifice of the Orange County Main Jail before. And it was scary looking. The only windows in the building were these long, narrow slots—just large enough to let in a little light. Since I knew where the building was, how could I possibly get lost? I just didn’t take into account that we would hit heavy rush-hour traffic on the way to downtown Santa Ana, and I would arrive within minutes of my deadline in a rush, not knowing how to get inside the building. My sister Maureen was driving her black-and-white ’56 Ford sedan—which my friends and I always called her cop car. I sat in the front passenger seat and my mother and little sister Janet rode in the back. There were no parking spaces anywhere, so I said goodbye and dashed out of the car in heavy traffic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">The wilting-hot summer sun blazed down as I ran up and down the side of the gray concrete building, searching for an entrance. I couldn’t see one anywhere. What if I’m late? What if I get sent to state prison for a year just because I can’t find the damn door to the jail? I ran along a sidewalk leading into an open area between the buildings in the municipal complex. By this time, I was breathing hard and sweating, in a complete panic. And I was already five minutes late. I finally spotted a sheriff’s deputy. Almost in tears, I practically threw myself at his feet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Excuse me, could you help me?” I asked. “I was supposed to start serving a sentence at 5:30. I got here on time, but I don’t know where to go . . . I can’t figure out how to get inside.” He looked at me in amazement, then he explained how to get to the door where prisoners turned themselves in.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">It’s funny. In some ways I expected the cops to be waiting at the door for me with handcuffs ready. It wasn’t like that at all. Inside the iron door was a small room where perhaps a dozen men sat in chairs along the side. Most of them were weekenders. They’d been sentenced to serve ten weekends in jail so they could work at their regular jobs during the week. They would turn themselves in each Friday night and spend Saturday and Sunday engaged in various menial projects like picking up trash along the freeway or hoeing weeds in public places. At that time, the courts never gave weekend sentences or work furloughs to people who’d been convicted of drug charges; they were afraid the men might try to smuggle drugs into prison.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was surprised there weren’t any deputies around. We all sat around waiting for someone to open the iron door at the end of the room and take us inside. But nothing happened. I sat there for more than an hour. Some of the other men asked me what I was charged with and how long my sentence was. When I told them I’d be in for five months, they all said I should get out of there right now and head for Mexico or someplace. None of them could imagine serving five months in jail—even though most of them would be spending each weekend there for a couple of months or more. But I think they rightly saw that you cross an invisible line when you become a regular inmate. Weekenders all go in together and never really become part of the inmate population.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">I didn’t know what to expect. I had stopped to say goodbye to my good friends Mac and Robert earlier in the day. They seemed genuinely upset that I was going into jail. It was like they hadn’t really thought about it until that moment. Jail is a fearful place to people who have never been there—a great unknown conjuring up frightening images of unspeakable humiliations and tortures: muggings, rapes, razor slashings, murder, and who knows what else? All your friends have ideas and suggestions about what to do to survive in jail. “I’d start screaming like a maniac so everyone would think I was crazy and leave me alone.” “I’d crap in my pants if someone tried to rape me, and then they’d be too disgusted to go through with it.” Or the best one I heard: “The first chance you get, attack the biggest meanest guy in the jail, so eveyone’ll know you’re too tough to mess with.” He was right about one thing: no one would ever mess with you again—because you’d be dead.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> * * *<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">I waited in the room at the main jail for a couple of hours before a guard finally called my name and let me inside, but that was just the beginning. I was put into a holding cell with some Mexican farm workers who had obviously been picked up on immigration charges. They were still dressed in their field clothes and one wore an old straw cowboy hat with a small leather tassel in the back. They didn’t speak English. From there I was finally led to another holding cell to wait my turn to be processed, fingerprinted, and issued jail clothes. I struck up a conversation with another prisoner. He seemed friendly enough, and before I was led away, he said: “Be sure to tell them you want to go to O Tank.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was photographed and fingerprinted and had to turn in all my belongings, including my clothes. The guards took me to a shower room where I washed up, and then they sprayed a whitish liquid—some DDT-laced lice-killing concoction—onto my hair, armpits, and pubic area. It burned, but they wouldn’t let me wash it off. I had to leave it on and get dressed in the clothes they issue me: white boxer shorts, denim jeans, and a dark blue sweatshirt with “Orange County Main Jail” stenciled in the back with bright yellow paint. They also gave me white athletic socks and flip-flops to wear on my feet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">A guard took me to a storage room to pick up a thin rolled up mattress, a blanket and sheet, and a pillow to take to my cell. As I was walking there, I asked him, “Would it be okay if I stayed in O Tank?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">He frowned. “Oh, you’re just going to sit on your duff, huh?” he said. I shrugged. I didn’t know what he was getting at. By this time, it was almost midnight. I’d been at the jail for more than six hours. I was spaced out and exhausted, and I just wanted to sleep. A few minutes later, we entered the cellblock containing O Tank and P Tank. A call went up immediately: “Man walking . . . Man walking!” I found out this was how prisoners spread the word that a guard was coming, so if anyone was doing anything illegal, they would have time to stop. When the guard left, they’d shout: “Man got a hat . . . Man got a hat!” And everyone knew the coast was clear.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">The cellblock looked like a set from a classic prison movie: two tiers of cells—P Tank above and O Tank below—with a bulletproof-glass-enclosed catwalk where the guards would walk past, right across from P Tank. The only thing missing was a machinegun turret. But at the Orange County Main Jail, none of the guards carried firearms. They were too afraid an inmate might get hold of a gun if any were around.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">I followed the guard down the iron stairs and stood in front of Cell 2 in O Tank. Three prisoners sat around a long metal table inside, permanently attached to the bare concrete floor. Behind it was a sink, a toilet without a seat (or any kind of enclosure), and an open-fronted shower stall. To the right, in a different section of the cell, I saw six flat metal bunks, at least two of which had people sleeping in them. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">The men at the table were rough looking. Although most of them were probably not more than four or five years older than me, they had the pallid, dull-eyed look of longtime inmates. They glared menacingly at the guard but seemed oblivious to me. I wondered why they weren’t in bed sleeping; it was well past midnight. It turned out that in O Tank it didn’t matter what time of day it was—no one worked; no one left the tank except for the twice a day walk to the mess hall and back for breakfast and dinner. O Tank inmates didn’t get lunch. And the lights were always on; they were just dimmed a little at night.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">I later found out I’d been the butt of a little prison joke. O Tank was a punishment area where inmates were sent if they refused to work, wouldn’t obey the guards, or were serious troublemakers. None of the cells in O Tank had televisions, and the prisoners were not allowed to have playing cards or even books, with the exception of the <i>Holy Bible</i>, which most inmates just used to make tattoos. They would tear out a few pages at a time, burn them in a tin ashtray, and mix the dark ashes in water to get the printer’s ink from the paper. They would then take the fuzz off the end of a pipe-cleaner, sharpen it to a point on a matchbook cover, dip it in the ink, and poke it repeatedly deep into someone’s flesh to get the ink under their skin—an incredibly painful process. But I’d learn all about that later.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">As I stood in front of the cell, a guard up on the catwalk operated the controls and the cell door slid open automatically and then shut behind me with a great clang as I walked inside.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">It’s an odd moment entering a jail cell full of strangers—like all the fear and awkwardness of being the new kid in school multiplied a thousand times. For someone like me, who had never done time, it was horrifying.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">I carried my bedding inside and laid it on the only open bunk. One of the prisoners who had been sitting at the table suddenly appeared behind me, and I jumped for an instant, but he was just going past to get something from his bunk. He pulled a deck of cards from under his pillow. This was contraband in O Tank, but sometimes the prisoners would make deals with the trustees (prisoners who worked in the jail) to slip them some playing cards along with the commissary items people ordered each week if they had money in their prison account. They usually paid for contraband (or lost wagers) with packs of cigarettes, the unofficial coin of the realm in most jails. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Wanna play cards?” he asked.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">I shrugged. “What kind?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Hearts.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I’ve never played it,” I said. “I don’t know how.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It’s easy,” he said. “Come on.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was too tired and scared to say no, so I followed him out to the table and sat down next to a tall thin Mexican called Cruz. The man with the cards, Eldon, sat across the table from me, and another man called Wayne sat beside him. Eldon carefully explained the rules of Hearts to me—about how the object of the game is to avoid getting points and that each card in the Hearts suit is worth one point and the Queen of Spades (nicknamed “the bitch”) is worth 13 points. If I got her, he said, I’d be done for—unless I could “shoot the moon” successfully. If one person manages to get every point card, everyone else automatically receives 26 points each, he told me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">I stared blankly at him, and he repeated the whole thing again . . . and again. I was still in a daze about being in jail and was physically exhausted; I couldn’t focus my mind. Eldon shook his head finally and said we should just start playing. Wayne smirked. I’m sure he sensed some easy pickings. We were betting packs of cigarettes—which was odd for me, because I didn’t smoke. And it was all done on credit. If I lost, I’d have to order cigarettes from the commissary using the ten or twelve dollars in my account—all the money I’d had in my wallet when I was booked into the jail.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">I played a few hands and got behind, which only encouraged everyone to up the ante. There was so much riding on the final hand, I was afraid I wouldn’t have enough money to pay for all the cigarettes. I felt sick. I didn’t know what these guys would do to someone who tried to welch on a bet. And I kept getting more and more Hearts. Then I got the Queen of Spades. And then it suddenly dawned on everyone—lastly on me—that I had taken all the points. I’d shot the moon successfully without even knowing it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">Everyone was stunned. Eldon stared at me and suddenly started laughing. “Shit, we’ll probably find out his dad’s a riverboat gambler in New Orleans,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cruz slapped me on the shoulder. “Way to go, Slick,” he said, laughing. (The nickname “Slick” stuck with me after that for the rest of the time I spent in jail.) I glanced at Wayne, but he wasn’t laughing. He stared sullenly at me with a blank face that chilled me. I looked away and laughed along with Cruz and Eldon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cruz was the oldest prisoner in the cell—probably at least twenty-six with black slicked-back hair, a moustache, and dark, melancholy eyes. He wore the sleeves of his dark blue prison sweatshirt pulled up, revealing several crude jail tattoos. The inside of his left forearm had a side-view sketch of a long skinny lion with the words “Krazy Kool Kat” written underneath. He had a sad personal story—as do most prison inmates if you scratch beneath the surface. He was born to an illegal immigrant mother in a small Texas border town but had been living in Santa Ana for a few years. He met a woman from Mexico, and they married and had a daughter together. Then she became pregnant again. He was working nights at a factory at this time but then got laid off. Desperate for cash, a friend told him he could make decent money transporting stolen goods. He set him up with a band of thieves operating from Los Angeles. Cruz would pick up the items—furniture, televisions, and appliances mostly—from the back of stores and warehouses in Los Angeles and drop them off at a warehouse in Santa Ana. In most cases, the storeowners or employees were in on the theft, and they were looking to collect insurance. Someone else set everything up, and Cruz knew nothing about the business. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">One night, a police squad car pulled Cruz over enroute to Santa Ana, and he couldn’t explain why he had stolen property in his van. He ended up in the main jail and spent months as an unsentenced inmate before he was convicted. He couldn’t afford bail, and the judge wouldn’t let him out on his own recognizance because Cruz had originally come from out of state and was considered a flight risk.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cruz called a friend to send a message to his wife. She was still an illegal immigrant; they had never gone through the process of trying to get her a green card. She never visited him because she feared being arrested by INS agents and deported to Mexico. And she only sent one letter, but that was months later after he had been sentenced to one year in the county jail, and it had no return address. She said she was moving to another city where she had a chance to work as a housekeeper for a wealthy family, but she couldn’t tell him where she was. She enclosed a snapshot of his tiny daughter and his infant son, who Cruz had never seen. He always kept the picture on the wall beside his bunk.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">The thing I remember most about Cruz was his singing voice. Late at night, he’d lay in his bunk singing beautiful mournful ballads in Spanish. His voice was so mellow and pure, no one ever told him to stop singing. Sometimes when I lay awake in my bunk at night listening to him sing, I’d find myself weeping.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eldon had a moustache and dark shoulder-length hair and always wore a blue bandanna tied in the back to form a headband. He seemed to be the one in charge in the cell, perhaps because he’d done more time than anyone else—for burglary, car theft, drugs: he’d even been charged with manslaughter once but had plead guilty to a lesser charge. I later found out that his older brother and his brother’s fiancé were the ones whose deaths he had caused. Apparently, he had insisted on driving them someplace when he was so stoned on liquor and Seconal he could barely walk. He was in a terrible accident that killed them both, but he was barely injured. He would carry the guilt for the rest of his life. He had a small laminated card with a picture of his brother on one side and the fiancé on the other.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then there was Wayne—the scariest person in O Tank. He was short and stocky with medium-length light-brown hair that he combed back behind his ears. He had done a couple of tours in Viet Nam and enjoyed the violence and destruction, but he had gotten in some kind of trouble and been busted out of the army. He was serving a nine-month sentence for selling drugs. Wayne had been at Theo Lacy—a branch jail—for several months but was sent back to the main jail because he was considered too dangerous. He was the prime instigator in a planned prisoner uprising. One of the inmates at Lacy who worked at the police pistol range had been stealing ammunition for several months to get gunpowder so Wayne could make a bomb. Another inmate who worked at the dog pound adjacent to Lacy had somehow gotten hold of a handgun he kept stashed inside a barrel of dry dog food at the pound.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lacy jail at that time was laid out with four glass-fronted barracks arrayed in a semi-circle facing a central control booth, which was also glass-fronted so that the guards could see into every barracks night and day. But usually only one guard sat there at night, and sometimes he would read a book or even doze off, so guard coverage was light. Wayne was going to sneak out in the middle of the night and place a gunpowder bomb against the control booth. There was a guard Wayne particularly hated. He planned to wait outside with the pistol and shoot the guard dead as he came fleeing from the control booth after the explosion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was surprised by Wayne’s glee as he told me the story. The odd thing is that this plan had nothing to do with escaping from jail or anything that even remotely made any sense. Anyone could escape from Lacy. It was then a minimum-security prison. All an inmate had to do was jump over the chain-link fence out back and run along the bed of the Santa Ana River. Of course, they usually got caught, which meant they would automatically get a year and a day added to their sentence and go straight to a state prison. And they would be considered “rabbits” by the prison system and forever after would only be housed in maximum-security facilities. That’s what kept most people from running. But none of that mattered in Wayne’s plan; it was all about mayhem and revenge and had no other purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">The whole thing collapsed when a guard found the pistol at the dog pound. A massive follow-up search at Lacy unearthed a bag of gunpowder hidden in Barracks C, and Wayne was the prime suspect. He was the “house mouse” in that barracks—an inmate whose sole duty is to keep a barracks clean and well maintained; it’s considered a plum job. The guards all knew Wayne was involved in whatever destructive act had been planned, but they couldn’t prove it. No matter how they tried to break him, he stayed mum. But they knew how dangerous he was, so they quickly whisked him away to O Tank to serve out the rest of his sentence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">A couple of weeks into my jail time, I got into a brief scuffle with Wayne. I can’t even remember what started it—probably a joke that went bad. He suddenly made a lightning-fast commando move on me, sweeping my legs out from under me with his foot and throwing me hard onto the concrete floor. And he was on me instantly in a death hold, his legs holding my torso from behind and squeezing my lungs, his hands gripping my throat firmly. He seemed as strong as a wild animal—like a grizzly bear or a lion. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t make a sound. I couldn’t inhale or exhale. It was a strange sensation, like being paralyzed from the neck down. It didn’t hurt. I lay there completely detached from my body, watching myself die. Just before I blacked out, I heard Eldon say, “Let him go . . . NOW!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">It’s always weird coming to after being unconscious. I didn’t know where I was for a couple of minutes as I lay on the floor staring up at the neon lights. I heard Wayne laughing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“We was just kidding around,” he said. “I was showing him how to off people without making a sound, like in Nam.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eldon stood over me. “You okay, Slick?” he asked.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Yeah,” I said, clearing my throat. “I’m okay.” He reached for my hand and pulled me to my feet. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was amazed Wayne had backed off. I guess even he realized that with someone like Eldon, who didn’t care if he lived or died, there was no telling what he might do if he snapped. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">Two other people also lived in Cell 2 for part of the time I was there. I had so little contact with them I can’t remember their names. One was only serving thirty days and as far as I know slept the entire time he was there. The other was a short guy with a beard who had once tried to commit suicide when he was on LSD. He had so many deep, ghastly razor scars up and down his arm it made me cringe to look at him. I can’t imagine how he had survived. The guards gave him Thorazine, an anti-psychotic drug, every day, and he rarely spoke.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">My days spent in O Tank all seemed to run together, because there was no break between them—no real difference between night and day. Sometimes we’d go two or three days at a time without sleeping, playing cards when we had them or trying to play chess in our minds without a board or chess pieces when we didn’t. Other times we might sleep for a couple of days, just getting up to walk to the mess hall. This was how to break up the routine. This was the way to make time pass. That was the worst part: time moved so slowly. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was unbearable for me at first. I’d been such an outdoor person my whole life. Now I had to spend every minute of every day in a bleak, depressing place with no sunshine or fresh air—just the constant glare of neon lights, bright during the day, dim at night, but never dark. The only windows to the outside in the entire jail were thin, horizontal slots. But they were only on the upper level of our cellblock, behind the guards’ catwalk. In O Tank we saw only solid concrete walls.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">At five in the morning each day they herded us into a vestibule at the top of the stairs before taking us to the mess hall. I always paused to gaze out the window toward the street far below, where a bail bonds sign gleamed perpetually through the mist. I remember enviously watching a wino stagger down the street just before dawn one morning and thinking that he had far more freedom than me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">When we were all gathered in the vestibule, the thick iron door would buzz loudly, then open to let us into the long hallway. “Single file! Hands in your pockets!” a guard would bark, and we’d all line up along the institution-green wall and wait to be escorted to the mess hall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">Privacy is the first casualty in jail. I never had a moment alone the entire time I was at the main jail. Everything is wide open. The toilet stands just three or four feet from the table where everyone sits, and there is no partition. The single-stall shower has no curtain. Any modesty a person might feel has to die quickly. A guard walking along the catwalk can see everything going on in a cell, but it doesn’t really give a prisoner much if any protection. A lot can happen outside the scrutiny of the guards. But it does add to the humiliation and dehumanization of being a prisoner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">I started pacing back and forth in the cell within a couple of days of being there, which really bugged the others, especially Wayne. And I had a small calendar I was using to check off my time served. One day Eldon saw me looking at my calendar, and he shook his head.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“You gotta stop that, man,” he said. “It’ll drive you crazy. You’re pulling hard time. It don’t make time go by any faster. It makes it a hundred times worse. You should just relax, do your time, don’t think about it. You’ll be out of here before you know it.” I finally took his advice and threw away my calendar.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some of the guards seemed to delight in humiliating us. The worst was a guy we called Cutter. He was always doing shakedowns in O Tank, pulling people’s bunks apart and dumping all their belongings on the floor. He’d frequently come into our cells with three or four other guards and put us through a strip search. We’d have to take off all our clothes and stand in a line in front of the cell as they searched through our hair, our armpits, and every other potential hiding place. As a final humiliation, each of us would have to bend over and spread our butt cheeks apart as a guard shined a flashlight up our anuses. I don’t know what they expected to find there.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cutter was a burly man in his thirties with a close-cropped flattop haircut. He would strut around the cell like a Marine Corps drill instructor, often going too close to each prisoner in the line, invading his personal space, daring him to strike out. He also had an annoying habit when he worked early mornings of suddenly turning on the cell lights to full strength at 4:00 a.m. and opening and closing the cell doors again and again and again until every man in every cell was up and dressed. It was the rudest of awakenings.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">One morning when Cutter was doing that, Wayne said someone ought to stick his arm in the door so Cutter would get in trouble. I glanced at Eldon and saw him staring blankly at the door as it slid back and forth—<i>wham . . . wham . . . wham!</i> I grabbed his wrist.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Don’t do it, man,” I said. “Please . . . don’t do it.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">He looked up, surprised, then smiled. “Don’t worry about it,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> * * *<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">O Tank was the strangest place I’ve ever seen. It had its own code, its own rituals—even its own language. One expression I liked was the way the prisoners would say “radio” instead of “shut up.” “Hey, radio that shit!” they’d yell if someone was being too loud or saying something they didn’t like.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">Every so often, the police would raid several of the local bridges frequented by homeless winos, called “grapes” by the inmates. They would end up in P Tank, drying out before being sent on to Theo Lacy or to the Honor Farm. Some of them suffered from serious delirium tremens as they went without alcohol and would cry out and moan or talk to imaginary people in the middle of the night. This infuriated the other prisoners, who would shout: “Radio, grape!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> * * *<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">Every Saturday inmates could have short visits with their friends or family. The guards would herd us down to the visiting room if someone came to see us, and we would each sit in a little stall with a glass partition separating the prisoner from the visitor. I remember the first time my mom and my sisters came to visit me they just started talking, and I couldn’t hear a word. I finally tapped on the glass and pointed to the telephone receiver we each had to use. I didn’t get many visitors outside of my family. For the most part, I was forgotten. Three or four people I knew came for a single visit shortly after I began my sentence, but they were not close friends and I think had come more out of curiosity than anything else. I wrote back and forth a few times with a girl I knew, but her letters soon petered out. It’s hard, especially for a young person, to keep interested in someone when they’re locked away in jail. But my friend Hollis visited me a couple of times later, and Jeff sent me some postcards he’d made with pictures of trained hawks on front, and I stuck them on the wall beside my bunk.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> * * *<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">I barely missed being sent to the hole one night. I don’t remember exactly what triggered it—probably just boredom and frustration—but suddenly everyone was throwing stuff out of their cells up and down O Tank. Torn mattresses with their stuffing hanging out, blankets, pillows, clothes, toilet paper, garbage—everything they could get their hands on. Wayne started to tear his mattress apart with his bare hands, but Eldon stopped him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Hey, I don’t want to go to the hole,” said Eldon. “I’ve been there enough times already, and I don’t like it.” That was enough to stop us. As the other O Tank prisoners continued their destructive rampage, we reversed the process in our cell, cleaning up the floor, making our bunks, putting everything neatly back in its place. Soon, the whole cell row was a shambles—except our cell and the space in front of it. The first guard who came by on the catwalk was aghast. He called for backup, and when they arrived, one of the guards got on the loudspeaker: “Roll it up,” he said. “You’re all going to the hole . . . except Cell 2.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">The prisoners rolled up the remnants of their bedding and headed up the stairs where even more guards had arrived to take them in tow. And we didn’t see any of them for the next five days—the standard minimum time spent in the hole. It’s a miserable place—a series of small one-man cells with only a toilet inside: no seat, no bunk, no bedding. And it can get cold in there, lying on the bare concrete floor. The prisoners don’t even get to go to the mess hall to eat. These guys from O Tank had it worse than most, though, because the jail didn’t have enough cells in the hole to accommodate them all. The guards had to put five or six of them in each one-man cell.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> * * *<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">One day Wayne expounded his long-term vision and philosophy to me. He was a survivalist long before it had a name. He dreamed of gathering a tribe of misfits and going off to live in some remote mountains, apart from society, existing on whatever they could scrape together, kill, or steal in the wilderness. Of course, this involved having a full complement of various guns and other high-tech weaponry in case the government ever came after them. He happened to ask me if I was a hunter, and I said yes. But I usually hunt with falcons, not guns, I told him. His eyes lit up. He wanted to know everything about the birds. How I caught them. How I trained them. What kinds of game they could take. After a few days of this, he started trying to talk me into joining his group in the mountains—although at this time he was the sole member. He told me everything he’d been thinking about for years, speaking with all the zeal of a prophet. He had a vision he was sure would catch fire and eventually spread across the world. And I could be a major part of it—me and my falcons.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">I had mixed feelings about suddenly becoming Wayne’s new best friend. On the one hand, there might be less chance he would flip out and kill me while I was in jail. But on the other hand, who’d want to be hooked up with this nut case? I tried to stay noncommittal, but he was always there, talking in detail about the great things we’d be able to accomplish. Eldon and Cruz overheard some of this a few times. They’d look at me from behind Wayne’s back and smirk.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some bad things started happening a short time later. Cutter had taken a strong dislike to Eldon, and he did everything he could to get to him. One day when he was going through a cigar box where Eldon kept a few of his belongings, he squirted a tube of shaving cream all over the inside. We didn’t see him do it, because we were all lined up naked facing the other way for a skin search, but he was the only one who went back there. Another time, Cutter was searching through our bunks and saw the picture of Eldon’s brother stuck on the wall. He pulled it off and looked at it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“What the hell is this?” he said. “A goddamn pinup?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">I could sense Eldon tensing without even seeing him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It’s mine,” I lied. “It’s my brother. His wife’s on the back.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was a nonentity to Cutter. He barely knew I existed, so he let it go. He just turned the picture over to look at the other side then tossed it on the bunk. I’m sure he never realized how close he came to having his head slammed into the concrete wall by Eldon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">But that wasn’t the end of the troubles between Cutter and Eldon. One day when we were lined up for another skin search, Eldon made a crack about Cutter under his breath, and we all laughed for a second.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cutter rose up in Eldon’s face. “What’s the joke, huh? You got something to say to me?” They glared at each other eye-to-eye, just inches apart. Eldon kept silent. “I didn’t think so,” said Cutter. “Well, turn around and spread ‘em.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eldon bent over and spread his buttocks, and just as Cutter knelt down behind him with his flashlight, he broke wind right in his face. Cutter shot up in a fury, beet-red and shaking with anger. “Roll it up, you bastard! You’re going to the hole!” he shouted. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“What for?” said Eldon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Contraband,” said Cutter as he pulled a deck of cards from his own pocket and slammed it on the floor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eldon calmly got dressed and gathered his bedding together. “Could you take care of my stuff for me?” he asked.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Sure,” I said and watched as he walked up the stairs in front of Cutter. A moment later, he went through the heavy iron door, and it slammed shut behind him. I picked up the cigar box he left on my bed and looked inside. It held a razor, an old toothbrush, a couple of packs of cigarettes, and a laminated plastic picture of his brother and his fiancé.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> * * *<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">A rumor swept through the jail a few days later that Eldon had jumped a guard and then been beaten severely by some other guards. He would be in the hole for at least two more weeks. I immediately thought of Cutter, but no, it turned out that Twiggy was the guard Eldon attacked. (The prisoners had nicknamed him Twiggy after the famous English fashion model because he was so thin.) That surprised me. Twiggy was one of the more amiable guards at the main jail. I couldn’t imagine what set Eldon off.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">A couple of weeks later I heard Eldon was out of the hole but wouldn’t be coming back to O Tank. He’d had his hair cut short and was now a trustee living in a ward on another floor. I was stunned. Later that day during dinner at the mess hall, an O Tank prisoner sitting across from me started talking about Eldon, saying he was a snitch. I shot up instantly, knocking my tray off the edge of the table with a clatter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“That’s fucking bullshit!” I said. Everyone at the surrounding tables stopped eating and stared as I stood there. “He’d never snitch!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">The man backed off. “Well, I don’t know,” he said. “Maybe I’m wrong. I just think it’s strange he punches out a guard one day and now he’s a trustee.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">To have a “snitch jacket”—the stigma of having given information to police or guards—is a virtual death sentence for a prisoner. It’s a brand that follows a person to any prison across the country where he may serve time someday, and there’s no way to erase it. That’s why I had to stop that rumor before it started. But I still wanted to find out what happened. I wanted to see Eldon somehow and talk with him about it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">The next morning, I wrote a note to the guard on duty saying I wanted to transfer out of O Tank and become a trustee. The funny thing is I had written several notes like that before, beginning with my first day in O Tank, when I said I’d made a mistake. I didn’t know what O Tank was. I wanted to work. I wanted to go to Lacy or to the honor farm. All my letters had been ignored. But this time was different. Within an hour, the guard called me out of my cell to talk about my transfer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“So, you’re ready to work?” he asked.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Sure,” I said. “The sooner the better.” A short time later I was back in Cell 2 rolling up my bedding. Wayne came up to me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“What is this?” he asked. “What’s going on?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I’m getting the hell out of here,” I said. “I’m going to be a trustee. I’m hoping maybe I can get transferred to Lacy after that.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">He was astounded. “Why the hell would you want to do that?” he said. “They’re all a bunch of assholes at Lacy.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I don’t know,” I said. “I just can’t stand never getting to go outside. I really hate this place. I want some fresh air and sunshine. I want to be able to see birds again, you know?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Yeah, I know that’s important to you,” he said, frowning. “But you’re making a big mistake.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">I ignored him as I pulled my hawk pictures down from the wall and gathered together my toothbrush and razor and Eldon’s cigar box.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Well, don’t forget, Slick,” said Wayne. “We got to get together again on the streets when we’re both out of here. I got big plans.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I’ll definitely keep in touch,” I said. “See you around.” I turned and saw Cruz sitting at the table where I’d first seen him. “I hope everything works out okay for you, Cruz,” I said. “And I hope I see you again sometime.” He stood up and embraced me. “I hope so, too,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">And with that I was out of it. After more than two months I walked up the stairs and out of O Tank and never saw the place (or Wayne) again.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> * * *<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eldon did a double take when he saw me walk into the mess hall for the first time in my new trustee sweatshirt. We were both gold shirts now, which meant we were trustees who worked only on the first floor. His group was just getting up to leave as I was lining up for food. I barely recognized him at first without his long hair and bandanna. They’d given him a buzz cut before letting him be a trustee. Only prisoners in O Tank or in the cells for unsentenced inmates could have long hair at the county jail. The barber did the same to me, although my hair had been nowhere near as long as Eldon’s. The guard took me downstairs to the barbershop—a cell with a barber’s chair inside—and asked the inmate who worked there to cut my hair. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“He’s from O Tank,” the guard said. The haircutter winked at him and pulled out the electric clippers. He switched the power on and buzzed it across my head like he was mowing a lawn—the shortest haircut I’ve ever had.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">After that the guard took me to get my bedding and my trustee sweatshirt and showed me where I’d be staying, in an open ward instead of a cell. It was still a sterile place with a door the guards locked at night, but we had a little more freedom. When we got off work, we could hang around a large common area and watch television, play cards, read, or talk to other prisoners. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">I finally got to see Eldon that evening after work. (I was a custodian mopping the holding cells and hallways on the first floor and doing other menial work.) His face looked like it had been roughed up. Although it was mostly healed, he still had a few faded bruises and scabs. He also had a huge bandage on his right thumb. He’d already had a badly infected thumb for a few weeks in O Tank, but it looked worse now. We sat at a table together in the common area.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“So, you beat up Twiggy?” I said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">He smiled. “I feel bad about that,” he said. “Too bad you weren’t there to stop me.” We both laughed. He told me how tense he was after two or three days in the hole, and then his infected thumb flared up again. He showed it to the guards, and they arranged to take him downstairs later so the medic could examine it. Twiggy was one of the guards who took him out of his cell, and he gave Eldon a little shove as he walked past him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I snapped,” said Eldon. “I just turned around and tackled him, and we both went to the ground.” The other two guards were on him instantly, but Eldon was in such a rage, they couldn’t budge him off Twiggy—until one of them grabbed hold of his infected thumb and squeezed with all his might. Eldon nearly feinted from the pain. As soon as they got him off Twiggy, they beat him senseless and threw him back into the hole.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“You know, Twiggy didn't press charges or anything," said Eldon. "He came back later and apologized . . . said he was out of line. Can you believe that? If it’d been Cutter . . . I don’t know.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eldon told me he had to see his probation officer a couple of days after that, and the man laid it out straight for him. He had never before had to violate the probation of someone currently serving time, but he was about to do it with Eldon—which would mean he would immediately start serving the state-prison sentence that had been suspended as part of the terms of his probation. But he offered him one final chance. If Eldon would stop being such an incorrigible rebel—if he would cut his hair, become a trustee, and try to become a more productive, positive member of the inmate population—his probation would not be violated. And Eldon agreed, which, for him, was an amazing act of contrition. I’m sure it had a lot to do with the fact that Twiggy apologized to him. He was impressed by that and felt bad that he had attacked him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">The next day brought a surprise: Cruz showed up in the trustee common area. He had transferred from O Tank. </span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;">“Wayne was driving me crazy,” he said. “He wanted me to join his damn army and go live in the hills someplace.” We all laughed. It was great having the three of us back together again. And after spending a couple of months in O Tank, this place seemed like a holiday resort. I’ll never forget how great it was being able to take a can of trash outside to a dumpster for the first time. I couldn’t see much. It was in a small asphalt-covered area with a thirty-foot wall blocking my view. But I was out in the fresh air and sunshine, and for the first time in weeks I felt alive. And the guards let us go up to a fenced-in exercise area on top of the jail a couple of days a week. There we could play shuffleboard and other games or just lay in the sun relaxing. At the time, it seemed as good as being on a cruise ship.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">After three weeks of being a trustee, I found out I was being transferred to Theo Lacy in a couple of days. Suddenly I had mixed feelings. This was something I’d been wanting for the entire time I’d been in jail. But now, when I finally had a chance to go there, I felt conflicted. I had friends now. I felt reasonably comfortable with my environment. But now, once again I’d be going off into the unknown.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">I told Eldon and Cruz that evening. “That’s great,” said Eldon. “That’s what you wanted all along,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Yeah, I know,” I said, wistfully.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Hey, you’ll do fine,” he said. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">“That’s right, Slick,” said Cruz. “You don’t want to be in this damn place anymore.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">But it was sad. We’d become like a family. I knew that if someone attacked me, Eldon and Cruz—and Wayne, too, for that matter—would throw themselves into the fray to help me, against the most hopeless odds. And I felt the same way. We all knew that instinctively. You don’t see that kind of devotion in day-to-day life. I suppose it’s the kind of camaraderie soldiers experience in combat. I would have died for those guys in a heartbeat back then. Hell, I’d do it now. Only I’m sure Eldon is long dead. And Wayne’s probably a whacked-out survivalist in the mountains of Idaho someplace with his own squad of trained killers. Cruz might have made it. I like to think he’s sitting on a porch someplace singing to his grandkids.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span style="font-size: large;">The night before I left, the three of us got together. Eldon had somehow got hold of a bottle of raisin jack some guys working in the kitchen had made. It was awful. We mixed it with water but it still scorched my throat and left me with a killer headache the next day. We laughed like giddy children that night until tears streamed down our cheeks, and it was good. It was the best. And then it was lights out. And then it was time for breakfast. And then I was climbing aboard another sheriff’s bus with wire-mesh-covered windows and driving away from the main jail. And once again in my life I was leaving friends who I knew I’d never see again. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"> </span></p>Tim Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930445694831642950noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079663929720309091.post-54211629543728621012024-01-30T15:11:00.002-05:002024-01-30T15:19:25.625-05:00Back to Bolsa Chica<p><span style="font-family: Palatino;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4XbytctgQ1YnOyjPFMjMwoZ_96aOD5B_fjcB6xGLZ7GJIM52-W4zXKymUWpLNm0L3orXtx23BSMzEa02r2tVjNKHnvJWZSzjRI8ZRtC9UuuC9ilWbBPM5pq0ADbybAMJWoKU4o6ZDujXAhR4TAvjGnua9pb5AdAvyo1kSbhyphenhyphenrCcP4q98igmOAdX1i/s5508/Bolsa_Chica_6136_TG.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3150" data-original-width="5508" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4XbytctgQ1YnOyjPFMjMwoZ_96aOD5B_fjcB6xGLZ7GJIM52-W4zXKymUWpLNm0L3orXtx23BSMzEa02r2tVjNKHnvJWZSzjRI8ZRtC9UuuC9ilWbBPM5pq0ADbybAMJWoKU4o6ZDujXAhR4TAvjGnua9pb5AdAvyo1kSbhyphenhyphenrCcP4q98igmOAdX1i/w640-h366/Bolsa_Chica_6136_TG.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><span>When I visited Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in Southern California a few months ago, it felt like coming home. I had spent much of my childhood living nearby and had gone there frequently—long before it was set aside as an ecological reserve. Back then I went as a trespasser, sneaking through the oil fields and the gun club property to get a look at all the birds and later to photograph them. At the time, I figured the place wouldn’t be there much longer.</span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino;"> </span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Palatino; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">You see the 1960s and ‘70s were a time of massive development in California, when many amazing natural areas, teeming with birds and other wildlife, were bulldozed away to make room for housing projects, shopping malls, and industrial parks, and it looked like the Bolsa Chica wetlands faced a similar fate. A developer had already drawn up plans to build more than 5,000 homes and a marina there. But fortunately for Bolsa Chica, environmental awareness was increasing and a backlash began forming against the kind of rampant development going on throughout Southern California—especially in sensitive coastal areas.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Palatino; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnTDfb-fwSdGD6ibr24UvqItA83VAcrSfqkYxxizj82Jr_9Ea0bJXTXUVLhL34tCC19pRMGBawYrBmqv6b6JDjmvJ7KaxLL3V3DwmdJDcAPZ5uF_qiLbrNFbzoSTf_rS22VCdZeNmqbkCkmpofnqwlsBg2GPpkCfL-Nc-wlO4JLocpACsSlRctFh0O/s3697/Ridgway's_Rail_5573_TG.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3056" data-original-width="3697" height="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnTDfb-fwSdGD6ibr24UvqItA83VAcrSfqkYxxizj82Jr_9Ea0bJXTXUVLhL34tCC19pRMGBawYrBmqv6b6JDjmvJ7KaxLL3V3DwmdJDcAPZ5uF_qiLbrNFbzoSTf_rS22VCdZeNmqbkCkmpofnqwlsBg2GPpkCfL-Nc-wlO4JLocpACsSlRctFh0O/w640-h530/Ridgway's_Rail_5573_TG.jpg" width="640" /></a><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Palatino; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Palatino; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">After state officials objected to the scale of the housing project, the developer agreed to set aside some 300 acres as an ecological reserve. But local environmentalists wanted to preserve more. In 1976, they launched a group called Amigos de Bolsa Chica to lobby on behalf of this vital coastal wetland. What the Amigos and two later groups—the Bolsa Chica Conservancy (founded in 1990) and the Bolsa Chica Land Trust (founded in 1992)—have accomplished is absolutely phenomenal. The ecological reserve is now more than 1,500 acres in size, with three miles of trails, a bridge, and a nature center, and it includes upland habitat in addition to the wetlands. The natural flow of seawater in and out of the marsh (which had been blocked since 1900) has been restored in much of the reserve. But much more remains to be done, removing physical structures and contaminants left behind from oil-extraction, planting native vegetation, removing exotic plants, and more. It’s an ongoing process that will probably never end, and I’m so glad about that.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Palatino; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Palatino; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif9iZv1n8WK37rxBdIEs9UtfqkyLCHmimaE6onwHmzfx5FVvhHYVZDLxgVmjjW3hMd2e-EkBLcG5RKmqaPAHvPw9zBEkf0fmD_zT29T7h3LG523cArcYFFoNBI5Ec-ZKcFJxsr7Mv-ZAmnRIbw84Iadia6ai-85Hjyc0nKdSKmwMgnzGalGqGw-eMw/s7148/Bolsa_Chica_5507_TG.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4771" data-original-width="7148" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif9iZv1n8WK37rxBdIEs9UtfqkyLCHmimaE6onwHmzfx5FVvhHYVZDLxgVmjjW3hMd2e-EkBLcG5RKmqaPAHvPw9zBEkf0fmD_zT29T7h3LG523cArcYFFoNBI5Ec-ZKcFJxsr7Mv-ZAmnRIbw84Iadia6ai-85Hjyc0nKdSKmwMgnzGalGqGw-eMw/w640-h428/Bolsa_Chica_5507_TG.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Palatino; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was so great to be at Bolsa Chica again—great to stand at the side of this remarkable wetland, snapping away with my camera as so many amazing birds went about their business, foraging or interacting with each other. Waterfowl abounded. From the low boardwalk/bridge that extends a couple of hundred yards across the saltmarsh, I saw Surf Scoters diving for food, coming up with clams clamped in their huge bills again and again as I stood barely 30 feet away. Other waterfowl I photographed included Northern Pintails, American Wigeon, Bufflehead, Ruddy Ducks, Red-breasted Mergansers, and Blue-winged Teal. I also took several close-ups of a Ridgway’s Rail (formerly considered a race of Clapper Rail but recently split). At low tide, the place teemed with shorebirds—Marbled Godwits, Long-billed Curlews, Willets, Western Sandpipers, dowitchers, and so much more. Forster’s Terns hovered above the spillway later, as the tide rushed in, diving repeatedly and usually coming up with tiny fish in their bills. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Palatino; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLuJE2Rg3DDg1_fnw59PJ7e_waicpNzMOMfHbJj9CCOFzfGafNSMhEVNkVbsK35uuQU5BEprrkIK4dzRk2xvBfB8E1HnQue_JOdrc1PLcat5-DnUn_QysY3uKCy3bAjyN8oDkToJjNqcsZjavwneP357hygc36pwny-hhGoC-4kME6M_Y8x0KektZp/s1942/Savannah_Sparrow_6430_TG.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1715" data-original-width="1942" height="566" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLuJE2Rg3DDg1_fnw59PJ7e_waicpNzMOMfHbJj9CCOFzfGafNSMhEVNkVbsK35uuQU5BEprrkIK4dzRk2xvBfB8E1HnQue_JOdrc1PLcat5-DnUn_QysY3uKCy3bAjyN8oDkToJjNqcsZjavwneP357hygc36pwny-hhGoC-4kME6M_Y8x0KektZp/w640-h566/Savannah_Sparrow_6430_TG.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2301" data-original-width="3590" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijmt7SHwfLx93iFFUxF6xAHhdHwXKAHn5TvWminX1W-lTfE0tEAgkY26hFf8RLD3JyCJ79xEXnblMfrWx3thMyoERVTrWIjzuk_yL4P-4-aMYmuSdeJlrBDxHYRhVtxa0IBVxoBbP2rkDLUi0q97kSsf9LyS5zlFiFvmHEFkBzp-iAtehcXL4P2CPb/w640-h410/American_Wigeon_6144_TG.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Palatino; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">What impressed me most about Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve is that it shows how much can be accomplished by a determined group of people who want to make a difference. It is a remarkable example of how to make a place people-friendly without having an impact on the local wildlife and the habitats on which they depend—a place people can visit with their children and help develop an appreciation of wildlife and natural habitats in the next generation. Watching nature shows on television or a computer is just no substitute for hiking through an area like Bolsa Chica and seeing wildlife up-close on its home turf. It is an absolute treasure for California and the nation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Palatino; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Palatino; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWaOwHaSMhPDqs4pIWdw543oIx8nZ7_U1l1ZEeuTQsTRGh8zO4TTYbsN7Rd6pABZbidPM_4iGu2aqZiGV_eG3n_h7xYJaMgXLV7M0HaCd02FZ-l6PlmmqoatW_vzl1bZFyHilboasj1SLinEmQyyzIcBairWSsiOu3cvT7tHZq98FJIcur7ygo8ARz/s4160/Eared_Grebe_6533_TG.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3224" data-original-width="4160" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWaOwHaSMhPDqs4pIWdw543oIx8nZ7_U1l1ZEeuTQsTRGh8zO4TTYbsN7Rd6pABZbidPM_4iGu2aqZiGV_eG3n_h7xYJaMgXLV7M0HaCd02FZ-l6PlmmqoatW_vzl1bZFyHilboasj1SLinEmQyyzIcBairWSsiOu3cvT7tHZq98FJIcur7ygo8ARz/w640-h496/Eared_Grebe_6533_TG.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Palatino; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Palatino; margin: 0in;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve is well worth visiting if you’re anywhere near Huntington Beach, California. It has two entrances, one on Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) and the other around the corner from PCH on Warner Avenue. Parking is free and both have portable restroom facilities. For bird photography, I much prefer the PCH entrance, where you can step immediately onto the long, low boardwalk/bridge that will take you across Bolsa Chica’s inner bay on a long loop trail. (The bridge is one of the most productive spots for photography in the entire reserve.) Before you even leave the parking lot, you can sometimes get pictures of the endangered “Belding’s” race of Savanna Sparrow and other interesting birds. But the Warner Avenue entrance is great, too because you can visit the Bolsa Chica Conservancy Interpretive Center and hike along the bluffs overlooking the outer bay on the Mesa Trail.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Palatino; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Palatino; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibHSUTQ3JBXFmldOKFS5B8s6fTwXhHJdqW5ZkwjzLp1fENa4J3erNfjPfmeWhZbwg6t-QYKRWLn8AC0_R4ho4DOrfoSSH1C1Gq51Q5Aywyb7oAIBp4IWYy-6KBo2FTAoq5AFmUNN9l0Dzyq0KRzwuXLZpl2iw48bEKBJal4za8sB7V2S5QicNGVImx/s2448/Bufflehead_female_6473_TG.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1590" data-original-width="2448" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibHSUTQ3JBXFmldOKFS5B8s6fTwXhHJdqW5ZkwjzLp1fENa4J3erNfjPfmeWhZbwg6t-QYKRWLn8AC0_R4ho4DOrfoSSH1C1Gq51Q5Aywyb7oAIBp4IWYy-6KBo2FTAoq5AFmUNN9l0Dzyq0KRzwuXLZpl2iw48bEKBJal4za8sB7V2S5QicNGVImx/w640-h416/Bufflehead_female_6473_TG.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Palatino; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Palatino; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">I visited Bolsa Chica in late winter, which was a great time to see high numbers of waterfowl and shorebirds, but any time of year can be interesting there. Be sure to pick up a tide chart at a local bait store or look up the tides online. Low-tide is good for watching shorebirds on the mudflats, but I like to be there when the tide is rising, bringing in small fish and other food items for foraging birds. Here’s a link to a useful Bolsa Chica Conservancy bird checklist, showing the times of year when each of the species listed are most common: <a href="https://bolsachica.org/birds-checklist/">https://bolsachica.org/birds-checklist/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Palatino; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Palatino; margin: 0in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnTDfb-fwSdGD6ibr24UvqItA83VAcrSfqkYxxizj82Jr_9Ea0bJXTXUVLhL34tCC19pRMGBawYrBmqv6b6JDjmvJ7KaxLL3V3DwmdJDcAPZ5uF_qiLbrNFbzoSTf_rS22VCdZeNmqbkCkmpofnqwlsBg2GPpkCfL-Nc-wlO4JLocpACsSlRctFh0O/s3697/Ridgway's_Rail_5573_TG.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3056" data-original-width="3697" height="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnTDfb-fwSdGD6ibr24UvqItA83VAcrSfqkYxxizj82Jr_9Ea0bJXTXUVLhL34tCC19pRMGBawYrBmqv6b6JDjmvJ7KaxLL3V3DwmdJDcAPZ5uF_qiLbrNFbzoSTf_rS22VCdZeNmqbkCkmpofnqwlsBg2GPpkCfL-Nc-wlO4JLocpACsSlRctFh0O/w640-h530/Ridgway's_Rail_5573_TG.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Palatino; 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font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">I was so sorry to hear about the death of Bryan VanCampen (at right, above), who passed away in his sleep a couple of nights ago. We both acted in several local theatre productions in the 1990s. My favorite was <i>My Fair Lady</i>, pictured above, where I played Henry Higgins and Bryan was Colonel Pickering. We were also in Tom Stoppard</span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">’</span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">s play, <i>The Real Inspector Hound.</i> Bryan was a film reviewer for many years and also did stand-up comedy. He will be greatly missed. Rest in Peace, my old friend. </span> </div><br /><br /><p></p>Tim Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930445694831642950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079663929720309091.post-44665234422987478112023-09-04T11:40:00.051-04:002023-09-27T21:39:51.119-04:00Falling<p><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrbEyMSr43ZoBqilT82z8_U5-qHsgvBwFVp_yyiz9xJ6Y80EIW5eFL6EAP7XjAipbkdk8Ih1hQEwu4f4lP_gkW6rVr3YF6o0Wg3Ioz6y1z8C8HmsSscqr_2giCzuY-13JyD4G-JETeFigoZyYq3xfViVWjtB2HkQfCmg4Sv3tYMYqscbJyQLdYi3J2/s1507/98081093_10221807290882268_380607494826754048_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1214" data-original-width="1507" height="515" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrbEyMSr43ZoBqilT82z8_U5-qHsgvBwFVp_yyiz9xJ6Y80EIW5eFL6EAP7XjAipbkdk8Ih1hQEwu4f4lP_gkW6rVr3YF6o0Wg3Ioz6y1z8C8HmsSscqr_2giCzuY-13JyD4G-JETeFigoZyYq3xfViVWjtB2HkQfCmg4Sv3tYMYqscbJyQLdYi3J2/w640-h515/98081093_10221807290882268_380607494826754048_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was a sky diver once. I flew to a great altitude in a small plane, crawled out on the wing, and dropped off the edge into an unknown abyss. But I wasn’t one of those fancy skydivers with all the latest gear. I picked up a cheap World War II parachute—the kind people use as a drop cloth or vehicle cover—then went looking for someone with a plane to take me up. I didn’t have a helmet or a skydiving suit. I wore a wool hat pulled low, some goggles from a hardware store, and a Levi jacket buttoned all the way to my chin. </span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">I was living in the high desert of California in a place that used to be a major agricultural area with alfalfa farms and ranches. But the government had come in a year or two earlier and said they wanted to build a big international airport there and everyone would have to move. They bought up thousands of acres. One day the farmers were there; the next day they were gone as though they’d been magically transported away or perhaps abducted by aliens. Except a lot of them left their dogs behind, and they would roam the desert in feral packs, devouring anything they could find, including at times each other. Arsonists torched a few of the farmhouses, giving the area a grim, post-apocalyptic vibe. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">I’d heard about a pilot name Corey who lived somewhere in the desert. Apparently, he’d sit around in front of his place, sipping on a tin cup of cheap whiskey, waiting for people to ask him to take them up in his plane and charging them a few bucks. He didn’t get many takers. Someone told me if I wanted to take a flight with him, I should do it early, before he’d had time to drink much, and to be sure to smell his breath. I went looking for him one afternoon, with my parachute and other gear loaded in the back of my old ’51 Chevy panel truck. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Corey’s place was just off a paved road with a small parking area and a dirt landing strip next to the shack where he lived. A peeling sign said, “Corey Air: Crop-Dusting, Charters, and Sight-Sightseeing Flights.” At one time, he had a twin-engine Cessna and flew businessmen to Los Angeles and other coastal cities for meetings, and he made a decent amount of money. He also had a crop-dusting plane and was renowned for his daring, often flying under powerlines at the end of the field so he could spray the pesticide or fertilizer over every inch of the crop. But it ruined his business when the farmers packed up. I suppose he could have gone further afield, looking for new customers, but most farms already employed pilots who’d been working for them for years. He eventually sold off both planes to get by. Now all he had was an aging biplane with two open cockpits, like something from World War I.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Corey was sitting on a folding chair in the shadow of his biplane when I pulled up. I rolled down my window and shouted: “Say, how much would you charge to take me up in your plane so I can go skydiving?” He’d been napping and woke with a start, almost falling from his chair. His skin looked parched and wrinkled, and he had shaggy gray hair, tattooed arms, and a grizzled face. His hands were greasy like he’d just been working on an engine. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">“You want what?” he barked, annoyed at being woken up.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">“To go skydiving. You know, I need someone to fly me up high so I can parachute down.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">He rolled his eyes and exhaled loudly. “Why the hell would you want to do that?” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">“I don’t know. It’s just something I’ve always wanted to try. I went out and bought a parachute, and I’m all set to go.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">He shrugged. “Twenty bucks?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">And that was it. Ten minutes later, I was ready—wool hat pulled low with goggles in place; Levi jacket buttoned up; and parachute strapped securely in place. But the parachute was so big and awkward, I couldn’t get all the way down into the seat. So, I just put my legs in the cockpit and sat on the back of the seat, trying my best to hold onto to rim of the cockpit. Of course, I couldn’t use the seatbelt. But I figured I wouldn’t be sitting there for long. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">The flight was more terrifying than anything I’d ever done before. The loudness of the engine; the shuddering vibration that rumbled through the plane; and the wind blowing hard against me as the plane raced down the runway and then rose above the desert. It was all I could do to keep from falling out and plunging downward before we’d even reached an altitude where my parachute could save me. I have no idea how high we were flying, but we passed through the clouds and eventually went well above them. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Corey finally slapped his hand loudly on the fuselage of the plane and pointed down to let me know it was time to jump. I was shaking violently as I crawled out on the wing, clinging to the struts. But I just couldn’t do it. I was paralyzed with dread. I wanted to wave at Corey to signal that I wanted to get back in the plane and not jump today, but my hands were locked in a death grip on the struts. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Corey kept pounding his fist angrily and pointing downward. Then he started making the plane bank sharply to the left and then to the right, again and again, ever more violently. I finally lost my grip, smashing my head on the wing as I was flung out into the open sky—falling…but not falling. I felt weightless, hanging in the air, far above the land. And it seemed it would go on forever—the wind whooshing around me, holding me, supporting me like a hawk soaring high overhead, barely a speck in an autumn sky. I closed my eyes and the most euphoric feeling washed over me, sheer ecstasy. I didn’t want it to end, not for anything. Then I think I passed out. For seconds? Minutes? I have no idea how much time elapsed. But then the sun burst through the clouds and the light flashed sharply in my eyes, snapping me from my trance. I instantly pulled the ripcord, but I was so close to the ground—maybe just a few hundred feet up—and still falling too fast despite the parachute. I had no control.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM-IldbB7Knku098d0tyFPvb4ZwYa316t8e_Y06J7xYU9y8NyPDOxLjXar7j2iubIle6i5xWjtBYeYPfg9I3qJGr_lDL8MGD-A0F9-cmq2awrAYQjSUoUgHVKaamxO_tD9GIXIioIKYK6Ffkihm_fT7yps9onEqUQ4_s4rM63x-dX9vM3GDL6dE6wg/s990/Biplane.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="990" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM-IldbB7Knku098d0tyFPvb4ZwYa316t8e_Y06J7xYU9y8NyPDOxLjXar7j2iubIle6i5xWjtBYeYPfg9I3qJGr_lDL8MGD-A0F9-cmq2awrAYQjSUoUgHVKaamxO_tD9GIXIioIKYK6Ffkihm_fT7yps9onEqUQ4_s4rM63x-dX9vM3GDL6dE6wg/w640-h414/Biplane.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">I could see the charred ruins of an old farmhouse below me with a row of tall trees growing along a dirt road leading away from it, and I was heading straight for them, probably falling forty miles an hour or more. I crashed hard into the top of one of the trees. It broke my fall, but I went all the way through it and bounced off the ground, twisting my ankle, then shot back up and was left dangling ten feet up in the tree. I had a folding knife in a leather snap sheath on my belt, which I pulled out and hacked through the parachute cords. As I fell to the ground, I threw the knife away so I wouldn’t end up stabbing myself. And then I just sat on the ground there, wondering how the hell I was going to get out of this mess. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">I had no idea where I was, and I hadn’t made any kind of arrangements with Corey to pick me up. This was in the 1970s, long before cellphones, so I couldn</span><span style="font-family: times;">’</span><span style="font-family: times;">t call anyone. My mouth was parched and filled with the bitter taste of adrenaline. I needed to get my bearings somehow. It was already late afternoon and would be getting dark in a couple of hours. I limped to the farmhouse, hoping to find something useful—like a well or a water pump that worked. I was so thirsty. But there was only burned-over rubble. I did find a stout branch nearby to use as a walking stick. My ankle was swollen and painful. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">I always kept a large canteen of water in my truck for desert emergencies, and I knew I had to get there as soon as possible. But which way should I go? The outline of some familiar hills in the distance and the direction of the setting sun provided some clues, but I knew it was a gamble.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">I thought about walking down the farm’s dirt road, figuring it would reach a highway at some point, but it was leading in the wrong direction. To get to my car quickly, I would have to hike overland, probably going through washes and over windblown dunes in some places. When I finally got the direction fixed in my mind, I headed out, walking as briskly as possible despite my sore ankle. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">I’d probably only gone two miles by the time it started getting dark. I had no idea how many more miles I had to go—maybe a dozen? And I knew I could easily miss the place in the dark. My mouth was already so parched? I wondered if I might die out there. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Then a strong wind came up, swirling sand all around me. I pulled out my old blue bandana and tied it over my mouth and nose, then I put on my goggles to keep the sand out of my eyes and trudged onward. The moon was beginning to rise, but I couldn’t see much. And then I heard it—the distant barks of a roving band of feral dogs getting closer and closer—and I felt a chill.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: times;">Would they attack a human? Why not? They</span></span><span style="font-family: times;">’</span><span><span style="font-family: times;">d been abandoned by the people who raised them; left to fend for themselves in one of the harshest environments on Earth. They were no doubt ravenously hungry. I</span></span><span style="font-family: times;">’</span><span style="font-family: times;">ve always loved dogs, but I knew that wouldn</span><span style="font-family: times;">’</span><span style="font-family: times;">t count for much here. I heard them barking loudly, maybe only a hundred yards away and headed straight for me. I turned up the collar on my jacket and made sure the top button was fastened securely, hoping it would make it harder for them to get at my throat if they attacked me. I reached for my knife but found the </span><span style="font-family: times;">sheath was empty. Then I remembered I</span><span style="font-family: times;">’d thrown the knife away while I was falling from the tree after cutting the parchute cords. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">I lifted up my walking stick and held it before me as the dogs emerged from the swirling dust, their eyes and teeth glistening in the moonlight as they growled and snarled all around me. I knew most of them were just pack followers and would just</span><span style="font-family: times;"> circle me until I fell or a more aggressive dog took me down. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">And then I saw him—a massive German shepherd, obviously the alpha dog. He came lunging at me, leaping upward. I leaned into his attack, smacking him on the side of the head with my stout walking stick, like a fencer parrying a sword, while the other dogs danced around my feet behind me, snapping at my heels. I knew if I stumbled and fell, it was all over. He came back at me, and I knocked him down again, always instantly holding the stick back up in front of me like a spear. It was so lucky that the branch I</span><span style="font-family: times;">’</span><span style="font-family: times;">d picked up was so big and sturdy. I don</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">’</span><span style="font-family: times;">t even want to think about what would have happened if it had broken.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">I growled and yelled and cussed at them to show I was tough and would never give up. But really, I wasn</span><span style="font-family: times;">’</span><span style="font-family: times;">t sure how long I could keep going. I only knew that if I wanted to survive the night, I had to keep fighting back. I don</span><span style="font-family: times;">’</span><span style="font-family: times;">t even remember how long this went on. It had to be hours as I trudged miles across the desert, with dogs snapping at me and a frustrated German shepherd attacking again and again and again. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">Was this all really happening? Or was this entire day with the skydiving and the wild dogs just some grim fantasy? Would I wake up in my bed in a few minutes, trembling and drenched in sweat? If only.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">At some point, the winds died down and a full moon shone over the desert, illuminating my way forward. And the dogs started easing up on their attacks. Most of them had finally lost interest and drifted away. The German shepherd was still there, though he wasn</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">’</span><span style="font-family: times;">t attacking anymore. I sensed his presence even when I couldn</span><span style="font-family: times;">’</span><span style="font-family: times;">t see him. It was like we</span><span style="font-family: times;">’</span><span style="font-family: times;">d fought each other to a standstill and now were bonded in some way. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">I saw the glint of metal up ahead in the moonlight and knew it was my truck. Though the inside of my mouth was dry as leather, I was sure I was going to make it, and the thought made me giddy. When I finally reached the truck and got out my canteen, I guzzled endlessly. It was the best drink I</span><span style="font-family: times;">’d had in my entire life. Then I crawled inside and fell asleep. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">I woke up at dawn an hour or two later, hungry and shivering from the cold. I was parked about a hundred feet from Corey</span><span style="font-family: times;">’</span><span style="font-family: times;">s shack and was tempted to go pound on his door and chew him out about what he did to me on the flight the day before, but I didn</span><span style="font-family: times;">’</span><span style="font-family: times;">t bother. I just bundled up in my blanket and sat sipping water from my canteen. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Then I saw the German shepherd again, hunting small rodents in some brush along the dirt road. And he was beautiful—so light on his feet. It was like watching a fox or a coyote in action. He would leap into a patch of cover, jump straight up in the air, then come down snapping at mice or whatever else he flushed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">I started my truck, drove closer, and sat watching him for nearly an hour. He didn</span><span style="font-family: times;">’</span><span style="font-family: times;">t seem to mind. I wondered how someone could have just abandoned him like that. Why didn</span><span style="font-family: times;">’</span><span style="font-family: times;">t these people at least drop their dogs off at the SPCA or something? How hard is that?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">I looked around inside the truck to see if I had anything I could give him. I found a takeout bag with a few tortilla chips left in a little cardboard dish. I stepped outside and whistled. He froze and was wary, but I set the dish down, and he walked cautiously over to me. He sniffed at the chips for a minute, then wolfed them down. I poured some water from my canteen into the dish. He drank it all, so I gave him more. We were only three feet apart. I finally held my hand out to him with my palm up. He carefully sniffed at it as we stared into each other</span><span style="font-family: times;">’</span><span style="font-family: times;">s eyes. He had many scars on his head from the many fights he</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">’</span><span style="font-family: times;">d no doubt had as he struggled to survive, but his eyes were surprisingly gentle.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">I walked behind my panel truck and started to open the back door. I had an overwhelming urge to take him home with me. </span><span style="font-family: times;">Although I knew he had wanted to kill me just a few hours earlier, I sensed that our conflict was over and we would be great companions for the rest of our time together. But I paused and then finally stepped away from the door.</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">I sometimes feel sad about that and wonder how our lives might have been changed for the better if I had taken him home with me. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">I drove away across the desert without</span><span style="font-family: times;"> looking back. I never saw the dog or Corey again—and in the end, the giant international airport project that had caused all the problems petered out and it was never built.</span></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p>Tim Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930445694831642950noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079663929720309091.post-75398372036451789682023-02-27T11:37:00.077-05:002023-03-03T15:39:39.508-05:00Once Upon a Time in an Arkansas Bayou<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: times;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCOBbxjldYrCUMHHzeAHsoxGOoqkMZOARfL1FneJYgCnRWd4DmIS2cZvDAgFe75T48vbol_fVkJe6IG9DrpEtXQRrlLkcAHByF1h_EaEg0gYIXl3pqJ-j1KK8S6xE5da2OOeiHzwQkYUPimpx7eHy8WgUPzIJOb70OW7ejYbjKcApV0S6NkI3s3g/s1080/Ivory-bill%20by%20John%20Schmitt.jpg" style="font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1019" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCOBbxjldYrCUMHHzeAHsoxGOoqkMZOARfL1FneJYgCnRWd4DmIS2cZvDAgFe75T48vbol_fVkJe6IG9DrpEtXQRrlLkcAHByF1h_EaEg0gYIXl3pqJ-j1KK8S6xE5da2OOeiHzwQkYUPimpx7eHy8WgUPzIJOb70OW7ejYbjKcApV0S6NkI3s3g/w604-h640/Ivory-bill%20by%20John%20Schmitt.jpg" width="604" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">Ivory-billed Woodpecker by John Schmitt</span></i></div></span></i></div><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Today marks a special anniversary for me. It was exactly nineteen years ago on February 27, 2004, that Bobby Harrison and I saw an unmistakeable Ivory-billed Woodpecker fly across the water barely 70 feet in front of our canoe and swing up to land on the trunk of a tupelo. It's a moment I'll never forget. We both yelled "Ivory-bill!" and, of course, spooked the bird, which flew a short distance to another tree and quickly hitched around to the other side of the trunk. We frantically paddled to the edge of the water, abandoned our canoe, and went off scrambling through mud and over fallen tree trunks as the huge woodpecker flew from tree to tree, tantalizingly close and yet so out of reach. Bobby had been searching for Ivory-bills for more than 30 years. He broke down and wept after our sighting, saying, "I saw an Ivory-bill...I saw an Ivory-bill..." I just stood in stunned silence. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Until that moment, I had been somewhat agnostic about whether the Ivory-billed Woodpecker still existed. There were strong points on both sides of the argument. But regardless, I felt it was vitally important to locate people who had memories of this bird and to interview them as soon as possible. Many of the people I interviewed in the beginning were in their 90s, and I knew they wouldn't be around much longer. If the Ivory-bill truly was extinct, these people were our last connection with the species, so I reasoned that we better ask any questions we have about the bird right now. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">But in the course of my research, I found seemingly believable people who'd had much more recent sightings than that of the bird sketched by artist Don Eckelberry in Louisiana's Singer Tract in 1944. Some of them had </span><span style="font-family: times;">purportedly been seen in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s by various hunters and others who knew the area and its wildlife well and seemed believable. Bobby and I started going together to check out the areas where the sightings took place. All too often, the areas had been destroyed to make way for agriculture and various other developments. But sometimes the places still looked great. The only problem was it had been so long since these sightings took place.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">Then it happened. A kayaker, Gene Sparling, saw a large </span><span style="font-family: times;">woodpecker in a bayou in eastern Arkansas and posted a description on a canoe club list-serv. We tracked Gene down and spoke on the phone with him just four days after his sighting. Bobby and I dropped everything and headed to Arkansas a few days later to spend a week floating the bayou with Gene. </span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgkbAxGmy-8K7z0KYtzn_2uGKDwxyjU_6WvlKFuV8MlScXv3oRlH5hXxKTrAdpPCh3D5gA98yTr2YskbRKTkZVUZjorTboUe3l-B6RjBgvebDgSt9h4nanyhfVB2GriojNZjlwTjMoAGQ6NVOi3Yhr6H7AIDzOVeBEM8Y0wuGjwk6fRpQVk9IWHg/s1124/Gene%20Sparling_2004.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="830" data-original-width="1124" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgkbAxGmy-8K7z0KYtzn_2uGKDwxyjU_6WvlKFuV8MlScXv3oRlH5hXxKTrAdpPCh3D5gA98yTr2YskbRKTkZVUZjorTboUe3l-B6RjBgvebDgSt9h4nanyhfVB2GriojNZjlwTjMoAGQ6NVOi3Yhr6H7AIDzOVeBEM8Y0wuGjwk6fRpQVk9IWHg/w640-h472/Gene%20Sparling_2004.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times;">Bobby and I launched our canoe in the muddy brown bayou and followed Gene Sparling into a wilderness of swamp.</i></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV8NJwNqND5dABzSZREoEDA-8VQTo_JyqKsORK3wxLB8Ry0q0pfyfjY4lLES8cyFQIIfhvs4dRFMZLtlE7AZV-U90guRNvVUzBZCl_G6rCDdExJWh4g5-QT--bn2p991Kf2ZH26rLNBLrwrlUnNI9lX_8XxXjcMHlEYyVnuXeuCn2FGNojfJgPkA/s1744/Bayou%20de%20View_2-27-04%20.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1166" data-original-width="1744" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV8NJwNqND5dABzSZREoEDA-8VQTo_JyqKsORK3wxLB8Ry0q0pfyfjY4lLES8cyFQIIfhvs4dRFMZLtlE7AZV-U90guRNvVUzBZCl_G6rCDdExJWh4g5-QT--bn2p991Kf2ZH26rLNBLrwrlUnNI9lX_8XxXjcMHlEYyVnuXeuCn2FGNojfJgPkA/w640-h428/Bayou%20de%20View_2-27-04%20.png" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Bobby (left) and Gene on a chilly morning at Bayou de View on February 27, 2004. </i></div></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBHsFQTxMLS4NidL47po9rhq1d544hP2lHyrkv72rTuaK29N22QGOgxEltiVBKxaLvraxiz1Puit_LY50hPJpPWOlwOJUhCpFRS6MHcxNi2hYQSO4a9xvNxGNJB-B2ocaQBhjh8qH3VcAI3Jt9441HrshsintD9SeMS6Z2k8x52zc3TmW17wFRdQ/s2502/IBW-6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1676" data-original-width="2502" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBHsFQTxMLS4NidL47po9rhq1d544hP2lHyrkv72rTuaK29N22QGOgxEltiVBKxaLvraxiz1Puit_LY50hPJpPWOlwOJUhCpFRS6MHcxNi2hYQSO4a9xvNxGNJB-B2ocaQBhjh8qH3VcAI3Jt9441HrshsintD9SeMS6Z2k8x52zc3TmW17wFRdQ/w640-h428/IBW-6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times;">Tim Gallagher at Bayou de View.</i></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Shortly after 1:00 in the afternoon—while Gene was up ahead, half a mile or so away—the bird flew across in front of us and changed our lives forever.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">We went through every emotion imaginable before Gene came back and found us babbling barely coherently about the bird we'd seen. "Welcome to the Sasquatch Club," he said, and we all laughed our heads off. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdSFbXVAFEOhbzUaksb24iWRcUJP9776s4vtHDKHFrfOPGDK4bYvZhSBFlPMcZJJXFXtre-yVUDrsw_uBzIKYBJ_c3zX1CAUfFcxqFLdNcWov9GE8We_65VIb_tErJucBJpF6-RC07j13MO55aAptYE5pFPEyfXfE4M8GLBgQtScdcF7xsj6uONg/s3056/Tim%20and%20Bobby's%20ivory-bill%20sighting%20day.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2171" data-original-width="3056" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdSFbXVAFEOhbzUaksb24iWRcUJP9776s4vtHDKHFrfOPGDK4bYvZhSBFlPMcZJJXFXtre-yVUDrsw_uBzIKYBJ_c3zX1CAUfFcxqFLdNcWov9GE8We_65VIb_tErJucBJpF6-RC07j13MO55aAptYE5pFPEyfXfE4M8GLBgQtScdcF7xsj6uONg/w640-h454/Tim%20and%20Bobby's%20ivory-bill%20sighting%20day.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times;">T</i><i style="font-family: times;">im and Bobby about an hour after their Ivory-bill sighting.</i></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivBWNDhQu_QVwBfYZEBtxljkrE22RJ9rr_C9r4Otd8r7DvRtDijPoqHJm06Wmb7uvkTPbG1_IVxa-_VbOLpHQmSXmbEGji0zWB66jn30NaSPsJVPodat4fjzKnSBqIsFG85wOfOAJYuuy7vJQd_fz_JJci51m-x8j0F0E03CAWLkB1VCRYks-aLg/s1823/IBW-4-x.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1340" data-original-width="1823" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivBWNDhQu_QVwBfYZEBtxljkrE22RJ9rr_C9r4Otd8r7DvRtDijPoqHJm06Wmb7uvkTPbG1_IVxa-_VbOLpHQmSXmbEGji0zWB66jn30NaSPsJVPodat4fjzKnSBqIsFG85wOfOAJYuuy7vJQd_fz_JJci51m-x8j0F0E03CAWLkB1VCRYks-aLg/w640-h470/IBW-4-x.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Left to right, Gene Sparling, Bobby Harrison, and Tim Gallagher later on the day of the sighting.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLgX-32UBhuzfeArXydBql1LerbV29IcDbKle8lEKam3TpO7DtBJja_W62oetoJ8YoRqPoLiYsWyGIzgg4g5JqwUWXYirIYJtU8qKWHxpc5Lm15OT15b4ktUwoU0KY6ECGprTqLRQwxi4Gsr0G5fP6KHKrhv-8qMDUMFPku6Zb9GMQ0Q2MIBGebw/s960/Tim%20and%20Bobby%20on%2060%20Minutes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="673" data-original-width="960" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLgX-32UBhuzfeArXydBql1LerbV29IcDbKle8lEKam3TpO7DtBJja_W62oetoJ8YoRqPoLiYsWyGIzgg4g5JqwUWXYirIYJtU8qKWHxpc5Lm15OT15b4ktUwoU0KY6ECGprTqLRQwxi4Gsr0G5fP6KHKrhv-8qMDUMFPku6Zb9GMQ0Q2MIBGebw/w640-h448/Tim%20and%20Bobby%20on%2060%20Minutes.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Ed Bradley interviewing Tim Gallagher and Bobby Harrison for "60 Minutes."</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p style="font-family: Times; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">If you'd like to read more about our Ivory-billed Woodpecker searches in 2004 and 2005, here's a link to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060714030454/http://magazine.audubon.org/features0507/rediscovery.html">"The Best Kept Secret"</a>—an article my wife, Rachel Dickinson, wrote for <i>Audubon</i> fourteen months after our sighting. Or you could read my book, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Grail-Bird-Trail-Ivory-billed-Woodpecker/dp/0618456937/ref=pd_lpo_1?pd_rd_w=MpElV&content-id=amzn1.sym.116f529c-aa4d-4763-b2b6-4d614ec7dc00&pf_rd_p=116f529c-aa4d-4763-b2b6-4d614ec7dc00&pf_rd_r=SQYCGX068ESJPCE98GW7&pd_rd_wg=pFHQK&pd_rd_r=17b62efc-75f3-4f72-a128-314dfda7968c&pd_rd_i=0618456937&psc=1">The Grail Bird</a></i>.</span></p><p style="font-family: Times; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">As many of you know, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has proposed declaring the Ivory-billed Woodpecker extinct and removing it from the Endangered Species List. In response, I wrote an opinion piece for <i>Audubon</i> titled <a href="https://www.audubon.org/news/is-it-really-time-write-ivory-billed-woodpeckers-epitaph-0">"Is it Really Time to Write the Ivory-billed Woodpecker's Epitaph?"</a> </span><span style="font-family: times;">At the moment, the final decision is still pending—and frankly, I strongly hope they decide against it.</span></span></p></div></span>Tim Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930445694831642950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079663929720309091.post-21871057928699073402023-02-10T12:55:00.104-05:002023-04-26T16:50:50.702-04:00Bookends: A Tale of Two Peregrine Falcon Eyries<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP2vpfwUYz7lujMfk35n2utGZc17NTm0AbT9troLY0ex5eA-IY29_tiiLB-Yn59sEgELkpjlRBWE4PB82xNdqaCzPNVRFNjPerA127koR5VLw6ZFVvaQfXKtf_up72MR4Arf7p3lHxp6pKv0cS4qn_kvgRBh2CUjMjotcN6AbgDGDIZL8OQWyUBA/s2140/Bookends%20lead%20photo.png" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1039" data-original-width="2140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP2vpfwUYz7lujMfk35n2utGZc17NTm0AbT9troLY0ex5eA-IY29_tiiLB-Yn59sEgELkpjlRBWE4PB82xNdqaCzPNVRFNjPerA127koR5VLw6ZFVvaQfXKtf_up72MR4Arf7p3lHxp6pKv0cS4qn_kvgRBh2CUjMjotcN6AbgDGDIZL8OQWyUBA/s600/Bookends%20lead%20photo.png" width="600" /></a></div><i></i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">
My life has been bookended by two peregrine falcon eyries—one on a rugged, Gibraltar-like rock on the central California coast (above right); the other a continent away in a gorge with a spectacular waterfall, near where I live in Upstate New York. I'm not sure which one I should begin this essay with. The eyrie at Morro Bay was the first peregrine falcon nest I’d ever seen in person. It was in the late 1960s, while I was still in my teens. I stood there with mouth agape as an adult female came streaking across the cliff face and landed on her nest ledge. So graceful; so perfect in every way. </span><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">But even then, the other nest—at Taughannock Gorge near Ithaca, New York—already had a strong hold over me. I'd seen a picture of the eyrie several years earlier, at the age of twelve, and it seemed to epitomize everything I admired about peregrines: the beauty of the birds; the grandeur of their domain.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">In the picture at left above—taken by famed Cornell ornithologist Arthur Allen in 1926—three young peregrines lie on a nest ledge in the lower lefthand corner while their mother perches on a limb diagonally above and to the right of them as Taughannock Falls thunders down in the background. I'd first seen the picture in an old copy of A.C. Bent's 1937 classic <i>Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey</i> that my mother bought for me at a used bookstore. The image stood out to me even then and is still my favorite depiction of a peregrine eyrie. </span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEiwXoo93tbYQftliVrWq5zeBgnmEoZi9QujTDMIKFDJ9uWEI5G_VkaEZBlO2rsciBaoB5MfKpn_Tcp-q3b4bgOf0doL_NEdKoL2h62uzSBlNBdMR1R2jBt8JKRF_zpL7sH-pi8XHEDzvTBTAYP9Jb2N3L0DiSZsS74PvNRvVzceZTFwT5jPaO7A/s7360/Morro%20Rock%202022_8464_Gallagher.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4912" data-original-width="7360" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEiwXoo93tbYQftliVrWq5zeBgnmEoZi9QujTDMIKFDJ9uWEI5G_VkaEZBlO2rsciBaoB5MfKpn_Tcp-q3b4bgOf0doL_NEdKoL2h62uzSBlNBdMR1R2jBt8JKRF_zpL7sH-pi8XHEDzvTBTAYP9Jb2N3L0DiSZsS74PvNRvVzceZTFwT5jPaO7A/w640-h428/Morro%20Rock%202022_8464_Gallagher.jpg" width="640" /></a><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Morro Rock on the California coast. Photo by Tim Gallagher</span></i></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">I had no idea what a huge influence both places would have over my life. I was an English major through much of my early days in college, writing short stories, poetry, essays, a few one-act plays, and even the rough draft of a novel. But I knew a couple of journalism majors, and I always admired the way they could get a piece of writing done, no matter what distractions and time constraints they faced. If they had a deadline, they just sat down and pounded out their stories, writer's block be damned! I decided to take some journalism courses to help me develop some discipline—and it worked. Before long, I was cranking out news stories and feature articles with the best of them.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">I soon joined the staff of our campus magazine at California State University: Long Beach and began searching for an interesting article topic for the next issue. This was in the 1970s, when peregrine falcon numbers had already crashed across North America and Europe as a result of DDT contamination in their environment. They were already extinct as a breeding species in the Eastern United States and were barely hanging on in the West. Researchers determined that the pesticide caused the birds to lay thin-shelled eggs, which often cracked under the weight of an incubating parent. This came as no surprise to me. The female peregrine at Morro Rock that I mentioned earlier had been found dead in her eyrie just a couple of weeks after I'd seen her. A thin-shelled egg had broken in her oviduct before she could even lay it. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;">Researchers were racing to find ways to stop the falcons' decline and boost their numbers. By the mid-1970s, the peregrine falcon was already on the federal endangered species list, DDT had been banned, and ornithologist (and lifelong falconer) Tom Cade had set up a massive breeding project at Cornell University and was desperately striving to reintroduce the birds in areas where their numbers had crashed. It was a daunting task for everyone involved. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkiELTJ-gq8vZBGJJot6LGlWXVjMJjMPWx6rB2vJlJUl-gRVzsfySNl45JJib1Uysq5Iu2PW3iwRUVx9JGmobdEjmTW9BfWU_crqAwRh6kFgmwiu25Afat4qN7U7QoN38VNkCSXi0aTfKdx6Junq9CNAjf8X7EPnJYBNaafY9IKSe0CBLTFPLEGg/s739/Cade%20and%20Jim%20Weaver%20at%20Taughannock_1975.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="739" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkiELTJ-gq8vZBGJJot6LGlWXVjMJjMPWx6rB2vJlJUl-gRVzsfySNl45JJib1Uysq5Iu2PW3iwRUVx9JGmobdEjmTW9BfWU_crqAwRh6kFgmwiu25Afat4qN7U7QoN38VNkCSXi0aTfKdx6Junq9CNAjf8X7EPnJYBNaafY9IKSe0CBLTFPLEGg/w640-h442/Cade%20and%20Jim%20Weaver%20at%20Taughannock_1975.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Cornell professor and Peregrine Fund founder Tom Cade with Jim Weaver at Taughannock Gorge in 1975 when they tried unsuccessfully to reintroduce peregrines at the site. Photo by David Allen</span></i></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">I quickly realized this would be the perfect topic for my article—but what aspect should I cover? I’d heard about a group on the coast of central California that was working to save the peregrine falcons in the state. Led by raptor biologist and avid falconer Brian Walton, the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group (SCPBRG) was based in a rock quarry on the campus of the University of California: Santa Cruz.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOqQUDvkwW9VaBmCxmWbqrFX6Okau64bypxRgkOhsOqYRlYLwmzc7wYgMU_0y70UsB3KfSQt8M6fE5PCPf6RCPvjFCz7LBtipikgkgBoXVjR9C6k1ZtW2DU5hr0ZB6l1_IPbSmEhvMNSR3ZW1H_Z-srrdmq9qXhL0fZikZ3YKunXtMvvBzGc_Ibg/s1749/Farrell%20and%20Walton.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1596" data-original-width="1749" height="584" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOqQUDvkwW9VaBmCxmWbqrFX6Okau64bypxRgkOhsOqYRlYLwmzc7wYgMU_0y70UsB3KfSQt8M6fE5PCPf6RCPvjFCz7LBtipikgkgBoXVjR9C6k1ZtW2DU5hr0ZB6l1_IPbSmEhvMNSR3ZW1H_Z-srrdmq9qXhL0fZikZ3YKunXtMvvBzGc_Ibg/w640-h584/Farrell%20and%20Walton.jpg" width="640" /></a><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Actor Mike Farrell from the popular television show M*A*S*H with Brian Walton at the Morro Rock eyrie.</span></i></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;">I went up there—about a four-hour drive away—at my first opportunity and spent several days with the team, which then included bird-artist John Schmitt, falconer Merlyn Felton, veterinarian Jim Rausch, Russell Tucker, Ron Walker, and a handful of others. They had built a falcon facility in the rock quarry with breeding chambers and flight pens. Most of the falcons they were working with had been the personal birds of falconers who had donated them to the SCPBRG as potential breeders—just as falconers had done for the captive-breeding program at Cornell. None of them could bear the thought of the peregrine falcon vanishing from the Earth.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijc6XXQXSRTaE36wW1m8IQlZjgJjcjawbc8c0AjPm0a4j4poDLE6HkmnHdiWqiawTNv-r8X3UIulygYGja-y76f2koXlf0dXNJToc3MSv3rH6J2VdsJUcKnglJQYvpgdWH2Bh9HaCH_HQE9gQuKTIjOrRtxSXEzNojxf0lb-xsmaxJQiKtr3lrZA/s1240/John%20Schmitt_SCPBRG-1978.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1044" data-original-width="1240" height="538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijc6XXQXSRTaE36wW1m8IQlZjgJjcjawbc8c0AjPm0a4j4poDLE6HkmnHdiWqiawTNv-r8X3UIulygYGja-y76f2koXlf0dXNJToc3MSv3rH6J2VdsJUcKnglJQYvpgdWH2Bh9HaCH_HQE9gQuKTIjOrRtxSXEzNojxf0lb-xsmaxJQiKtr3lrZA/w640-h538/John%20Schmitt_SCPBRG-1978.jpg" width="640" /></a><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Bird artist John Schmitt with a juvenile peregrine falcon. Photo by Tim Gallagher</span></i></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8hf17C1jyjWAGwKRB6u0-WXGmBXCR8CDSvxOOq-g-e2bhJghAUIbFKjhttvAsquFt7_pUGiEHFzW9dOP-ua-vhbpWdLRG96xDb4EEPylzT7MAAunIUt4t4OKkE2AFQN13yxEi2lbcNWB-BmopRNxydP5eFIOc3vvtOo8T3LAUgpJ3Ge96PQ98lQ/s1555/Merlyn_Felton_1978.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1048" data-original-width="1555" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8hf17C1jyjWAGwKRB6u0-WXGmBXCR8CDSvxOOq-g-e2bhJghAUIbFKjhttvAsquFt7_pUGiEHFzW9dOP-ua-vhbpWdLRG96xDb4EEPylzT7MAAunIUt4t4OKkE2AFQN13yxEi2lbcNWB-BmopRNxydP5eFIOc3vvtOo8T3LAUgpJ3Ge96PQ98lQ/w640-h432/Merlyn_Felton_1978.jpg" width="640" /></a><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Merlyn Felton with an adult male peregrine. Photo by Tim Gallagher</span></i></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">They were a dedicated bunch, and it was inspiring to spend time with them. One of their most important projects was attempting to ensure the success of the nesting peregrines at Morro Rock. They would remove clutches of eggs from them, substituting dummy eggs at their nest and placing their eggs in an incubator where they were in much less danger of breaking under the weight of the adults. They would later switch the dummy eggs with live young falcons, which the adults would immediately accept and begin feeding. It was all very simple and effective. Brian Walton and his wife Cheryl played a vital role in caring for these precious eggs, practically watching them round the clock to make sure the temperature and humidity were correct in the incubator. (A couple of years later Brian, still in his twenties, was diagnosed with diabetes, and in many ways, it plagued him for the rest of his life. He eventually had to have pancreas and kidney transplants. But he never stopped working hard on behalf of birds of prey, always driving himself hard to keep the project going. He died far too young in 2007 at the age of 55. I’ll always admire him.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDrdUkjNXeQIMjlUj-TP_8fN8jQArGcUA15AwA5fLjh3c12AAv2kEPI0Jy7WXgBcsx45b4--fsLwWCLt-q7DI-rtvAssCNC-JkD_kTxGfgksuH9nfjGAVa82RaZqz75gUFilIgQzvMYK5HvyXaDOxS3YH78Ut7V7LkFF1EIrTA_1XQW90uFaiB1w/s2048/Brian%20Walton%20&%20Beulah%20-%20passage%20Gyr%20-%20mid-1979s.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1275" data-original-width="2048" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDrdUkjNXeQIMjlUj-TP_8fN8jQArGcUA15AwA5fLjh3c12AAv2kEPI0Jy7WXgBcsx45b4--fsLwWCLt-q7DI-rtvAssCNC-JkD_kTxGfgksuH9nfjGAVa82RaZqz75gUFilIgQzvMYK5HvyXaDOxS3YH78Ut7V7LkFF1EIrTA_1XQW90uFaiB1w/w640-h398/Brian%20Walton%20&%20Beulah%20-%20passage%20Gyr%20-%20mid-1979s.jpg" width="640" /></a><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Falcon researcher Brian Walton and his Gyrfalcon Beulah in the 1970s. Photo by Tim Gallagher</span></i></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">When I got back to college, my article practically wrote itself, and it was one of the main features in the magazine that semester. A few months later, the piece won a couple of major writing awards—a Hearst Foundation National Journalism Award and a California Intercollegiate Press Association Award for Best Nonfiction Magazine Article. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;">That clinched the deal for me. I was going to be a professional writer specializing in wildlife study and environmental issues. I switched my major and graduated with a degree in magazine journalism. But before I got my first magazine job, I headed north again and joined the crew at Santa Cruz. I couldn't think of anything more important than what they were doing, trying to save the peregrine falcon. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;">John Schmitt lived in a tiny travel trailer in the rock quarry, where he could keep an eye on the facility night and day. Although John was never a falconer, he had admired raptors since childhood and enjoyed taking care of the falcons. His artwork was amazing, and he completed many illustrations for the SCPBRG, The Peregrine Fund, and other groups.</span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKrkuQsWh7CRWRiEIt87gdLOQG4mDnRIubgvzig5Do0wMRYrL5QpHDYUPrBTeGS8FRLFkLmx2UJzSPavM79tG8QaXDN1I2-AI_3V7bgtVlDXl2NNhiO1vzXQeU2PF20JjagOfAJKibJnubQFD_-EoUDIpM5sHCDEcG2Gw9KJ44yG65pOzTZSjBJw/s640/Merlyn%20Felton%20&%20John%20Schmitt_Morro%20Rock_photo%20by%20Glenn%20Stewart.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="640" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKrkuQsWh7CRWRiEIt87gdLOQG4mDnRIubgvzig5Do0wMRYrL5QpHDYUPrBTeGS8FRLFkLmx2UJzSPavM79tG8QaXDN1I2-AI_3V7bgtVlDXl2NNhiO1vzXQeU2PF20JjagOfAJKibJnubQFD_-EoUDIpM5sHCDEcG2Gw9KJ44yG65pOzTZSjBJw/w640-h438/Merlyn%20Felton%20&%20John%20Schmitt_Morro%20Rock_photo%20by%20Glenn%20Stewart.jpg" width="640" /></a><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Merlyn Felton (left) and John Schmitt atop Morro Rock. Photo by Glenn Stewart</span></i></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;">Merlyn would spend a couple of months in spring and summer camping out at Morro Rock to protect the nest from intruders. (John Schmitt would later do the same for California Condors, staying for months at a time in a tiny hut in the mountains above Santa Barbara to study and help protect the birds, often going weeks without seeing another human.) They were great people, as was Danny Verrier, another falconer who played a major role at the SCPBRG. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;">At first, I lived in the back of my old International Travelall truck in the rock quarry, but then I moved in with Danny and his wife and kids, who were generous enough to let Merlyn and me live at their house. Famed falcon-hood-maker John Moran also soon came aboard to help with the project. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZGCLd2YvrXd88-CqvUPZtzLx6mZhd6-DCBJrk6kMVHmWRAzEF0fecAK-orsGAk6g-hYiZcmvVRHAAknE_6zEZo6mC1Emd5wdZBnwNcLUwNpK8MWHdiQtZdihE1RT-aTypG0DhtTEMUP0-6h-A6py0Fjiz0mOHLTYL5bK0iarAF4-4sdKXxcDeGA/s1160/Merlyn,%20Tim,%20and%20Danny%20(c)%20Brian%20Walton.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1158" data-original-width="1160" height="638" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZGCLd2YvrXd88-CqvUPZtzLx6mZhd6-DCBJrk6kMVHmWRAzEF0fecAK-orsGAk6g-hYiZcmvVRHAAknE_6zEZo6mC1Emd5wdZBnwNcLUwNpK8MWHdiQtZdihE1RT-aTypG0DhtTEMUP0-6h-A6py0Fjiz0mOHLTYL5bK0iarAF4-4sdKXxcDeGA/w640-h638/Merlyn,%20Tim,%20and%20Danny%20(c)%20Brian%20Walton.jpg" width="640" /></a><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">With Merlyn (left) and Danny (right) in the late 1970s when we worked at the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group. Photo by Brian Walton</span></i></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">I’ll always look back fondly on those days at Santa Cruz, spending time with a great bunch of people, helping bring back the peregrine falcon—and taking time to practice some excellent falconry. But after just a few months there, I got a job offer from an outdoor magazine based in Southern California. I was torn. I had a long talk with Brian Walton, and he strongly encouraged me to take the job. He said I could make a far more important contribution to conservation with my writing than with the work I did at the falcon project.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirp_U7ZDxQTlv5yNzwhMJquCwOvACe5JZIDU_pZ0ZG7Hmp-FOvK1kIJQN0c8u4f0bCl3NsD_w3RmNNODPoZf_AkQvNajsFebpaOCOMKi_sBrvRoaZhgxvFqg2AkjVoCFRbD6IbNWzvTHaP-kmnG5Qt3g_OxHZtOidFPwryfRlZ467FI0OV6oDGog/s600/Eyas%20peregrine.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="600" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirp_U7ZDxQTlv5yNzwhMJquCwOvACe5JZIDU_pZ0ZG7Hmp-FOvK1kIJQN0c8u4f0bCl3NsD_w3RmNNODPoZf_AkQvNajsFebpaOCOMKi_sBrvRoaZhgxvFqg2AkjVoCFRbD6IbNWzvTHaP-kmnG5Qt3g_OxHZtOidFPwryfRlZ467FI0OV6oDGog/w640-h434/Eyas%20peregrine.jpg" width="640" /></a> <i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">A young peregrine falcon at its nest in California. Photo by Tim Gallagher </span></i></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">It was a tough decision, and honestly, I’m still not sure I did the right thing. But I have gotten to do a lot of interesting things in my life, traveling to faraway locations—Greenland, Iceland, Alaska, Canada, Africa, the Middle East, South America—often to help with raptor studies and write about them for books and magazines.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;">I finally got a chance to visit the old peregrine eyrie at Taughannock Gorge in 1990. I had flown to Ithaca, New York, to be interviewed for the position as editor-in-chief of <i>Living Bird</i> magazine at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology—a department founded in 1915 by Arthur Allen, the very person who had taken the photograph of the eyrie that I admired so much. At the end of my interview, I asked if anyone would be willing to drive me to Taughannock Gorge, about fourteen miles away, and Scott Sutcliffe, then the Lab’s executive director, kindly volunteered. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was eerie to be there. As I stood at the lookout, across from the falls, I could close my eyes and just imagine what it must have been like to have the loud calls of nesting peregrines echoing up and down the gorge. Maybe someday the birds will return, I thought, wistfully. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyAvzMbO9HF11-5s9vJfl29nSL0cLVjhL8kCxIoSZcXWIiAA62Ae8gE7vvM3q3PL_3e1r4jw4NYsKKZvFtCk8USvyj1QQsovHCnSZAr1-bCmrnQNLlEa4kW7uFTq5x286jGlL7D7xsREp0DSX_PUc75uqPB8V2XF6LcTVYYbYs9DW3VXhFl2PtBw/s3011/Taughannock%20Falls_Gallagher_%202020-x.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2637" data-original-width="3011" height="560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyAvzMbO9HF11-5s9vJfl29nSL0cLVjhL8kCxIoSZcXWIiAA62Ae8gE7vvM3q3PL_3e1r4jw4NYsKKZvFtCk8USvyj1QQsovHCnSZAr1-bCmrnQNLlEa4kW7uFTq5x286jGlL7D7xsREp0DSX_PUc75uqPB8V2XF6LcTVYYbYs9DW3VXhFl2PtBw/w640-h560/Taughannock%20Falls_Gallagher_%202020-x.jpg" width="640" /></a><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Taughannock Falls in spring. Photo by Tim Gallagher</span></i></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj68RJPLvt8sii0sJDEDF61d0pYeDqmhkXb720IT9Sv1kUn2c3KJCmRMxKDIPZ6J5tIV99Lni1KgQcFZ9nkbYGA3opwStLLXKg6hvajfYMtzg0NBeA-lUDlgPN9wc4z4c9Add5DO0LffEsbDM4I_S-8d2o5X8gRqg6rmcKiJLK4KEKgN5QLFz9b4w/s4345/LB%20Winter%202015.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4345" data-original-width="3343" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj68RJPLvt8sii0sJDEDF61d0pYeDqmhkXb720IT9Sv1kUn2c3KJCmRMxKDIPZ6J5tIV99Lni1KgQcFZ9nkbYGA3opwStLLXKg6hvajfYMtzg0NBeA-lUDlgPN9wc4z4c9Add5DO0LffEsbDM4I_S-8d2o5X8gRqg6rmcKiJLK4KEKgN5QLFz9b4w/w492-h640/LB%20Winter%202015.jpeg" width="492" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><i style="font-family: times; text-align: left;">The Winter 2015 issue of </i><span style="font-family: times; text-align: left;">Living Bird</span><i style="font-family: times; text-align: left;">—celebrating the Cornell Lab's centennial—featured an adult peregrine falcon </i></span><i style="font-family: times;">on the cover. Photo by Cliff Beittel</i></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span>I got the job at </span><i>Living Bird</i><span> and worked at the Lab for more than a quarter of a century, in the meantime marrying Rachel Dickinson, a writer and Ithaca native, and raising our children with her. But it wasn’t until the spring of 2020, when the COVID pandemic kicked into high gear, that peregrine falcons finally took up residence once more at Taughannock Gorge, for the first time since 1946. And I was there to watch and document their nesting. They succeeded spectacularly, raising three young. I wrote a long feature article for </span><i>Audubon</i><span> about it titled </span><a href="https://www.audubon.org/news/peregrine-falcons-finally-return-nest-their-most-famous-us-eyrie">“Peregrine Falcons Finally Return to Nest at Their Most Famous U.S. Eyrie.”</a><span> And amazingly, the article won a national award for Best Conservation Article from the Outdoor Writers Association of America. Talk about bookends. I had written two articles, 40-plus years apart—one focused on the Morro Rock peregrines and the efforts of the SCPBRG to keep them breeding successfully; the other about the Taughannock Gorge peregrines returning after a 74-year absence—and both won major national writing awards. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhH0-FELwywBjV9WLyrF3jbm_iVAeBpkrrla9rt9mW5mHZLJY8J_Lkl_bKkuRDWJTlCutvmkRw0AcMaBwA6Yj4wVrVYJrRUx16e_zr_yfjhWCo0noLjiNdm9IgAUyqrd6v9UduQQGIh9Pz-aMDi5awWLkvuOT3itkUy1ZjalUtOkKxxA15eXKyuA/s2048/Taughannock%20Eyas%20Peregrines%20in%202021.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1409" data-original-width="2048" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhH0-FELwywBjV9WLyrF3jbm_iVAeBpkrrla9rt9mW5mHZLJY8J_Lkl_bKkuRDWJTlCutvmkRw0AcMaBwA6Yj4wVrVYJrRUx16e_zr_yfjhWCo0noLjiNdm9IgAUyqrd6v9UduQQGIh9Pz-aMDi5awWLkvuOT3itkUy1ZjalUtOkKxxA15eXKyuA/w640-h440/Taughannock%20Eyas%20Peregrines%20in%202021.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Four young peregrines at the Taughannock Gorge eyrie in 2021. Photo by Tim Gallagher</span></i></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have no idea what to do for an encore, but I was happy to be invited in 2021 to take part in interviews for a documentary titled <a href="https://vimeo.com/675329102"><i>Game Hawker</i>,</a> about falconer Shawn Hayes, produced by Patagonia Films and directed by Josh Izenberg and Brett Marty. (I later wrote a piece for <i>Audubon</i>, <a href="https://www.audubon.org/news/the-inspiring-ascent-master-falconer-shawn-hayes">"The Inspiring Ascent of Master Falconer Shawn Hayes."</a>) I was flown to San Francisco and, together with Shawn and the film crew, we drove to Morro Bay to visit my other favorite peregrine eyrie. Not only was the original eyrie occupied but we saw another peregrine eyrie on a different cliff face at Morro Rock. Then, amazingly, we found out a day later that there was also a third eyrie on the seaward side of the rock that we couldn’t see. What a spectacular comeback the peregrines have made in California—and across North America. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijjgmYRLyWsrjJxCr1BE3lfmX4BYg9SslUkv3BKhvtEns0V_ioNSD2H3tNDLF8YWVVPuligN9e73_DxG7PfFyaEMtbbi1GiqIEDU07Kyabz3MdN6rc5ldZhhZWXtmxhh9XxXU6VboMqZkr8VcmsEj3Cet-iNjW0bgMkuCP-gQ0P8asxqsRZsFHsA/s7360/Shawn%20Hayes%20at%20Morro%20Rock_2022_8432.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4912" data-original-width="7360" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijjgmYRLyWsrjJxCr1BE3lfmX4BYg9SslUkv3BKhvtEns0V_ioNSD2H3tNDLF8YWVVPuligN9e73_DxG7PfFyaEMtbbi1GiqIEDU07Kyabz3MdN6rc5ldZhhZWXtmxhh9XxXU6VboMqZkr8VcmsEj3Cet-iNjW0bgMkuCP-gQ0P8asxqsRZsFHsA/w640-h428/Shawn%20Hayes%20at%20Morro%20Rock_2022_8432.jpg" width="640" /></a><i style="font-family: times; text-align: left;">Falconer Shawn Hayes observing one of the peregrine falcon eyries at Morro Rock. Photo by Tim Gallagher</i></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">As I write this essay, it is midwinter and I just got home from Taughannock Gorge, about twenty miles away. I didn’t see any peregrines today, just spectacular scenery. But it looks like the falcons are here to stay. They fledged three young in 2020, four in 2021, and another four in 2022. I'm hoping that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation will soon remove the peregrine falcon from the state endangered species list, as so many other states have done. The birds are far more numerous now than they were even before the DDT era. Perhaps someday falconers in New York State will be able to fly wild peregrines again. (At the moment, we can’t even own wild peregrines legally obtained in other states.) For now, it’s just another pipe dream—like the one I had for years that peregrines would once again nest at Taughannock Gorge. We’ll see.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy-v42jB0etOYYAUNAPeGV5sUMPUnkt66M0tDPFW4zvK87Np7zxbrW1fBXYzLk7AYhkryZOmb-DqZGTRymYo9kULeM3xNhxuSF5otTmsWHKIxvvLwISYd01IKzueiU66YjKaQPXxd86AW6R8y4Dp6FeCK_6OWR38iCQ7j_VRzuAaEAxQS2fp9hqQ/s2048/Clara,%20Tim,%20and%20Gwen%20Gallagher%20at%20Taughannock.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy-v42jB0etOYYAUNAPeGV5sUMPUnkt66M0tDPFW4zvK87Np7zxbrW1fBXYzLk7AYhkryZOmb-DqZGTRymYo9kULeM3xNhxuSF5otTmsWHKIxvvLwISYd01IKzueiU66YjKaQPXxd86AW6R8y4Dp6FeCK_6OWR38iCQ7j_VRzuAaEAxQS2fp9hqQ/w640-h480/Clara,%20Tim,%20and%20Gwen%20Gallagher%20at%20Taughannock.jpg" width="640" /></a><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">With daughters Clara (left) and Gwen at Taughannock Falls. Photo by Rachel Dickinson</span></i></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></div>Tim Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930445694831642950noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079663929720309091.post-28017892596209354332021-03-22T15:54:00.007-04:002021-03-22T17:34:23.917-04:00The Return of "Extinct" Species<p><span style="font-size: large;"><i> <span style="color: white;"><span>A film crew from "CBS Sunday Morning" and reporter Conor Knighton came along with Bobby Harrison and me last year on one of our searches for Ivory-billed Woodpeckers in an Arkansas Bayou, just before the COVID lockdown. The program aired on March 21, 2021. Here are some photos (below) and a</span><span> <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-return-of-extinct-species/?fbclid=IwAR3mkvv3mUzocj5D4BsQ_r3_QuIKx5-FU2FX83JXR5YgjUYhPe1mDhjyDIk">link</a> to the show.</span></span></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeRoVqXu4aXHX_VC-5N8yYnzvHBBfs1DdpXEuDDyMcAp5Oyak2AvnhJtBpmgIR_kCx4h3QjCKf3FX8JLy5MzNEepAFtTZPUTASjQ2fEkjeYKaXGD18oi0HIVNuIRwq3JAz_LHdsBH3aQ/s2048/Jane+Pauly+and+Ivory-bill.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1150" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeRoVqXu4aXHX_VC-5N8yYnzvHBBfs1DdpXEuDDyMcAp5Oyak2AvnhJtBpmgIR_kCx4h3QjCKf3FX8JLy5MzNEepAFtTZPUTASjQ2fEkjeYKaXGD18oi0HIVNuIRwq3JAz_LHdsBH3aQ/w640-h360/Jane+Pauly+and+Ivory-bill.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<span style="font-family: "palatino";"><i>Thirteen-year-old Steve with a Red-tailed Hawk</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino";"><span style="font-size: large;">In addition to raptors, the ocean was always an important part of Steve’s life, as a surfer, fisherman, and beachcomber. He grew up in Seal Beach in the Sixties, the son of a schoolteacher and a commercial fisherman—a career Steve and his two brothers also took up. I worked with him for a time in the 1970s on a swordfish boat called the <i>Volare</i>, an Italian verb meaning “to fly”—a perfect name for a boat captained by Steve. He had recruited me because of my skills as a birder, hoping I could sit in the crow’s nest, peering at the horizon through 10x binoculars for hours at a time, searching for the telltale shape of swordfish fins on the horizon. It was a challenge, but thanks to Steve’s tutelage, I could soon distinguish between the fins of distant swordfish, striped marlin, blue sharks, hammerhead sharks, and many other species.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino";"><span style="font-size: large;">It was a good life. We’d anchor each night off one of the Channel Islands—Santa Cruz, San Clemente, or Santa Catalina—and often catch lobster, abalone, or fish to eat in the evening. By day, we’d scour the seas, endlessly searching for swordfish basking in the sun after their morning meals. If we spotted one, we’d lower the long metal plank on the bow of the boat and one of us would walk to the end of it while the other carefully moved the boat forward, trying to get close enough to throw a harpoon at the fish. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "palatino";"><span style="font-size: large;">It was exciting and interesting. Steve worked hard and eventually bought the <i>Volare </i>from the man who employed us, and he lived on the boat for many years—right up until the hull was destroyed by wood rot a few years ago. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino";"><span style="font-size: large;">Looking back on Steve's life, what I think impressed me most about him was the way he dealt with adversity—and he faced a lot of it in his later life. About a decade ago he was diagnosed with bladder cancer and went through a harrowing, hours-long surgery, which nearly killed him, and left him barely able to walk for months. I was living in Upstate New York, but I came to California and visited him not long after his surgery. He was living alone on the <i>Volare</i>, which was tied to the wharf in Fish Harbor, near San Pedro. It was awful, and he obviously was in a lot of pain, but he never complained. He had the most amazingly upbeat attitude, and it really got him through it. Most people would have given up, but he lived another ten years. And it wasn't a bad life. He did the things that interested him most. And he always helped his friends, talking for hours on the phone whenever one of us was in crisis. I'll always be grateful for the emotional support he gave me after the death of one of my children, when I was overcome with despair and didn't see how I could go on. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino";"><i>Shortly after his surgery, Steve holds up a picture of him at age 19 with his tiercel Prairie Falcon.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino"; font-size: large;">Steve didn’t fly falcons in his later years. But he never stopped loving them and spent countless hours watching nesting Peregrine Falcons on the sea cliffs and bridges and buildings of California and later on the Oregon coast, where he spent the final years of his life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino"; font-size: large;">The last time I saw Steve was just a couple of months ago in the Florida Keys, where he and I and our mutual friend, Hollis Roberts, had gone to watch the fall migration of Peregrine Falcons en route from their Arctic breeding grounds to their wintering areas in Latin America. It was Steve who originally introduced me to Hollis, when we were in our mid-teens, and the three of us always flew hawks together growing up. It was a great reunion. We saw more peregrines than any of us had ever seen in a single day. The hawk watch at Curry Hammock recorded more than five hundred peregrines one of the days we were there. We got to see many peregrines there as well as at Key West and another place where the falcons were flying right over our heads. One day when it was raining we went driving around to see if we could locate any perched peregrines, and we wildly exceeded our expectations, finding seventeen peregrines sitting on a single radio tower. We had the best time, laughing, joking, talking endlessly—and watching peregrines. We were like kids again. What could be better? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "palatino"; font-size: large;">So fair winds and following seas, my old friend, wherever you may travel. </span></div>
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Fifty years ago today, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made history as the first humans to set foot on the moon. It was one of those pivotal moments—the kind of earth-shaking event about which people ask for decades after: "Where were you when...?" Fill in the blank.<br />
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I've often tried to skirt around my answer when someone asked me about the moon landing. You see, I was eighteen and a few months earlier had been convicted of possessing a small amount of marijuana—at a time when this was considered a serious crime and well worth destroying someone's life over. (Now recreational marijuana possession and use is perfectly legal in California.) I'd never previously been arrested for anything, and yet here I was, serving a 5-month sentence in a maximum-security county jail facility. I was in a classic cell-block with two tiers of cells—P Tank above and O Tank below—with a bullet-proof-glass-enclosed catwalk where the guards would randomly walk past, at any hour of day or night. The prisoners in P Tank were usually in transit to other places. They'd stay a few days then get transferred to a branch jail or to the honor farm. In O Tank, we were more permanent. The county jail authorities didn't like to send druggies to the farm or to let them participate in any kind of work-release program. In O Tank, the days went slowly. We didn't have television or even playing cards to entertain ourselves.<br />
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But a few weeks after I began my sentence, a curious thing happened. The guards gathered all the inmates from O Tank, marched us upstairs, and we crammed into the cells of P Tank, where the prisoners had a television in every cell. Together we watched Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land the first spacecraft on the moon. I've never heard of anything like that happening before or since at a jail. I suppose someone made a decision that this was too historic an occasion not to share with us, and for that I'm grateful.<br />
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Many years later I was at an Explorers Club banquet in New York City, receiving a conservation award, when I met Buzz Aldrin. We had a nice conversation, but I never told him I'd been watching the moon walk from a jail cell on that historic day, half a century ago. I wrote about these and other experiences in my memoir, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/FALCON-FEVER-Falconer-Twenty-first-Century/dp/0547237790"><i>Falcon Fever</i> </a>(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008).<br />
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With Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin (right), the second man to walk on the moon; astronaut Kathryn Sullivan (left), the first American woman to walk in space; and famed marine biologist Sylvia Earle at the Explorers Club Awards Banquet, New York City. Photo by Bobby Harrison</div>
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<br />Tim Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930445694831642950noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079663929720309091.post-91925404722684310722019-07-20T12:53:00.002-04:002019-07-20T14:19:55.205-04:00 Remembering Mike Connolly<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I was saddened hear that my old friend Mike Connolly passed away last Sunday. Mike began training hawks in the 1960s in the San Diego area and quickly excelled as a game hawker—first hunting cottontails and other game with his great Cooper's Hawk, Shadow, and later flying Peregrines (most notably Orchid and Witch) at ducks for years. He became a legendary figure in California falconry, and deservedly so. He was always generous with his time. He brought his peregrines to every California Hawking Club field meet for years and always let everyone tag along to watch his falcons catch ducks. He had very high standards and inspired a generation of young falconers to follow in his footsteps. I spoke with him on the phone just a couple of weeks ago when his hospice care began. I still thought he might bounce back one more time. Mike was such a powerful presence, it's difficult to accept the fact that he's gone. He will be greatly missed.<br />
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Mike Connolly (left) and Scott Francis (right) came to see me when I gave a talk in Missoula, Montana, during my book tour for <i>Falcon Fever</i>. They were two great California falconers who are now both gone. Rest in Peace, my old friends. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />One mystery I always hoped to sort out was the identity of a hunter who had taken two snapshots of a male ivory-bill in 1971 and sent them to George Lowery, a famed ornithologist at Louisiana State University. When the man had initially reported seeing a pair of ivory-bills, Lowery assumed he had seen pileated woodpeckers and encouraged him to try to get a picture. When he subsequently shot some pictures, Lowery was convinced and went immediately to the Atchafalaya Swamp of southern Louisiana, where the man had seen the birds. Although Lowery never saw the ivory-bills, he did see an excavation the birds had started in a tree.<br /><br />The man asked that his identity and the exact location of the place he’d taken the pictures not be revealed. Like many southerners, he had a visceral fear that the feds would come in and impound the land, so he couldn't hunt there anymore. Lowery respected his wishes and never divulged the information.<br /><br />That summer, Lowery took the pictures to the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union, expecting all the scientists to be excited by this amazing physical proof of the continued existence of this species, even at that early date long thought extinct. Instead, he was met with immediate withering skepticism. One of the first things the other ornithologists did was to peer at the snapshots through an electron microscope. Their verdict: obviously a fraud—a taxidermied bird hung in two different trees. Some of them laughed at Lowery behind his back, jeering at his gullibility. Some darkly suggested he may have been in on the hoax. But no one who knew him could ever have believed that. <br /><br />Lowery kept quiet about the affair after that, and a few years later he passed away. The story of the hunter who gave him the pictures grew from that point on until he became a legendary figure, shrouded in mystery—an old Choctaw living far out in the swamp; a greasy-haired hermit who only came to town once or twice a year to sell his beaver pelts. People speculated wildly in books and magazine articles about who he might be and where in the vast Atchafalaya Swamp he saw the birds. I had no idea who he was. I just knew that I wanted to talk with him, to look him in the eye and decide for myself whether I believed his story.<br /><br />I did hear about a man named Fielding Lewis who supposedly had seen ivory-bills somewhere in the Atchafalaya in the 1970s. I wondered if there was any possibility that he could be the mystery man. One day I did an Internet search for his name and got only one hit in the entire state of Louisiana. And this Fielding Lewis did live in the southern Atchafalaya. Could it really be this easy? As I was getting ready to call him on my cell phone, I got the wicked thought: maybe I should pretend that I know he took the pictures and see what he says.<br /><br />“This is Tim Gallagher from Cornell University,” I said as the man answered the phone. I’m interviewing people who have seen ivory-billed woodpeckers, and I’d like to ask you about the pictures you gave to George Lowery in 1971.”<br /><br />Without a pause he said, “Okay.” Then he told me he lived out in the woods and I’d never be able to find his place. He suggested that Bobby Harrison and I meet him in front of a Cajun restaurant not far from his home. When I called my wife and told her this, she said: “Don’t do it! It’s the South. We’ll never hear from you again.” I assured her everything would be fine. Bobby is with me. What could go wrong? But to be honest, it did seem a little strange.<br /><br />We ended up getting to the restaurant a couple of hours earlier than we’d planned, so I called Lewis again. A woman answered and told me he wasn’t home; he had gone to his office. His office? All my fantasies about this guy immediately imploded—the stringy-haired swamp rat living in a shack perched precariously on wobbly stilts above the swamp; the trapper poling along in his hand-hewn pirogue—all gone. And I missed that image. So who was this guy? What would he really be like?<br /><br />By this time, Bobby and I were too excited to go inside the restaurant. We hung around outside, peering at every car that passed. Finally a big white Chrysler New Yorker pulled into the parking lot, driven by a portly man in his seventies, puffing on the biggest cigar I’ve ever seen.<br /><br />“Fielding Lewis?” I said as he stepped outside. He nodded and we shook hands. He looked like a character from Tennessee Williams—like Big Daddy, larger than life, with a booming voice and a bone-crushing handshake.<br /><br />As we drove behind, following him to his office, I noticed the frame around his license plate said “Louisiana State Boxing Commission.” I asked him about this as he opened his office door, and he told us he was the state commissioner of boxing and had been a boxer himself years earlier. Stepping into his office, we were hit by a wall of choking cigar smoke. It was like going through a time warp, passing into the 1940s. On the wall hung a black-and-white World War II era cigarette ad of a Hollywood starlet puffing a Chesterfield. Framed pictures of boxers stood on every available desk or table, including a nice autographed shot of Mohammad Ali as a teenager, when he was still called Cassius Clay.<br /><br /> Lewis was a great storyteller and he regaled us with endless anecdotes about his many exploits over the years and the numerous fascinating characters he’d encountered in his life. We finally got him talking about ivory-bills. He spoke about George Lowery—how he was the nicest person he’d ever met. They had become close friends, he said, and he had a picture of him posing with his grandkids. Then I hit him with the big question: “Did you know that those pictures you took caused a huge controversy with ornithologists and that some of them think the bird was taxidermied?”<br /><br /> He stared at me, visually stunned for moment, and then bellowed with laughter. “Now where the hell would I get a stuffed ivory-bill?”<br /><br /> Bobby and I came away believing his story. And when we visited the spot where he had reportedly seen the birds, we found numerous huge cypresses, but most of them were dead—victims of salt-water incursion back around the time he had seen the birds, which was interesting. Slowly dying trees like that would have been a natural magnet for infestation by wood-boring beetles and species that feed on their larvae, such as ivory-billed woodpeckers.</span><br />
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Tom Cade passed away yesterday at the age of 91. Considering his age and the state of his health, I know I shouldn't be surprised, but I'm still having a hard time imaging a world without Tom. He was such an inspiring figure to me for so long. I first heard about him in my teens, and it was such a proud moment when I first met him and got to know him. What can you say about Tom Cade? Of course, he was a renowned biologist, a raptor conservationist, an Ivy League professor, and a lifelong falconer—but he was so much more.<br />
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Tom was a dynamo who poured all of his energy and leadership skills into a valiant attempt to turn around the Peregrine Falcon's perilous population decline. By the mid-1960s, most of the Peregrine eyries across the United States had been abandoned and the species was no longer breeding east of the Mississippi River. Tom strongly believed he could breed Peregrines in captivity and release them to the wild in sufficient numbers to have a massive positive impact on the dwindling falcon population.<br />
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Tom's enthusiasm was contagious. Many falconers contributed their own birds to use in the captive-breeding program at Cornell. And many of them also volunteered their time and provided initial funding for the project. No falconer could imagine losing the Peregrine Falcon. Tom and The Peregrine Fund—an organization he founded in 1970—released some 4,000 captive-produced Peregrine Falcons in the space of 28 years in what became one of the most successful endangered species recovery efforts ever attempted. I'll never forget attending the event in August 1999 at the World Center for Birds of Prey in Boise, Idaho, when Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt officially removed the Peregrine Falcon from the Endangered Species List. What an amazing accomplishment. And what a great way to end the Twentieth Century.<br />
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I had the great privilege the following year of accompanying Tom Cade, Bill Burnham, Kurt Burnham, and Jack Stephens on an expedition to Greenland—actually a follow-up to research conducted nearly a century earlier by Danish ornithologist Alfred Bertelsen, who had extensively mapped out numerous nest sites and breeding colonies of birds in the Uummannaq region of Greenland. When Tom was a young graduate student at UCLA in the early 1950s, he had read a paper Bertelsen had published in a Danish ornithological journal in 1921, and he decided he would someday retrace Bertelsen's route and see how much the bird numbers and species makeup had changed in the intervening years. And he did it, decades later at the age of 72—traveling countless miles up iceberg-choked fjords in an open boat; camping out on the frozen ground as frigid Arctic winds tried to rip the tents to shreds. I'm still impressed by Tom's determination and stoicism in the face of hardship. I'll always remember that. Rest in Peace, my old friend.<br />
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<i>Tom Cade and Kurt Burnham in Greenland. (c) Tim Gallagher</i></div>
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<i>With Tom Cade in 2015 at a celebration in his honor at Cornell.</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm saddened to report the death of my old friend Bob Martin, who passed away last week at the age of 73. Bob first took up falconry in the late 1950s when he was in his early teens. He and his friend Mike Arnold, who lived in the same neighborhood in Burbank, California, were absolute fanatics about the sport, reading everything they could find about falconry and tirelessly searching the nearby hills for raptor nests. Their efforts took a quantum leap forward when they met Bob Klimes, president of the Southern California Falconers' Association, and Bob McCallum, who were both avid game hawkers and provided the two boys with help, advice, and stellar examples to follow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> A recent picture of Bob with one of his peregrines from a 2018 <a href="http://www.brentfrazee.com/2018/02/09/for-montana-falconer-kansas-is-a-hunting-paradise/">article</a> by Brent Frazee.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I first met Bob when I was 14 years old, in the mid-1960s, at a meeting of the old Santa Ana Valley Falconers' Association, which met each week at Jack Hagan's house. I remember Bob had a fresh-trapped passage tiercel peregrine—one of the first tundra peregrines I'd ever seen—and I was absolutely awestruck. Fortunately, Bob wasn't stuck up about having such an impressive bird. Then, and throughout his falconry career, he was always generous, freely sharing his vast knowledge about training raptors. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">He was an excellent hood-maker, and some examples of his work can be seen at the Archives of Falconry. His craftsmanship showed in everything he created, from hoods, blocks, and falconry bags to the log house he built nearly singlehandedly in Montana. He was also a talented musician, playing and singing with his wife JoAnne in their bluegrass band. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Bob was always a staunch game-hawker, flying first-rate falcons in spectacular style. Last season, he went on the road with his two intermewed peregrines, Salt and Pepper, flying them at sage grouse, prairie chickens, and other challenging quarry. He had planned to do the same this fall. Sadly, it was not to be. He will be greatly missed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: center;"> Bob Martin (at right) and Bob Mechsner in La Verne, California, in the 1960s. Photo by Dan Fenske</span></span>Tim Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930445694831642950noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079663929720309091.post-75208951896726635042018-05-23T13:49:00.006-04:002018-05-23T13:50:21.519-04:00Book Reading this Thursday in Ithaca, NY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Tim Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930445694831642950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079663929720309091.post-85989618678269247542018-05-02T12:25:00.000-04:002018-05-02T13:23:45.047-04:00My latest book is about to launch . . .<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I wrote <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Born-Fish-Obsessed-Greatest-Fisherman/dp/0544787242">Born to Fish</a></i> with my friend, Greg Myerson, a world-class angler who turned his life around through fishing. From his earliest days, Greg used fishing as an escape from the violent world of his mobster father, but then it became an overwhelming obessions in its own right, destroying his relationships and work life. Finally, in August 2011, he caught an 82-pound striped bass, shattering a world record that had stood for 29 years. Yet at the very instant he achieved this crowning glory, he instantly had a staggering epiphany and regretted killing the fish. An unlikely conservation hero, he is now at the forefront of the effort to save the large striped bass, which are the most prolific breeders and vital to the dwindling Atlantic coast striped bass population, now devastated by overfishing and pollution.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I hope all of my friends in the Saratoga Springs, NY, area will join me tomorrow for falconry talk, food, and beer tasting. All proceeds go to the local food bank. Here's a <a href="http://www.rstaylorbrewing.com/contact-us">link</a> with directions.</span>Tim Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930445694831642950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079663929720309091.post-16229426290520597682017-11-02T09:09:00.003-04:002017-11-02T09:09:52.272-04:00Rest in Peace, Roger Upton<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was saddened to hear about the death of legendary British falconer Roger Upon, who passed away on October 29th at the age of 80 after battling Parkinson's disease for several years. Roger was a tall, impressive man. In his youth, he had served in the Queen's Household Cavalry, and he always cut a dashing figure in the field, often clad in a tweed cap and sport coat, sometimes with a red handkerchief stuffed in his pocket as an accent. He was an accomplished author, who became the chief chronicler and historian of British falconry. His Books include: <i>Birds in the Hand: Celebrated Falconers of the Past</i>; <i>O For a Falconer's Voice: Memories of the Old Hawking Club</i>; <i>Hood, Leash, and Lure: Falconry in the Twentieth Century</i>. He also wrote an excellent book about hawking in the Middle East, titled <i>Arab Falconry</i>. He will be greatly missed by his friends and family as well as the entire world falconry community. Rest in Peace, my friend. </span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I was deeply saddened to hear about the death of my old friend, Merlyn Felton, who passed away on November 11, 2016. (Most of his friends, including me, first heard about his death this week.) Merlyn and I worked together in the late 1970s at the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group, where we cared for the Peregrine Falcons in the captive-breeding project and did field work. But Merlyn did much more than that. At a time when the Peregrine Falcons at Morro Bay were one of the last known breeding pairs of the species in California, Merlyn spent countless hours, night and day, for months each spring camping at Morro Rock, guarding the nestlings from anyone who might harm, harrass, or take them. In the years he did this, the birds always fledged successfully, adding to the peregrine population at a time when the species was critically endangered. Now there are many nesting peregrines in California, and Merlyn played a vital role in bringing them back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Merlyn was an avid falconer, and we had some great times flying our peregrines in the Salinas Valley and other places in Central California. He was one of the most dedicated people I've ever met. He will be greatly missed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I first met Jim when I was 16, at a national falconry meet in South Dakota, and got to hear firsthand all about his adventures on the Mackenzie. He later was closely involved in the successful effort to breed peregrines in captivity and release them to the wild, and he served on the administrative board of The Peregrine Fund. Jim wrote a wonderful book about the decline and recovery of the species titled, <a href="https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/endper"><i>Peregrine Falcon: Stories of the Blue Meanie</i> </a>(University of Texas Press, 2001).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">What's great is that not a single man is present in any of these illustrations. These women are self-sufficient and clearly don't need any help. None of them is wearing a wimple or a veil, so they are probably unmarried. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I wish I knew more of the story behind these illustrations. I've never seen any others quite like them, focused entirely on women engaged in activities that were far more associated with men in that time period. Even in the falconry scenes, the women in <i>The Taymouth Hours</i> are not flying Merlins (the "Lady's Hawk") at Skylarks. They're flying what I assume are Goshawks at mallards and hares. (Although the wings are rather long and pointed for a Goshawk, the very long tail, the gray barring underneath, and the fact that the hawk is being flown at close range from the fist at large ducks and hares makes Goshawk seem most likely to me.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>Tim Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930445694831642950noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079663929720309091.post-35281404069935803322016-10-18T16:09:00.000-04:002017-01-06T19:01:22.173-05:00Rodeo Clown: A Black Man's Odyssey through the American West<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Shawn Hayes is an anomaly. In the white-bread world of
professional rodeo—an activity as American as Mom and Marlboro cigarettes—he is
a stocky African-American athlete with shoulder-length braids, who came to the
sport directly from the inner-city, without ever being a cowboy or spending
time around livestock. And now he has one of the most dangerous jobs in
America. Shawn is a professional rodeo clown—one of those guys you see running
around the arena to distract a bull after it has thrown a rider, encouraging
the raging beast to chase him instead of stomping or goring the cowboy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When he’s in the bullring, Shawn dresses in gaudy shirts,
baggy pants, and a floppy cowboy hat, and he often has clown makeup smeared on
his face, drawing laughs from the audience between events. But the humor ends
the instant the bull explodes from the chute with a cowboy clinging desperately
to its back. It is a deadly serious business, and any misstep can result in
death or serious injury for a bull rider or the clowns who protect him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Being a rodeo clown is a highly physical, extremely dangerous occupation, and it only becomes more so as Shawn ages—he is now in his fifties. He is still in great demand for his services at rodeos and bull-riding events across the West and is well paid, but the stresses and strains and injuries of more than two decades in this punishing line of work are taking their toll. Every time he signs up to work another rodeo; every time he steps into the bull-ring and waits for the gate to fly open and a 2,000-pound bull to come bursting out, charging and bucking, he has to ask himself: How much longer can I keep this up? How many more times can I put everything on the line like this? He has some tough decisions to make. He's staring hard at the end of his career—the only work he's done in his entire adult life. At this point, he's taking it one rodeo at a time, just trying to make it to the end of another season.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Shawn loves the world of the rodeo and bull riding and his
essential role in the whole spectacle. You could say he’s one of the great
enablers. None of this could happen without people like Shawn, willing to place
himself in the way of a charging bull to distract it away from a rider. But he
knows he’s starting to slow: not something anyone watching him would notice,
but something he senses inside. Each morning when he gets up, he feels the
throbbing aches of the thousand times he’s been slammed into by a bull or
knocked down or tossed in the air or stomped by hooves. But what else can he
do? Shawn’s entire self-image and identity are wrapped up in his life as a
rodeo clown. He’s proud of what he does. He’s well liked and
respected—appreciated for his skills, abilities, and raw courage. Everyone
knows him and loves him. But will they still be there if he walks away from the
bullring? What will it be like for him to go from being a top professional
rodeo clown to a middle-aged black man without a college degree, and without
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<span style="font-size: large;">Everything Shawn does is tied up with his career in the
rodeo or directly supported by it. His other great love is falconry—training
birds of prey to hunt with him. The money he earns through rodeo, and the
seasonal nature of the work, enables him to lead a falconer’s dream life in the
off-season. He spends months each fall and winter traveling across the West
with his two trained falcons in the back of his truck, in search of grouse,
ducks, and other prey for them to hunt. And as a falconer, he has few equals.
He is a connoisseur in the sport, who flies only the finest birds, trained to perfection
to hunt the most challenging quarries in North America. If he had to turn to a
conventional 9-to-5 job to earn money, his falconry would be over.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“My friend Garrett and his brother and father were all bull
riders,” he told me. “I used to go hunting and fishing with them. And then one
day Garrett showed me these videos of him in the national rodeo finals in
Colorado. I saw these two guys running around the ring dressed up like clowns,
going right up to the bulls.” Shawn was stunned. “What is that?” he asked, and
they told him they were rodeo clowns. “I want to do that,” he said. “No, I
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<span style="font-size: large;">But Shawn was determined to give it a try, first informally,
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<o:p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Super Bulls</span></o:p></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At bull riding’s highest level, the bulls, the riders, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and</i> the clowns are all superb
athletes—professionals in every way, trained and experienced in one of the
world’s most dangerous sporting activities. Indeed, a concurrent evolution has
taken place among all three. Stock contractors have worked for decades to breed
super bulls—tireless, strong, aggressive, and born to buck—and then enhanced
their skills using dummy cowboys that the trainer can release with a remote
control unit whenever the bull makes a spectacular buck. The rodeo bulls of
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<span style="font-size: large;">The best of them, like Shawn, are born athletes who could
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their lives had gone that way. They have a level of innate athletic ability far
above that of most other people, and they expand on it, training endlessly,
lifting weights, and attending bull-riding or rodeo clown schools put on by top
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<span style="font-size: large;">Shawn credits his natural athletic ability for his success
in a field with few African-American participants. He grew up with basketball
legend Reggie Miller, who still holds the NBA record for the most career
three-pointers, and played team sports with him in grade school and high
school. They are still close friends. But Shawn spent the last couple of years
of high school playing football exclusively, which fit his stocky body type
better than basketball. He was always agile and light on his feet, which
transferred well to the rodeo arena, despite the fact that he had never touched
a bull or spent any time with livestock before jumping into the bullring. Shawn
improved his abilities by training with professional rodeo clowns, who endorsed
him to the rodeo committees and stock contractors who hire staff for rodeos and
bull-riding events.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Ride 'em Cowboy!</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bull riding can be almost ballet-like at times—the smooth
arc of the animal’s back as it bucks high, twists, and lurches trying to throw
the rider from its back; the cowboy flowing gracefully with the bull’s every
movement, one hand held high above him. Bull riders have told me how at times
they feel so in sync with a bull, time seems to slow down, and they become
hyper-aware of everything around them—the color of the clown’s polka-dot shirt,
the rough texture of the bull’s hide, the thrilled look on a woman’s face in
the audience, in slow motion and magnified—and they seem to know intuitively
each movement the bull will make. The eight-second ride seems to last for
hours, and they don’t want it to end, they feel so fully in the moment.
Experiencing this kind of peak performance is what keeps many bull riders
coming back to the bullring, again and again and again. But other rides are as
far removed as possible from this image, with the rider clinging helplessly to
the raging brute’s back, desperately praying to be saved from this hell, and
this is when they need the help of a good rodeo clown most.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When everything goes well in a bull ride, the animal bursts
from the chute at the side of the arena and begins bucking immediately, trying
to throw the rider off its back. Generally two rodeo clowns will already be in
the arena when the chute opens, trying to draw the attention of the bull,
getting it to move toward them into the center of the ring where there’s less
danger of the bull (or a thrown cowboy) smashing into the surrounding fence,
which can be deadly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The clowns always avoid having a bull “line out” on
them—that is, straighten out and charge directly at them, which can be a deadly
situation. Instead, a clown will step in toward the shoulder of the animal and
get it to turn around and around after him while the bull simultaneously
attempts to buck off the cowboy. Eight seconds into the bull ride, a bell or a
horn sounds, announcing that the cowboy has successfully ridden the bull and
can now dismount and leave the arena. (If a cowboy doesn’t stay on for the full
eight seconds, the ride does not count; anything that happens after the eight
seconds is not judged.) This is sometimes the most dangerous part of a bull
ride.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ideally, the rider will slip easily from the back of the
bull, landing on his feet and running quickly back to the chute or the fence as
the clowns distract the bull and one of them attempts to get hold of the piece
of rope (called a tail) tied to the bull. But anything can happen. In the worst
cases, the bull ride descends into a horrifying melee with a thrown cowboy
flipping around like a limp rag-doll, still attached to the bull by one hand,
as the clowns desperately attempt to cut the helpless rider loose without being
gored or stomped on themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Shawn Hayes has been there . . . more than once. Although
rodeo clowns wear protective clothing—a padded vest, a kidney belt, a chest
belt, and hip pads—to keep a bull’s horns from penetrating their flesh, it provides
minimal protection, and they wear no headgear whatsoever. “When you’re taking a
hooking and you can’t get to your feet and your partner’s trying to get the
bull off you, you’re supposed to roll into a ball and protect your head, like
when you’re in an earthquake,” said Shawn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Or like when an atom bomb goes off,” I said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Yeah, except a bull’s worse than an atom bomb,” he said,
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Death in the Afternoon</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Shawn has been “hooked” by bulls several times in spite of
his protective gear. “One time when I stepped in between a bull and a cowboy,
the bull took me in his horns,” said Shawn. “Its horn went in between the
kidney belt and the chest belt and cracked my ribs. I couldn’t avoid it. I had
to take a hooking because that’s my job—to step in front of a bull.” Other
times he’s had broken bones, teeth knocked out, and an excruciatingly painful
shoulder dislocation. But the worst time for him and the closest he ever came
to giving up being a rodeo clown was when a bull rider was killed right in
front of him. “It was bad,” he said, staring at the ground and sighing deeply.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The cowboy was thrown the instant the bull burst from the
chute, but his hand was caught in the rope cinched around the animal’s chest.
And worse, he fell “inside”—in the direction the bull was turning. (Bull riders
always attempt to fall on the opposite side so they’re less likely to be
catastrophically injured.) “The bull stepped right on his head,” said Shawn.
“And the bull just kept . . . boom . . . boom.” Shawn’s eyes misted up. “It was
bad. It affected me for weeks. I couldn’t fight bulls.” But with a lot of encouragement
from the bull riders he’d protected in the past and their families, Shawn
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of other people. This is true for the bull rider, who depends on the skill,
courage, and determination of the clown, and the clown himself, who depends on
his partner to save him if he gets in trouble. Cowards and incompetent people
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<span style="font-size: large;">“You can’t kid yourself in this line of work,” said Shawn.
“If you’re not ready . . . if you don’t have the skill and the courage, there’s
a chance that you or the bull rider could get killed. No one wants that to
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Magnum Force</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rodeo bulls run the gamut from ones that will buck
ferociously until the cowboy is thrown from its back, then become relatively
docile, to those most feared animals, the “rank” bulls—absolute man-haters that
will go after anyone or anything they can get at in the ring. The worse such
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<span style="font-size: large;">“When they buck the cowboy off, most bulls will try to hook
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<span style="font-size: large;">Worse, Magnum was a “throw-down” bull—he had figured out how
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bull had become famous that summer for doing that,” said Shawn. On the first
day of the rodeo, true to his reputation, Magnum put four men in the hospital—a
bull rider, a clown, and a couple of gate men. Shawn was slated to work on the
bull-riding event the following day. “I’d never seen that bull before, and the
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<span style="font-size: large;">This got to Shawn, filling him with an intense dread, worse
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<span style="font-size: large;">Shawn’s worse fears were realized on the first ride, as a
young cowboy’s hand got hung up when he was thrown, and Magnum spun around and
around, tossing the rider up repeatedly, trying to impale him on its glistening
horns. “My partner ran out and straightened the bull’s head, and I went for the
tail [the piece of rope tied to the bull] and missed it,” said Shawn. “Then my
partner went for the tail, and he missed it, too.” At that point, Magnum
spotted a pickup man on a horse about 30 feet away. Shawn knelt down and stayed
still so the bull wouldn’t see him. Then, as soon as Magnum started after the
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<span style="font-size: large;">Magnum went around and around and around with him, smashing
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<span style="font-size: large;">Shawn knew he’d only have one chance to distract the bull so
the pickup man could rescue the downed cowboy, so he ran straight away from the
bull, then stopped and stood straight up facing Magnum, committing the most
dangerous act a rodeo clown can do, allowing a bull to line out on him. Magnum
bent down and charged ferociously. Shawn turned and sprinted to the bullring
fence, throwing himself up and over just as Magnum slammed into it. But the
bull rider was safe. A few minutes later, Shawn realized that he had wet his
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Raging Bulls</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The ferocity and brute strength of an angry bull is almost
unimaginable. Two thousand pounds of raw muscle, brute strength, and sinew
packed into an incredibly aggressive animal. “I got on a bull one time and was
going to ride it,” said Shawn. “But the instant they tightened the rope on my
hand, the bull flexed his muscles, and I felt every muscle in his body. ‘I’m
not doing this,’ I said. And I got off. I’ve never been on the back of a bull
since.” He has nothing but admiration for the courage of the bull-riders. But
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seconds each. But a rodeo clown is out there putting his life and limb on the
line with every bull, and their most difficult time often comes right after the
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<span style="font-size: large;">“People really value what I do,” said Shawn. “When I go to
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food or pay for a room. They take care of everything I need, because they appreciate
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is amazing how fully Shawn has been embraced by many of
the rodeo families he has become acquainted with. Recently a family in Nebraska
invited him to attend their son’s graduation from Special Forces training in
Georgia, at their expense. The soldier was leaving for Afghanistan soon after
the ceremony. Shawn told them he would like to come but had a prior commitment.
The young soldier then called Shawn up and told him how important his
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don’t know if I’ll ever see you again.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Sure you will,” said Shawn. But he agreed to fly to the
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<span style="font-size: large;">Shawn is really too old to be involved in such a physically
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for a long time. I’ve seen some of these bull riders grow up from young boys to
teenagers to adults, and they’re comfortable when I’m in the ring. Even though
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Tim Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930445694831642950noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079663929720309091.post-60103722878924877202016-06-18T11:00:00.000-04:002016-06-18T11:00:21.567-04:00Faces of CubaHere's a gallery of some people pictures I took this past January and February in eastern Cuba.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpiyn3opx926iOpjXxeagMqjisSqxqfbKGoMsfKoWVgDk5XJnD44aLmOFUmaBhR3y8bvBjFq8kMj-oibGHppp2mwKJO4qR3S_hjHz9DZAQKn1XXJBVz1EPTHYOPTEA3Ds3zzUKHzENbQ/s1600/Cuban_schoolgirls_1857.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="528" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpiyn3opx926iOpjXxeagMqjisSqxqfbKGoMsfKoWVgDk5XJnD44aLmOFUmaBhR3y8bvBjFq8kMj-oibGHppp2mwKJO4qR3S_hjHz9DZAQKn1XXJBVz1EPTHYOPTEA3Ds3zzUKHzENbQ/s640/Cuban_schoolgirls_1857.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
Schoolgirls in Moa, Cuba. Photo by Tim Gallagher<br />
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