Tag Archives: Nature

Coho in Klamath notes…“The salmon are said not to run into the Klamath Lakes or above.”

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Jim waddell

Coho in Klamath notes…  Research with excerpts, comments, statements and conclusions selected, made and posted by writer James A. Waddell in 2009. Reference: Book “Tribes of California” by Stephen Powers, Introduction & Annotations by Robert F. Heizer – Published by … Continue reading →

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Pacific Northwest – History 0f Preston Peak Part 3

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Jim waddell

© Copyright: By; Jim Waddell   http://jamesalbertwaddell.com/freeebooks.html My uncle Lee Waddell, was a packer for the Forest Service for 32 years, including PrestonPeak area trails since the mid 1930s.  He told me in about 1970, that he last maintained the PrestonPeak … Continue reading →

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Pacific Northwest – History of Preston Peak Part 2

Posted on July 24, 2012 by Jim waddell

History 0f Preston Peak Part 2 © Copyright: By; Jim Waddell   http://jamesalbertwaddell.com/freeebooks.html My paternal great-great grandfather Benoni Swearingen married Elizabeth Ball at IndianTown in 1856, and built a home where he later homesteaded about 10 miles north of Happy Camp … Continue reading →

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Pacific Northwest – History of Preston Peak Part 1

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Jim waddell

History 0f Preston Peak Part 1 © Copyright: By; Jim Waddell   http://jamesalbertwaddell.com/freeebooks.html 1826-1827, Peter Skeene Ogden, with Thomas McKay and a trapping brigade hunted and trapped for beaver throughout eastern Oregon; from Fort Vancouver on the Columbia River through the … Continue reading →

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Death by Fire!

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Jim waddell

By James Albert Waddell    www.jamesalbertwaddell.com A rumbling sunrise tells of thunder coming; Limestone Bluffs, Salmon River of the Klamath River. Lightning in the dark morning; Waddell Homestead, Jefferson Scenic Byway. Lightning busts the forests; Shasta fir and Douglas fir of … Continue reading →

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Pacific Northwest “BEAR SCARES & MT LIONS!”

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Jim waddell

Excerpts from “BEAR SCARES & MOUNTAIN LIONS! By James Albert Waddell: Mountain Lion! Picture by James Waddell Download your FREE COPY! http://jamesalbertwaddell.com/freeebooks.html One time when I was about 12 in the afternoon or so, my little brother Rob and I went … Continue reading →

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