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Public Forums => Disaster Awareness & CERT => Topic started by: Surfer_Dude on Jan 24, 07, 03:56:28 PM
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I just received a bark beetle calendar in the mail. Great local photos!
The month of June is adorned with a photo of two big horn sheep by some local guy named John Aziz. His photography is featured throughout the calendar. Anyone heard of him? ;)
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I think I saw him on "America's Most Wanted". ;)
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This calls for photoshop.
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Great pictures! :2thumbsup:
Good job, John!
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The month of March has a really good shot of the fuel reduction project in Lone Pine Canyon. Nice work! :2thumbsup:
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Yeah, that guy John kinda dominated the pictures in the calendar. ;) Really gorgeous picture John!
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If you don't get the calendar MAST stands for Mountain Area Safety Task Force. It is filled with fire prevention, disaster tips and and water use information.
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There were 80,000 calendars printed and delivered to all San Bernardino County mountain area communites.
The Calendar is full of important information and should be read by all residents.
It's a shame that they didn't let me proof some of the wording they changed.
February photo should be titled:
Wright Mountain - Not Wrightwood Mountain
Sat May 12 should read:
Wrightwood Wildfire Awareness Day
September photo should read:
Silverwood Lake and Summit Valley while looking east across the San Bernardino Mountains
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Still, 80,000 families are going to see your pictures and your credits. What an honor!!! :crowngrin:
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Anyone who did not recieve a calender and would like one, please let me know. I can try to get them to the Wrightwood Fire Station for you to pick up. Tim
Just PM me, or call 909-867-1240.
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Still, 80,000 families are going to see your pictures and your credits. What an honor!!! :crowngrin:
I am proud that the photos were used.
More important to me is that the community of Wrightwood, Wrightwood Fire Safe Council and San Gabriel Mountains received the recognition that they deserve.
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Thats cool that John got a pictures in there. You guys are lucky ya got one.
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I believe Phelan got them - didn't Pinon Hills?
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I didn't get anything
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Let me know if you don't get one.
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Are they suppose to come in the mail ???
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Yes they are done by what is called a saturation mailing.
Each Boxholder gets one in the areas they are sending them. They come in a plain white envelope that's addressed to "Boxholder" and the return address is Mountain Area Safety Task Force.
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We got one a couple of day ago.
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We got one a couple of day ago.
Ken I'm guessing yours is at the Phelan Post Office. Ours is at the Phelan P.o. and nothing... It doesn't surprise me since we get don't the penny saver and the rest of the weekly crap some times when everyone else does.
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do they deliver down in orange county?
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Just picked mine up the other day. Awesome pictures John! :2thumbsup:
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I got mine mailed to my address down the hill that my tax bills go to. Great photos, John!
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I got mine yesterday. Really beautiful calendar. I wonder if they ran the spell checker on it. Check out the spelling of "autumn" in the month of October.
Nice work John!!
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If you did not recieve a calendar or would just like to get one for someone else there is a stack at the Wrightwood Firestation.
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Passing the year with the bark beetle
John Weeks, Staff Writer, SB Sun
Article Launched: 02/21/2007 12:00:00 AM PST
Every year it's the same thing. I get a ton of calendars and I spend a month or two fussing and dithering over them, trying to decide which one to stick with for the whole year.
It's a big decision. I'll have to look at this thing every day. It's like a commitment. I don't want to get stuck with a bad decision.
I think I finally have made my choice for 2007. I'm going to go with the bark-beetle calendar.
That's right, there really is a bark-beetle calendar, and I like it for two reasons. First, it's a local product. It's published by the Mountain Area Safety Task Force (MAST) as part of its effort to educate the public about dangerous forest conditions in the San Bernardino and San Gabriel mountains.
Widespread die-off caused by overgrowth, drought and insect infestation continues to pose critical fire risk in mountain areas. Residents are urged to cooperate with authorities in having dead trees removed and healthy trees thinned. And campers, hikers and other visitors must do their part, too, by observing strict safety protocols while enjoying the mountains.
The second reason I like the bark- beetle calendar is that there are no pictures of bark beetles in it. I was worried at first.
I see something called "MAST Bark Beetle Emergency Outreach Program 2007 Calendar," and I am half expecting to see 12 pinups of nasty looking bugs, one for each month.
And I'm thinking, what's next? Are we going to come out with calendars featuring all the things that plague us here in the Inland Empire? Is there going to be a gangbangers calendar, and a blight and litter calendar, and a freeway gridlock calendar? A smog calendar?
Fortunately, though, the bark-beetle calendar does not have ugly bugs in it. Or anything else that is ugly. Quite the opposite, in fact.
It contains beautiful photos of lush, healthy forests, pristine mountainsides and picture-perfect lakes, all shot at or near Wrightwood, Lake Arrowhead or Big Bear Lake.
I get it. It's reverse idealism. These are pictures of the way our mountains should look, and can look, when they are cared for properly.
Nice.
Maybe that gangbangers calendar wouldn't be such a bad idea, either. It would show pictures of healthy communities where families and neighbors feel happy and safe. The blight and litter calendar would show spic-and-span streets and yards. The freeway gridlock calendar would show pictures of traffic moving smoothly. The smog calendar? Nothing but blue skies.
These calendars would inspire us with images of how things should look, could look, will look, if we work together to fix problems and furbish our future.
These are calendars we all could stand to look at, every day of the year.
Meanwhile, the bark-beetle calendar is a good start. In addition to gorgeous photography of our local mountains, it also is loaded with month-to-month information and tips on how residents and visitors can help make the mountains a better, healthier, safer, more beautiful place.
For more information, visit online at www.calmast.org.