#Selway-Fisher

[fatehbaz]

As of mid-2019, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming are currently pursuing an end to federal protections for grizzly bears, while L!z Cheney (Republican, Wyoming’s sole representative in the House) is making headlines by insulting Indigenous peoples’ bear preservation efforts. After Wyoming attempted to remove grizzly protections, the outcome of the “Crow Indian Tribe et al. v. United States of America et al.” case reinstated some measures. Some of the plaintiffs: Northern Arapaho Elders Society; Crow Creek Sioux Tribe; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe; Pikani Nation, Hopi Nation Bear Clan; Crow Indian Tribe.

Referencing the case, Cheney, in mid-2019, said this: “The court-ordered relisting of the grizzly was not based on science or facts, but was rather the result of excessive litigation pursued by radical environmentalists intent on destroying our Western way of life.”

Technically, the grizzly’s US distribution is managed as 6 separate population segments, also referred to as recovery zones. In decreasing order of grizzly bear population strength, these areas are:

(1) Northern Continental Divide - about 800 to 1,000 bears  (Glacier National Park and the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex, an extension of the crest of the Canadian Rockies, providing a contiguous corridor for Canadian grizzlies to enter the US) (2) Greater Yellowstone ecosystem - 600 to 800 bears (3) Selkirk Mountains - about 85 bears (4) Cabinet-Yaak ecosystem - about 50 bears (5) North Cascades region  - less than 20 bears

The crest of the Bitterroot Range and the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness is also technically considered a formal grizzly recovery zone, but management agencies and organizations formally say that there are no grizzlies currently residing here. This isn’t true, however: grizzlies do live or at least travel through in the Bitterroot Mountains. In October 2018, a grizzly was captured/relocated from a golf course near Stevensville, in the Bitterroot Valley. On 15 July 2019, a grizzly was tracked as it travelled through the Bitterroot Valley near Hamilton, eventually returning to the Lochsa-Selway region of central Idaho.

Here’s a map displaying how grizzlies in the Northern Continental Divide and Greater Yellowstone ecosystems wander extensively outside of the recovery zones, wilderness areas, and undeveloped land. (These regions, where bears wander, are displayed in the cross-hatched area, in this map from the US Forest Service.)

From the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee:

Here’s a look at current (2018) grizzly distribution in the Yellowstone region.

You can watch a neat and oddly satisfying animated map GIF of the past 30 years of Yellowstone-area grizzly bear range expansion : [x]

People familiar with the Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) concept would recognize these habitat corridors in the Northern Rockies. There is contiguous forested mountain habitat from Alaska, Yukon, and northern British Columbia which extends along the Canadian Rockies crest and eastern BC’s Columbia Mountains, through Glacier and the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex, through northern Idaho’s cedar-hemlock forest, and to Yellowstone. The corridor also provides home to wolverine, fisher, mountain caribou, Rocky Mountain elk, moose, Canadian lynx, mountain lion, black bear, etc.

Some of those habitat corridors:

[newdashclarity]

Thought for Friday: Opportunity in a New Plan

Here’s an article by Jason Goodwin called “My son built a boat, and now we’ll live like millionaires” https://www.countrylife.co.uk/comment-opinion/jason-goodwin-my-son-built-a-boat-and-well-live-like-millionaires-218843 (638 words) [Country Life, 29-Sep-2020]

In the article Goodwin notes how simple, affordable plans can help us quickly build a structure to personalise and gain enjoyment from. It also notes how, even though we may have a structure, our plans to use it may be altered, destroyed or delayed by the unexpected. This is where the experience gained by building the structure assists in rebuilding from the plan or attempting a different, more ambitious plan. For us, this is part of planning, refinement and pivoting.

Some things to consider:

Seeking utility. The essence of the need for structure.

Meeting the customer. The plan to fulfil the need.

Shaping based on feedback. The unexpected as an opportunity.

What are you planning? What is the unexpected? Where are you using your experience?

How does this thinking apply to you in your Tribe / Support Function? What is your structure? What changes are you expecting? Where is the opportunity to attempt different?

Why is this important? Good question. A good plan could be described as a simple plan. As a plan becomes complicated our attachment to it grows. This attachment crowds out the opportunity to refine or pivot in the face of the unexpected. Switching our attachment to the customer and seeking utility opens the door to challenge structure and find the opportunity in a new plan.     

For further viewing / reading:

Simple boat plans, Peter Fisher, https://www.selway-fisher.com  (N/A) [Selway-Fisher Design, retrieved 2-Oct-2020]

The Mind Behind Linux, Chris Anderson interviews Linus Torvalds,https://www.ted.com/talks/linus_torvalds_the_mind_behind_linux  (21:22) [TED, Feb-2016]

The Power of the Pivot, Amanda Cotler, https://www.forbes.com/sites/ellevate/2020/07/07/the-power-of-the-pivot/#3dcf3b0129f2 (850 words) [Forbes, 7-Jul-2020]

Inviting you to have a view / read and to have a chat with me about your thoughts.

[Originally posted internally in my role in IS Governance at The Warehouse Group.]

[ukboatsales]

eBay: Selway Fisher Beaumaris 24 lug yawl strip plank epoxy Romilly Roxanne rig http://rssdata.net/QX39Hz #boatsales #boats

[building-dwynwen]

The first cut is the deepest...

So finally braved the new jigsaw and put it through the first sheet... Once the first slice went through it all became much easier, but still the thought in the back of the mind that this is a £60 piece of timber I’m hacking to pieces... Anyway, cut and planned the first part of Dwynwen, and feeling rather happy :-) (oh and did some more work on restoring a lovely little flower boat made by Ivor who lived in Brora many years ago...

[fatehbaz]

October 2019: The first grizzly bear in over a decade to enter and remain for a significant amount of time far within Idaho borders has now returned closer to its home within Montana borders. After enjoying most of the 2018 activity season within Idaho’s Clearwater drainage, the bear returned to its permanent home in Montana’s Cabinet Mountains to den for the winter. The bear then awoke in early 2019 before again traveling to Idaho, staying in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness during summer 2019.

This seems like pretty routine news if you’re from this region, but it’s still a Big Deal because, even though grizzlies haven’t permanently occupied central Idaho’s mountains for decades, environmental groups and US agencies have long recognized the “Bitterroot Recovery Zone” (containing the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness) as a formal zone ideal for potential re-establishment of grizzlies, since so much of central Idaho’s mountains are within designated wilderness areas. Grizzlies weren’t detected in the Bitterroots after 1946, but one was killed by a hunter in the nearby North Fork Clearwater drainage in 2007.

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In 2018, this three-year-old male bear, from the Cabinet-Yaak population, crossed the Clark Fork River, Interstate 90, and the Bitterroot Divide to enter the Idaho panhandle, and then returned to the Cabinets to den for the winter. But then, in 2019, the bear returned to Idaho, crossing the divide again, and traveled through the St. Joe watershed and lush cedar-hemlock forest of the Kelly Creek area before crossing the Lochsa River to reach the Selway-Bitterroot area.

I couldn’t find any maps of this bear’s journey, but I tried to draw it on this map of current (as of 2018) grizzly bear distribution range, from US Fish and Wildlife Service. [Source.]

And here’s a much larger file size. [I added the text at the bottom.]

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From the Lewiston Tribune, 11 October 2019:

A grizzly bear that spent much of the summer in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area has nudged north and west into Montana. The 3-year-old griz that has shown an affinity for exploration is still in the Bitterroot Mountains but is now north of U.S. Highway 12. Wayne Kasworm, a biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at Libby, Mont., said the bear is roaming around the South Fork of Fish Creek drainage, about 15 miles north of Lolo Pass. [...] Kasworm said the bear, whose location is tracked via a satelite collar, had gone missing for about 2½ weeks. But the collar began sending locations again this week. [...] He speculated the huckleberry crop that the bear and other grizzlies and black bears have likely subsisted on for much of the late summer is now pretty well spent. Bears are now focusing on things like the berries of mountain ash trees. [End of excerpt.]

There’s a lot more content about this bear’s journey here: [Source.]

And another article from Coeur d’Alene / Post Falls Press, 1 August 2019: [Source.]

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Here’s a thing. [Source: Western Wildlife Outreach.]

[The Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, where this bear spent the summer, is located within the zone marked “BE.”]

This is also a Big Deal because the bear’s presence in the Bitterroot region is a step towards reconnecting megafauna presence and habitat in the Yellowstone and Salmon River Mountains regions with habitat in British Columbia, Glacier National Park, and the Canadian Rockies. The potential reconnecting of contiguous habitat in the central Idaho with habitat in the Selkirks, Cabinets, and Northern Continental Divide is emblematic of the locally famous “Yellowstone-to-Yukon corridor” concept; or, the establishment of unbroken, undeveloped ecosystems extending along the Rockies from Yukon to Yellowstone.

On that note: Craighead Environmental Research Institute worked with British Columbia agencies and ecology labs in the US to make some nice maps of contiguous habitat corridors in the inland temperate rainforest region, which is the pivotal corridor connecting central/southern Idaho habitats with Canadian environments. [Here, I added the superfluous text.]

All 6 of these species actually are still present in all of the regions marked in deep blue on this map. [Except for the caribou; the caribou no longer lives south of the Canadian border.]

Aside from the grizzly bear, other iconic mountain and forest species which currently live along the Bitterroot slopes of the forested Idaho-Montana border, and which similarly rely on and benefit from this habitat corridor, are black bear; gray wolves; lynx; mountain lion; moose; elk; wolverine; fisher; marten; mountain goat; inland redband trout; bull trout; etc.

Anyway, grizzly bear news like this is pretty routine if you’re from or have lived in this region, but I still find it interesting.

[ukboatsales]

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[building-dwynwen]

"Lofting..." Well, that's the first board lofted up. Doesn't look big enough to be half a boat! Hurrah for picture pins and curtain track...

[building-dwynwen]

Change of plan. Literally.

I feel a bit of a fraud.  Dwynwen is not going to be a Navigator. Been a long hard think, but for two reasons, the Navigator build is going on hold. Dwynwen II will be a Navigator, but for now, Dwynwen is going to be born from a Selway-Fisher Waterman 12. 1. We don't have the space currently to build a Navigator. The Waterman is only slightly shorter, but as a watercraft is considerably smaller, lighter and easier to store.

2. Building the Waterman gives me chance to learn how to boat build. It will also give me experience in sail rig and design as she is going to be a sail-canoe, based around a gaff rigged yawl, possibly with a foresail off a bowsprit. Complex yes, but by taking a basic single and twin masted approach I can work out what works for me, and then dial that into the layout of Dwynwen II.  Dwynwen being small and relatively unstable will be for inland lakes and some river work, letting me get back into sailing again, whereas Dwynwen II will be for coastal work in the future.  So, for now, John Welsford's Navigator will be put back on the shelf, whilst I learn my trade courtesy of Paul Fisher :-)