Hawaiian Talk Story

Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   Hawaiian Talk Story When a Quora.com question presumably submitted by a grammar school student was posed about how we could determine the texture of a soil, the Footloose Forester decided to answer the question with a little “talk story”, an old...

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The Concept of Rainforests

On the road…again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek    The Concept of Rainforests   When a respondent to the Quora.com website explained why rainforests are so hot and so wet, the Footloose Forester was jolted into composing a rejoinder.  The contributor, an airline pilot and traveler,...

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Into The Volcano

Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Into The Volcano The seminal Chronicles of a Footloose Forester has always been an unscheduled mélange of essays, stories, adventures, or dreams.  If he had his way, the adventures would predominate and the stories would follow. The dreams...

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Google Earth Gets Better and Better

Afghanistan to Zambia Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Google Earth Gets Better And Better   This chronicle is a revised version of an earlier story about how important Google Earth has been in not only finding things like a car in a driveway...

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Getting Around In Helicopters

  On the road again...!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   Getting Around in Helicopters   Foresters and other natural resources professionals get around in helicopters more often than most folks.  Kind of like a businessman or woman taking a taxi to get to an appointment in a...

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Virtual Flight Around A Volcano

On the road…again!Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   Virtual Flight Around A Volcano   Foresters rely on more than their feet. A few foresters have more experience in helicopters than most professionals outside of the military services. This Footloose Forester certainly does. One memorable episode occurred...

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