Ken Campbell, Author at The Last Wilderness

We hardly knew ye

Posted by Ken Campbell May 2, 2012 0 Comment 1153 views

Junior Seau has apparently punched his own ticket today. According to the preliminary reports, it was a self-inflicted gunshot wound that ended it. Suicide. For reasons we couldn’t understand, even if he would have explained them to us. Which he didn’t. I am a Packer fan, so there’s no connection with team angst involved here. […]

The Cape, Shi Shi and stacks of stacks

Posted by Ken Campbell May 2, 2012 0 Comment 1119 views

In a little more than a month – it hardly seems possible how fast the time is going – we’ll be starting our trip down the roadless Olympic coast. Foremost among the purposes of the expedition is the search for tsunami debris and the surveying of remote beaches that are difficult, if not impossible, to […]

Told you so

Posted by Ken Campbell April 30, 2012 0 Comment 1350 views

I wrote something about Kopachuck State Park last year, back when the logging was about to start. Just a feeling that it was the beginning of the end. And now, that feeling is getting even stronger. Laminated root rot is at the root of it all (pun intended), a disease that causes trees that look […]

Eleanor Stopps

Posted by Ken Campbell April 29, 2012 0 Comment 1472 views

Eleanor Stopps, the woman who was responsible for Protection Island being named a wildlife refuge, passed away a few days ago. At 92 years of age, Stopps had been battling cancer since being diagnosed in March and was surrounded by friends and family when she died. The Port Townsend Marine Science Center gives an annual […]

Pete and Roger’s point of view

Posted by Ken Campbell April 28, 2012 0 Comment 1088 views

“A beach is a place where a man can feel He’s the only soul in the world that’s real.”The Who

Moving on

Posted by Ken Campbell April 27, 2012 2 Comments 1209 views

OK. I’ll keep trying. I’ve been battling with the new layout that Blogger has put together and, although I still don’t like it, I’ll keep at it. I can’t let the machines win. There are a lot of things coming up… I can’t just not talk about them. I have a feeling that most of […]

The Medium is the problem

Posted by Ken Campbell April 24, 2012 6 Comments 1056 views

I began this blog 4 years ago this week. I’ve posted over 900 entries and I have genuinely enjoyed doing so. But I feel like it all may be coming to an end. Readers won’t be able to see it, but Blogger, the host of this site, has gone through some changes on how it […]

Taking care of business

Posted by Ken Campbell April 21, 2012 0 Comment 1104 views

After last weekend’s Anderson Island trip, I came home with a to-do list that ran a two full pages. Doing the practice survey gave us some idea of what we’d be up against on the coast and some of my tasks came out of that. Then there’s the personal equipment list… still working on that. […]

Nets

Posted by Ken Campbell April 19, 2012 0 Comment 1237 views

One of the tasks we’ll be doing on this summer’s Ikkatsu Expedition is pulling a trawl net that is designed to catch microplastic that is floating in the water. We tried it out on our trip around Vashon a few weeks ago and we’ve come up with some modifications that will hopefully make it easier […]

Housekeeping

Posted by Ken Campbell April 18, 2012 1 Comment 1225 views

It is the nature of life that the bulk of our time is spent maintaining the infrastructure. Perhaps you have mused on this from time to time: I work to afford the car payment, to pay for the car, that I need to get to work. That’s a simple flow chart, if you will, but […]