Mammoth

Mammoth Lakes is a beautiful resort town located in the Eastern Sierra Nevada. The town was officially incorporated in 1984, but has been a hub for outdoor recreation since the late 1800’s. It was originally known as Mammoth City a small mining camp founded by the Mammoth Mining Company in 1878. At one time there was over 1,500 people living in the camp, but when the mining company shutdown, only ten people remained. The town remained almost empty up until the early 1900’s when visitors heard…

final balance of $5,000,000 to Mammoth Construction Inc. for the construction of 2 bridges for access from the downtown core to the facility, if the City of Brock can insist upon the replacement of the bridge decking and railings when the reduction in value of the spectator facility is insignificant and if the initial offer of Mammoth to complete the work for $50,000 affect the outcome. The City of Brock had breached the contract to pay the balance of $5,000,000 to Mammoth Construction Inc.…

The perfect bag for any family outing, the Teton Mammoth bag is comfortable, warm, and large enough to accommodate almost any camper–and sometimes even two or three. The Mammoth sports a soft cotton flannel lining with a temperature rating of 0 degrees F, helping campers stay cozy in almost any family camping locale. The bag’s shoulder baffle and pair of full-length zipper draft tubes, meanwhile, help keep warmth in and cold out, a must on chilly fall evenings. And campers who really want to…

Mammoth Mountain is a great place to relax and a strenuous place to reach but you can have a little fun too, but if you can’t roll with the punches it can be exhausting if you’re new to snowboarding. Mammoth has copious amount of activities for people of all skill levels and age groups, like kids ski club for the little ones. All the way up to double black diamond slopes for pros. There are also bars, cafes, a small museum of sorts, and shops for people who like to shop on their vacation.…

the Tasmanian tiger was a threat to farmers because it would hunt their sheep, so to fight it, farmers began hunting it. It was trapped and poisoned for government bounties and eventually went extinct because of this. Number Nine: Woolly Mammoth. The woolly mammoth roamed the earth for 250,000 years before going extinct. A recent study revealed that human hunting was the straw that broke the camels' - or woolly mammoth's - back, as a species. Number Eight: Dodo Bird. The Dodo birds lived for…

As of last week albert Bacon Fall had secretly granted Harry F. Sinclair of the Mammoth Oil Company exclusive rights to the Teapot Dome in Wyoming on April 7, 1922. After Pres. Warren G. Harding had transferred supervision of the naval oil reserve lands from the Department of the interior, that’s when Fall granted Sinclair the oil rights. When leases and contrasts went under investigation by committees of the U.S. Senate . Fall and members of his family had received from an unknown source…

Without hunting and proving food for your tribe, starvation and death were soon to follow. A Mammoths killed by hunters could provide a tribe meat for months. Killing a mammoth was no easy task though as humans were not the only hungry mammals out there. Hunters had to take down an already dangerous mammoth and then defend it from large predators who had no problem killing a human to get to the mammoth Life in these times was extremely hard and dangerous, many were killed hunting or simply…

I will be taking my family (mother, father, and brother) to Kentucky to visit Mammoth Cave National Park. We went one year when I was 4, but I don’t remember anything. This will be a nice chance for our family to catch up and spend some time together before I go off to college. We will drive there using I-30 and I-40, stopping overnight in Memphis, Tennessee. It is a 755-mile journey and since we will be driving a Prius, we can count on 50 mpg on the highways. The national average gas price…

progress is creation of more things we already have. It is mass production of machinery and technology. This concept of progress is rooted in overproduction and mass consumption. That is where the progress trap comes into play. There was the idea of mammoth hunting in the Stone Age where we, as a species,…

I would like to happily welcome you all in joining me on a tour of Carlsbad Cavern. Carlsbad Cavern is a United States National cavern located in the Guadalupe Mountains of southeast New Mexico. The cave was dissolved along cracks and faults in the limestone rock by sulfuric acid. The limestone was laid down about 250,000,000 years ago, as part of a reef complex along the edge of an inland sea. Seventeen to 20,000,000 years ago, the ancient reef rocks that had been buried under thousands of…