Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Dick Callahan Writings from Juneau ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://www.dickcallahan.net/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [June, 4: Marvin Heemeyer Day](https://www.dickcallahan.net/june-04-marvin-heemeyer-day/) - [St. Patrick's Day](https://www.dickcallahan.net/st-patricks-day-2019/) - [kAHFIAHOIHL](https://www.dickcallahan.net/kahfiahoihl/) - [Israel takes itself off life support: Third Quarter: 2026](https://www.dickcallahan.net/israel-takes-itself-off-life-support-third-quarter-2026/) - [Zionist Chronology, 2020's](https://www.dickcallahan.net/zionist-chronology-2020s/) - [Israel takes itself off life support: Second Quarter: 2026](https://www.dickcallahan.net/israel-takes-itself-off-life-support-second-quarter-2026/) - [Zionist Chronology, 2010's](https://www.dickcallahan.net/zionist-chronology-2010s/) - [Israel Takes Itself Off Life Support: 2025](https://www.dickcallahan.net/israel-takes-itself-off-life-support-2025/) - [Zionist Chronology, 2000's](https://www.dickcallahan.net/zionist-chronology-2000s/) - [Grog Locker: Part 2. Long Term Storage of Tobacco](https://www.dickcallahan.net/grog-locker-part-2-long-term-storage-of-tobacco/) - [Baseline of a Desecrated Land IX: Toxic Leaks & Spills](https://www.dickcallahan.net/baseline-of-a-desecrated-land-x/) - [Israel takes itself off life support: First Quarter: 2026](https://www.dickcallahan.net/israel-takes-itself-off-life-support-2026/) - [Israel takes itself off life support: 2024](https://www.dickcallahan.net/israel-takes-itself-off-life-support/) - [Zionist Chronology, 1990's](https://www.dickcallahan.net/zionist-chronology-1990s/) - [Zionist Chronology 1970's](https://www.dickcallahan.net/zionist-chronology-1970s/) - [Israel Takes Itself Off Life Support: 2023: Genocide](https://www.dickcallahan.net/israel-takes-itself-off-life-support-2023/) - [Required Viewing](https://www.dickcallahan.net/required-viewing/) - [Making Sense of the Troubles by David McKittrick and David McVea](https://www.dickcallahan.net/an-americans-library-for-making-sense-of-the-palestine-israel-mess-part-i-five-books-from-outside-the-conflict-that-explain-the-conflict-book-3-making-sense-of-the-troubles/) - [Zionist Chronology 1940's](https://www.dickcallahan.net/zionist-chronology-1940s/) - [Pre-Zionist Chronology 1840 to Herzl](https://www.dickcallahan.net/pre-zionist-chronology-1848-to-herzl/) - [Zionist Chronology 1950's](https://www.dickcallahan.net/zionist-chronology-1950s/) - [Required Reading](https://www.dickcallahan.net/required-reading/) - [Zionist Chronology 1960's](https://www.dickcallahan.net/zionist-chronology-1960s/) - [Zionist Chronology: 1980's](https://www.dickcallahan.net/zionist-chronology-1980s/) - [The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations by Dietrich Dorner](https://www.dickcallahan.net/an-americans-library-for-making-sense-of-the-palestine-israel-mess-part-i-five-books-from-outside-the-conflict-that-explain-the-conflict-book-i-the-logic-of-failure/) - [Zionist Chronology 1930's](https://www.dickcallahan.net/zionist-chronology-1930s/) - [Baseline of A Desecrated Land: Summary](https://www.dickcallahan.net/baseline-of-a-desecrated-place-summary/) - [Freeze Drying Part 3: Taking the leap: Ordering, Shipping, Set-up](https://www.dickcallahan.net/freeze-drying-part-3-taking-the-leap-you-know-you-want-to/) - [We're Being Bled White: Is There a Forensic Accountant in the House?](https://www.dickcallahan.net/4270-2/) - [On Israel Selling Genocide with American Pop Songs Yellow Ribbons part 1](https://www.dickcallahan.net/on-israel-selling-genocide-with-american-pop-songs/) - [Victims and Terrorists: Yellow Ribbons Part 2](https://www.dickcallahan.net/victims-and-terrorists-yellow-ribbons-part-2/) - [What's Past Is Prologue: Yellow Ribbons Part 3: America's 5th column for Israel](https://www.dickcallahan.net/whats-past-is-prologue-yellow-ribbons-part-3-americas-5th-column-for-israel/) - [The Most Dangerous Tourist Trap in Alaska](https://www.dickcallahan.net/the-most-dangerous-tourist-trap-in-alaska/) - [Prepping: Your own bulk food vs online prepper kits](https://www.dickcallahan.net/prepping-part-ii-bulk-up-on-food/) - [Trapping Cats: Part 2: How to](https://www.dickcallahan.net/trapping-cats-part-2-how-to/) - [The Most Dangerous Tourist Trap in Alaska: Part Two](https://www.dickcallahan.net/the-most-dangerous-tourist-trap-in-alaska-part-two/) - [Baseline of a Desecrated Land II: Desalination Impacts](https://www.dickcallahan.net/baseline-of-a-desecrated-land-recognition-ii/) - [3 Giant Dams Destabilizing the World Food Supply: Introduction](https://www.dickcallahan.net/3-giant-dams-affecting-the-world-food-supply-introduction/) - [No Zeal for Homegrown Veal: Israel Embraces BDS](https://www.dickcallahan.net/no-zeal-for-homegrown-veal-israel-embraces-bds/) - [Baseline of a Desecrated Land I: Food Supply](https://www.dickcallahan.net/baseline-of-a-desecrated-place-i/) - [Top Black Racists 2023/24 WAZ AWARDS #3 Al](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-2023-24-waz-awards-3-al/) - [Israelis in their own words](https://www.dickcallahan.net/gaza-genocide-curriculum-israelis-in-their-own-words/) - [Zionist Chronology 1920's](https://www.dickcallahan.net/zionist-chronology-1920s/) - [Top Black Racists of 2021: The WAZ Awards: (a few) Runners-Up and Selected Citations](https://www.dickcallahan.net/2345-2/) - [Top Black Racists of 2021: The WAZ Awards: Winner #6 (what's his name?)](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-of-2021-the-waz-awards-winner-6-who-is-that-guy/) - [Top Black Racists of 2020-The WAZ Awards-Winner #1 Monica Cannon-Grant](https://www.dickcallahan.net/black-racists-of-2020-the-waz-awards-monica-cannon-grant/) - [WAZ Awards Top Black Racists of 2020 Citations](https://www.dickcallahan.net/waz-awards-top-black-racists-of-2020-citations/) - [Freezer Space: a chest freezer is good. two are better.](https://www.dickcallahan.net/freezer-space/) - [Zionist Chronology 1910's](https://www.dickcallahan.net/zionist-chronology-1910s/) - [Baseline of a Desecrated Land VI: Awash in Sewage](https://www.dickcallahan.net/baseline-of-a-desecrated-land-vi/) - [Top Black Racists 2023/24 WAZ AWARDS Introduction](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-2023-24-waz-awards-introduction/) - [Top Black Racists 2023/24 WAZ AWARDS Opening](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-2023-24-waz-awards-opening/) - [Top Black Racists 2023/24 WAZ AWARDS #9 Sven](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-2023-24-waz-awards-9-sven/) - [Top Black Racists 2023/24 WAZ AWARDS #5 Gene](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-2023-24-waz-awards-5-gene/) - [Top Black Racists 2023/24 WAZ AWARDS #4 Tony](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-2023-24-waz-awards-4/) - [Top Black Racists 2023/24 WAZ AWARDS #2 Sonny](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-2023-24-waz-awards-2-sonny/) - [Top Black Racists 2023/24 WAZ AWARDS #1 Ira](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-2023-24-waz-awards-1-ira/) - [Greenhouse Notes: First Winter: 2024](https://www.dickcallahan.net/greenhouse-notes-first-winter-2024/) - [Top Black Racists 2023/24 WAZ AWARDS #6 Tommy](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-2023-24-waz-awards-6/) - [Top Black Racists 2023/24 WAZ AWARDS #11 Roy](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-2023-24-waz-awards/) - [Top Black Racists 2023/24 WAZ AWARDS #10 Cosmo](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-2023-24-waz-awards-10-cosmo/) - [Top Black Racists 2023/24 WAZ AWARDS #7 Uncle Tim](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-2023-24-waz-awards-7-uncle-tim/) - [Top Black Racists 2023/24 WAZ AWARDS #8 Jake](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-2023-24-waz-awards-8-jake/) - [Zionist Chronology 1900's](https://www.dickcallahan.net/zionist-chronology-1901-1910/) - [Pre-Zionist Chronology Ancient](https://www.dickcallahan.net/pre-zionist-chronology-ancient/) - [Reasons To Stock a Home Food Supply](https://www.dickcallahan.net/reasons-to-stock-a-home-food-supply/) - [International Fetish Day](https://www.dickcallahan.net/international-fetish-day/) - [October 25: Saint Crispin's Day](https://www.dickcallahan.net/october-25-saint-crispins-day/) - [My Grandmother's Nativity](https://www.dickcallahan.net/my-grandmothers-nativity/) - [That pantry porn lady](https://www.dickcallahan.net/pantry-porn-lady-shakes-no-booty/) - [Christmas Giving: A Tip for Good People](https://www.dickcallahan.net/christmas-giving-a-tip-for-good-people/) - [Slugging It Out : Found something that works](https://www.dickcallahan.net/slugging-it-out/) - [The Home Dehydrator: Siege Food](https://www.dickcallahan.net/dehydrator/) - [November 5: Guy Fawke's Day](https://www.dickcallahan.net/november-5-guy-fawkes-day/) - [Long-term grain/beans/lentil storage](https://www.dickcallahan.net/long-term-grain-storage/) - [Fermentation Cogitations :](https://www.dickcallahan.net/fermentation-cogitations/) - [Coolers](https://www.dickcallahan.net/coolers/) - [Freeze Drying: Part 5: Odds and Ends](https://www.dickcallahan.net/freeze-drying-part-5-odds-and-ends/) - [October 31: Halloween: Make your own](https://www.dickcallahan.net/october-31-halloween-make-your-own/) - [October 9: Indigenous People's Day](https://www.dickcallahan.net/october-9-indigenous-peoples-day/) - [Pickling for the Pantry](https://www.dickcallahan.net/pickling/) - [September 30: National Preparedness Day: You're on your own.](https://www.dickcallahan.net/september-30-national-preparedness-day/) - [Greenhouse: Raised beds, pots](https://www.dickcallahan.net/greenhouse-raised-beds-pots/) - [Greenhouse: Wood Foundation](https://www.dickcallahan.net/greenhouse-foundation/) - [Greenhouse: Planning](https://www.dickcallahan.net/greenhouse-planning/) - [Pressure canning on a camp stove](https://www.dickcallahan.net/pressure-canning-on-a-camp-stove/) - [Greenhouse: Things that helped](https://www.dickcallahan.net/greenhouse-things-that-helped/) - [Greenhouse: Assembly](https://www.dickcallahan.net/greenhouse-assembly/) - [Top Black Racists of 2020-The WAZ Awards-Winner #5 Random](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-of-2020-the-waz-awards-winner-5-random/) - [September 16: Omar Mukhtar Day: Libya's Lion of the Desert](https://www.dickcallahan.net/september-16-omar-mukhtar-day-libyas-lion-of-the-desert/) - [Water Bath Canning: Bulking up your pantry](https://www.dickcallahan.net/water-bath-canning/) - [Pressure Canning](https://www.dickcallahan.net/putting-up-your-own-fish-vii-canning/) - [Freeze Drying Part 4: Mylar Bags, Oxygen Absorbers, Mason Jars](https://www.dickcallahan.net/freeze-drying-part-4-mylar-bags-oxygen-absorbers-mason-jars/) - [Top Black Racists of 2021 Winner #1: The Swooshstika](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-of-2021-winner-1-the-swooshstika/) - [Top Black Racists of 2021: The WAZ Awards: Winner #7: The Good Fight](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-of-2021-the-waz-awards-winner-7-the-good-fight/) - [Top Black Racists of 2021: The WAZ Awards: Winner #9: A highly educated lady with a message](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-of-2021-the-waz-awards-winner-9-dr-bang-bang/) - [Betrayal of a Great Man by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society](https://www.dickcallahan.net/betrayal-of-a-great-man-by-the-congressional-medal-of-honor-society/) - [Chainsaw Cognoscenti: The Arborist](https://www.dickcallahan.net/chainsaw-cognoscenti-the-arborist/) - [Baseline of a Desecrated Land XII: Cautionary Tale](https://www.dickcallahan.net/baseline-of-a-desecrated-place/) - [Baseline of a Desecrated Land XI: Love Child of the American Water Bureaucracy](https://www.dickcallahan.net/baseline-of-a-desecrated-place-xi/) - [Baseline of a Desecrated Land X: Demographic Threat](https://www.dickcallahan.net/baseline-of-a-desecrated-land-recognition-x/) - [Baseline of a Desecrated Land VIII: Desecrated Farmlands](https://www.dickcallahan.net/baseline-of-a-desecrated-land-recognition-viii/) - [Baseline of a Desecrated Land VII: Poisoned Streams](https://www.dickcallahan.net/baseline-of-a-desecrated-land-recognition-vii/) - [Baseline of a Desecrated Land V: Lower Jordan-Dead Sea](https://www.dickcallahan.net/baseline-of-a-desecrated-land-recognition-v/) - [Baseline of a Desecrated Land IV: Vanishing Biomes](https://www.dickcallahan.net/baseline-of-a-desecrated-land-recognition-iv/) - [Baseline of a Desecrated Land III: Occupied water](https://www.dickcallahan.net/baseline-of-a-desecrated-land-iii/) - [Alaska Folk Festival: Rite of Spring: Week of music, dances, workshops: All free](https://www.dickcallahan.net/alaska-folk-festival-rite-of-spring-week-of-music-dances-workshops-all-free/) - [Spruce Tip Jelly: This bud's good for you](https://www.dickcallahan.net/spruce-tips-this-buds-good-for-you/) - [Grog Locker: Part 1](https://www.dickcallahan.net/grog-locker-part-1/) - [Grog locker: alcohol notes](https://www.dickcallahan.net/grog-locker-stocking-alcohol-notes/) - [Maintaining your buzz in a disaster zone](https://www.dickcallahan.net/prepping-part-iii-maintaining-your-buzz-in-a-disaster-zone/) - [Garbage rowing on big tides](https://www.dickcallahan.net/garbage-rowing-on-big-tides/) - [Canning Jars Not Sealing: Maybe it isn't you](https://www.dickcallahan.net/canning-jars-not-sealing-maybe-it-isnt-you/) - [Top Black Racists of 2021: The WAZ Awards Winner #10: Deniers](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-of-2021-the-waz-awards-winner-10-myths-that-kill/) - [Top Black Racists of 2021: Winner #2: Professor Mutha Beep](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-of-2021-winner-2-professor-mutha-beep/) - [Harvest Right Freeze Dryer: Part 1 Is it worth it?](https://www.dickcallahan.net/harvest-right-freeze-drying-part-1-is-it-worth-it/) - [Freeze Dryer Part 2: What it does and choosing the right size](https://www.dickcallahan.net/freeze-dryer-part-2-what-it-does-and-choosing-the-right-size/) - [Top Black Racists of 2021: The WAZ Awards: Winner #5: Her Honor](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-of-2021-the-waz-awards-winner-5/) - [Trapping Cats Part 3: Ethics of Killing Stray Cats](https://www.dickcallahan.net/trapping-cats-3-killing-stray-cats/) - [Top Black Racists of 2021: The WAZ Awards: Winner #8: The Noose](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-of-2021-the-waz-awards-winner-8-the-noose/) - [Top Black Racists of 2021: The WAZ Awards: Winner #4: The Grant Park Philistines](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-of-2021-the-waz-awards-winner-4-the-grant-park-philistines/) - [Top Black Racists of 2021: The WAZ Awards: Winner #3 Charm City](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-of-2021-the-waz-awards-winner-3-charm-city/) - [Top Black Racists of 2021: Introduction](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-of-2021-introduction/) - [Solstice Bonfire: The WAZ lets go of the Top Black Racists of 2020](https://www.dickcallahan.net/the-waz-lets-go-of-top-racists-of-2020-at-the-solstice-bonfire/) - [Trapping Cats: Part 5: Notes from the trenches](https://www.dickcallahan.net/trapping-cats-part-5-closing-thoughts/) - [Trapping Cats Part 4: Cat Droppings](https://www.dickcallahan.net/trapping-cats-part-4-cat-droppings/) - [Trapping Cats: Part 1: Why we should.](https://www.dickcallahan.net/trapping-cats-part-1-why-i-trap-cats-and-you-should-too/) - [Putting up your own fish: Part VI Brining and Smoking](https://www.dickcallahan.net/putting-up-your-own-fish-part-vi-brining-and-smoking/) - [3 Giant Dams Destabilizing the World Food Supply: Dam #3 Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD)](https://www.dickcallahan.net/3-dams-destabilizing-the-world-food-supply-part-4-of-4/) - [3 Giant Dams Destabilizing the World Food Supply: Dam # 2: Glen Canyon Dam: United States](https://www.dickcallahan.net/3-dams-destabilizing-the-world-food-supply-part-3-of-4-glen-canyon-dam/) - [3 Giant Dams Destabilizing the World Food Supply: Dam #1 Three Gorges Dam China](https://www.dickcallahan.net/3-giant-dams-affecting-the-world-food-supply-dam-1-three-gorges-dam-china/) - [Top Black Racists of 2020-The WAZ-Awards: Introduction](https://www.dickcallahan.net/the-waz-awards-top-black-racists-of-2020/) - [Top Black Racists of 2020-The WAZ Awards- Winner #10 The San Diego Unified School District: Woke Poster Child](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-of-2020-the-waz-awards-winner-10-the-san-diego-unified-school-district-woke-poster-child/) - [Top Black Racists of 2020-The WAZ Awards-Winner #9 Colorism](https://www.dickcallahan.net/1580-2/) - [Top Black Racists of 2020-The WAZ Awards-Winner #6 Ibram Kendi](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-of-2020-the-waz-awards-winner-6-ibram-kendi/) - [Top Black Racists of 2020-The WAZ Awards-Winner #7 Robin DiAngelo and other White People Leaning Into the Frame](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-of-2020-the-waz-awards-winner-7-robin-diangelo-and-other-white-people-leaning-into-the-frame/) - [Top Black Racists of 2020-The WAZ Awards- Winner # 8 Nikole Hannah-Jones and Reparations](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-of-2020-the-waz-awards-winner-8-nicole-hannah-jones-and-reparations/) - [Top Black Racists of 2020-The WAZ Awards-Winner #4 Oprah Winfrey](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-of-2020-the-waz-awards-winner-4-oprah-winfrey/) - [Top Black Racists of 2020-The WAZ Awards-Winner #3 Shaun King](https://www.dickcallahan.net/top-black-racists-of-2020-the-waz-awards-winner-3-shawn-king/) - [Top Black Racists of 2020-The WAZ Awards-Winner #2. Black Lives Matter](https://www.dickcallahan.net/black-racists-of-2020-the-waz-awards-winner-2-black-lives-matter/) - [Shovel the hydrant: cheap insurance](https://www.dickcallahan.net/shovel-the-hydrant-cheap-insurance/) - [Ron Hynes, Man of a Thousand Songs](https://www.dickcallahan.net/ron-hynes/) - [December Ravens & December Recitation: The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (1845)](https://www.dickcallahan.net/december-recitation-the-raven-by-edgar-allen-poe-1845/) - [Christmas Cookie Recipes](https://www.dickcallahan.net/christmas-cookie-recipes/) - [“Kruger”: Race to Alaska adds new word to the lexicon.](https://www.dickcallahan.net/kruger-2017-race-to-alaska-adds-new-word-to-the-lexicon/) - [Thanksgiving Dinner: with my grandmother, Bob Franke, and Richard Pryor](https://www.dickcallahan.net/thanksgiving-dinner-with-my-grandmother-bob-franke_and-richard-pryor/) - [Neighborhood hoarder Part 2: The players](https://www.dickcallahan.net/neighborhood-hoarder-part-2-the-players/) - [Building a set of saw horses, house-warming gift](https://www.dickcallahan.net/building-a-set-of-saw-horses-a-nice-house-warming-gift/) - [New Neighborhood Bear answers the old question](https://www.dickcallahan.net/a-new-neighborhood-bear-answers-the-old-question-plus-a-fat-guy-joke/) - [India: Cremation fires, the coming monsoon, riders on the storm](https://www.dickcallahan.net/india-cremation-fires-the-coming-monsoon-riders-on-the-storm/) - [Make a Thousand Introduction](https://www.dickcallahan.net/make-a-thousand-introduction/) - [Make a Thousand Post 2 Foreword](https://www.dickcallahan.net/make-a-thousand-post-2-foreword/) - [Neighborhood hoarder Part 3: Clean-up](https://www.dickcallahan.net/neighborhood-hoarder-part-3-clean-up/) - [Neighborhood hoarder Part 5: Landscaping](https://www.dickcallahan.net/neighborhood-hoarder-part-5-landscaping/) - [Neighborhood hoarder Part 4: Junk Cars](https://www.dickcallahan.net/neighborhood-hoarder-part-4/) - [Neighborhood Hoarder Part 6: Maintenance](https://www.dickcallahan.net/neighborhood-hoarder-part-6-maintenance/) - [Gordon Ramsay: A Singular Fish](https://www.dickcallahan.net/gordon-ramsay-something-smells-fishy-in-his-kitche/) - [Neighborhood hoarder Part 1: Introduction](https://www.dickcallahan.net/neighborhood-hoarder-part-1/) - [Eaglecrest: Juneau's hometown ski area](https://www.dickcallahan.net/862-2/) - [Heating With Wood Part VIII: Time to Split](https://www.dickcallahan.net/heating-with-wood-viii-time-to-split/) - [The Israel Project's 2009 Global Language Dictionary](https://www.dickcallahan.net/the-israel-projects-2009-global-language-dictionary/) - [The Hasbara Handbook](https://www.dickcallahan.net/an-americans-library-for-making-sense-of-the-palestine-israel-mess-part-2-two-books-the-israel-lobby-uses-to-train-supporters-for-stifling-debate-book-1-the-hasbara-handbook/) - [With God on Their Side. by Esther Kaplan](https://www.dickcallahan.net/an-americans-library-for-making-sense-of-the-palestine-israel-mess-part-i-five-books-from-outside-the-conflict-that-explain-the-conflict-book-5-with-god-on-their-side/) - [The Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon](https://www.dickcallahan.net/an-americans-library-for-making-sense-of-the-palestine-israel-mess-part-i-five-books-from-outside-the-conflict-that-explain-the-conflict-book-2-the-wretched-of-the-earth/) - [Dying to Win by Robert Pape](https://www.dickcallahan.net/an-americans-library-for-making-sense-of-the-palestine-israel-mess-part-i-five-books-from-outside-the-conflict-that-explain-the-conflict-book-4-dying-to-win/) - [Heating With Wood XIII: On Building an Indoor Woodbox, You'll Thank Yourself](https://www.dickcallahan.net/heating-with-wood-xiii-on-building-an-indoor-woodbox-youll-thank-yourself/) - DIY indoor firewood box - [Plant a Week October Week 3, Sitka Rose](https://www.dickcallahan.net/plant-a-week-october-week-3-sitka-rose/) - [What Would Jesus Buy?](https://www.dickcallahan.net/what-would-jesus-buy/) - [Heating With Wood Part V: Zen and the Art of Chainsaw](https://www.dickcallahan.net/heating-with-wood-part-v-zen-and-the-art-of-chainsaw/) - [Martin Luther King Jr. Day](https://www.dickcallahan.net/874-2/) - [Christmas Tree hunting in the Capital City](https://www.dickcallahan.net/christmas-tree-hunting-in-the-capital-city/) - Christmas Tree Hunting in the Capital City by Dick Callahan ... a car stops and the rich mill owner’s lazy wife leans out and whines: “Giveya two bits for that ol tree.” Ordinarily my friend is afraid of saying no; but on this occasion she promptly shakes her head: “We wouldn’t take a dollar.” The mill owner’s wife persists.” A dollar, my foot! Fifty cents. That’s my last offer. Goodness, woman, you can get another one.” In answer, my friend gently reflects: “I doubt it. There’s never two of anything.” from, ‘A Christmas Memory’ by Truman Capote (1956) What will the tree be this year? Real, artificial, craft or none? If it’s none, I guess we’re done here. If it’s a craft tree made of books, beer cans, drift wood, hubcaps, twigs, antlers or whatever, good for you. Those are increasingly popular and some are just beautiful. For most of us the choice is between real and artificial. Full disclosure: I am totally biased in favor of real trees. Walking through that sweet conifer/balsam smell at the at the tree lot when we were kids, wandering around looking at every tree, and bringing one home to set up on December, 17th (my father and my brother’s birthdays) announced that Christmas season had arrived. Today getting a tree is a matter of an axe and a walk in the woods. Either way, on December, 17th it’s always been real trees. The industry marketeers for real and artificial trees are the National Christmas Tree Association and the American Christmas Tree Association respectively. Each claims to be cheaper and better for the environment than the other guys but over time the price is comparable and both of them have environmental problems they’re working on. Here are some Christmas tree trimmings: Real Trees: *30 million are sold in the U.S. every year. *Almost all real trees sold come from American tree farms. *over 100,000 people are employed in the live Christmas tree business. *Americans spend about $1.2 billion per year on real Christmas trees. *Over a million acres of land are planted with Christmas trees. *It takes 6-8 years to grow a tree to market size. *An acre of Christmas trees provides the daily oxygen requirements of 18 people. *Trees are renewable, they biodegrade, and you can spread the branches on your bulbs to keep them from temperature shocks. *A lot of people who sell live trees, like Juneau’s Minick family at Tenth Street Trees, donate part of their sales as an annual fundraiser for charity. Artificial trees: *9.5 million are sold in the U.S. each year *Roughly 85 percent of artificial trees sold in the US are manufactured in China. *Americans spend about $685 million on artificial Christmas trees each year. *Artificial trees don’t shed their needles. *At the end of the season you can put it in the box and store it until next year. (That may or may not be an asset depending on how much storage space you’ve got.) *Artificial trees will last an average six to ten years. Downside of real Christmas trees: Commercial Trees: Most commercial trees get regular sprayings of herbicides, pesticides and fungicides. Some growers spray their trees with green coloring to make them look nicer.There are standards regulating how long growers are supposed to wait between the last spraying and when the tree is cut so it’s more of an issue of environmental quality where the trees are grown than for the end buyer. Having said that, one of our kids had a lot of allergies as a child and would booger up and his eyes would water if he played at someone’s house with a tree-farm tree. Going out to have a beach fire in early January we found a disposed commercial Christmas tree out there (you could tell it was commercial because it was manicured and had one of those eight inch stems). “Hey look!”. So we threw it on the fire. It billowed off greenish/yellow, untreelike smoke as if we were calling in the choppers to an LZ the Vietnam war. Driven by public demand, the industry is experimenting with more earth friendly farming, (like using ladybugs to eat aphids instead of killing them with pesticides, keeping the trees green with fertilizer, etc). Some tree farms have been certified organic, that’s probably where we’re headed, but at this point they’re still rare. The downside of cutting your own tree means less habitat for birds and animals, potential over cutting of young trees and cutting in places like muskegs where the trees grow very slowly. A 7-foot bog tree can be 120 years old. Trust me, it’s disturbing to have a tree in the living room that was alive during the Civil War. Theodore Roosevelt banned Christmas trees from the White House for things like that. Roosevelt’s son lobbied the head of the newly founded U.S. Forest Service Gifford Pinchot for a tree. Pinchot explained to the President that thinning trees on productive forest land means more light, less competition for remaining trees and increased biodiversity. Roosevelt recanted and put a tree up in the White House. Downside of artificial trees: Non-renewable PVC and metal trees often contain lead which produces lead dust which contaminates your house. A University of North Carolina research group recommended that people should wash their hands after touching the tree and they should not let children help decorate the tree and that people shouldn’t put presents under the tree. An artificial tree might also be sprayed with flame retardants. While most artificial trees last under 15 years, they don’t break down in the landfill and will be there for centuries. Plus they don’t smell the same. Chinese factories have a bad reputation for treating workers badly. It takes more fossil fuels to bring them to market. On the bright side, expose’s about Chinese trees have helped our country’s artificial tree makers, who treat their workers well and don’t use lead, increase their market share. Other live tree options are keeping a nice little indoor potted tree like a Norfolk pine and decorating that. The city of San Francisco has a new program where they will rent you a potted tree for $90 then, after Christmas, they take it back and plant it in a tree starved part of the city. Then again, you can cut your own. Twice we’ve cut a good one in our yard—they seed in from a neighbor’s tree. Most years, like Capote’s elderly friend, we spend a long time in the woods looking for the right one. Hemlocks work fine if you’re only going to leave them up a week. We get spruce because the needles last longer than hemlock. Spruce needles are sharp so kids aren’t as likely to grab branches and pull the tree over. Helpful things for getting your own Christmas tree. 1) hatchet, axe or saw. 2) Gloves that spruce needles aren’t going to poke through. 3) Some line to tie the tree to the car if it’s not big enough to shove a tree into. 4) Attitude: Your free-range tree is like Katherine Hepburn who was a knockout because she didn’t fit the Hollywood beauty queen stereotype. You have to internalize that your tree has character and there’s not another one like it in the forest or home. Juneau has three designated areas for cutting Christmas trees:* one near Bridget cove and two on North Douglas Highway. You can find the maps and cutting guidelines at the city website, www.juneau.org/lands/documents/14-03CBJTreePolicyandmap.pdf The rules are simple. You don’t need a permit, one tree per household, stay in bounds, cut the trees close to the ground, scatter branches you’re not going to use, etc. When you look at the maps you’ll notice none of them include the muskegs. Every year on the way to go skiing you see people dragging trees back from the muskegs up on Eaglecrest Road—which is too bad. Those little muskeg trees can be older than the people cutting them down. Some are geriatrics that have been up there over a hundred years. When you’re looking for a wild tree consider the terrain. Some trees get most of their sunlight from one direction so they’re only full on that side. Other times you see a nice tree but when you go over and shake the snow off it turns out to be two or three trees together, none of which would work. Keep looking. Patience is a virtue. One more option: years ago my friend ‘M’ mentioned that she gets her tree under the power lines behind her place because small trees in the open get plenty of light. They grow fast and full. She chops with a clear conscience because they would be cut down in a few years anyway to keep them out of the lines. This would be a gray zone legal-wise but here at Woodshed Kings we operate on a needs-to-know basis. All I can say is, if you’ve cut one under the wires and hear a car coming when you’re hauling it out, this is a good time to channel Wile E. Coyote. Hold the tree up in front of you, run a few feet. Stop. Crouch behind it. Run a few feet. Stop. Crouch. At the road look both ways, throw it in the rig and bolt on out of there. 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