Listen to Interview With Rob McCarthy, Lead Singer With 100th Meridian and five more episodes by Live Music Magazine, free! I’d enjoyed his references to 19th Century explorer-geologist-cartographer-topographer-geographer (there’s more, but I’ll stop there) John Wesley Powell, who drew the imaginary 100th meridian and warned against expecting too much of lands west of it (warnings we ignored, mostly, and still do). In 1879, U.S. Geological Survey head John Wesley Powell established the boundary in a report of the west that has carried to this day. Even though this map has nothing to do with water, you can see the impact the lack of water has on human settlement. But he has been a regular — as in several days a week — visitor to Hyde County and parts thereabout and a committed part-time inhabitant of the shack. If they had access to credit and capital like commodity farmers have, they could transform the 100th meridian in a decade.”. Watching Gord perform is joyous! After getting to know and admire western South Dakota through his TV work, Sam left the financial security of big-time news media on the coast to become a buffalo rancher in the foothills of the Black Hills and out in the badlands. I’d heard Sam mention the 100th from time to time in discussing the settling of the West and the reshaping of the landscape through human impacts and accelerating climate change. In the 1800’s people literally fought and killed each other over water. And I remember Hengelo. A summer thunderstorm looms ominously over Bryce C, Christmas lights with my sweetie at Hudson Gardens, Indian Paintbrush on the North Rim of the Grand Ca. So some organic fertilizer and compost top-dressing help offset the depletion caused by the wood decomposing. Temps, Siberian Bugloss, otherwise known as false forget-, Daffodils blooming in the front yard right before, Ok, I am now officially done with winter! Truth is, before I met Sam Hurst 14 or 15 years ago, I didn’t pay much attention to the 100th meridian. 100th Meridian Initiative outlines management activities that will help prevent, detect, and control zebra mussels and other ANS in 100th meridian jurisdictions and west. “We all know ‘At The Hundredth Meridian’ was Gord Downie’s idea, not Mill Street’s.”. The 100th meridian west forms a great circle with the 80th meridian east. As World Warms, America's Invisible 'Climate Curtain' Creeps East. The 100th meridian jurisdictions include Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, and Manitoba. I remember, I remember Buffalo. I wish I could say that my lawn and garden is a true xeriscape, but it’s not. The legendary Canadian band has filed a suit in Federal Court against Mill Street Brewery, a subsidiary of Labatt, which is owned by Belgian multinational brewer AB InBev. The 100th meridian runs from pole to pole, 100 degrees longitude west of the prime meridian in Greenwich, England. It could probably stand to be reduced further, but that’s a project for down the road. So Sam sought that transition zone as a place to “live” his book as well as write it. But I certainly didn’t spend much time considering the realities behind the name, 100th meridian, or what they might have meant to the shaping of our state and our nation, or to the people who lived or live there, including me. I had to check c… That went on for that planned year, and then six months more, and then six months more, as his reporting and the scope of the book expanded. In spite of this “restrictive” regimen I’ve imposed on the garden, most of the plants come back hale and hearty every year. So he caught the changes of seasons and came to know the idiosyncrasies of the landscape. Columbia River Basin Interagency Invasive Species Response Plan: Zebra Mussels and Other Dreissenid Species. From the New York Times: Budd’s home lies in an area that old maps once warned held nothing but dust. Watch all of them online here! But only for a while, because in the cycle of life along the 100th, that lake or slough is destined to shrivel up and give itself back to the prairie, which has a thirst that is rarely slackened for long. During my spring cleanup I leave a fair amount of “litter” from last year’s garden. I use “live” with an asterisk here, because Sam was not a full-time resident of the little shack on the prairie 20 miles or so north of where Nick and Mary Jo usually keep the coffee on and something good to eat at hand. At the hundredth meridian. Cooler temperatures make for an awesome bicycle ri, Hummingbird moth sipping nectar from one of my con, They're a little later than usual, but the Iris bl, Bicycling through Cherry Creek State Park. Single fucking thing I know. I have read that a “drought tolerant” plant is just that: it tolerates drought. This Is What It Looks Like at the Center of America is a photo portolio by Andrew Moore of some of the most sparsely populated regions west of the 100th meridian. Well, except for my lawn. Hardscaping can be a patio such as you see above, or it could be a stone or gravel path, a deck, a gazebo, or even (counter-intuitively enough) a pond, so long as the pond is deep enough to stay cool during the hottest parts of summer to counter the effects of evaporation. There is a saying out here in the bone-dry West: “whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting”. This is where American settlers crashed into Native culture. Oh, sure, I knew that stuff about how it marked the beginning of the Great Plains and the vague demarcation between the carefully tended farming country to the east and vast, generally more-arid expanse of ranch ground to the west. Either one works. If not a child or even quite a resident of the 100th meridian, he became a student of it and an advocate for it. Watching a lake bed become a lake, for now. For example, MrsVintage’s peony positively flourishes every year with next to no supplemental watering. In Texas, the 100th meridian cuts down the right-hand side of the Panhandle, through Childress, down to Abilene and past Laredo before pushing south into Mexico. 1.4K likes. “I think that the 100th meridian is the eastern edge of the American West. Trent Joel Bloch-Hansen from Artificial Lift. What’s happening in the garden (early May edition), Planning for autumn color (part 3): foliage, Planning for autumn color (part 2): blooms, Planning for autumn color (Part 1): prologue. Let’s go over what xericape is not. I’m sure you know exactly the type of yard that I’m talking about though. The patriarch is fascinated, thinks it gorgeous. And with their support and cooperation and assistance, that's where Sam planned to live for a year. “One of the great surprises of my two years in the field is that many of the most innovative ideas about the future are coming from young Native Americans who have gone to college and come home to their reservations to try to make a better world,” Sam says. He helped Nick Nemec plant trees in a shelterbelt, rode a four-wheeler as cattle were moved from one pasture to the other and joined in a branding operation. Not me. Running south to north, the meridian cuts through eastern Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas, and the Canadian province of Manitoba on its way to the pole. My point being, assuming I have a point, is that while water issues are going to continue to be an important issue here in the American West for a long time to come, there is no reason why we can’t continue to have awesome and beautiful landscapes. Associate nonfiction editor Roz Roseboro on today’s bonus collage essay: “At the 100th Meridian” challenges and re-positions the language of exploiters and oppressors, “facts,” phrases, and imagined responses in more than 200 entries that cumulatively create urgency and intensity.Cheyenne Nimes has woven a powerful indictment of a prevailing historical narrative. And in case you don't know, line shacks were the barely inhabitable shelters constructed way out yonder from ranch houses -- often but not always along the fencelines that required tending -- so cowboys or sheep tenders could keep track of livestock that were otherwise wandering far from view. The Tragically Hip. Bif Naked Full Audio Interview. There is some debate as to where the American West begins. He went to schools and auction barns and farm fields and county offices and small-town cafes. I only deep water the gardens once a month during the dog-days of summer (maybe twice if it’s particularly hot and dry) and if a plant can’t hack it with that, it sucks to be it. On terribly cold, snowy winter nights, or when he had heavy writing to do or needed a break from the the heat, the bugs and the lack of electricity or running water at the shack, Sam would rent a room at the Prairie View Motel in Highmore. A few of them would be classified as truly xeriscape. “We took this step to clear up any confusion once and for all,” the band’s surviving members wrote in an email to fans. For now, though, the lake is a lush home to mallards and teal and spoonbills, Canada geese and, along its edges, killdeer and other shorebirds. If someone had called me that back when I actually was a child growing up in central South Dakota just a few miles east of the 100th, I’d likely have responded with an air of confused suspicion. What’s the difference, you might ask? I will not, however, perform at its best in drought conditions. His residence and home remains in Rapid City, where he seeks creature comforts and does most of his writing and a lot of his research in “the cave” of his basement office. High winds. He strayed east and west of the 100th meridian a degree or two or three, and traveled north and south along it for 100 miles or so each way, doing what journalists do: asking questions, listening well, engaging the place and its people. Here in my hometown along the Colorado Front Range, you can generally tell when a housing development was built just by looking at the size of the yard. No one who is serious about really understanding the 100th meridian can hope to do so without reaching out and learning from indigenous people. What moves man!!!! But he has learned a lot more in this book project. Scorching heat. What methods do you employ to make your landscape more drought tolerant? The road to understanding through indigenous knowledge. "At the Hundredth Meridian" is a song by Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip. Stories about interesting South Dakota people, places, and things. He also watched the Super Bowl there. Blowing snow. Where the great plains begin. Their weapons include monitoring, reporting, education and a 24X7 national hotline staffed by a live person, 1-877-STOP-ANS. The SDPB Community Calendar is brought to you with support from the SD Arts Council. But I'd never used a number — the 100th — to identify it as the source of my deepest passion and most enduring sense of place. I lived the environmental and cultural realities of the 100th growing up, on a farm that some might call a ranch at the edge of the Lower Brule Reservation, in the spiritual shadow of Medicine Butte. Far from the more easily understood beauty of the Black Hills. He asked thousands of questions to hundreds of people.

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