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Come join us in Vail, CO March 11

I'm giving a multi-media presentation March 11 in Vail at the Walking Mountains Science Center. The program is on the Serengeti ecosystem and our battle to save it. Come join us: http://tinyurl.com/lec5yhm

Tribute to a Great Person – Pete Seeger

Tribute to a Great Person – Pete Seeger

In 1972 I was privileged to take Pete on a whitewater raft trip for several days on the Snake River in Hells Canyon on the Idaho/Oregon border. We were still fighting to preserve the canyon and river from a major dam proposal. Pete was supporting us and, while there,...

10th World Wilderness Congress in Spain

10th World Wilderness Congress in Spain

 The 10th World Wilderness Congress was held in Salamanca, Spain October 4-10. Attended by about 1000 activists from 60 different countries, it was a pretty high energy gathering. I gave a presentation on our battle to save Serengeti.Great networking and...

Travels in Siberia – The Ministry of A&I

Travels in Siberia – The Ministry of A&I

© Boyd NortonTravels in Siberia The Ministry of A & I            From my first visit in 1986, and through many subsequent trips in the 1990s, I became acutely aware that this vast country, under the Soviet...

Khabarovsk 1992

Khabarovsk 1992

 © Boyd NortonKhabarovsk 1992.                 I sat in the car, waiting for my companions who had gone into the train station to purchase tickets for the next leg of our journey. I had...

Ulan Ude and an Eastern Medicine Clinic

Ulan Ude and an Eastern Medicine Clinic

This is the first in a series of essays entitled Travels in Siberia. These are various journeys I made here, starting in 1986. © Boyd Norton Ulan Ude and an Eastern Medicine Clinic            The journey on the...

Another Excerpt from my Novel, “Perfect Money”, Chapter 4

Sorry gang, but this is the last post until the novel is published. It gets better!Wait 'til you see what the Secret Service, FBI, CIA, IRS, the Mafia and the KGB have in store for them. © 2012 Boyd NortonFour            Before we could launch our scheme we had some...

Another Post, Chapter 3 From My Novel “Perfect Money”

© 2012 Boyd Norton Chapter Three For the next few weeks things were pretty quiet - and morose. It seems that Cat had to lay off one or more people and she was not alone. Most of the businesses on main street were having problems. If you're struggling for money, there...