Omu’s JournalThe Sierra Club and the River Flowing
By Tom ElderUintah Trails Working Group In college, I was given the opportunity in 1979 to present an hour-long lecture to an introductory college class… Login to continue reading Login…
Editorial
Omu’s JournalSparrows and Seeds
By Blue Planet Becky “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s… Login to continue reading Login…
Omu’s Journal“Worm” Part Three
“Now, warning lights are flashing down at quality controlSomebody threw a spanner, they threw it in the hole…”-“Industrial Disease”, by Mark Knopfler/Dire StraitsAs a worm, I learned where the expression “throw a monkey wrench into the works” came from.
Worm, part 2
My education as an oil field “worm” started with “tripping out”, pulling out the pipe that had previously been punched into the earth in the twin towns of Midwest-Edgerton, Wyoming.
Dear People of the Great State of Utah,
Dear People of the Great State of Utah,Hello!
Omu’s JournalWorm
Gazing out on the sea of mud that our horse paddock has become reminds me of another muddy quagmire, 44 years ago.The spring of 1980 found me at loose ends, with college classes done for the year and me looking to fund the next year of forestry school.
USU Uintah Basin Science Fair
Forty years ago I participated in my first Uintah Basin Science Fair.
Omu’s Journal
‘In the bleak midwinterFrosty wind made moanEarth stood hard as ironWater like a stoneSnow had fallen, snow on snowSnow on snowIn the bleak midwinterLong ago’-Christina RossettiDuring the winter, I get hired to babysit the dinosaurs for a few hours.