An easy off day in Gillette at Mark and Gwyn's house. Besides napping and cleaning the bike, I learn about natural gas mining, about coal mining, about local weather, about local flowers, and about how business and natural resources "try" to work hand in hand. Mark and Gwyn are directly involved in the latter. Mark teaches biology and ecology in a local highschool, and works summers with his wife Gywn, whose more than full-time career involves working with mining and drilling companies to ensure that environmental impact regulations are followed. Her specialty is birds of prey, and as if on cue, she returns home from work with 2 Red-tail hawk chicks, just weeks old, that had been abandoned by mom at a coal mine, after an attempt had been made to relocate a nest that had been built on a cliff that was scheduled for blasting. Two mice later, the youngin's are well fed and ushered off to a set of Redtail foster parents, who will raise them before they are set free. Gwyn reports that the miners were all for saving the birds. The birds were all for the fresh mice sushimi dinner, so the ending is a happy one! (except for the mice...)
May all business vs. environment interactions end like this one!
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