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To   : BENNIE HUTTO
From : FOXY FERGUSON
Date : Thu Sep 20 2001 10:40 am

FF>> I've got some really major unfinished business from the late
FF>> '60's and early '70's and that is occupying most of my spare time
FF>> at the moment.

BH> Magic Mushrooms and a psychedelic mini-van? :-)

Never got into that sort of stuff, Bennie...

It is a scientific project begun in April '66 that was put on
hold in April '77 because of legal liabilities vis-a-vis one of
the land owners (whose land we had traverse to get to the target
area) and his understandable refusal to allow access to anyone
across his property.

The project is still on hold, of course, but I'm in process of
handing over all the raw scientific data that I as head of the
project have in my possession to an enthusastic, energetic, and
reliable person of a younger generation in the hope that the
legal situation with that land owner (or his heirs) might improve
in the future. Only about 2% of the area under study is actually
located on his land (and none of the as-yet-untouched but clearly
connected area), but his property is/was primary access to the
entire study area. Fortunately, there now is an alternate access
(albeit not /nearly/ as convienent) via property now controled by
a conservation group attempting to preserve as much as possible
of the wilderness portions of that particular mountain and it's
unique features, and prevent a destruction of the natural habitat
of the endangered species found therein. Since that conversation
group was started and is wholly controled by individuals who are
deeply concerned with the possibility of resuming the study, and
since I'm no longer able or inclined to pursue it myself, turning
over the data to a younger, scientifically trained person seemed
the logical thing to do. There are a lot of critical "notes" that
exist only in my head, as well as the written data and sketches
in the journals that cover that and other unrelated projects that
were also underway during that particular time frame. Since Brent
doesn't need those, I'm having to extract and transcribe all the
data/notes/sketches for him. Time comsuming.

Oh, well...

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