The Hillsboro question

Submitted by Geoff Baumann
Posted 5/26/20

Dear Editor:

With all the world’s problems this is but a point in time.

A little stream carrying red sand between walls of limestone is captured in the rising reservoir. It curls with …

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The Hillsboro question

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Dear Editor:

With all the world’s problems this is but a point in time.

A little stream carrying red sand between walls of limestone is captured in the rising reservoir. It curls with energy like a miniature ocean. The sand drifts to the bottom building a new layer. The Chugwater sandstone is eroding from higher in the canyon. It formed in a Mars-like climate before the age of dinosaurs.

The Madison Limestone is deep and hard and very old. It is the compressed shells of creatures that thrived here in a nearly endless sea before the first animals crawled on shore.

Is there any sense in believing that we have a right to anything? Humans came a long way in a short time: tools, art, technology, consumerism. With an intellect, a good physique and plenty of fossil fuel, we became refined and built beautiful things. We also fought, wasted and fouled our nest.

In this century, with all of our powers for good and evil, will we act like animals or intellectuals?

Geoff Baumann

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