Though off topic, I think your questions re the questionable viability of the "State of Jeffeson" to be quite valid. Having lived in Mendocino, I can't imagine the Mat-Eel community or Ashland going along with the core values the proponents of this movement. Randy On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Jane McGary <janemcgary@earthlink.net>wrote: > Lovely photos by Stephen Munro! I'm glad to know his camera started > working again, and that he didn't have to depend for a photo of C. > howellii on the one he took here with his phone. I enjoyed talking > with Stephen; he says he is the youngest member of the Northwestern > chapter of NARGS, and I hope he can recruit some contemporaries into > both it and the PBS. > > The "State of Jefferson" in his subject line refers to a sporadic > movement to combine southern Oregon and northern California into a > separate state. Rural, resource-exploiting, and libertarian interests > drove it, but with gentrified Ashland and Arcata in the mix, how > would that work? > > Jane McGary > Portland, Oregon, USA > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > -- * * A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. - Thomas Paine --- * *