--- Mark Labbee <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>Interesting story on CBS this morning about this man in Arizona who takes a
>pack of mules 3000 feet down a steep canyon trail to deliver mail and
>supplies to the Indian living there. He has been doing it for 21 years. I
>found it interesting that they kept joking about the french fries being U.S.
>mail. No big surprise that when they showed the Indians, 3/4 of them
>appeared to be at least 50lbs overweight. It was mentioned that they depend
>on these supplies for survival. It was also mentioned that they live in this
>oasis (there is a beautiful blue-green stream or spring nearby) for 1000
>years. How did they ever survive all those years without the frozen french fries?

Dams above and below the canyon have turned it into a dead zone.


Michae

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