Ivo E. Lindauer

Broschiertes Buch

Up the Creek

Parachute Creek's Pioneer Families and Energy Development 1875-2015

Beschreibung

On Colorado's Western Slope, Parachute Creek joins the mighty Colorado River in its journey to the Gulf of California. Ute Indians hunted game in the area long before Americans moving west discovered the lush grasses along the creek and dense forests on the surrounding mesa tops were perfect for raising cattle and sheep. Like the Utes before them, settlers noticed something they had never seen: rock that burned. Early pioneer Mike Callahan realized its potential the hard way, when his housewarming turned into a conflagration. His rock fireplace caught fire and destroyed his log cabin. Far from daunted, Callahan became an early proponent of oil shale development. He could not have predicted the "rock that burns" would virtually wipe out the way of life he and others had enjoyed along Parachute Creek. Up the Creek is the story of those pioneer families, told by one of their own. Ivo Lindauer grew up along Parachute Creek, the third generation to live and ranch in the canyons and surrounding mesa tops. His ranch is now the last remaining family-owned ranch along the entire creek. In preserving the stories of the creek's early settlers and their descendants, Lindauer captures a rapidly disappearing way of life that once epitomized the American West.

Autor

Ivo Lindauer grew up along Parachute Creek, the third generation to live and ranch in the canyons and on surrounding mesa tops. His grandfather, Peter Lindauer, purchased a homestead at the head of Parachute Creek in 1902, and his father Paul established a ranch on the East Fork branch. One of five children, Ivo Lindauer grew up on the ranch eleven miles from Grand Valley (now known as Parachute), and spent his boyhood years moving cattle and machinery up and down the drainage. His neighbors were cowboys, and life followed the rhythms of the seasons as they moved their livestock up to the high country for summer grazing and back to the canyons before snow fell. They hunted and fished, and looked out for one another. In the course of Lindauer's lifetime, he has watched a dramatic transformation of the landscape that helped shape him. Once dotted with cattle ranches and fruit orchards, Parachute Creek is now dominated by energy development and natural resource extraction. Lindauer and his family are the only remaining ranching landowners along the entire creek. After graduating from Grand Valley High School in 1949, he attended the University of Colorado and Colorado State University, where he earned a BS degree in science. His first job surveying spruce beetle infestations for the US Bureau of Entomology was interrupted by service in the Marine Corps, including a year in Korea. Following his discharge, he married transplanted Ohioan Betty Jo Ann Barstow and the couple settled near the family ranch. In addition to ranching, Lindauer worked as a coach and science teacher at Silt, Colorado. He returned to the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) to pursue teaching certification, along with his wife. He eventually earned an MA in biological sciences and later a PhD in botany and plant ecology from Colorado State University (CSU). He joined the faculty at UNC. During his career there, he took leave to serve as a visiting scholar at two universities in Australia. As a field and floodplain ecologist, Lindauer led numerous field trips for teachers and students as well as organizing and leading sixteen week-long float trips down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon studying the unique ecology and geology of the area. He also spent two years in Washington, DC, with the National Science Foundation as a program officer assisting in awarding grants to universities and schools for training teachers and producing teacher training materials. In the course of his career, Lindauer founded and was president of the Colorado Biology Teachers Association, and was president of the National Biology Teachers Association, president of the Colorado Nature Conservancy, and director of several NSF grants and teaching projects. He was grand marshal of the Grand Valley Rodeo and Parade in 2003 and served on the board of the Grand Valley Educational Foundation in all offices including president from 2000 to 2009. After retiring in 1996, he and his wife returned to his childhood home. The couple have traveled extensively since their retirement, including three around-the-world trips and six weeks in Scotland. Ivo and Betty Jo have two daughters, Julia Lindauer and Sarah Orona, and three grandchildren, Dylan Lindauer (24), Cordero (19) and Delcia Orona (18), and one cat, Spook (10).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ivo E. Lindauer
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 203mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780692585870
• ISBN-10: 0692585877
• Artikelnr.: 47585909