Sign flashes FEMA working on waterways!
Another hat in the ring. It's an additional layer of administrative guidance in a complex web of caretaking. People in WNC carekeep a lot of forest area.
This endeavor involves locals and visitors/guests. All people with varying degrees of skill and talent and interest.
"Did you know?" Great conversations often start with little jostlings. People cramming into tight task schedules, kinda feeling each other out with antennae. (i)People of the past built the little hatchery spot with shaking water. And this? This frees up some of the eggs that mama fish are nesting inside.(i) The "shaking water" spot is in a creek or a brook; a cement pad/square often submerged in the running water just like the ancient rocks smoothed by the flow.
"Different kind of running water," a person explains of all size trees tipped over on the slopes of the mountains. (i)Saturated soil often atop rock and affecting the earth in between tree roots.(i)
"And the people cleaning the campsites? Is all this work coordinated somehow?"
"It is."
"Go slow so I can take a picture!"
"For tradespeople, well, it's actually more than a courtesy to take pictures of any jobsite," the woman explained diplomatically by way of introducing a young person to a construction crew. "Why?"
A leatheryneck'd man went into a story-of-the-day-so-far which involved crew getting arrested on the way to work; two too hung over to work; stolen materials that hadn't been put up overnight; stuck with not physically strong workers not off on service duty somewhere.
"So, now behind schedule?" A writing/photography team asked. The man sighed, and let his head hang, frowning. "Did you know that a lot of the people, clients and workers had to take some time off to re-schedule everything?"
"We can't do that."
"Independent?"
"Not public, more private, but not a corporate thing, but we of follow the 'cane money."
"Cane money?!"
"Hurricane's create budget cycles."
"Do you know if it's the same budget as the Department of Agriculture?"
"Why?"
"The States are working within the department spheres on account of hot war Overseas." The person covered mouth. "Not sure if that's (i)classified(i)." People tiredly stared at a campfire.
People approaching. Coordinating types jumping out of saggy, sunbeaten camp chairs. "Ag?"
"Interior."
"There's more of you guys down three sites."
At certain parts of the process it's easier on people tasked with transcending personal politics to rise to the challenges of administering resources to not "relax" together. And of course, mix in the tiles of War Department into the tile puzzle of function and there's stuff that cannot get talked about in a general crowd.
It's a professional American tide change when parties and religious forces and a participating "public" all have to accomplish a goal. And some people think big even as others micromanage and still others fight for some modicum of "independence".
The best of great work hard to explain themselves. It's not necessarily "politicking" especially when systems get rearranged into a good amount of bid work and contracts.
"Furthermore, I looked at the statistics. You hot young ones and the cougar over there are in the minority. 97.5% of the men here are (i)married(i)." Eyebrows were going up, lips frowning and sort of snarling, and a few people dropped heads in hands. "I'm gonna call her out on the statistics," said a magazine writer. "But you're not in the Forest Service, how would you know the stats?" A young person asked.
"Where's she getting the half a point from? I wanna know."
"None of this is the point. Why can't we get to the point?"
"Oh the drama."
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