Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
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GPS usage
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Compass reading
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Oral history gathering
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Rock art restoration
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Historic preservation
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Artifact cataloging
Once, while excavating a quartermaster dump at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, Eva found
three rare round-bottom soda bottles. “They designed them that way to keep the corks from
drying out,” she explains. “Because of the round bottom, they had to be stored on their side.”
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
The logo for Passport in Time is a pictograph of a moose. When the program went
national, Director Gordon Peter's arm was twisted to switch. After all, many re-
gions of U.S. Forest Service couldn't identify with the big-antlered creatures. Peters
wouldn't hear of it.
His commitment to moose pictographs began years before he ever thought
about starting Passport in Time. One day, as a young and naïve archaeologist, he
was called by a wilderness ranger who reported that vandals were using ancient pic-
tographs at Minnesota's Hegman Lake for target practice.
While portaging the canoe, head stuck in the hull, he ran smack dab into a bull
moose. That sighting alone, his first in the wild, probably would have been enough
to instigate a lifelong love affair with the moose, but not minutes later, he and the
ranger reached the ancient pictographs, bright red on a face of light gray rock. His
eyes were immediately drawn to the moose. Upon closer inspection, he noticed a
small chip of paint missing from the pictograph moose's heart.
“That was my introduction to moose, to pictographs, and to wanton destruction
of beauty and history. To me, the moose represents objects of antiquity from all time
periods, all of which are worthy of protection,” Peters says.
