Archive for August, 2007

>Morris News Service Alaska, Homer News

It isn’t the hunting that keeps Michigan resident Ken Lehman and his wife, Gail, coming back to Alaska summer after summer. Nor is it the fishing. Or the scenery. It’s diamonds. Diamond willow, that is.

The couple harvests it during the summer and, when not fishing or touring the state, Lehman can be seen sitting at a Heritage RV Park fire ring on the Homer Spit, peeling bark from the branches. That way, by the time the Lehmans return to Michigan, the willow is partially dried and ready for Lehman’s workshop.

“My first recollection is that we were traveling south of Glennallen on the Richardson Highway as Gail was reading the Milepost. She noted it said there was good diamond willow cutting along Willow Creek,” Lehman said. “I slammed on the brakes on our RV since that was the spot we were passing. I always carry in the motor home a small saw and an axe, and I grabbed both and disappeared into the brush.”

“I had made walking sticks from hard maple for several years, and so found it exciting to work with new material that had some very interesting distinctions with the diamond designs, each, of course, being different.”
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>The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management announced that it has hired a company to operate a reservations system for public campgrounds for the first time in state history.

Starting in November, campers will be able to reserve campsites as long as a year before a visit.

More than 1,000 campsites in five parks — Burlingame State Campground in Charlestown, Fishermen’s campground in Narragansett, East Beach in Charlestown, Charlestown Breachway in Charlestown and the George Washington Campground in Glocester — will be included in the program.

It will be operated by ReserveAmerica Holdings Inc., a 23-year-old company that says it manages reservations for 3,000 parks nationwide and handles 3.5 million reservations annually.
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