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...discover whatever it is he's leading us to the way he did. "Wait till you see this," he breathes out. The seam we've been following winds us around an outcropping of rock, and suddenly we're at the base of a limestone cavity. It rises up 60 ft., the color of butter-pecan ice cream, shaped as if the scoop has just scored it. Down the middle falls a modest line of water. Somehow the splash can only now be heard as we stand next to its blue-green pool. Bush calls this the amphitheater...
...property down into the greener valley. We stop at an overlook he has just thinned out so that he can show Laura. Each night they take a walk before sunset; now they will have a clean lookout down to the Rainey Creek, more than 100 ft. below. Bush has torched his conifer hackings all over the ranch, leaving black burn circles that look as if there's been fireworks testing. Once the brush is gone, he's got plans: wildflowers over there and maybe a feeder to attract some wildlife. Laura is growing a patch of native grasses. Bush...
...about quitting. "He said it was too hard for him, not being able to eat what he wanted," Herzfeld recalls. Antley complained that unlike other jockeys, he had never been very good at "flipping," his term for vomiting to keep the weight off. When the police found the 5-ft. 4-in. Antley last week, he weighed 140 lbs., over his riding weight...
...year-old giant sequoias in central California, about to declare them a national monument as part of his green legacy. But the Secret Service told him he had only 10 minutes for a "hike in the woods." Clinton bounded off through the sequoias, fascinated by the 300-ft. skyscrapers that spring from a seed smaller than a rice grain. He returned, behind schedule, to make his designation speech before zipping off by helicopter to a fund raiser in southern California...
...Sequoia National Forest every year, and few of them want to see a return to the clear cutting that was carried out in the area up through the 1980s. After an hour's hike uphill to the snow line of the forest, Fontaine points to a 200-ft.-tall sequoia that fell 10 years ago right on the fringe of a heavily logged area. He thinks erosion around the 1,200-year-old roots caused its fall and curses loggers for leaving the tree without any protection. Clinton may have waited until the last minute to protect the sequoias...