Howdy UCSS volunteers and partners! We’re glad to have you back for another bimonthly month in review post, gathering all of our social media shares from the last while in case you missed them. We spent a lot of May and June getting prepared for the Buffalo Soldier Heritage Trail Kick-off event, so get ready to see some Buffalo Soldier fun facts!
We started May off with a promotion for the Buffalo Soldier Heritage Trail Kick-off, followed by a round of trivia featuring some sites (and awesome stewards and partners) in the Book Cliffs. For trivia answers, scroll to the bottom of this post!
Next, we featured episode 3 of Beyond the 50-Year Rule: listen now at podbean.com/ucss, or on your favorite podcast platform. It’s a great option for your commute! We also talked about a great graffiti removal project with the BLM and the oddly named substance we used to remove paint from rocks.
In the weeks leading up to the Buffalo Soldier Heritage Trail Kick-off event, we highlighted some fun stories from the history of the Buffalo Soldiers – a Fort Duchesne vs. Fort Douglas baseball game, a behind-the-scenes on the research process and how research led us to discover more information about African-American military leaders, and how the 9th Cavalry helped ward off a potential robbery from Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch.
Most recently, we’ve started talking about the awesome upcoming Stewardship Strut trail race and hike event (which you should totally register for at tinyurl.com/ucssrace). We’re super excited for this event, especially after seeing some of your faces down near Vernal for a site documentation project.
Thanks for keeping up with the program – and for being part of what makes UCSS great! Have a great summer and keep writing those killer monitoring reports.
Now for the answers to the Book Cliffs trivia:
- Why is the granary raised on posts with cans over their tops?
- Answer D: To keep rodents out of the grain
- What is the object for?
- Answer A: It’s a water pump
- Why is that piece of tin can nailed to a wall?
- Answer B: To cover up knots in the wood
- Bonus: What could have caused the crack in the pump?
- Answer B: Someone attempted to steal it
- Even with the damage, this artifact survived its attempted looting with its makers mark intact – that makers mark could provide us with more information about how ranchers in the Book Cliffs lived.