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>before I go to basic training, want one last hiking trip, just a few days, mostly road trip
>go to Oak Flat in Superior, AZ
>it's an Apache burial ground and sacred site surrounded by stripmines, and Resolution Copper is planning to turn it into a 5 mile wide crater
>Talk with a small family of San Carlos and White Mountain Apache who have camped tere in tents for over a year with occasional outside support
>they're elderly, a dancer, an artist, a singer
>go hiking into the hills, see the mineshafts set up to take samples
>was told by an elder that they ecpect the water level to drop (this is a beautiful oasis in the desert and that would destroy it) "in about a decade, at the soonest."
Just got out of boot camp. The nearby lakes that have never been empty are dry, and eagles are flying over, circling like they're looking for it. I wish the Apache family well.
