I've been wrangling the data from a report on a $45,000 small grants program being administered by an indigenous group on Kamchatka called "Lach."  They are doing a good job, I just have to be nit picky.  I'll be dreaming in Excel again.

It's exciting to see how much the Itelmen people are doing to get involved with ecosystem management, together with cultural preservation.




Meanwhile, I found this cool website of photos from Kamchatka, taken for National Geographic.

I'm sorry I probably will never make it to Kamchatka.  It's ridiculously expensive to get there, and I don't have any direct reasons to go.  Other staff at my organization are more focused on the region, so they get to go all the time.

Sigh.