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Show B-10 Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, July 3-6, 201C The Park Record demic life to piecing together this history and presenting it to the world. He began inventorying the carvings in hundreds of aspen groves, organizing the arborglyphs by their general message, the carver's place of origin and whether he wrote in Basque, Spanish or French. He records the carvings with a wire painfully wrapped around digital camcorder, circling the tree while translating the his finger. In 1964, the Catholic words and commenting into a Church sent him to a mona- microphone. He has taken stery in upstate New York to thousands of still photographs, learn English so that he could which are combined with hunbecome a parish priest. He left dreds of hours of videotape in for Elko. Nevada, in 1968, a carefully catalogued computwhere he began ministering to er database. The work has the Basque herders who lived taken him into to 10 states in the mountains. He saw his from California to Montana - first arborglyphs by chance, wherever there are sheep riding horseback to a sheep camps in aspen groves. camp in a remote region in The vast majority of the northeastern Nevada. Names, carvings are names and dates. dates and drawings covered Others express the pent-up the trees from their bases to as longings of isolated men, often high as a man could reach. But provoking a written dialogue it was the extreme loneliness with later herders. One carver of the landscape that most wrote, ''Wine and women are impressed the newcomer, not both good," and a second carvthe carvings. er responded. "Yes, but they Mallea-Olaetxes tenure as are hard on your pocket." a priest in Elko was cut short Other arborglyphs are soliloin 1970 after he got in trouble quies, the intimate, private with his bishop for officiating expressions of men who never at a wedding in a Methodist expected anyone else to see church. So Mallea-Olaetxe them. Finding these carvings is began a decade of wandering, like looking into someone's following the life of a working- soul, Mallea-Olaetxe says, so man. Ultimately, though, he he withholds their names returned to books. His gradu- when he describes what they ate studies culminated in 1988 wrote. with a doctoral degree from He has identified and anaUniversity of Nevada, Reno, lyzed consistent themes where he specialized in 16th involving daily life, politics and century colonial Latin symbols - some religious, America and studied the life of some from Basque mythology. Mexico's first Catholic bishop, He has also examined the who was Basque. He rediscov- bread ovens and other artifacts ered arborglyphs by accident. the herders left in their camps, During a break from his Ph.D. and interviewed hundreds of dissertation, he and his family carvers. What has emerged is a went hiking among the aspens rich account of the sheepon Peavine Mountain at the herders' experience. edge of Reno. MalleaThe sheepherders' cultural Olaetxe's memory of the day is chronology is emblematic of vivid: "The aspens were blaz- the history of the American ing gold, the sky was bluer West, where emigrants flocked than blue. And these words on from around the world to reintrees were leaping out at me - vent themselves. Here, names and dates and places in herders from Basque country Basque. 1 was staring at a his- joined other newcomers as tory nobody knew anything individuals in a self-made sociabout." ety, where they could freely That day Mallea-Olaetxe reflect on the lives they had decided to dedicate his aca- left and the new ones they • Continued from B-9 History on trees Free Condoms Affordable Birth Control STD Testing and more... AM services are confidential Planned Parenthood" 800-230-PLAN ppau.org GREAT WESTERN A DIVISION OF FRONTIER BANK. 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He crawls over a jumble of downed trunks in hopes that the elusive priest and lady may be among them. They are gone, he sighs. Old age is claiming the aspen groves, here and throughout the West. Many are not regenerating, a problem scientists largely blame on fire suppression and warming temperatures. Mallea-Olaetxe now works as fast as he can to catalogue the undocumented arborglyphs before their trees succumb. With his goatee already flecked with gray, he is realistic about his odds of success. "I'd have to live 200 more years." he says. "We cannot help it. Nature will claim them.'1 Then, with a rueful shrug and a smile, he picks up his camcorder, focuses the lens on a carving of a man on a horse, and launches into an explanation for the historical record. This profile originally appeared in the June 7, 2010 issue of High Country News (hcn.org). 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