Interesting articles. Thanks.
wayfarer- Barcelona, great. Have a good time!
The weather forecast for Spain looks nice. The rest of Europe might get a cold front- brrr.
I am leaving early tomorrow morning, will be back on the 19th.
Happy Easter to all.
Hope your Irish weather is good too.
Hi Merry Andrew, welcome home.........
Ahhhh, all this travel - and I'm stuck here in NE TX............ Maybe soon though we will begin traveling again.
ul and pwayfarer, have a good time and come back with photos......
sumac, interesting stuff - thanks.
Stradee, glad to see you're having some nicer WX.
all clicked........... :wink:
Amigo - that is unreal! Where is it?
I don't know. It didn't say. I just got it off the internet. I post a picture after I click in.
It's beautiful - thank you.
If there was some lava pouring down the side of one of those cliffs, it looks like it might be part of the coastline of the Big Island of Hawaii. (It still might be. The flow changes course from time to time.)
Absolutely gorgeous, Amigo! I've been clickin', just haven't had much to say! I can hardly keep up with all the articles!
Happy Easter to you too, ul, and all. Hope you have a wonderful trip.
Dan, any news on Patty's condition?
Is it Big Sur? Organ?
Hey! when I (or somebody else) Post a nature scene we can try to guees the location.
Then I guess Glen Canyon. With the severe drought and the lake going down, some of the red cliffs look like that.
It looks like it's on the coast to me. Ain't that water breaking on the coast?
aktbird57 - You and your 293 friends have supported 2,323,382.6 square feet!
Marine Wetlands habitat supported: 106,685.5 square feet.
You have supported: (0.0)
Your 293 friends have supported: (106,685.5)
American Prairie habitat supported: 50,375.2 square feet.
You have supported: (12,149.9)
Your 293 friends have supported: (38,225.3)
Rainforest habitat supported: 2,166,321.9 square feet.
You have supported: (169,667.2)
Your 293 friends have supported: (1,996,654.7)
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2323382.6 square feet is equal to 53.34 acres
You can count on the Bush admin opposing anything that will cost a company money, or some of their profits.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/08/AR2006040800920_pf.html
"Montana Pollution Rules Draw Federal Objections
By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, April 9, 2006; A04
Federal energy officials are opposing new rules by Montana to force companies that extract methane gas from underground coal beds to clean up the water pollution caused by drilling operations, even as state officials cite an unreleased 2003 federal report that says cleanup costs are relatively inexpensive.
The Denver office of the Environmental Protection Agency produced the report but never published it, saying it related to a proposed drilling application that was dropped.
A Montana consulting firm obtained a copy of the EPA report, however, and handed it over to Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D). Last month, Montana's Board of Environmental Review, citing the EPA paper and other economic studies, voted to force coalbed methane companies to leave the state's streams as clean as they were before drilling started, although the companies do not have to clean up existing pollution.
"We want to develop energy in Montana, but we want to do it right," Schweitzer said in an interview. "Here's the bottom line with the federal government: They're usually not helpful, and they weren't this time, either." "
On the PBS show 'Nature' tonight (in most locations):
"PBS 'Nature' Series, 'Queen of Trees,' Focuses on Giant Fig and Tiny Wasp
Published: April 8, 2006
Sex, drunkenness, treachery, murder. Not bad for a nature program about a fig tree.
"The Queen of Trees," an installment of the PBS series "Nature" tomorrow night, is full of little dramas of perseverance and interdependence, and no matter what your belief about how the world came to be, it will leave you awfully impressed at the handiwork.
The filmmakers, Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone, focus on a small, seemingly ordinary bit of nature, a single fig tree, on a riverbank in Kenya, and show that it is not so ordinary, after all. In their narrative, delivered by the actress Patricia Clarkson, they call the tree the Queen, and for good reason: it is the center of life for a range of creatures, from the microscopic to the mammoth.
Elephants and giraffes eat from its branches. Butterflies become intoxicated sipping fermented fig mash. A family of hornbills lives in a hollow ?- with one chick, in a particularly affecting segment, racing against time to learn to fly before bees take over the nest. Ants, cicadas, snakes, monkeys and more, all captured in amazing camera work, swarm over the Queen, sometimes cooperating, sometimes engaging in life-and-death struggles with one another.
The program's main focus, though, is the unusual symbiotic relationship between the tree and fig wasps, tiny bugs that bore into the figs and do the vital work of pollination. "The two partners couldn't be more different," Ms. Clarkson says of tree and wasp. "One can withstand a river in flood, the other can drown in a dewdrop."
And the sex between the male and female wasp ?- well, it's something to see, let's leave it at that. The fact that we're able to see it at all (how does one get a camera inside a fig, anyway?) says a lot about this extraordinary film. "
Thanks, sumac! I'll try to check it out.
All clicked.
Hi all, clicked in ...............
And I forgot to watch it. <sigh>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/09/AR2006040901207.html?referrer=email&referrer=email
"Scientists Try to Count Fish in Sea
With numbers shrinking industry-wide, scientists' counting formulas are all the more crucial. But often, politics is part of the equation as well.
With nets and divers, sonar and surveys, scientists around the world grapple with one of Earth's great unknowables: how many fish in the sea.
Fish counts are the science behind regulations from Virginia's Northern Neck to the South Pacific, dictating a charter boat's take and an island nation's diet. But this is a science so inexact that some call it an art. And when the counting ends, the fighting often has just begun.
That's what happened this winter when Maryland tried to open the Choptank River to commercial yellow perch netters for the first time in nearly two decades. Counts had documented a 530 percent increase in the Eastern Shore river since 1988, Piavis said.
But sport anglers disputed those findings in raucous public hearings, questioning how the fish could be so plentiful when they have trouble catching their limit of five. The department withdrew the proposal."
sumac wrote:And I forgot to watch it. <sigh>
Alas, me too! My son asked me to watch a movie with him and I just plum forgot!
But I did remember to click!
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