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On The Road . . . Somewhere
from Southern Rockies Nature Blog
on Friday May 24th, 2013 at 03:22 AM
But Charile Chestnut checked out in 1998. M. and I are on the road. This was the view during our picnic supper. Anyone familiar with this establishment?“We’re on the last kick,” he said. “The bulk water is gone.”
from Southern Rockies Nature Blog
on Thursday May 23rd, 2013 at 10:00 AM
All my adult life, I have been hearing predictions that the Ogallala Aquifer (also called the High Plains Aquifer by people unsure how to pronounce "Ogallala"), a huge sponge of water under the High Plains, was dropping . . . dropping . . . dropping. Fly east out of Colorado Springs and look at all the irrigated circles from center-pivot irrigation. They are growing corn, mostly. Corn to feed to cattle in High Plains stockyards. Corn for ethanol (it's patriotic!) to make us energy independent...Mediterranean Diet: The Dark Side
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on Thursday May 23rd, 2013 at 01:29 AM
You have the olive oil, of course, and the seafood and the vegetables. And the golden orioles, the nightingales, and the corncrakes. The larks and the finches, yum yum. Call it a quirk of geography. Birds that migrate from Europe to Africa must cross the Mediterranean Sea, north to south or south to north. They are tired after that flight, easy to trap and kill, be it in Egypt, the Greek islands, Crete, Sicily, or the south of France. In Egypt, for example, A few scattered nets along the...Spring Comes to the Burn
from Southern Rockies Nature Blog
on Monday May 20th, 2013 at 02:49 AM
On May 16, M. and I re-visited the burned ridge behind our house for the first time since November. It burned last October 23, part of an extremely fast-moving fire that destroyed 15 homes and various outbuildings in the space of about thirty minutes, reaching a total extent of 2,500 acres .Here is the area that we re-visited as it looked at 6:40 p.m., October 23, 2013. Fisher, our Chesapeake Bay retriever, came too. On the ground behind him you can see scattered clumps of shredded bark,...
Your State Bird is All Wrong
from Southern Rockies Nature Blog
on Sunday May 19th, 2013 at 03:00 PM
I have a longer photo post coming, but for now, read Nicholas Lund's piece in Slate about America's state birds (hint, there are nowhere near fifty of them), with suggestions for improvements. Was western meadowlark the official state bird of the entire Louisiana Purchase and they just kept if after becoming states?Majority of Colorado Sheriffs to Sue over Gun Control Laws
from Southern Rockies Nature Blog
on Friday May 17th, 2013 at 11:36 PM
Some 54 Colorado sheriffs, representing 84 percent of the total, "say recently passed state gun control laws are unconstitutional, and they plan to file a federal lawsuit Friday to block them," making the announcement at a news conference today. At a Friday news conference in Denver, sheriffs, disabled individuals and a woman's group said two new laws requiring universal background checks for gun buyers and restricting the size of high-capacity magazines violate the Second Amendment right to...Taos County Says No to Family Dollar
from Southern Rockies Nature Blog
on Friday May 17th, 2013 at 02:00 PM
Not even if you give it a faux adobe facade. Culture trumps convenience. El Prado resident Manuel Trujillo worries giving Family Dollar a foothold would lead to bigger chain retailers moving in. Trujillo lives in a fourth-generation house in El Prado thats more than 200 years old, and he doesnt want the character of his neighborhood to shift toward box stores. There is already a Walmart on Paseo del Pueblo Sur, so maybe the dollar stores will pop up there.Glamorous Camping the Do-It-Yourself Way
from Southern Rockies Nature Blog
on Friday May 17th, 2013 at 03:54 AM
My keypal Cara Schulz has a Kickstarter fundraiser going on for a book on "glamping," titled Martinis and Marshmallows. With it there is a blog on low-cost approaches to luxury camping, such as her refurbished 1970s icebox (to be distinguished from a mere "cooler"). The Kickstarter deadline is near. Yes, I have contributed.
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