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Title: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 13, 2020, 08:28:51 AM
Alligator grows at alarming rate; officials think they know why

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>>>The hunters caught the 12-foot, 1-inch alligator in Forest Home Chute off the Mississippi River south of Eagle Lake last week and turned in the tag, as reported this week by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.

When first tagged, the alligator measured 6.4 feet, meaning it grew an average of 8.6 inches each year over nine years.

"It is rare to document alligators of this size class with annual growth rates of this magnitude," the MWDFP stated on Facebook

https://ftw.usatoday.com/2020/09/alligator-grows-at-alarming-rate-officials-think-they-know-why


So what is the explanation given by experts? Asian carp.

"Since the time 2003-2005, this area of the Mississippi Delta has seen a tremendous increase in the Asian carp population," the MWDFP stated. "The MWDFP Wildlife Bureau has documented alligators feeding on the Asian carp on many occasions.


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Post by: Phil on September 13, 2020, 18:38:24 PM
Interesting. Thanks for posting, Bossman.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 15, 2020, 08:26:27 AM
Happy 85th Birthday, Blue Ridge Parkway!


>>>September 11 marks the 85th birthday of the Blue Ridge Parkway! On that day in 1935, construction began at Cumberland Knob, on the border between Virginia and North Carolina, which became the first recreation area in the new national park unit. The monumental task of building the Parkway started as a New Deal-era project under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Travelers were finally able to drive the entire route in 1987 with the opening of the final section, the Linn Cove Viaduct. That's right, for 52 years of its history, the Parkway was under construction!

We are grateful for those who worked to complete all 469 miles of the scenic route and those members of the National Park Service who protect it today.

We'd like to thank you for playing an important role in the story of this amazing national park unit. For more than 20 years, donors have made so much possible—renovations of historic landmarks, wildlife studies, overlook clearing, trail repairs, and so much more. Your commitment to the Parkway makes it a better place today, tomorrow, and for the decades to come!


https://www.brpfoundation.org/blog/happy-85th-birthday-blue-ridge-parkway?fbclid=IwAR3I5ZkBmLicIldvyK-bQ6WTUfH7rgBGQZV3iVhaLtJCcwlLzHrE4f3gEKM
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dougfish on September 15, 2020, 13:49:45 PM
23.5 miles have been closed near Roanoke since April 2. Slope failures due to heavy rain.
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Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on September 16, 2020, 07:23:57 AM
Breaking 175-year tradition.

>>>In an urgent and impassioned editorial first published online Tuesday, the editorial board endorsed former vice president Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee, calling him the candidate "who is offering fact-based plans to protect our health, our economy and the environment."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/scientific-american-backs-biden-for-its-first-presidential-endorsement-in-175-years/ar-BB194NvS?ocid=msedgntp
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Post by: troutrus on September 16, 2020, 08:48:42 AM
Quote from: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on September 16, 2020, 07:23:57 AMBreaking 175-year tradition.

>>>In an urgent and impassioned editorial first published online Tuesday, the editorial board endorsed former vice president Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee, calling him the candidate "who is offering fact-based plans to protect our health, our economy and the environment."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/scientific-american-backs-biden-for-its-first-presidential-endorsement-in-175-years/ar-BB194NvS?ocid=msedgntp

Not much risk of  losing many subscribers, as it's doubtful many in the trump base read a science publication.
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Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on September 16, 2020, 08:58:37 AM
Here's the editorial.  Interesting.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientific-american-endorses-joe-biden/

>>>The evidence and the science show that Donald Trump has badly damaged the U.S. and its people—because he rejects evidence and science. The most devastating example is his dishonest and inept response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which cost more than 190,000 Americans their lives by the middle of September. He has also attacked environmental protections, medical care, and the researchers and public science agencies that help this country prepare for its greatest challenges. That is why we urge you to vote for Joe Biden, who is offering fact-based plans to protect our health, our economy and the environment. These and other proposals he has put forth can set the country back on course for a safer, more prosperous and more equitable future.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 21, 2020, 09:56:05 AM
2 Men Working to Map World War II Bombs Are Killed by One

>>>Unexploded world war-era munitions are still a problem in many parts of Europe — dozens of devices, including grenades, are removed each year from backyards, fields and construction sites in Britain, France and Germany. But while the discoveries, which happen with surprising regularity, often prompt evacuations, damage is uncommon.

But in the Solomon Islands, a country where more than 75 percent of the population works as agricultural laborers, the buried munitions can make farming a fatal occupation. "They are scared of their land," Mr. Rodsted said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/2-men-working-to-map-world-war-ii-bombs-are-killed-by-one/ar-BB19glz1?ocid=msedgntp


Crazy world... I read Aftermath: The Remnants of War: From Landmines to Chemical Warfare--The Devastating Effects of Modern Combat a few years back and it's fascinating and disturbing that there is so much UXO all over the world...

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Post by: Yallerhammer on September 23, 2020, 17:05:25 PM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on September 21, 2020, 09:56:05 AM2 Men Working to Map World War II Bombs Are Killed by One

>>>Unexploded world war-era munitions are still a problem in many parts of Europe — dozens of devices, including grenades, are removed each year from backyards, fields and construction sites in Britain, France and Germany. But while the discoveries, which happen with surprising regularity, often prompt evacuations, damage is uncommon.

But in the Solomon Islands, a country where more than 75 percent of the population works as agricultural laborers, the buried munitions can make farming a fatal occupation. "They are scared of their land," Mr. Rodsted said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/2-men-working-to-map-world-war-ii-bombs-are-killed-by-one/ar-BB19glz1?ocid=msedgntp


Crazy world... I read Aftermath: The Remnants of War: From Landmines to Chemical Warfare--The Devastating Effects of Modern Combat a few years back and it's fascinating and disturbing that there is so much UXO all over the world...



That is screwed up. Our tendency to kill each other never ceases to amaze me.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 24, 2020, 10:50:13 AM
Why are there unexploded bombs in the Pacific islands?

The death of two bomb-disposal experts in the Solomon Islands has put the spotlight on a decades-old problem in the Pacific. Why are the islands dotted with bombs? And why is the danger increasing?

>>>When Australians think about our Pacific Island neighbours, we picture pristine beaches, verdant jungles and delicious fresh seafood.

At least, that's the cliche.

But in a year in which a global pandemic has killed nearly a million people, the deaths of two people – Newcastle man Trent Lee, 40, and British national Luke Atkinson, 57 –in a bomb blast captured headlines and left many shocked. Lee and Atkinson were working for Norwegian People's Aid, an organisation that operates in 19 countries to remove undetonated wartime explosives.

How on Earth was a piece of unexploded ordnance (known as UXO) from World War II discovered in suburban Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands – 75 years after the war ended? Was this unusual? And what is being done about this lethal legacy?

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An explosive ordnance disposal technician clears one of the 600 caves that contain grenades and other explosives on the island of Peleliu in the Republic of Palau.CREDIT:JOHN RODSTED

https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/why-are-there-unexploded-bombs-in-the-pacific-islands-20200922-p55xzl.html
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 25, 2020, 09:01:34 AM
Arrest made after park ranger assaulted at Hanging Rock State Park

https://myfox8.com/news/arrest-made-after-park-ranger-assaulted-at-hanging-rock-state-park/?anvplayer-autoplay=0
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 25, 2020, 11:33:25 AM
https://youtu.be/IWtme-aGgf0

this org came up in my interwebnews


https://halousa.quorum.us/

sent a letter to the politicians in D.C.

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 25, 2020, 11:51:45 AM
https://youtu.be/jw_oFPBiHIs
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 29, 2020, 09:07:13 AM
https://wr.al/1J1gr

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 <-;:  :cheers  :wave

Driver having a party?
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 29, 2020, 09:32:38 AM
https://www.porkbusiness.com/article/feral-swine-aerial-eradication-begins-havasu-refuge

>>> Portions of the 37,515-acre Havasu National Wildlife Refuge (HNWR) located on the lower Colorado River in Arizona and California will be temporarily closed to allow for the aerial eradication of feral swine. This marks the seventh aerial operation to eradicate feral swine from the refuge.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: driver on September 29, 2020, 20:44:54 PM
been spending to much time on porkbusiness.com again? I guess its better that PorkHub.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 01, 2020, 14:41:00 PM

TOM EARNHARDT: Following the quiet voices and science

>>>This week I repeated a ritual that has been part of my life for almost six decades. With friends, I stood on the rim of Linville Gorge in Burke County and looked down 1,500 feet to the Linville River below and back at least 300 million years in geological and biological time. Around us there were sheer cliffs covered with lichen, moss and mountain laurel. Below us were unseen black bear, ruffed grouse and bobcat hidden by the canopy of one of the last remaining old-growth forests in eastern America. When loggers came to the Appalachians in the 19th and early 20th centuries, they found the Gorge too rugged and too steep to build roads and extract timber.

https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/tom-earnhardt-following-the-quiet-voices-and-science/19307286/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 01, 2020, 14:53:32 PM
4,500-acre Priday Ranch north of Madras sold to Deschutes Land Trust



>>>BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Deschutes Land Trust announced Wednesday the acquisition of Priday Ranch, its newest conservation project, on 4,500 acres north of Madras.

NewsChannel 21 spoke with Brad Nye, the conservation director of the Deschutes Land Trust, who said the property comes with significant cultural value.

https://ktvz.com/news/jefferson-county/2020/09/30/deschutes-land-trust-acquires-4500-acre-priday-ranch-north-of-madras/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 17, 2020, 09:12:28 AM
The invading Americans found that the Japanese had withdrawn already, so there was no fight, but it left Lahr with an indelible memory.

"The boats landed somewhere in Alaska, in one of the coves," he recalls with a laugh. "We were on regular army rations so there was a pretty good size creek coming off the island and there were these salmon in there. We had some of our grenades. We dropped them in there, they come floating up and we skinned them out and had salmon dinner."

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Howard Lahr
Five generations gather for a photo in July of 2015. They are (back row from left), Marvin Lahr, Howard Lahr, Julie Toral, (front) Erika Abrams, and, smallest of all, Alayla Abrams.

Submitted photo

Problem is, such living off the land was against regulations.

"Most of the guys had salmon for dinner and one of the officers found out we were having salmon," he said, shaking his head. "I just about got (demoted)."

Lahr never saw direct combat, but his regiment took part in some of the most challenging campaigns of World War II, including the icy effort to evict the Japanese from the Aleutian Islands, the only part of North America occupied by Japan. The unit went on to take part in the textbook-defining amphibious invasion of Kwajalien Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the Battle of Leyte, and finally the fighting on the Japanese island of Okinawa.


https://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/on-the-cusp-of-100-a-napa-world-war-ii-vet-recalls-his-service/article_ac8b8cfa-1a80-5085-b562-182beb62e40e.html


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 18, 2020, 09:04:08 AM
Scientists will take the next 2 years to study life in Henry County more than 10,000 years ago

>>>The Virginia Museum of Natural History soon will embark on a 2-year archaeological endeavor to reveal the details of the beginning of civilization, covering more than 10,000 years, in Martinsville and Henry County.

The area is rich in history already, thanks largely to archaeological excavations conducted more than 50 years ago under the direction of Richard P. Gravely Jr. of Martinsville, whose work was donated to the Research Laboratories of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Modern methods and new technology allows today's archaeologists to expose new details in ways that never have been possible.

https://martinsvillebulletin.com/news/local/scientists-will-take-the-next-2-years-to-study-life-in-henry-county-more-than/article_1ccabf0c-2851-11eb-baae-433d1c3bedae.html


Bassett said their incentive for moving was to hunt for big game when the mastodon, giant ground sloths, 400-pound beavers*, wolves and mountain lions roamed the hills and valleys of Henry County.


*that's a whole lotta beaver!
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 26, 2020, 10:13:57 AM
Coast Guard saves 3 stranded on island of NC coast after boat drifts off
https://myfox8.com/news/coast-guard-saves-3-stranded-on-island-of-nc-coast-after-boat-drifts-off

>>Three people were stranded on a near-deserted island off the coast of North Carolina on Tuesday when their boat drifted off, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

All three were hunting on Raccoon Island at the time, the Coast Guard said in a news release Wednesday.

Raccoon Island is in a secluded area of the Pamlico Sound near the Outer Banks. The National Audubon Society describes it as a "high marsh island" that is "remote and not easily accessible."

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article247431720.html

SeaTow to the rescues: boat recovered...
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Post by: Phil on November 26, 2020, 10:39:36 AM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on November 26, 2020, 10:13:57 AMCoast Guard saves 3 stranded on island of NC coast after boat drifts off
https://myfox8.com/news/coast-guard-saves-3-stranded-on-island-of-nc-coast-after-boat-drifts-off

>>Three people were stranded on a near-deserted island off the coast of North Carolina on Tuesday when their boat drifted off, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

All three were hunting on Raccoon Island at the time, the Coast Guard said in a news release Wednesday.

Raccoon Island is in a secluded area of the Pamlico Sound near the Outer Banks. The National Audubon Society describes it as a "high marsh island" that is "remote and not easily accessible."

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article247431720.html

SeaTow to the rescues: boat recovered...

OOOPS!! The dang boat's gone!
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 26, 2020, 10:49:48 AM
I knew about the 1940s flood at Mortimer. But until yesterday wasn't aware of the Great NC Flood of 1916 which ravaged mountains of NC when two back to back hurricanes hit the region.

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Debris collected near the Asheville concrete bridge at the height of the Great Flood of 1916. Credit: NOAA Photo Library

>>>The flood destroyed hundreds of homes in the area and engulfed industrial plants, warehouses, and businesses along the French Broad. It damaged or washed away railroad tracks and demolished all three bridges across the river in Asheville. Riverside Park, a popular amusement park and gathering place on the French Broad, also perished under the floodwaters.

Upstream from Asheville, the waters breached or destroyed all the dams that supplied hydropower to the city. At the entrance to the Biltmore Estate, water reportedly reached 9 feet deep during the flood. Overall, the damage totaled an estimated $21 million—the equivalent of $500 million in today's dollars.

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/news/investigating-the-great-flood-of-1916#:~:text=This%20year%20marks%20the%20centennial%20of%20the%20worst,banks%20after%20heavy%20rain%20fell%20over%20the%20area.

This is the flood that took out the Famon Caudill cabin on Basin Creek and killed his pregnant wife, Alice (1901-1916) of 6 months while he was away working for the railroad in Green Cove VA.

Read more at Our State Magazine (https://www.ourstate.com/flood-of-1916/)
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Post by: Onslow on November 26, 2020, 11:51:50 AM
We all should be keep the flood risk thoughts in our minds. The Yadkin @ Elkin floods buildings at 30,000 cfs.  In 1940, the river reached 160,000 cfs in Wilkesboro where the watershed is about 500 sq. miles.  It is over 800 in Elkin.

I cannot imagine the destruction would be caused if this river rose to 150-200K cfs in Elkin. It reached 28k about a month ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2NK-XYAuvY

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Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on November 27, 2020, 12:18:45 PM
I always questioned why shaking hands with the wife's relatives felt weird.  Now I know.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/neanderthals-may-have-used-their-hands-differently-from-humans/ar-BB1bpol3?ocid=msedgntp
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 28, 2020, 01:00:15 AM
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BERLIN — The Danish Mayfly was selected Friday by an international group of entomologists and others as the Insect of the Year for 2021, but it won't have long to celebrate its 15 minutes of fame.
https://wr.al/1JPsm
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 03, 2020, 10:32:07 AM
Tongass National Forest is 'America's Last Climate Sanctuary'
Opening up the Tongass National Forest to additional logging and development could have serious implications for both the environment and the Alaska Native communities that depend on it.Guests are not allowed to view images in posts, please Register or Login


>>>When you walk into the temperate rainforest of the Tongass, a peaceful stillness greets you. The dense canopy of this misty Alaskan wilderness is made up of towering western hemlock, red and yellow cedar, and Sitka spruce trees, some of which are between 300 and 1,000 years old. Lichens adorn the trees with a mosaic of colors and textures, moss and ferns carpet the forest floor in lush green hues, and crystal-clear streams carve their way toward the Pacific Ocean.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/tongass-national-forest-americas-last-climate-sanctuary/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 04, 2020, 10:06:03 AM
Olympic Peninsula fishing guide groups alarmed by steelhead proposals

>>>FISHING GUIDES UP and down the Olympic Peninsula have come together to alternately express concern over what they see as overreaching restrictions on in-progress steelheading seasons on coastal rivers offered by the state Department of Fish and Wildlife and provide liveable options for this season.

Opposed to potential changes that could outlaw fishing from a floating device or even potentially close down winter steelhead fishing in the near future, members of the Northwest Olympic Peninsula Sportfishing Coalition, the Olympic Peninsula Guides Association, the Grays Harbor Sport Fishing Coalition and the Grays Harbor Guide Association have reached out to Fish and Wildlife and state lawmakers, hoping to have their voices heard.

>>>Kratzer estimated he would lose 85 percent of his guiding business if a floating device prohibition was implemented.

"A lot of my clientele has been fishing with me for decades and are in their 60s and 70s," Kratzer said. "They aren't disabled, but they are up in years, and they don't have the stability to wade rivers or fight currents." 


https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/sports/outdoors-peninsula-fishing-guide-groups-alarmed-by-steelhead-proposals/
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 04, 2020, 12:40:41 PM
up your game!

16 Of The Very Greatest, Sweariest Scottish Insults Of All Time
Even Shakespeare couldn't have come up with "lavvy-heided wankstain

1)

"Awa' you and chew mah banger."

"Piss off and eat my dick."


https://youtu.be/NEDduUAKWSc

2)

"Shut yer puss fannybaws."

Be quiet, viginabollocks."

3)

"Bolt, ya mangled fud."

Go away, you misshapen vigina.

4)

"Ye've go a face lit a melted welly."

You look fucking miserable.

5)

"Yer bum's oot the windae, ye fuckin' bampot"

You're talking rubbish, you unhinged tit.

read the rest at...


https://www.buzzfeed.com/hilarywardle/chew-mah-banger

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on December 04, 2020, 21:04:36 PM
Google must've sold old GPS data to Facebook.  Getting FB friend recommendations from 2012-2014 customers. I'm not a person of consequence therefore there is no reason for these people to even remember me. This is just damned weird.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 11, 2020, 09:07:08 AM
Illegal Wild Steelhead catch costs Campbell River angler $1,501

Campbell River court charged fisher under B.C. Sport Fishing Regulations

>>>B.C.'s Conservation Officer Service fined a Campbell River angler for killing a Wild Steelhead on the Quinsam River in 2019.

The species is protected from being harvested by closures throughout the province. The incident was reported to the service and to Fisheries and Oceans Canada, who started an investigation into the matter. The investigation led to charges under the B.C. Sport Fishing Regulations.

The angler was fined $1,501 in November, 2020 in Campbell River court for catching and retaining more than the daily quota. The majority ($1,500) of that fine will go to the Oyster River Enhancement society.


https://www.campbellrivermirror.com/news/illegal-wild-steelhead-catch-costs-campbell-river-angler-1501/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: troutrus on December 17, 2020, 18:06:51 PM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on December 03, 2020, 10:32:07 AMTongass National Forest is 'America's Last Climate Sanctuary'
Opening up the Tongass National Forest to additional logging and development could have serious implications for both the environment and the Alaska Native communities that depend on it.Guests are not allowed to view images in posts, please Register or Login


>>>When you walk into the temperate rainforest of the Tongass, a peaceful stillness greets you. The dense canopy of this misty Alaskan wilderness is made up of towering western hemlock, red and yellow cedar, and Sitka spruce trees, some of which are between 300 and 1,000 years old. Lichens adorn the trees with a mosaic of colors and textures, moss and ferns carpet the forest floor in lush green hues, and crystal-clear streams carve their way toward the Pacific Ocean.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/tongass-national-forest-americas-last-climate-sanctuary/

Spent some time in that forest on Prince of Whales Island. Though it was sad to see some of the areas being clear cut, the logging roads opened up many areas to fishing that would otherwise have been inaccessible.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on December 20, 2020, 19:36:09 PM
https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=329

Quotefew drenched days from the tropics' parting shot to the Southeast amounted to a wet month in North Carolina that also featured sustained warmth. That vaulted us closer to potential new annual temperature and precipitation records.

Eta's Moisture Drives Wet Weather
Capping off the hurricane season, tropical moisture from one storm almost single-handedly made it one of the wettest Novembers on record in North Carolina. According to the National Centers for Environmental Information, the preliminary statewide average precipitation of 5.93 inches ranks as our 10th-wettest November since 1895.

Among our rain events during the month, none was as heavy or as impactful as the system on November 10-12 that saw moisture from Tropical Storm Eta pulled northward ahead of a cold front. During that three-day event, totals exceeded 8 inches across the western Piedmont and northern Coastal Plain.

More rain fell on Thanksgiving from another cold front crossing the state. Totals were much lower in this event, with a maximum of about an inch-and-a-half in the southern Mountains.



The month then ended with a final frontal passage on November 30 that brought more than two inches of rain along the coast and an inch or more elsewhere.

Our Taylorsville ECONet station measured 11.31 inches of precipitation during the month, and Rocky Mount also topped the 10-inch mark with 11.69 inches total. Among that amount, 9.86 inches -- or 84% of the monthly rainfall -- fell during the Eta event.

The only part of the state that missed out on the heaviest rain last month was the far western Mountains. Murphy finished the month 2.2 inches below its normal precipitation, while Marshall received only 1.77 inches, about an inch below normal.

However, those sites still ended the climatological fall more than an inch above their normal seasonal precipitation, and parts of the western Piedmont including Hickory and Marion were more than 10 inches above normal from September through November.

Temperatures Set to Simmer
While heavy rain may have been the most noticeable part of our November weather, it was also an especially warm month across the state. NCEI's preliminary data shows the statewide average temperature of 55.2°F ranks as our 3rd-warmest November out of the past 126 years.

The warmth blanketed the entire state, from a tie for the 4th-warmest November since 1907 in Banner Elk to the 5th-warmest in both Charlotte and Raleigh to the 2nd-warmest in Elizabeth City, which recorded the highest temperature in the state last month with an 85°F high on November 11.

One main source of those September-like temperatures was high pressure over the Southeast coastline that ensured a continuing feed of warm air from the south and southwest, even after the firehose from Eta had shut off.



Wilmington recorded 20 days with high temperatures at or above 70°F -- the most there since 2001, and tied for the fourth-most in any November dating back to 1874. Laurinburg hit 70°F or higher on 21 days, which was tied for the second-most November days that warm in the past 74 years.

During the Eta-assisted rain event in the middle of the month, elevated dew points and a saturated air mass even kept the nighttime lows across the southern Piedmont and Coastal Plain in the upper 60s or low 70s -- not far from the average daytime highs for that time of the year!

While cool nights were generally hard to come by, sub-freezing temperatures on the morning of November 19 finally ended the growing season across most of eastern North Carolina except for the extreme southern coastline and the Outer Banks.

A Race for the Records?
In 2018, we wrung out North Carolina's wettest year on record. Last year, we sweated through the state's warmest year on record. Now, amid the craziness of 2020, we have a shot at breaking both records in the same year!

Through the end of November, our year-to-date statewide average precipitation total of 61.69 inches ranks as the wettest on record, a scant 0.40 inches ahead of the pace set by 2018.

The statewide average temperature through the first 11 months of the year is 62.65°F, which is the 3rd-warmest dating back to 1895, and narrowly behind 2017 (62.69°F) and 2019 (62.66°F).

So how extreme does December need to be to break both records? The answer is fairly warm and very wet. The year in 2018 ended with our 3rd-wettest December on record totaling 7.06 inches, so we need a statewide average of at least 6.67 inches this month to break the record. Only six Decembers historically -- 2018, 2015, 2009, 1983, 1973, and 1905 -- have been that wet.

With the sort of La Niña event currently in place that has historically produced drier winter weather in North Carolina, accumulating enough precipitation in the final weeks of the year to stay atop the precipitation rankings could be a tough task.


Monthly mean temperature and precipitation departures from the 1981-2010 average. Based on data from the National Centers for Environmental Information.

Our monthly temperatures need to be slightly warmer than last December, which was the state's 17th-warmest at 5.0°F above the long-term average, in order to break that record. While La Niña winters are often warmer than normal in North Carolina, the current forecast shows temperatures at or below normal over the next week, including highs in the 40s, so we may need to channel some decidedly un-December-like warmth by the holidays in order to contend for the warmest temperature title.

While two new records this year may be tough to achieve, the notion that this year is even in the same ballpark as the current record-holders is a testament to how consistently warm and wet it has been so far in 2020.

Recall that 2018 included up to three feet of rain in parts of southeastern North Carolina from Hurricane Florence, and in 2019, hundred-degree heat lasted all the way into October en route to a record-setting annual average temperature.

That's some elite company when you consider the substantial impacts in those years from flooding and heat stress, and in 2020, it has been tough to distance ourselves from them among our state's climate history.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 31, 2020, 17:01:19 PM
Funny rant from the interwebs


https://www.instagram.com/p/CJelzJlhy9v/?igshid=1lg3a02dbseq
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on December 31, 2020, 17:50:24 PM
So someone wants unabated harvest?
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 07, 2021, 09:14:02 AM
820 acres supporting old-growth forest protected in Giles, Bland counties

>>>More than 800 acres, mostly in Giles County, have been purchased by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, protecting many forest species, including chestnut oaks that are over 300 years old, and expanding an existing natural area preserve within an important ecological forest core.

The land will be managed to protect old-growth trees and to promote nature-based carbon sequestration through proforestation — a practice of growing existing forests to their ecological potential — with the possibility of reintroducing the once dominant American chestnut (Castanea dentata) and another decimated species, the butternut tree (Juglans cinerea).

The acquisition expands the 233-acre Chestnut Ridge Natural Area Preserve by 587 acres and brings the privately owned preserve under DCR ownership.

Most of the acreage is in far western Giles County with a small section located in neighboring Bland County


https://augustafreepress.com/820-acres-supporting-old-growth-forest-protected-in-giles-bland-counties/


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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on January 08, 2021, 16:12:48 PM
The BRP has requested that the BRP sections of Big Pine Creek and in Allegheny County no longer be stocked by the NCWRC.  Apparently the NPS prohibits the stocking of fish on their property.

Perhaps we could add our comments to the public hearing page, and lobby for a catch & release designation.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 11, 2021, 09:51:46 AM
Flagstaff History: Doney made key discoveries near cave dwellings area

>>>125 years ago
1896: B. F. Doney this week discovered a new lot of cave and cliff dwellings.]

>>>Some months ago he went into the Canyon north of Flagstaff with several burros on a prospecting trip. After about 100 miles of prospecting and finding nothing of note, he ran short of provisions and concluded he would strike out for civilization. Being unable to climb out of the Canyon at that point, he built a raft and started on down river until he reached the dangerous rapids too perilous for his raft. He then managed to climb out and reached Aubury Valley and the railroad, foot sore and half starved.

https://azdailysun.com/news/local/history/flagstaff-history-doney-made-key-discoveries-near-cave-dwellings-area/article_bcdadf88-891c-58ee-9aab-63adad8bdfac.html
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 12, 2021, 09:49:42 AM
SC stocks remote Upstate river with trout via helicopter

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>>>WALHALLA — Every year, the S.C. Department of Natural Resources stocks a remote Upstate river with trout: rainbow, brown and eastern brook.

But the Chattooga River, which comprises more than 20 miles of the northernmost border between South Carolina and Georgia, isn't an easy place to reach. It was declared a "wild and scenic" river by the U.S. Forest Service decades ago and after that happened, several accesses to the waterway via old logging roads were closed.

That's where helicopters come in.

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https://www.postandcourier.com/news/sc-stocks-remote-upstate-river-with-trout-via-helicopter/article_b856dc22-396c-11eb-8b47-2f1a877600ae.html
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: rbphoto on January 13, 2021, 07:09:48 AM
They've been doing helicopter stocking for several years.

I've fished as much of that river as is accessible by foot and some that probably won't be accessible unless we experience another significant drought. 

The fishing can be stellar or it can be miserable, but the river is a beautiful place to which to retreat and seek solitude.

Raymond
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 13, 2021, 10:03:04 AM
Nonnative fish are taking over Maine's lakes and rivers

>>>Nonnative muskies, a species more invasive than bass, can now be found throughout the St. John River system, as well as the Allagash River below Allagash Falls. By most accounts, the wild native brook trout in the St. John River and headwater lakes have all but disappeared. Once the muskies get above Allagash Falls, and they unfortunately likely will, the fabled Allagash River and some of the last large lake brook trout populations in the country will be compromised, or worse, lost.

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>>>The wild native landlocked salmon in West Grand Lake and Grand Lake Stream, one of just four native populations, have been displaced by nonnative smallmouth bass. Most of the salmon now caught are stocked, due to the wild fish being unable to compete with the introduced bass. Sebago Lake, the namesake water of landlocked salmon, Salmo solar sebago, Maine's official State Fish, now has nonnative lake trout, pike, black crappie and largemouth and smallmouth bass.

https://bangordailynews.com/2021/01/12/outdoors/nonnative-fish-are-taking-over-maines-lakes-and-rivers/

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: jwgnc on January 13, 2021, 23:02:35 PM
Native vs Wild
https://mountainjournal.org/the-debate-over-wild-versus-native-trout?fbclid=IwAR2q87tlzRXuQ2uGuAsiDTZbmfhrCjpSp3snJA7hCTry1m7HW0S397Up8T8 (https://mountainjournal.org/the-debate-over-wild-versus-native-trout?fbclid=IwAR2q87tlzRXuQ2uGuAsiDTZbmfhrCjpSp3snJA7hCTry1m7HW0S397Up8T8)
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 14, 2021, 06:56:06 AM
Quote from: jwgnc on January 13, 2021, 23:02:35 PMNative vs Wild
https://mountainjournal.org/the-debate-over-wild-versus-native-trout?fbclid=IwAR2q87tlzRXuQ2uGuAsiDTZbmfhrCjpSp3snJA7hCTry1m7HW0S397Up8T8 (https://mountainjournal.org/the-debate-over-wild-versus-native-trout?fbclid=IwAR2q87tlzRXuQ2uGuAsiDTZbmfhrCjpSp3snJA7hCTry1m7HW0S397Up8T8)

"More than a century ago, America's government leaders wanted to encourage men to get back in touch with their primal abilities because they thought industrialization had diminished their masculinity, according to a new book written by a University of Colorado professor.

Their cure was to give them something to capture and kill. And so America's waterways were stocked with a fish that fought the line and gave anglers just enough of a challenge: the rainbow trout"

An Entirely Synthetic Dish




I lament the decline of native fish everywhere


Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: troutrus on January 14, 2021, 08:17:13 AM
For the most part, unless you're young and spry enough to climb like a Billy goat, the best  most of us can hope for in the way of trout is wild fish.
One reason I used to enjoy saltwater was due to the thought of wild, native fish that had been around for thousands of years. Now the masses are unhappy with reduced creel limits and many are calling for increased supplemental stocking of flounder, drum, trout, etc. South Carolina has been stocking drum since the eighties. The vast majority of anglers are pleased with that, so that's the way it will be. 'Cause in the end it's all about $$$$$$$.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 23, 2021, 09:20:44 AM
Nice little video story about the Streamwalker net builder.

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/rochester/human-interest/2021/01/22/honeoye-man-s-homemade-fishing-nets-are-a-hit-with-sportsmen#

>>>Getting away from it all isn't easy these days.

Leif Mermagen just makes it look like it is.

"Here we are in nature. One thing I say, 'trout don't live in ugly places,'" he said.

"I've been a salesman for as long as I can remember. And I'm good at it but it's worn me a little thin."

Leif fell for fly fishing and found a new groove.

"Just come in here. Relax. Do my thing. Make things I dig."

"My father was one of those guys who figured, 'why buy it when you can make it yourself?'"

Leaf builds every one of his "Streamwalker" nets. The kind of handcrafted outdoor gear sportsmen take everywhere.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 23, 2021, 09:26:56 AM
all you need to know about the Salmon Sausage Market

https://reviewindependent.com/uncategorized/35017/salmon-sausage-market-detailed-report-2020-and-expects-to-see-growth-in-future-till-2026-alaska-sausage-company-salmons-meat-products/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 29, 2021, 09:11:39 AM
Floating in John W. Powell's Wake
A prominent Utah historian sets out to untangle the legend of John W. Powell's explorations

In the 1800s, humans were busy scurrying across the globe prying into the blank spots on the map, why? Because, of course, they were there. From the frozen poles of the Earth to its darkest jungles, we had a guy on it. Here in the United States, the transcontinental railroad had opened up the nation. But, despite nearly a century of poking around by native peoples, Spanish padres, men military, mountain and Mormon, there remained one big question mark over the terrain through which flowed the Green and the Colorado Rivers.

On then-existing maps of the area between Green River Wyoming and St. Thomas, Nevada, there might as well have been a label, in all-caps, bolded, italicized, underlined and with exclamation points: "DO NOT GO!!!!!" No one, at least no one who lived to tell the tale, had ever navigated these rivers. Why? Because it was a really dangerously dumb idea. Still, it was there. So. We put a guy on it. A one-armed Civil War veteran by the name of Major John W. Powell who said (not really) whatever was the 19th Century equivalent of "Hey, man hold my beer, while I try this" and set off to see just exactly what was there. The answer? Hell.




https://www.saltlakemagazine.com/floating-in-john-w-powells-wake/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 29, 2021, 09:36:13 AM
The Ocean's Mysterious Vitamin Deficiency

A puzzling lack of thiamine is disrupting some marine ecosystems.

>>>Disoriented little fish caught the attention of staff members at the Coleman National Fish Hatchery in Red Bluff, California, in early January 2020. Looking down into the outdoor tanks, called raceways, the facility's employees noticed that among the dark, olive-colored clouds of live fish, there were occasional slivers of silver from the undersides of tiny fry that were struggling to swim. The fish would roll onto their sides, sink to the bottom for a moment, spring back upright, swim a few strokes, and then roll over again.

Many were dying, too. While a few hundred mortalities daily in a facility containing millions of fish is normal, something was definitely amiss.

"[Mortality] was in the thousands, and it didn't go down," says Brett Galyean, project leader at the hatchery.

Galyean and his team had already hatched and released into the raceways between six and seven million fish—about half of Coleman's annual production—and the prospect of losing many or most of them began to seem very real.


>>>California researchers now investigating the source of the salmon's nutritional problems find themselves contributing to an international effort to understand thiamine deficiency, a disorder that seems to be on the rise in marine ecosystems across much of the planet. It's causing illness and death in birds, fish, invertebrates, and possibly mammals, leading scientists from Seattle to Scandinavia to suspect some unexplained process is compromising the foundation of the Earth's food web by depleting ecosystems of this critical nutrient.


https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-oceans-mysterious-vitamin-deficiency/

further reading;

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/researchers-probe-deaths-central-valley-chinook-possible-ties-ocean-changes


Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Phil on January 29, 2021, 14:28:39 PM
More depressing news. Thanks Woolly.  :'(
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 02, 2021, 09:05:53 AM
I sure @Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 will find this exciting...

LIZARD LOVER World's tiniest reptile 'with HUGE genitals' found – and it's small enough to fit on your fingertip

>>>THE world's smallest reptile is so tiny it could fit on your fingertip but has genitals so big they're about 20% of its overall size.

The Brookesia nana species of chameleon has been described in a recent study by scientists who were shocked by just how minuscule it is.

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https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/13910614/smallest-reptile-in-the-world/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 03, 2021, 09:09:53 AM
We're number three!!  :Dance



Great Smoky Mountains ranked third-most dangerous national park


>>>GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WATE) — The Great Smoky Mountains National Park was listed the third-most dangerous national park, according to Outforia.

Outforia, a guide for outdoor travels, ranked the most dangerous national parks by the number of deaths between 2010 and 2020, based on data requested from the National Park Service.

According to the data, GSMNP had at least 92 deaths in that 10-year span.

The GSMNP came after the Grand Canyon (No.1) and Yosemite (No.2).
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 04, 2021, 09:03:59 AM
Is fly fishing going to "implode" as a result of the pandemic?

>>>By Kirk Deeter, Editor, Angling Trade Media

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity..." Charles Dickens, from A Tale of Two Cities.

 We all saw what happened.  Last March, we all wondered how the heck we might survive (literally, and in a business sense) the pandemic. Sadly, some did not. Brick-and-mortar-based shopping got hammered. Travel took it on the chin even worse. But (as AT predicted), in the absence of T-ball leagues, and malls, and movie theaters, and all that, people had fewer other recreational options to tap.  And that sent a lot of folks straight to the river (or lake, or ocean), all over the nation.  Some to fish, some to float, some to boat, some to swim and others to merely be there. How many? The Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation just estimated somewhere around 17 million people.

The " A River Runs Through It" phenomenon that transformed fly-fishing in 1992 is now small potatoes in comparison to what happened in 2020.

https://www.anglingtrade.com/2021/02/03/is-fly-fishing-going-to-implode-as-a-result-of-the-pandemic/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 04, 2021, 09:13:26 AM
Online smelt talk is Feb. 10


>>>An online lecture, "Searching for Smelt: Citizen Science & Maine's Sea Run Fishes," will feature Claire Enterline and Danielle Frechette, research biologists with Maine's Department of Marine Resources. It will take place online at 7 p.m. Feb. 10.

The talk is part of Friends of Merrymeeting Bay's Winter Speaker Series and will be conducted over Zoom, via a link at www.fomb.org.

The Nature Conservancy, Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Downeast Salmon Federation and Maine Department of Marine Resources are collaborating on a project to train and motivate volunteers to help determine where rainbow smelt are spawning each year.

Enterline provides technical leadership regarding sampling methodology, data analysis and development of scientific papers, and also works with coastal managers at the local, state, regional, and federal level to translate scientific analysis into best management practices and management plans.

From 2007-2015, Enterline's research focused on the abundance, population dynamics, habitat, and behavior of rainbow smelt. As part of this work, she was the lead author on the Regional Conservation Plan for Rainbow Smelt, and carried out the first smelt population assessments in Maine since the 1970s.


https://www.pressherald.com/2021/02/03/online-smelt-talk-is-feb-10/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on February 04, 2021, 10:42:00 AM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on February 04, 2021, 09:03:59 AMIs fly fishing going to "implode" as a result of the pandemic?

https://www.anglingtrade.com/2021/02/03/is-fly-fishing-going-to-implode-as-a-result-of-the-pandemic/

Interesting.  A fishing pal that lives in Blacksburg mentioned this "boom" to me just this week during our phone conversation. 

I even see the surge here in the hills.

Funny, after The Movie, I, and those I fished with, were convinced in a few years we'd see dirt cheap fly angling gear at yard sales and flea markets.  Obviously, that did not materialize.   

My biggest concern is all this hubbub will result in more privatization of waters, and much of the sport will hinge on the almighty dollar.  Perhaps it is inevitable. 

Our only hope, perhaps, is developing a drug for males, guaranteeing huge genitals like the Brookesia nana species of chameleon.  Sporting a unit 20% of a males body size might take care of the masculine desire to learn fly fishing.  All kinds of distracting aspects could emerge (new but unattainable wader design, displayed bravado, explosion in the porn industry, etc.).  I have no idea if this might curtail the developing female interest in the sport of angling, since the wife has been telling me for years that size does not matter.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 04, 2021, 10:50:33 AM
Quote from: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on February 04, 2021, 10:42:00 AM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on February 04, 2021, 09:03:59 AMIs fly fishing going to "implode" as a result of the pandemic?

https://www.anglingtrade.com/2021/02/03/is-fly-fishing-going-to-implode-as-a-result-of-the-pandemic/

Interesting.  A fishing pal that lives in Blacksburg mentioned this "boom" to me just this week during our phone conversation. 

I even see the surge here in the hills.

Funny, after The Movie, I, and those I fished with, were convinced in a few years we'd see dirt cheap fly angling gear at yard sales and flea markets.  Obviously, that did not materialize.   

My biggest concern is all this hubbub will result in more privatization of waters, and much of the sport will hinge on the almighty dollar.  Perhaps it is inevitable. 

Our only hope, perhaps, is developing a drug for males, guaranteeing huge genitals like the Brookesia nana species of chameleon.  Sporting a unit 20% of a males body size might take care of the masculine desire to learn fly fishing.  All kinds of distracting aspects could emerge (new but unattainable wader design, displayed bravado, explosion in the porn industry, etc.).  I have no idea if this might curtail the developing female interest in the sport of angling, since the wife has been telling me for years that size does not matter.

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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 06, 2021, 10:18:58 AM
Weather babe, Kate Garner, gives a chilly forecast..

Winter weather advisories issued for parts of Piedmont; snow possible Saturday night, Sunday morning: A winter weather advisory has been issued for parts of the Piedmont Triad. The advisories are in place from 7 p.m. Saturday through 10 a.m. Sunday. Rain will move into the area Saturday evening, wi...






https://myfox8.com/weather-stories/1-2-inches-of-snow-possible-in-parts-of-the-piedmont-saturday-night-sunday-morning/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 07, 2021, 11:55:32 AM
Highway robbery, $7000 worth of camera equipment and a drone grabbed out of the backseat after smashing the rear window!

https://twitter.com/amegregan5/status/1357950023829360646
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 15, 2021, 13:01:54 PM
rare footage of the woolly bugger, previously know as SK, ski kid, in 1970 waterskiing and swimming back from the ski dock, Kwajalein, Marshall Islands

https://vimeo.com/512606149
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: jwgnc on February 15, 2021, 13:23:55 PM
Recent photo of Woolly Bugger swimming back to the dock
Carp3.jpg
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on February 15, 2021, 17:04:04 PM
My parents and two of my sisters live in the Texas. My eldest lives about 20 miles north of Lampassas. It was 3 degrees this morning, and it has topped out about 16.  I wonder how may cattle will die from dehydration.

Another sis lives in Tyler.  Facebook posts suggest snow over a foot deep.  It appears snowplows exist down there.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on February 15, 2021, 20:22:31 PM
Looks like some of the mountain communities will see catastrophic icing Wed. night into Thursday.  Meadows of Dan forecast looks rather hellish.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dougfish on February 15, 2021, 21:05:40 PM
Generator will be ready, gas cans full. I was surprised we did not lose power Friday nite/Saturday morn. Old neighborhood. Overhead lines + lots of big shitty trees.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: bmadd on February 16, 2021, 12:18:13 PM
Roads were funny this morning
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: jwgnc on February 16, 2021, 13:01:13 PM
Quote from: bmadd on February 16, 2021, 12:18:13 PMRoads were funny this morning
Yikes.  NC or VA?  Looks like my home state of Michigan.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: bmadd on February 16, 2021, 14:26:29 PM
Quote from: jwgnc on February 16, 2021, 13:01:13 PM
Quote from: bmadd on February 16, 2021, 12:18:13 PMRoads were funny this morning
Yikes.  NC or VA?  Looks like my home state of Michigan.
West Tennessee
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Phil on February 16, 2021, 15:16:51 PM
We're supposed to get ice Wed night, Thursday, and again Friday morning. My appt for my 2nd Phizer vaccine is Fri. 9:30 a.m. -- 25 miles down highway 321 in Lenoir. Aaack. Hope this doesn't get screwy.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: jwgnc on February 16, 2021, 15:55:55 PM
Quote from: Phil on February 16, 2021, 15:16:51 PM
Quote from: Phil on February 16, 2021, 15:16:51 PMWe're supposed to get ice Wed night, Thursday, and again Friday morning. My appt for my 2nd Phizer vaccine is Fri. 9:30 a.m. -- 25 miles down highway 321 in Lenoir. Aaack. Hope this doesn't get screwy.

I had a similar situation for my first Moderna in Madison County.  Health Department opened up the schedule and said "get here when you can" - found out about it on their Facebook page.  Caldwell's is at https://www.facebook.com/CaldwellCountyHealthDepartmentNC (https://www.facebook.com/CaldwellCountyHealthDepartmentNC).

Good luck.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on February 16, 2021, 16:21:21 PM
Quote from: Phil on February 16, 2021, 15:16:51 PMWe're supposed to get ice Wed night, Thursday, and again Friday morning. My appt for my 2nd Phizer vaccine is Fri. 9:30 a.m. -- 25 miles down highway 321 in Lenoir. Aaack. Hope this doesn't get screwy.


We've been lucky here on this section of the Allegheny Front.

There must be several still w/o power to the east and south.  My son left Sunday morning around 4am for southside VA.  He's called with news of many lines down, down trees, and long hours – thinks he'll be there several more days replacing poles, lines, and such.

Stay safe folks – spring is near!
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dougfish on February 16, 2021, 17:29:42 PM
Quote from: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on February 16, 2021, 16:21:21 PMThere must be several still w/o power to the east and south.  My son left Sunday morning around 4am for southside VA.  He's called with news of many lines down, down trees, and long hours – thinks he'll be there several more days replacing poles, lines, and such.

Stay safe folks – spring is near!

Neil was out about 48 hrs in Martinsville.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dougfish on February 20, 2021, 13:54:23 PM
SRTU cleanup this am. In less than a mile of road along the river. 4 guys, 3 hours, 24 bags and a few bulky items. Fukkin humans.
I'm the goober on the right. :Dance 

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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 20, 2021, 18:56:12 PM
good on ya @Dougfish, sure is a shame that so much trash is just thrown out the windows. And all those tires in the Smith...

Tires should be sold with a deposit.... $10 per tire instead of having to pay a $5 per tire fee to recycle...


jis say'in
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 20, 2021, 19:00:51 PM
good on ya @Dougfish, sure is a shame that so much trash is just thrown out the windows. And all those tires in the Smith...

Tires should be sold with a deposit.... $10 per tire instead of having to pay a $5 per tire fee to recycle...


jis say'in
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on February 20, 2021, 18:56:12 PMgood on ya @Dougfish, sure is a shame that so much trash is just thrown out the windows. And all those tires in the Smith...

Tires should be sold with a deposit.... $10 per tire instead of having to pay a $5 per tire fee to recycle...


jis say'in

imagine if that was the case,

a) peeps (meth heads included) would scour the river for tires..
b) meth heads would drown
c) tires would be stolen off of vehicles
d) nevermind... 
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on February 20, 2021, 19:31:43 PM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on February 20, 2021, 19:00:51 PMgood on ya @Dougfish, sure is a shame that so much trash is just thrown out the windows. And all those tires in the Smith...

Tires should be sold with a deposit.... $10 per tire instead of having to pay a $5 per tire fee to recycle...


jis say'in
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on February 20, 2021, 18:56:12 PMgood on ya @Dougfish, sure is a shame that so much trash is just thrown out the windows. And all those tires in the Smith...

Tires should be sold with a deposit.... $10 per tire instead of having to pay a $5 per tire fee to recycle...


jis say'in

imagine if that was the case,

a) peeps (meth heads included) would scour the river for tires..
b) meth heads would drown
c) tires would be stolen off of vehicles
d) nevermind... 

Good job Doug and crew!!!

Used to refer to the Smith trout as junkyard browns.  Those old tires in the river do provide some wonderful refugia for the YOY browns, until they fill with the mica-laden sediments of the region.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 21, 2021, 13:36:09 PM
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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 27, 2021, 12:27:21 PM
Grand Canyon Protection Act passes House
The bill would permanently protect the region around the national park from new mining claims.


>>>The bill, introduced by Arizona Congressman Raúl Grijalva, permanently withdraws about 1 million acres of federal land around Grand Canyon National Park from mining claims, while leaving existing claims alone.

Grijalva said the measure would protect one of the nation's most beloved public lands and the Colorado River from possible contamination from uranium mining.

"We would risk a finite resource like the water in the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon itself, for a limited return given what's available in uranium," Grijalva said.

"I don't think there's anything wrong, nothing wrong, politically or against energy development or anything to say that this is a special place and that it needs to be protected in perpetuity. Period."

https://www.azpm.org/p/home-articles-news/2021/2/26/190161-grand-canyon-protection-act-passes-house/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on March 06, 2021, 19:35:12 PM
Noise from industry insiders suggests a sheet of 15/32 OSB may reach $60 per board this year.  Many factors are contributing to this perfect storm.  Some are mentioned below, but wet/snowy weather is hampering harvest in various areas.  I've heard several plants are shutting down for a while. This is nuts considering the new home demand.

Are there enough trees to satisfy demand?  Probably not.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4395884-demand-lockdowns-make-wood-shortages-likely-in-2021
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dougfish on March 06, 2021, 19:54:39 PM
Price's going up on a shitty building material that won't stand the test of time.
My 1950's solid home's value keeps going up.  V:; 
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Big J on March 06, 2021, 20:00:48 PM
So my boat deck is going up in value?
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 09, 2021, 12:03:28 PM
After Years Of Delays, California Tries To Tamp Down Salton Sea Dust


>>>California is spending more than $200 million to keep an unfolding ecological crisis from getting worse. The state wants to stabilize habitat along the southern bank of the Salton Sea, the state's largest lake.

That is good news for nearby residents concerned about their health, but the restoration could also affect everyone who draws water from the Colorado River.

https://tinyurl.com/yara72ws
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dougfish on March 12, 2021, 16:43:24 PM
I met up with Mudwall in my big town for lunch. Every once in a while he rolls down off the mountains. He gifted me an early 90's Scott 2 piece glass rod. F703 7' 3wt. Probably my nicest fiberglass rod. :o
And he bought Jacob, his son Nate and me lunch! He's a pretty good guy some days.  :laugh:
Thanks Steven! I'll fish it well.

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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 18, 2021, 11:55:02 AM

We love our researchers and you can too! UT Graduate Student, Jessica Braunstein, will be sharing details of her work on...

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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 01, 2021, 09:14:02 AM

KINGFIELD, Maine — After several years of planning and fundraising, another beautiful piece of Maine has been permanently preserved.

Shiloh Pond in Kingfield is a relatively small but pristine pond, described by Brent West of the High Peaks Alliance as a good place for fly fishing and hiking. West said when he was younger and working at nearby Sugarloaf Resort, he would often head to Shiloh Pond after work to hike in and do some fishing.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 01, 2021, 09:19:37 AM
Penn State researchers looking for insights through wild trout coloring

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>>>Looking for genetic clues in the coloring of wild brook and brown trout across Pennsylvania, Penn State researchers are asking anglers to share photos of the trout they catch.

They want anglers to submit photographs of their wild trout next to a gray card through the Survey123 app.

Any angler can request a gray card and instructions on how to download the app by completing a Google form.

The Survey 123 app will ask anglers questions about their catches, noted Sara Mueller, doctoral candidate in wildlife and fisheries science, adding that researchers promise that fishing locations will remain confidential and never be published as exact points.

https://www.pennlive.com/life/2021/04/penn-state-researchers-looking-for-insights-through-wild-trout-coloring.html
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 03, 2021, 08:34:23 AM
https://stevenspoint.news/2021/04/02/pbs-series-highlights-stevens-point-visionary/

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'PBS Wisconsin Education Series "Carrie Frost: Fly Fishing Boss" was released on March 24

https://youtu.be/kulKECK0jJk

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 03, 2021, 09:13:08 AM
BRFFF
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 12, 2021, 20:37:12 PM
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/japan-to-dump-treated-radioactive-fukushima-water-into-ocean/ar-BB1fA7xg?ocid=uxbndlbing


Japan will release more than a million cubic meters of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean, the government said Tuesday.

The controlled release won't occur for about another 2 years as Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings Inc. prepares for the process, according to a report from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. The water will be diluted before release, and the government will strengthen efforts to monitor radioactivity, METI said.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 13, 2021, 05:29:43 AM
>>> The three Asian governments, all with coastlines nearby, swiftly criticized Japan's announcement Tuesday that it would conduct controlled releases that are expected to last for several decades. South Korea said the move posed a risk to the marine environment and the safety of neighboring countries, while China said it reserved the right to take further action.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-12/japan-to-dump-treated-radioactive-fukushima-water-into-ocean
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on April 13, 2021, 08:46:42 AM
Quote from: Onslow on April 13, 2021, 07:49:54 AMJust a fraction of the job openings for this company. So where are the all the unemployed people?

I'd say switchboard operators, VCR repairmen, milkmen, pinsetters at your local bowling alley, and elevator operators, to name a few.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on April 18, 2021, 18:12:05 PM
The bronze age rule book isn't irrelevant. The slippery slope does exist.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/marriage-equality-australian-man-pushing-to-decriminalise-consensual-incest-in-60-countries/news-story/42eb6d58be6fabbd2339e06b62a8a5e7
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 22, 2021, 15:11:55 PM
Private land along Wilson Creek donated to Foothills Conservancy for future gifting to the National Forest lands.

wilsonCreek.jpg

https://www.foothillsconservancy.org/news2/wilson-creek-property-donated-to-foothills-conservancy-of-north-carolina


This is the general area... not exact but my guesstimates..

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 22, 2021, 15:13:09 PM
Largest private land donation in state history protects vast mountains in Roan Highlands

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https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2021/04/22/epic-games-ceo-tim-sweeney-donation-conserve-roan-mountain-western-north-carolina/7313726002/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 23, 2021, 09:12:43 AM
National Park Nature Walks: A New Pop-Up Podcast Series

>>>Welcome to National Park Nature Walks, a pop-up podcast. Host Jacob Job, an ecologist and audiophile, brings you inches away from a multitude of creatures, great and small, amid the sonic grandeur of nature. You may not be easily able to access these places amid the pandemic, but after you take this acoustic journey, you will be longing to get back outside.

EPISODE 1: ROCKY MOUNTAINS

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1jV6KH9bTBle1FPmm4VaoF
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: jwgnc on April 23, 2021, 10:37:51 AM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on April 22, 2021, 15:13:09 PMLargest private land donation in state history protects vast mountains in Roan Highlands


https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2021/04/22/epic-games-ceo-tim-sweeney-donation-conserve-roan-mountain-western-north-carolina/7313726002/
The property includes the largest American Chestnut restoration project in the country.


Who knew that the founder of Epic Games (Fortnite and others) was a tree-hugger.   :cheers
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on April 27, 2021, 07:39:37 AM
This sort of statement, overflowing with hubris and inflated significance, makes my ass want to suck a lemon.  Many of us are worthy of and tardy for having our asses handed to us.   

<"We came here and created a blank slate. We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here. I mean, yes, we have Native Americans, but candidly that—there isn't much Native American culture in American culture. It was born of the people who came here, pursuing religious liberty to practice their faith.">

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/native-americans-urge-cnn-to-fire-rick-santorum-over-blank-slate-comments/ar-BB1g5LQv?ocid=msedgntp
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: troutrus on April 27, 2021, 08:21:22 AM
Quote from: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on April 27, 2021, 07:39:37 AMThis sort of statement, overflowing with hubris and inflated significance, makes my ass want to suck a lemon.  Many of us are worthy of and tardy for having our asses handed to us.   

<"We came here and created a blank slate. We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here. I mean, yes, we have Native Americans, but candidly that—there isn't much Native American culture in American culture. It was born of the people who came here, pursuing religious liberty to practice their faith.">

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/native-americans-urge-cnn-to-fire-rick-santorum-over-blank-slate-comments/ar-BB1g5LQv?ocid=msedgntp


Santorum's dad came over with a load of olive oil and hard cheese circa 1930. So what's all this "we" shit about a blank slate?
Santorum and his ilk = deplorable pieces of racist dog shit.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on April 27, 2021, 08:42:23 AM
Quote from: troutrus on April 27, 2021, 08:21:22 AM
Quote from: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on April 27, 2021, 07:39:37 AMThis sort of statement, overflowing with hubris and inflated significance, makes my ass want to suck a lemon.  Many of us are worthy of and tardy for having our asses handed to us.   

<"We came here and created a blank slate. We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here. I mean, yes, we have Native Americans, but candidly that—there isn't much Native American culture in American culture. It was born of the people who came here, pursuing religious liberty to practice their faith.">

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/native-americans-urge-cnn-to-fire-rick-santorum-over-blank-slate-comments/ar-BB1g5LQv?ocid=msedgntp


Santorum's dad came over with a load of olive oil and hard cheese circa 1930. So what's all this "we" shit about a blank slate?
Santorum and his ilk = deplorable pieces of racist dog shit.

Bigotry is a symptom of ignorance.  Some are ignorant because they don't know they're ignorant, and others are purposefully ignorant because it is more convenient to be ignorant.  Santorum is the latter. The term racist is too broad, but we can all agree his Santorums remarks very ignorant.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on April 27, 2021, 12:58:43 PM
Levity is the best cure.

Probably followers of Santorum.  Let's watch them – near Bath Co line, Bath Co KY

http://youtu.be/bDaQZUzJCNM
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on April 27, 2021, 20:01:58 PM
https://youtu.be/-ZuowNcuGsc

https://youtu.be/gW7607YiBso

Played second vid 4 times on the way home from work. Good medicine for the soul.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on May 02, 2021, 09:20:54 AM
I'd enjoy seeing a wolf in the wild at least once.  I have no issue with peppering wolves with paintballs if it will save them.

I wonder if they considered hazing park visitors.  I am sure a paintball sniper spraying paintballs, scorching pedestrians and vehicles, would eliminate traffic and gawking problems.  And I am sure the wolves would have a great chuckle.

This is one smart wolf.     

<Smith ran through a story about a wolf that grew up right around people near the Lamar Valley. When it became a yearling, it stole someone's tripod, and they had two options, to either put it down, or try and dehabituate it.

"It was our worst wolf, but we hit him numerous times and eventually, that wolf moved away from the road and started a new pack. It's a success story for sure.">


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/yellowstone-is-shooting-paintballs-at-wolves-and-says-it-s-for-their-own-good/ar-BB1ghjYd?ocid=msedgntp
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: rbphoto on May 03, 2021, 09:33:56 AM
Cades Cove had red wolves introduced back in the early 90's.  Red wolves are the only wolf species to live only within the borders of the continental United States. 

https://www.wbir.com/article/entertainment/places/great-smoky-mountains-national-park/red-wolf-experiment-retrospective/51-70325188-0ab8-4a7e-b497-08375729d197

I went to spend spring break with my grandparents in the Smokies one of those years (always the outdoors kid).  My grandmother and I were walking around the Cades Cove loop and saw a small pack (5-7) of red wolves harassing the cattle out in the pastures.  I had a camera with me, but not my 300mm lens.  I snapped a couple of pics and with a really good loupe, I can see a few of them on the 16x20 print I made from that encounter.

I always wished they had thrived.  Beautiful creatures.

Raymond
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Yallerhammer on May 03, 2021, 10:07:29 AM
Quote from: rbphoto on May 03, 2021, 09:33:56 AMCades Cove had red wolves introduced back in the early 90's.  Red wolves are the only wolf species to live only within the borders of the continental United States. 

https://www.wbir.com/article/entertainment/places/great-smoky-mountains-national-park/red-wolf-experiment-retrospective/51-70325188-0ab8-4a7e-b497-08375729d197

I went to spend spring break with my grandparents in the Smokies one of those years (always the outdoors kid).  My grandmother and I were walking around the Cades Cove loop and saw a small pack (5-7) of red wolves harassing the cattle out in the pastures.  I had a camera with me, but not my 300mm lens.  I snapped a couple of pics and with a really good loupe, I can see a few of them on the 16x20 print I made from that encounter.

I always wished they had thrived.  Beautiful creatures.

Raymond


Their genes are still in our local "coyotes."
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 04, 2021, 08:13:35 AM
See the daring rescue from 'Mad Dog Rapid' on Poudre River in Colorado
BY POUDRE FIRE AUTHORITY MAY 3, 2021, 1:12 PM
Poudre Fire Authority rescues two rafters on the rapids May 1, 2021. After bringing the people ashore, responders retrieved the partially overturned and pinned raft as well.



https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article251135304.html

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 07, 2021, 08:13:16 AM
Three Notch'd Brewing Company And Mossy Creek Fly Fishing Debut Collaborative Lager "I'd Rather Beer Fishing"

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https://www.brewbound.com/news/three-notchd-brewing-company-and-mossy-creek-fly-fishing-debut-collaborative-lager-id-rather-beer-fishing/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on May 10, 2021, 16:52:08 PM
http://youtu.be/9qZTrtJ3sMQ
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Native Fisher on May 11, 2021, 07:23:35 AM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on May 07, 2021, 08:13:16 AMThree Notch'd Brewing Company And Mossy Creek Fly Fishing Debut Collaborative Lager "I'd Rather Beer Fishing"


I will have to pick up some of that from their local shop to try.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 11, 2021, 09:17:42 AM

Is That A Dinosaur? Matt and his friend Jason were fly fishing for Striped Bass on one of Middle Tennessee's infamous...

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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on May 18, 2021, 22:35:36 PM
Rental car shortage,lol?

Best reserve the wheels before booking wings.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Big J on May 19, 2021, 07:35:23 AM
Yes, the rental car shortage is real.  Just tried booking a car for Hawaii in July....2 out 5 major car rental companies are completely booked.  The 2 that have vehicles, just have cars.  At $900+ for 1 week.  I have a family of 5 with 3 car seats.  It'll be interesting. 
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 19, 2021, 08:40:25 AM
https://youtu.be/Gm-ZDWZd5Ok


and I'm outta here...
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 19, 2021, 09:03:11 AM
State agency recommends funding to help create new 117-acre park in Henry County

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>>>Henry County is developing a 117-acre park adjacent to the Smith River Sports Complex that may include walking trails, wildlife observation areas, camping facilities and other recreational opportunities.

In late April, the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation recommended only three projects for matching grants through the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund and Local Assistance Program, and the new "Riverview Park" in Henry County made the list.

"This past winter, Henry County applied for funding," said Tim Pace, Henry County's director of engineering. "The application sought funding to purchase a 56-acre parcel of land, which sits adjacent to the Smith River Sports Complex, and another parcel, 60.8 acres, owned by a local foundation, will be donated to serve as a match to a $495,000 grant.

"Combined, the two properties will create 117 acres of land dedicated to recreational purposes."

The 56-acre Vipperman parcel sits adjacent to the Smith River Sports Complex and would be purchased with LWCF funding and reserved in perpetuity for increasing open space outdoor recreation opportunities.

That 60.8-acre parcel is owned by Martinsville NEWCO, and although the name of the local foundation that will donate the property has not been disclosed, the owner and The Harvest Foundation share the same post office box, No. 5183, for receiving mail.


https://martinsvillebulletin.com/news/local/state-agency-recommends-funding-to-help-create-new-117-acre-park-in-henry-county/article_060685ac-b80d-11eb-a752-a76724d330c3.html
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on May 19, 2021, 10:53:42 AM
Quote from: Big J on May 19, 2021, 07:35:23 AMYes, the rental car shortage is real.  Just tried booking a car for Hawaii in July....2 out 5 major car rental companies are completely booked.  The 2 that have vehicles, just have cars.  At $900+ for 1 week.  I have a family of 5 with 3 car seats.  It'll be interesting. 
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Quote from: Big J on May 19, 2021, 07:35:23 AMYes, the rental car shortage is real.  Just tried booking a car for Hawaii in July....2 out 5 major car rental companies are completely booked.  The 2 that have vehicles, just have cars.  At $900+ for 1 week.  I have a family of 5 with 3 car seats.  It'll be interesting. 

One week ahead of departure, I called six rental places in Dallas before scoring an overpriced vehicle at Hertz.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 20, 2021, 16:53:46 PM
Quote from: troutrus on May 20, 2021, 16:19:31 PMMight want to try the Turo app for HI. Rent from individuals, sorta like Airbnb for vehicles.

cool app and I found just the car for Jacob...

2021-05-20_17-52-24.jpg
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Big J on May 21, 2021, 07:08:59 AM
Quote from: troutrus on May 20, 2021, 16:19:31 PMMight want to try the Turo app for HI. Rent from individuals, sorta like Airbnb for vehicles.

I forgot about Turo. Thanks
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 24, 2021, 08:15:24 AM
If you happens to be free. And IF you have a computer or some sort or streaming device capable of connecting to the interwebs and IF you like good music then I strongly encourage you to check out bröther Matson's graduation recital tomorrow night! Mf can play and write his ass off. Pour a drink and crank his recital and get all the goodness through your computer screen baby


Aaron Lanier Matson, Jazz Guitar
Monday, May 24, 2021, 9:00PM

https://www.juilliard.edu/event/149341/aaron-lanier-matson-jazz-guitar
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dougfish on June 05, 2021, 11:12:15 AM
Going to Colorado for 2 weeks. Will be in Steamboat for 5 full days.
Who's gonna fish?  :Dance
Contacted the local fly shop with some conditions and recommended gear questions.
Got an immediate response from the co-owner at 6:49 his time.
Three time silver Olympic Nordic Skiing medalist.
Helpful young lady took my call 15 minutes later.
Yeah, I'll drop some coin there.

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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on June 08, 2021, 17:29:37 PM
Wife scored a wood block print on Irish linen for $5 at a thrift shore. d:b  :o

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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on June 11, 2021, 14:14:53 PM
For you young earthers. 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/24-000-year-old-animal-found-alive-well-and-ready-to-reproduce/ar-AAKXb7X?ocid=msedgntp
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Yallerhammer on June 12, 2021, 08:27:51 AM
Quote from: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on June 11, 2021, 14:14:53 PMFor you young earthers. 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/24-000-year-old-animal-found-alive-well-and-ready-to-reproduce/ar-AAKXb7X?ocid=msedgntp
The Dev-ill just put that thing in the ground to test out faith.  :laugh:
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 19, 2021, 10:28:03 AM

https://www.instagram.com/p/CQRosRVtfQt/?utm_medium=copy_link

Go or no go?
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: jwgnc on June 20, 2021, 22:11:58 PM
Looks like it's time for our backyard doe to go feed the youngster. Gotta name this one Dolly (Parton). I've never seen a doe that was so ... "blessed".

We haven't seen the little one yet, but last year she brought one down to chew on our flowers.


MamaDeer1.jpg
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 21, 2021, 08:20:43 AM
SIX MILLION WILDERNESS ACRES YOU CAN EXPLORE NOW
A lush state park—filled with mountains, fragrant green forests, and rushing streams—awaits adventurers in northern New York.

>>>For some Americans who enjoy fishing, the summer solstice marks a time to start heading north to Canada. For folks in the Northeast, this means Atlantic salmon fishing in the Maritimes or Quebec; for Midwesterners, smallmouth bass and walleye beckon in Ontario and Saskatchewan; and for those on the West Coast, the wilds of British Columbia offer rainbow trout and steelhead.

This year, those travel plans are, at best, postponed for many people. Yet you can still head north to fish—and enjoy a wide variety of other outdoor activities—in a lush land of mountains, fragrant green forests, and rushing streams. And you can leave your passport home.

Adirondack State Park, in northern New York State, is the largest protected natural region in the contiguous U.S. Covering more than six million acres, it is more than three times the size of Yellowstone National Park. Created in 1892, it neighbors many charming small towns, making it an ideal destination for families. The Wild Center and nearby Tupper Lake Arts Center, for example, are smack in the middle of the Adirondacks and are magnets for travelers of all age

https://www.bjtonline.com/business-jet-news/six-million-wilderness-acres-you-can-explore-now
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on June 22, 2021, 17:45:29 PM
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/butterflies-are-in-decline-and-that-could-have-dire-consequences-for-life-on-earth/ar-AALk5RN?ocid=msedgntp
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 22, 2021, 21:47:23 PM
 :o

Shouldn't you have posted the in "signs of the apocalypse"?
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on June 23, 2021, 17:03:44 PM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on June 22, 2021, 21:47:23 PM:o

Shouldn't you have posted the in "signs of the apocalypse"?

Yes, you are correct.

Just added some more depressing news to that thread.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 25, 2021, 08:22:02 AM
Judge Unlikely to Block Logging in Northern California Redwood Forest

Conservation groups say a logging project planned for an area near the Gualala River will threaten four endangered species — California red-legged frogs, northern spotted owls, Central California Coast Coho salmon and Northern California steelhead.



>>>SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A federal judge said Thursday he is unlikely to stop a logging project that opponents say will harm endangered species in a Northern California old-growth redwood forest because the dispute was already resolved in state court.

"You went and lost in state court. You can't restart the clock," U.S. District Judge James Donato said, referring to a legal challenge against a plan to chop down redwood trees up to 100 years old in the Gualala River watershed on the border of Sonoma and Mendocino counties north of San Francisco.

Friends of Gualala River (FOGR), a group dedicated to preserving the watershed, sued the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, in state court in August 2016. FOGR claimed the state agency failed to adequately review the project's environmental impacts when it approved a plan to harvest 402 acres of old-growth trees near the river.

https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-unlikely-to-block-logging-in-northern-california-redwood-forest/

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on July 06, 2021, 17:19:22 PM
Methamphetamine in waterways may be turning trout into addicts


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/methamphetamine-in-waterways-may-be-turning-trout-into-addicts/ar-AALQNjd?ocid=msedgntp
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dougfish on July 12, 2021, 12:36:25 PM
Good opportunity to see the space station tonight if the clouds don't F it up. 7 mi exposure, high in the sky!
17,500 mph.

S:SpotTheStation M: Time: Mon Jul 12 10:15 PM, Visible: 7 min, Max Height: 51 degrees, Appears: SSW, Disappears: ENE
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 12, 2021, 14:15:04 PM
Quote from: Dougfish on July 12, 2021, 12:36:25 PMGood opportunity to see the space station tonight if the clouds don't F it up. 7 mi exposure, high in the sky!
17,500 mph.

S:SpotTheStation M: Time: Mon Jul 12 10:15 PM, Visible: 7 min, Max Height: 51 degrees, Appears: SSW, Disappears: ENE

also Venus and the crescent moon were pretty spectacular on the drive home yesterday..
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 15, 2021, 06:40:57 AM
https://wr.al/1KxQH

41A96B9D-5AB1-4B8D-B119-7EC290515C0F.png

Carolina fish farms documentary — trout, catfish, hybrid bass, Russian sturgeon, crayfish.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 15, 2021, 06:41:46 AM
QuoteIt's so hot at my daughter's in the Phoenix metro area that even the Sonoran Desert Tortoises are looking to get in the house.  :o
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I I have a friend in Arizona that has a tortoise that she cares for by building a shade shelter feeding it mangoes and other fruits

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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: troutrus on July 15, 2021, 10:43:37 AM
Yeah, Roxie will come up to you and beg like a dog. She does love fruit, but if feeding her by hand, I've learned to watch my fingers. 😂
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 16, 2021, 08:18:04 AM
The animals are shrinking, two-by-two
From mice and whales to birds and salamanders, many species are decreasing in size and experts are unsure as to the cause

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>>>Field mice (Apodemus sylvaticus) in southern Spain's Doñana National Park weigh up to a third less than they did 40 years ago. Northern gray-cheeked salamander (Plethodon montanus) in the Appalachian Mountains have shrunk by 8% since 1960. Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) in northern Finland are smaller and reach sexual maturity quicker than they did four decades ago. And one of the giants of the oceans, the North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis), has on average reduced in size by a meter since the 1980s. All of this has led scientists to ask: what is happening to the animals?

In recent years evidence that the so-called sixth great extinction event is already underway has been piling up. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the rate of extinction among animal species has increased a hundredfold. The causes or this are diverse and some are global, such as climate change or overfishing, while others are more confined to certain regions, as is the case with deforestation of tropical jungles. What all have in common is that they are directly or indirectly provoked by the activities of mankind. That said, not all species suffer to the same extent. Recent research has demonstrated that the bigger the animal, the more at risk the species is. And scientists have observed another phenomenon among many animal populations: it is no longer the case that they are ever-fewer in number, but that they are getting progressively smaller. And this shrinking is happening among all families of the animal kingdom.

https://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-07-16/the-animals-are-shrinking-two-by-two.html


Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 18, 2021, 09:36:56 AM
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We were at the WWII Japanese pier, listening to the "B" boat radio as they landed on the moon!

Where were you?
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: troutrus on July 18, 2021, 18:36:13 PM


July 20,1969 I was at Zip 19134

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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dougfish on July 18, 2021, 20:52:20 PM
I was in school that day watching on TV.
Afterwards I was probably wearing out the fish from the 12' jon boat in the pond behind the house.

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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on July 19, 2021, 07:26:25 AM
QuoteI was in school that day watching on TV.
Afterwards I was probably wearing out the fish from the 12' jon boat in the pond behind the house.

July 20, 1969 was a Sunday so you must have been in Sunday school that morning. When they landed around 4pm EST I was likely swimming in Back Creek with some young gal from church, the prettiest one I could rope into taking a cool dip with me.  I was 12 and enamored by the female stature, and Sundays at church was the only venue to scrutinize the gals, those that were not my relatives. 
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Big J on July 19, 2021, 08:05:55 AM
I was in my dad's nutsack which hadn't even dropped yet.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: troutrus on July 19, 2021, 11:43:36 AM
Quote from: Big J on July 19, 2021, 08:05:55 AMI was in my dad's nutsack which hadn't even dropped yet.

You are definitely the fortunate one.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: jwgnc on July 19, 2021, 13:57:05 PM
Each Summer from 66-69 I worked as a brakeman for Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad; mostly freight trains full of auto parts between Toledo and Detroit.  It almost paid my way through college.

It's likely that on July 20, 1969 I was wearing a black suit as a brakeman on a passenger train with the last three coaches full of Army recruits from southeast Michigan out of Detroit.  "All aboard to Toledo!  Findlay, Lima, Sidney, Troy – Dayton, Hamilton and Cin cin nati!"

A year or so later I was on that train in civvies – final stop: Fort Campbell, Kentucky.  Those summers on the railroad let me skip AIT and go straight out of Basic to Fort Eustis Virginia and out of harm's way to the 714th Transportation Battalion (Railway Operations - Steam and Diesel Electric).

So why was I wearing my pants halfway up to my armpits?

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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on July 19, 2021, 14:35:49 PM
QuoteI was in my dad's nutsack which hadn't even dropped yet.

I really like your response.  It has a certain grittiness to it that I can appreciate. 

BUT, unless your daddy's jewels dropped and you were conceived within ~ 75 days after 20 July 1969, you were NOT in your "dad's nutsack" on that date..

I will however cut you some slack, because we all know you were trained as a number cruncher and likely paid little or no attention in General Biology.  Frankly, I am surprised you slipped several past the goalie and were blessed with such beautiful children.

There will be a quiz on the jizz life cycle and baby maker anatomy the next time we meet. 



<Sperm Life Cycle
When a boy is born, the seminiferous tubules in the testes contain simple round cells. During puberty, these cells are transformed into sperms with a head, mid-section and tail. The sperms use their long tails to push themselves out of the tubes into the epididymis. For the next 2 to 4 weeks the sperm swims through the epididymis as it develops further. From here it moves into the sperm duct or vas deferens where it is mixed with seminal fluid to form semen. This process is known as Spermatogenesis.
When a man reaches an orgasm after sexual stimulation, this semen is pushed out of the body through the urethra. On an average, a man ejaculates 500 million sperms at a time. If the sperm enters a woman's vagina it will try to fertilize an egg. A sperm can live for up to 5 days in the woman's vagina. However, if it is released into the open, it cannot live for more than a few minutes.
If sperm is not ejaculated, it stays in the man's body for about 74 days. After this, the sperm cells die and are reabsorbed by the body.>
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dougfish on July 19, 2021, 15:19:40 PM
I know podcasts were up and running pre-covid, but from March 2020 forward, their popularity and numbers blew up. I listen to 6 regularly. Another 5-6 irregularly. Some political, some history, music, fishing, etc.

I have thought about the relationships we forge. Especially these days on social media. BRFFF included. I may not have met Jacob, Keith, Driver and others without this pretentious forum. I met Neil on a plant geek group on FB, then found him on here, also.

Anyhow, how we make friends in the modern world has really changed. I had not broken it down to men vs women, though. Then I listened to last Friday's Bulwark podcast. Normally a politics heavy discussion, Charlie Sykes had David French on to discuss factional friendships. Have a listen to at least the first half of the episode. Oh shit, he's talking about us. And more.
And BTW, Charlie does an episode every weekday. They have surpassed 48 million downloads. Free. And superb.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5q0EcG1WOZhcMXHsQp2tXu?si=u7IudglMQIiDl_Y-iklS-A&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1 (https://open.spotify.com/episode/5q0EcG1WOZhcMXHsQp2tXu?si=u7IudglMQIiDl_Y-iklS-A&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1)
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on July 20, 2021, 00:01:57 AM
Now thanks to J and Muddywater I can't stop thinking about my balls.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on July 20, 2021, 19:05:46 PM
Quote from: jwgnc on July 19, 2021, 13:57:05 PMEach Summer from 66-69 I worked as a brakeman for Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad; mostly freight trains full of auto parts between Toledo and Detroit.  It almost paid my way through college.

It's likely that on July 20, 1969 I was wearing a black suit as a brakeman on a passenger train with the last three coaches full of Army recruits from southeast Michigan out of Detroit.  "All aboard to Toledo!  Findlay, Lima, Sidney, Troy – Dayton, Hamilton and Cin cin nati!"

A year or so later I was on that train in civvies – final stop: Fort Campbell, Kentucky.  Those summers on the railroad let me skip AIT and go straight out of Basic to Fort Eustis Virginia and out of harm's way to the 714th Transportation Battalion (Railway Operations - Steam and Diesel Electric).

So why was I wearing my pants halfway up to my armpits?

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That all worked out well. Still a much needed MOS and job. You could have ended up in some shit hole too.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 23, 2021, 07:52:19 AM
@Stone-Man

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Robert Audrain IV was fishing with his father at a private pond in Franklin County, Missouri, when he caught a 5-ounce longear sunfish with a throwline on July 3.

While the catch might be small, it carried significant weight within the St. Louis family as the 13-year-old broke his father's state record, which was caught on the same day in 2020 and in the exact location, as reported by the Springfield News-Leader.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/olympics/son-s-record-fish-is-a-case-of-d%C3%A9j%C3%A0-vu-and-topping-dad/ar-AAMtly1?ocid=msedgntp
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on July 27, 2021, 08:18:09 AM
Perhaps every human needs a tutorial on filtering out the BS, or we could abandon all social media, which might slow the transmission of the BS.

I never fathomed you could profit from disinformation.  Heck fire, I could have made some coin from sending those anglers to fishless waters, or sending others to streams with no water, or directing hunters up slopes, with no game, that a billy goat wouldn't travel, or lying to campers about the area dangers of bears, lions, and snakes, or promising those gals I'd love them in the morning, or ........................ the list of falsehoods and deceptions are endless.   


https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/25/world/europe/disinformation-social-media.html


https://tech.slashdot.org/story/21/07/26/0151246/disinformation-for-hire-is-becoming-a-booming-industry

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: troutrus on July 27, 2021, 20:04:21 PM
Quote from: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on July 27, 2021, 08:18:09 AMPerhaps every human needs a tutorial on filtering out the BS, or we could abandon all social media, which might slow the transmission of the BS.


Hot off the press.

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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 09, 2021, 08:37:23 AM
The Lost Canyon Under Lake Powell
Drought is shrinking one of the country's largest reservoirs, revealing a hidden Eden.

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>>>Lake Powell, which some people consider the most beautiful place on earth and others view as an abomination, lies in slickrock country, about two hundred and fifty miles south of Salt Lake City. Not long ago, I made the trip from Salt Lake to Powell in a rental car. The drive wound by Orem and Provo, then through a landscape so parched that even the sagebrush looked thirsty. A few miles shy of the lake, in the nearly nonexistent town of Ticaboo, I passed a lot where dry-docked cabin cruisers rose, mirage-like, from the desert.




https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/16/the-lost-canyon-under-lake-powell

Read the New Yorker article or listen to the 45 min podcast... d:b
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 12, 2021, 08:28:58 AM
Before the Bridge: Crossing the Colorado in Moab

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>>>The many groups of Indigenous peoples who have lived on the Plateau since before Euro-Americans arrived had names for the river as diverse as their cultures. The Havasupai name, Chicamimi Hackatai, means "Large Canyon with Roaring Sound." The Paiutes gave the river a name that translates to "Long Way Down to the Water" and the Hopi called it Pisishibauii, which means "Where the Water Flows."

https://www.moabsunnews.com/get_out_and_go/article_2bc5f7aa-fb1a-11eb-8ff6-8ff31b181e74.html
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 12, 2021, 19:13:10 PM
interesting gig job...

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 13, 2021, 13:45:15 PM
Fred has a tracker  :o

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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 14, 2021, 09:43:30 AM
so back at the spring PFF I noticed some rattling noises on the CRV and it was determined that the sway bar end links (bushings) needed to be replaced after 180K, the parts were not in stock and back ordered for two months. they finally came in and have been replaced. I miss the rattling noises now...  now at 191k  :o  I calculate that I've burned  almost 6,000 gallons of gas.

in other news, I found a 1978 Case XX Scout on ebay, the bottle opener/screwdriver blade is slightly different than the one I had, it is longer and comes to a narrower tip. I cost about the same as a similar Case knife. It looks minty other that the blade not being terribley sharp.


- that is all for now..
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on August 14, 2021, 10:11:21 AM
Rattlesnakes!!!!!

Overrun with the critters in The Grove this summer (well over a dozen within a mile of my Creek House).  Good survival rate the past few years?
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on August 14, 2021, 10:15:05 AM
For some reason, Big J watching his collection of porn, came to mind when I saw this cartoon.   
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: troutrus on August 15, 2021, 05:26:57 AM

"Following the release of the government's July inflation data on Wednesday, the League projected that Social Security benefits could be boosted in 2022 by 6.2% — up from the group's previous forecast of a 6.1% COLA for next year."

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/next-social-security-raise-may-221500989.html
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: jwgnc on August 15, 2021, 10:12:08 AM
Ona related topic, Aetna sent me a love letter:   

All Medicare Supplement certificates within your state and with your type of plan will be affected by a premium change. ... Blah Blah ...Your new premium amount is $206.46 monthly.

Up 18.2% from  $174.64.  I guess I pissed them off.  I LOVE Medicare and my supplement.

My claim summary over the last 24 Months. 
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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: troutrus on August 15, 2021, 11:53:32 AM
Gotta make sure you're shopping plans each renewal period. I had BCBSNC's F plan for a number of years 'cause it was cheapest, then in a couple years it jumped up to where it was no longer as competitive. Last two years I've had United World's (Mutual of Omaha) G plan at a 33% savings. 🙂

Same with Med D prescription plans. I had Humana for several years and premium doubled over the years. Last couple years I've gone with Well Care at 45% premium savings and lower copays.


Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 15, 2021, 12:22:14 PM
I've never been a great knife sharpener, I've tried using whetstones, and have achieved a reasonable edge, but never as sharp as I would like. When I received the Case Scout from eBay to replace the one I lost, i noticed that it needed sharpening. I went to Mast General Store where they have a Warthog Sharpener on display and I've gone there regularly to use it not wanting to spend over a hundred bucks on one myself.


This time there was a Spyderco Sharpmaker on display also, it only had the medium stones out on the display but I tried it and was impressed with the ease of use and results. So, I ordered one yesterday evening and it came today. I've been putting it to effective use already.


I guess I'll use my whetstones as paperweights... <-;:



 
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on August 15, 2021, 17:14:38 PM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on August 15, 2021, 12:22:14 PMI've never been a great knife sharpener, I've tried using whetstones, and have achieved a reasonable edge, but never as sharp as I would like. When I received the Case Scout from eBay to replace the one I lost, i noticed that it needed sharpening. I went to Mast General Store where they have a Warthog Sharpener on display and I've gone there regularly to use it not wanting to spend over a hundred bucks on one myself.

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This time there was a Spyderco Sharpmaker on display also, it only had the medium stones out on the display but I tried it and was impressed with the ease of use and results. So, I ordered one yesterday evening and it came today. I've been putting it to effective use already.

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I guess I'll use my whetstones as paperweights... <-;:



 

Now you can cut the other finger :P I never had much success with a whetstone either.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: troutrus on August 15, 2021, 18:59:49 PM
I have found that stropping after sharpening makes a tremendous difference. Takes a little more time, but used properly will give you a professional type edge.
For kitchen knives I use a steel before each use and the edge definitely lasts much longer, but after stone sharpening the strop is the schnitz.

https://www.amazon.com/Knives-Strop-Block-Leather-Sharpening/dp/B010C7WBDE/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=KCR225756II&dchild=1&keywords=knives+plus+strop+block&qid=1629071247&sprefix=Knives+plus+%2Caps%2C178&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEzNTJXOFVNSldBT0cmZW5jcnlwdGVkSWQ9QTAxMjI5MzkzR1BMQTlTRUpRTlE0JmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTAwNzM1NzJYWThYQlVKVVA5Nlomd2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGYmYWN0aW9uPWNsaWNrUmVkaXJlY3QmZG9Ob3RMb2dDbGljaz10cnVl
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 15, 2021, 19:49:11 PM
Here is the 1978 replacement Case Scout with a new fob

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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Yallerhammer on August 15, 2021, 19:53:05 PM
Quote from: troutrus on August 15, 2021, 18:59:49 PMI have found that stropping after sharpening makes a tremendous difference. Takes a little more time, but used properly will give you a professional type edge.
For kitchen knives I use a steel before each use and the edge definitely lasts much longer, but after stone sharpening the strop is the schnitz.

https://www.amazon.com/Knives-Strop-Block-Leather-Sharpening/dp/B010C7WBDE/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=KCR225756II&dchild=1&keywords=knives+plus+strop+block&qid=1629071247&sprefix=Knives+plus+%2Caps%2C178&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEzNTJXOFVNSldBT0cmZW5jcnlwdGVkSWQ9QTAxMjI5MzkzR1BMQTlTRUpRTlE0JmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTAwNzM1NzJYWThYQlVKVVA5Nlomd2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGYmYWN0aW9uPWNsaWNrUmVkaXJlY3QmZG9Ob3RMb2dDbGljaz10cnVl
Agreed, totally.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on August 15, 2021, 20:17:09 PM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on August 15, 2021, 19:49:11 PMHere is the 1978 replacement Case Scout with a new fob

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I think Jim's was a special model that was shorter? Or had shorter blades or something?
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 15, 2021, 20:27:28 PM
it's actually the scout model, i don't know why i keep calling a camper .... <-;:

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my brother's knife had this shape opener/screwdriver

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the one I have now looks like this..

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 16, 2021, 14:31:08 PM
Ordered up a 100 meter spool of 6x fluorocarbon ($40) for my euro habit —

Amazon picker did me a solid

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I can only assume that the picker didn't realize that they gave me four spools as they stack together as one unit

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Who needs 6x  tippet?? Make me an offer— no low balling, I know what I got!!


Or should I return the three extra spools?
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on August 16, 2021, 15:19:28 PM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on August 16, 2021, 14:31:08 PMOr should I return the three extra spools?

Return the 3 extra spools and you'll catch that unexpected 19" brown, while euroing, in that deepest crevice right below the Smith River Mirror Pool, and your river sunk beer will always be frosty .  No-brainer!

AND, never, not for any reason, tell us that you returned the spools, OR we'll charge you with virtue signaling.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dougfish on August 16, 2021, 16:09:49 PM
I go through alot of 6X flouro.......... :P
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on August 16, 2021, 16:22:34 PM
Send me the money or the 3 extra spools and I'll take care of it. <-;: I've been meaning to try that brand. I love how the hypocrites that laugh at and mock religion want to talk about karma :laugh:
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Yallerhammer on August 16, 2021, 17:04:46 PM
What's 6x?
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on August 16, 2021, 17:42:41 PM
6X kills, or so I was told a few years back. It didn't seem to matter that the new 6X was as strong as the 3X mono of the 80's /'/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 16, 2021, 18:08:28 PM
A fly shop was selling through Amazon and 1) they shouldn't have to "pay" for a pickers mistake! 2) all were 100 meters 3) I couldn't use that much 4) 6x doesn't kill fish, neither does 7x - warm water and bad playing / handling does 5) too late, I made my decision - easy since Amazon returns don't require packaging — just drop off at UPS in this case 6)need karma more that $120 worth of fluorocarbon

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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on August 16, 2021, 18:38:16 PM
*Note- I didn't say 6X kills, I was told that and heard it parroted on another fly fishing forum some years ago.  d:b Nothing else swims < sz20 flies as naturally. If I remember right Orvis 3X mono in the 80's was 2.5.lb?  A lot of time when a fly shop sells on Amazon the stuff is shipped directly from the fly shop. So someone in a fly shop may have done that, I don't know ? I bet you could get a pro deal on a lot of stuff if you mention your prowess of fly fishing and influence :bow
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on August 17, 2021, 04:44:40 AM
You did the right thing, I think most of us try to. I was wrong about the 3X from the 80's, It may actually be from the early 90's but it's 3.5 lbs not 2.5. Somewhere about then the tippet materials chaged packaging and the stuff got a lot stronger 3X is goat rope now days. Still basically the same as the 6X we use today. I remember Orvis stuff was about as good as you could buy back then. Guests are not allowed to view images in posts, please Register or Login

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on August 17, 2021, 04:52:28 AM
Quote from: troutrus on August 17, 2021, 04:40:05 AMIntegrity is a vanishing quality.
Kudos!   'c;

Given the chance 83.47% of people will do the right thing :laugh: Just kidding TRU, I was just messing around, as I am 93.26% of the time d:b  I think the average working Joe in America still has good intentions, I still think most people are still good people.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Stone-Man on August 17, 2021, 16:49:20 PM
Guru,  Probably I was the one that posted (years ago) that 7X kills. I never have thought that 6X was a killer. I still throw 6X,but have not thrown 7X in probably 16-18 years.  I use 4X floro in the creeks. Just for your info.  Maybe I need to get some more info on 6.5 X floro for the tailraces

  JT
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on August 17, 2021, 17:16:18 PM
Quote from: Stone-Man on August 17, 2021, 16:49:20 PMGuru,  Probably I was the one that posted (years ago) that 7X kills. I never have thought that 6X was a killer. I still throw 6X,but have not thrown 7X in probably 16-18 years.  I use 4X floro in the creeks. Just for your info.  Maybe I need to get some more info on 6.5 X floro for the tailraces

  JT

Stone Man I have no idea who said what :P I just remember there was a lot of agreement. :laugh:  I can't remember what I had for breakfast most days now :P I was only trying to point out the improvements in tippet strengths. Heck 4x use to be basically 2-2.5lbs. The only time I fish 6X is when I'm fishing the really small stuff <18's. I'm too heavy handed for 7X and tend to fish faster rods. 6X won't turn over larger bushy dry flies right for me, probably because I fish  longer leaders and faster rods. I bet if I fished fiberglass,bamboo, or the longer softer Euro rods I could get by with 7X. 4-5x works fine for most of the fishing and size flies I use. I always fish the largest tippet I can get by with. For streamers I use a straight piece of 10-12lb fluro from a larger spool like bass fisherman use, lots cheaper. Streamer fish generally aren't tippet shy. ;D Guests are not allowed to view images in posts, please Register or Login
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 25, 2021, 10:23:39 AM
Fukushima nuclear water to be released via undersea tunnel

TOKYO (AP) — The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant said Wednesday it plans to build an undersea tunnel so that massive amounts of treated but still radioactive water can be released into the ocean about 1 kilometer (0.6 mile) away from the plant to avoid interference with local fishing.

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Increasing amounts of radioactive water have been stored in about 1,000 tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi plant since 2011, when a massive earthquake and tsunami damaged three reactors and their cooling water became contaminated and began leaking. The plant says the tanks will reach their capacity late next year.


The government decided in April to start discharging the water, after further treatment and dilution, into the Pacific Ocean in spring 2023 under safety standards set by regulators. The idea has been fiercely opposed by fishermen, residents and neighboring countries including China and South Korea.


TEPCO plans to dilute the contaminate water with large amounts of seawater to reduce the concentration of radioactive materials below allowable limits. Plant workers are to sample the water ahead of its release and examine samples of seawater from multiple locations daily. Japan has obtained the International Atomic Energy Agency's agreement to cooperate in the water sampling and monitoring.

The controlled release, with an annual cap on radioactive materials, will continue for about 30 years, or until the plant's decommissioning ends, Matsumoto said.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/fukushima-nuclear-water-to-be-released-via-undersea-tunnel/ar-AANJu9Y?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 25, 2021, 10:29:17 AM
in other radioactive news...

https://thebulletin.org/2021/08/rebranding-chernobyl/

https://vimeo.com/513331475


Chernobyl's nuclear fuel is smoldering again and there's a 'possibility' of another accident, scientists say

Nuclear reactions are smoldering again in uranium fuel masses deep inside an unreachable basement room of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, LiveScience reported.

A rising number of neutrons can signal new fission reactions. Researchers at the catastrophic 1986 explosion site have recently detected a steady spike in neutron numbers in an underground room called 305/2, LiveScience said.

The radioactive waste is smoldering "like the embers in a barbecue pit," Neil Hyatt, a professor of nuclear materials science and engineering at the University of Sheffield, told Science magazine.

And it's possible, according to scientists, that the embers could fully ignite and result in another explosion. "There are many uncertainties," Maxim Saveliev, a senior researcher with the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants (ISPNPP) in Kyiv, Ukraine, told Science. "But we can't rule out the possibility of [an] accident."


https://www.businessinsider.com/chernobyl-nuclear-fuel-smolders-again-another-accident-is-possible-2021-5

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 25, 2021, 10:41:00 AM
I've watched HBO mini series twice on Chernobyl and it's scarier each time.

In case you haven't been keeping up with the ongoing battle to "decommission" the plant here is the BBC's documentary on the latest entombing structure to encapsulate the crumbling stop-gap emergency sarcophagus.

https://youtu.be/h9Ojn3WGDg8
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 25, 2021, 13:00:38 PM
following today's rabbit hole ---


Before Chernobyl: the secrets that paved the way for disaster
Adam Higginbotham examines how secrets and suppression of news in the Soviet nuclear programme paved the way for a sequence of increasingly catastrophic accidents

>>>Waste Tank #14 was an underground silo filled with highly radioactive slurry, an intensely toxic by-product of plutonium processing for atomic weapons. When internal cooling and temperature-monitoring systems failed, the tank boiled dry. The resulting blast was so powerful that it hurled the tank's 160-tonne lid 20 metres into the air, blew out the windows of the convicts' barracks, and sent a pillar of dust and smoke soaring over half a mile into the sky.

Grey radioactive ash blanketed the nearby industrial zone. Soldiers labouring there were soon admitted to hospital, suffering bleeding and vomiting. By the time the senior management of the Mayak plant became aware of the catastrophic accident, 74 million gigabecquerels of radioactive contamination had begun to drift over the surrounding Chelyabinsk Oblast (province) and east across the Urals in a deadly swathe nearly four miles wide and 30 miles long.

The next day, as light rain and thick black snow fell on the peasant settlements beyond the wire, military 'liquidation' of the accident began. Soldiers used shovels to toss pieces of the shattered storage tank into a nearby swamp. Eventually, more than 10,000 people were evacuated from the surrounding countryside – but only after they had been instructed to harvest their crops and bury them. Troops herded cattle into open pits and shot them. Entire villages were ploughed into the ground, and as many as half a million men, women and children were exposed to dangerous levels of radioactivity.


read://https_www.historyextra.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.historyextra.com%2Fperiod%2F20th-century%2Fchernobyl-soviet-nuclear-accidents%2F
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Phil on August 25, 2021, 14:49:42 PM
 :o  :o  b';
Gawd. I cannot hit "like" button on those reports. Thanks for posting them nevertheless.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on August 25, 2021, 15:36:31 PM
The same thing has happened to me.  I clearly remember being "ostracized and often alone" after having an affair with an unattractive gal.  The degree of unsightliness determined the duration of ostracization and aloneness. 

https://heavy.com/news/adie-timmermans-belgian-woman-banned-from-zoo-chimpanzee/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on August 25, 2021, 17:01:44 PM
Quote from: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on August 25, 2021, 15:36:31 PMThe same thing has happened to me.  I clearly remember being "ostracized and often alone" after having an affair with an unattractive gal.  The degree of unsightliness determined the duration of ostracization and aloneness. 

https://heavy.com/news/adie-timmermans-belgian-woman-banned-from-zoo-chimpanzee/


I'm sure said female's friends also told her you were no catch either :cheers  :P  :laugh:
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on August 25, 2021, 17:06:51 PM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on August 25, 2021, 10:23:39 AMFukushima nuclear water to be released via undersea tunnel

TOKYO (AP) — The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant said Wednesday it plans to build an undersea tunnel so that massive amounts of treated but still radioactive water can be released into the ocean about 1 kilometer (0.6 mile) away from the plant to avoid interference with local fishing.

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Increasing amounts of radioactive water have been stored in about 1,000 tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi plant since 2011, when a massive earthquake and tsunami damaged three reactors and their cooling water became contaminated and began leaking. The plant says the tanks will reach their capacity late next year.


The government decided in April to start discharging the water, after further treatment and dilution, into the Pacific Ocean in spring 2023 under safety standards set by regulators. The idea has been fiercely opposed by fishermen, residents and neighboring countries including China and South Korea.


TEPCO plans to dilute the contaminate water with large amounts of seawater to reduce the concentration of radioactive materials below allowable limits. Plant workers are to sample the water ahead of its release and examine samples of seawater from multiple locations daily. Japan has obtained the International Atomic Energy Agency's agreement to cooperate in the water sampling and monitoring.

The controlled release, with an annual cap on radioactive materials, will continue for about 30 years, or until the plant's decommissioning ends, Matsumoto said.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/fukushima-nuclear-water-to-be-released-via-undersea-tunnel/ar-AANJu9Y?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

This reminds me of the steel industry and coal burning power plants solution to the issues the smoke stacks were causing by simply building the smoke stacks higher. Smoke goes over everyones head, problem solved b';
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on August 25, 2021, 17:10:48 PM
Why can't we just take it to WV and dump it. That's what others companies like Dupont do,
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 27, 2021, 09:46:52 AM

UN team: Unclear if Fukushima cleanup can finish by 2051

>>>TOKYO (AP) — Too little is known about melted fuel inside damaged reactors at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, even a decade after the disaster, to be able to tell if its decommissioning can be finished by 2051 as planned, a U.N. nuclear agency official said Friday.

"Honestly speaking, I don't know, and I don't know if anybody knows," said Christophe Xerri, head of an International Atomic Energy Agency team reviewing progress in the plant's cleanup.

He urged Japan to speed up studies of the reactors to achieve a better long-term understanding of the decommissioning process.

>>>The biggest challenge is removing and managing highly radioactive fuel debris from the three damaged reactors, said Xerri, the director of IAEA's Division of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology.

"We need to gather more information on the fuel debris and more experience on the retrieval of the fuel debris to know if the plan can be completed as expected in the next 30 years," he told reporters.

The cleanup plan depends on how the melted fuel needs to be handled for long-term storage and management, he said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/un-team-unclear-if-fukushima-cleanup-can-finish-by-2051/ar-AANOi5E
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 31, 2021, 07:31:41 AM
I had no idea that leaded gasoline was still being used. It was still being burned in the USA until the 1970s!


>>> There is now no country in the world that uses leaded petrol for cars and lorries, the UN Environment Programme has announced.
The toxic fuel has contaminated air, soil and water for almost a century.
It can cause heart disease, cancer and stroke, and has been linked to problems with brain development in children.

Highly polluting leaded petrol now eradicated from the world, says UN https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-58388810



Here is a story about the Discovery and consequences of leaded gasoline's ill effects

https://thememorypalace.us/butterflies/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: jwgnc on August 31, 2021, 08:08:23 AM
There was a mom n pop gas station/bait shop near the McGuire Nuclear Plant in Huntersville that sold leaded gas.  You'd frequently see GTOs, older Corvettes, and the like over there "fillin' it up with Ethyl".

What do owners put in their hot rods these days?

 Chevelle SS.jpg

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 31, 2021, 09:13:03 AM
Quote from: jwgnc on August 31, 2021, 08:08:23 AMThere was a mom n pop gas station/bait shop near the McGuire Nuclear Plant in Huntersville that sold leaded gas.  You'd frequently see GTOs, older Corvettes, and the like over there "fillin' it up with Ethyl".

What do owners put in their hot rods these days?





there are lead substitution additives ...

I just realized that AVGAS still contains lead...  :o

>>>Although there are various ASTM Standards for avgas, almost all avgas on the U.S. market today is low lead, 100 MON avgas (100LL). This grade of avgas satisfies the requirements of all piston engines using avgas, regardless of their performance level. Jet aircraft and turbine-powered, propeller aircraft do not use avgas, but instead use fuels very similar to kerosene, which does not contain a lead additive.


https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/leaded-aviation-fuel-and-environment?newsId=14754
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on August 31, 2021, 19:20:01 PM
I only run gas that contains no ethanol in my smalll engines (lawnmower, chainsaw, weedeater, chipper). If I'm not mistake piston powered aircraft still use Avgas. I was confused by the link for the article you posted. It says jet aircraft and turbine powered, and propeller aircraft do not use avgas? Almost all single engine stuff like Cesnas and Beechcraft are propeller driven powered by pistons? Should the article have said jet and turbine only? Some one help me!


*I think there is a miss placed comma. It reads "jet aircraft and turbine powered, and propeller aircraft" I think it should read "jet aircraft and turbine powered propeller aircraft" ?
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 01, 2021, 07:54:32 AM
Piston powered uses avgas which has lead

Jets use kerosene like jet fuel no lead
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on September 01, 2021, 19:21:47 PM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on September 01, 2021, 07:54:32 AMPiston powered uses avgas which has lead

Jets use kerosene like jet fuel no lead

 They do make turbine powered propeller planes. I'm worried about the copious amounts of JP4 that may have gotten on me and not been washed off immediately.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on September 03, 2021, 07:54:46 AM
As I've said before, Insects Rule!  Very shrewd hitching a ride on Ma Nature's express to greener pastures.  I don't wish the invasion on folks' immaculate beautiful lawns and gardens, BUT I would welcome a few, in hopes of demolishing some of the grass that I have to mow.

"Known to travel 500-plus miles in 24 hours, the moths "can get into the the jet stream and move vast distances, then drop down to find suitable host plants," Shetlar and fellow entomologists Joe Boggs and Curtis Young wrote Monday in a blog post.

"We are still seeing moths being blown up on the hurricane fronts from Southern states," according to Shetlar, who expects the insects to remain an issue until cold weather kills them off."


https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/storms-carrying-grass-destroying-pests-to-northeastern-u-s/ar-AAO3JPZ?ocid=msedgntp

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 03, 2021, 08:16:11 AM
Quote from: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on September 03, 2021, 07:54:46 AMAs I've said before, Insects Rule!  Very shrewd hitching a ride on Ma Nature's express to greener pastures.  I don't wish the invasion on folks' immaculate beautiful lawns and gardens, BUT I would welcome a few, in hopes of demolishing some of the grass that I have to mow.

"Known to travel 500-plus miles in 24 hours, the moths "can get into the the jet stream and move vast distances, then drop down to find suitable host plants," Shetlar and fellow entomologists Joe Boggs and Curtis Young wrote Monday in a blog post.

"We are still seeing moths being blown up on the hurricane fronts from Southern states," according to Shetlar, who expects the insects to remain an issue until cold weather kills them off."


https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/storms-carrying-grass-destroying-pests-to-northeastern-u-s/ar-AAO3JPZ?ocid=msedgntp



unfortunately many will resort to pesticides  n!n 
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: jwgnc on September 03, 2021, 15:35:55 PM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on September 03, 2021, 08:16:11 AM
Quote from: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on September 03, 2021, 07:54:46 AMAs I've said before, Insects Rule!  
unfortunately many will resort to pesticides  n!n 
The Insects ruling lately in our neighborhood look like Katydids.  Dr Mud - Should I assume the three weak/dead ones on the deck had a night to remember and are like spent spinners?

No pesticides on our land; birds need all the organic food they can get.  The Phoebes and Pewees do well here, although we haven't seen as many this year.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on September 03, 2021, 20:37:25 PM
Quote from: jwgnc on September 03, 2021, 15:35:55 PMThe Insects ruling lately in our neighborhood look like Katydids.  Dr Mud - Should I assume the three weak/dead ones on the deck had a night to remember and are like spent spinners?


Yes, Katydids have a short life cycle I believe.  Also, I think the females only live a week or two after depositing their eggs.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on September 03, 2021, 20:55:55 PM
Moths want to eat all my fruit trees. The only pesticide I use now days is government surplus agent Orange.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 06, 2021, 11:38:53 AM
Think you know your watersheds?

Check out this visualization map...


https://river-runner.samlearner.com/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: jwgnc on September 06, 2021, 17:02:40 PM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on September 06, 2021, 11:38:53 AMThink you know your watersheds?

Check out this visualization map...


https://river-runner.samlearner.com/
Thanks for this!  2898 km to the Gulf from our area
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Phil on September 06, 2021, 18:22:48 PM
Very cool website!  /'/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 07, 2021, 09:01:48 AM
sort of clickbait headlines, but the video gives us a look at the insides of the $2 billion containment building at Chernobyl.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/new-safety-concerns-at-chernobyl-nuclear-site/vi-AAO9jyV
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 08, 2021, 16:22:38 PM
IAEA team in Japan to help prepare Fukushima water release


>>>An International Atomic Energy Agency mission arrived in Japan on Monday to help prepare for a decades-long release into the ocean of treated but still radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, officials said.

The three-member team will meet with officials in Tokyo and travel to the Fukushima Daiichi plant to discuss technical details with experts until Friday, IAEA and Japanese officials said.

The team, headed by Lydie Evrard, head of the IAEA's Department of Nuclear Safety and Security, is gathering information to prepare a review of the discharge plans.

>>>The idea has been fiercely opposed by fishermen, residents and Japan's neighbors, including China and South Korea.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/iaea-team-in-japan-to-help-prepare-fukushima-water-release/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 09, 2021, 08:05:47 AM
WRFARadio · Small Things Considered - Jajean Rose-Burney, WNY Land Conservancy


The Western New York Land Conservancy and the Friends of the Allegany Wildlands are announcing a $310,000 matching gift to save the Allegany Wildlands, a stunning 200-acre forest located only a few hundred feet from the Allegheny Reservoir near Allegany State Park. They need members of the community to donate to match the gift by the end of this year. Every dollar donated will be matched, dollar for dollar. The total fundraising goal to save the Allegany Wildlands is $879,000, and they have to secure that funding by the end of this year. Once that goal is met, the Land Conservancy will purchase the land and keep it open as a publicly accessible nature preserve forever.


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https://www.wrfalp.com/listen-western-new-york-land-conservancy-announces-a-310000-matching-gift-to-save-the-allegany-wildlands/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 13, 2021, 14:00:55 PM
Kansas student's state fair entry triggers a federal spotted lanternfly investigation

Crazy video of this pest


https://youtu.be/Y5FqdEJoqew



https://apple.news/AhbDNCx3CR4OSH_a4BnhrFQ

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on September 13, 2021, 20:29:15 PM
Ah sooooooo..........another gift from China.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on September 14, 2021, 11:04:48 AM
Quote from: Trout Maharishi on September 13, 2021, 20:29:15 PMAh sooooooo..........another gift from China.

Went to visit my old high school football coach yesterday with a couple of pals.  This very topic of invasive species was discussed, and the question arose if we (North America) have introduced invasives to the rest of the world. 

We are not without blame!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/north-american-species-invasive-species-elsewhere-180976530/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Phil on September 14, 2021, 11:20:12 AM
Quote from: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on September 14, 2021, 11:04:48 AM
Quote from: Trout Maharishi on September 13, 2021, 20:29:15 PMAh sooooooo..........another gift from China.

Went to visit my old high school football coach yesterday with a couple of pals.  This very topic of invasive species was discussed, and the question arose if we (North America) have introduced invasives to the rest of the world. 

We are not without blame!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/north-american-species-invasive-species-elsewhere-180976530/


But... but... it's so much more satisfying to blame China.  :laugh:
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dee-Vo on September 14, 2021, 12:11:53 PM
Quote from: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on September 14, 2021, 11:04:48 AM
Quote from: Trout Maharishi on September 13, 2021, 20:29:15 PMAh sooooooo..........another gift from China.

Went to visit my old high school football coach yesterday with a couple of pals.  This very topic of invasive species was discussed, and the question arose if we (North America) have introduced invasives to the rest of the world. 

We are not without blame!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/north-american-species-invasive-species-elsewhere-180976530/


I appreciate this link. I'm now subscribed to Smithsonian Magazine.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on September 14, 2021, 21:52:29 PM
I like the Smithsonian tv channel. Great trade off, we give them potoato bugs, they give us a virus that kills millions. With the amout of imports from around the world they need to sustain their population they are at great risk http://www.china.org.cn/environment/features_analyses/2009-06/03/content_17880215.htm (http://www.china.org.cn/environment/features_analyses/2009-06/03/content_17880215.htm). I remember before the Nixon presidency we had no relations with China. Look at them in a historical context as well as their behavior today. They imprison and kill their citizens by the millions. The is no internet as we know it in China, they have no free speech. They locked citizens down from Covid and wouldn't let them leave their homes, even for food. They let them starve inside their homes. They are aggressive and don't play by our rules, they intend to rule the world. I can not understand why anyone would defend them?
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on September 15, 2021, 08:43:31 AM
I don't believe anyone was defending China.

It ain't a contest, at least I don't think it is.  Interesting discussion though.

I'm not sure of all the nasties we've given the rest of the world.  I know we did not start fast food (I think the Romans and the Greeks did) but I bet the U.S. was instrumental in poisoning the industry with crappy food and introducing the cuisine to the global masses.  Don't misconstrue, I love White Castle and McDonalds.  So, just off the top of my head, without investigating further, I say with fast food obesity, associated heart disease, and ailments like syphilis (still debatable), it might be close to even-steven.  Then if you consider all the nonlethal, but mind deadening, stuff we've bestowed on the world, like Vanilla Ices' "Ice Ice Baby" and Paul Anka's  "(You're) Having My Baby", then we may be the clear winner in the fantasy contest. 
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Yallerhammer on September 15, 2021, 16:35:41 PM
Quote from: Trout Maharishi on September 13, 2021, 20:29:15 PMAh sooooooo..........another gift from China.
After half a lifetime of fighting invasive Chinese plants and insects and diseases, I want to go over there and strow poison ivy and stinging nettle seeds all over their country. And baldfaced hornets and yallerjackets and saddleback caterpillars and oak slugs. And cottonmouths.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 22, 2021, 12:36:09 PM
https://www.instagram.com/p/CUIVGpdLCbQ/


Pawpaw trees being planted!

"We received several, over-ripe pawpaw fruit form one of our easement landowners this week. The American pawpaw is a tree native to our area that produces the largest edible fruit native to the US and it is often compared to banana or mango. They are commonly found  growing in fertile bottomlands along rivers and streams in WNC The fruit begins to ripen in September and October and are enjoyed by a variety of wildlife, including humans. The larvae of the zebra swallowtail butterfly also feed exclusively on the leaves of American pawpaw trees.

FCNC staff and volunteers spent the morning sifting through the fruit for eh large brown seeds contained within. The seeds were cleaned and placed onto moist paper towels in a large Ziplock bag and will be stored in the refrigerator for at least 120 days in moist, cold storage to mimic the natural conditions of spending the winter on the forest floor. Next spring FCNC staff will plant the seeds on some of its Preserve lands along the Henery Fork River in Burke County."

 
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on September 22, 2021, 13:39:58 PM
I just watched this the other day.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 22, 2021, 14:03:45 PM
Quote from: Trout Maharishi on September 22, 2021, 13:39:58 PMI just watched this the other day.

I just cut in half and pick the seeds out and scoop the fruit with fingers or spoon...

the other day the bunch I collected were too ripe and gushy (i think the guy with the swollen balls friend's cousin, sang a song about that?)
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 28, 2021, 09:12:45 AM
PHOTOS: Old moonshine stills of Stone Mountain State Park

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Bob Hillyer of Elkin Valley Trails Association, looks inside a four-tank, submarine-style moonshine still on the banks of Garden Creek, Tuesday, May 18, 2021 in Stone Mountain State Park. A group of hikers have found more than 120 former moonshine stills in the park, most of which were destroyed by revenuers. Hillyer and fellow EVTA member Joe Mickey will lead still hikes on Thursday and Friday during N.C. Trail Days, which runs June 3-6.

for more photos...

https://journalnow.com/news/local/history/photos-old-moonshine-stills-of-stone-mountain-state-park/collection_96a72d46-bd6c-11eb-8330-a7353b45a97b.html#2


>>>Joe Mickey and Bob Hillyer often stumble upon surprises when they venture off the marked trails in Stone Mountain State Park, and not all of them involve snakes and bears.

WATCH NOW: Stone Moutain stills: Bob Hillyer Video

The two men have developed a nose for finding rusted barrels, jerry cans, yeast containers and other remnants of the area's extensive moonshine history scattered in the folds of the park's 14,300 acres. Over the last 30-plus years, they have discovered and subsequently catalogued about 200 abandoned moonshine sites, most of which are on unmarked trails.

On Thursday and Friday, Hillyer will lead two-mile guided hikes off Garden Creek that will swing past about 10 different sites in the park as part of N.C. Trail Days, a four-day festival in Elkin that celebrates the area's parks and trail

https://journalnow.com/news/local/history/old-moonshine-stills-are-focus-of-guided-hikes-in-stone-mountain-state-park/article_df544790-ba51-11eb-9b33-6795534fe2d9.html
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dee-Vo on September 28, 2021, 09:26:42 AM
There is still so much liquor that comes out of that general area.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on October 02, 2021, 17:57:08 PM
What a hoot!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/a-drunk-man-who-had-been-reported-missing-spent-hours-with-a-search-party-looking-for-himself-report-says/ar-AAP4pvo?ocid=msedgntp
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 02, 2021, 20:06:22 PM
American bumblebee could be officially declared endangered


The species' population has dropped by 89% in the past 20 years.

>>>According to the CBD, the American bumblebee — a vital pollinator of wildflowers and crops across North America — has completely vanished from eight U.S. states — Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, Idaho, North Dakota, Oregon and Wyoming — and in New York state, the species has experienced a population decline of 99%. In 19 other states across the Southeast and Midwest, populations have dropped by more than 50%.

"The American bumblebee was once the most common bumblebee species in North America, but without immediate action to protect it under the ESA, it will continue its alarming decline towards extinction," the petition authors wrote.

The bumblebee's decline is attributed to habitat destruction, exposure to disease and pesticides, climate change, loss of genetic diversity and competition with non-native bees, according to the CBD. In fact, the states with the largest declines in American bumblebee populations "are the same states that have seen the largest quantified increase in pesticide use, including neonicotinoid insecticides and fungicides."

https://www.livescience.com/american-bumblebee-endangered
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on October 03, 2021, 18:35:34 PM
Quote from: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on October 02, 2021, 17:57:08 PMWhat a hoot!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/a-drunk-man-who-had-been-reported-missing-spent-hours-with-a-search-party-looking-for-himself-report-says/ar-AAP4pvo?ocid=msedgntp
Quote from: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on October 02, 2021, 17:57:08 PMWhat a hoot!


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/a-drunk-man-who-had-been-reported-missing-spent-hours-with-a-search-party-looking-for-himself-report-says/ar-AAP4pvo?ocid=msedgntp

Mutlu is living right!  I'm lost, but without the benefit of being intoxicated.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on October 03, 2021, 19:03:35 PM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on October 02, 2021, 20:06:22 PMAmerican bumblebee could be officially declared endangered


The species' population has dropped by 89% in the past 20 years.

>>>According to the CBD, the American bumblebee — a vital pollinator of wildflowers and crops across North America — has completely vanished from eight U.S. states — Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, Idaho, North Dakota, Oregon and Wyoming — and in New York state, the species has experienced a population decline of 99%. In 19 other states across the Southeast and Midwest, populations have dropped by more than 50%.

"The American bumblebee was once the most common bumblebee species in North America, but without immediate action to protect it under the ESA, it will continue its alarming decline towards extinction," the petition authors wrote.

The bumblebee's decline is attributed to habitat destruction, exposure to disease and pesticides, climate change, loss of genetic diversity and competition with non-native bees, according to the CBD. In fact, the states with the largest declines in American bumblebee populations "are the same states that have seen the largest quantified increase in pesticide use, including neonicotinoid insecticides and fungicides."

https://www.livescience.com/american-bumblebee-endangered

Plant gardens the benefit Monarchs, native pollinators. Bumbles love garlic chives, stevia, and many other plants we enjoy as well. Bumbles are far from extinct at my place.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 07, 2021, 08:51:18 AM
Fly Fishing Invented 13,000 Years Ago on the Banks of the Jordan River
The people's manufacture of hooks from animal bones or ivory, for fly fishing or otherwise, was extraordinary. These were the last hunter-gatherers in Israel

And from about 13,000 years ago, they were engaging in advanced fly fishing, says the international team exploring the site, which is called Jordan River Dureijat. The report by Prof. Gonen Sharon of Tel-Hai College in the Galilee and his colleagues appears in the journal PLOS One.

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-fly-fishing-invented-13-000-years-ago-on-the-banks-of-the-jordan-river-1.10272609



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another article...

https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/israel-ancient-fishing-tools/
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Post by: Yallerhammer on October 07, 2021, 17:48:20 PM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on October 02, 2021, 20:06:22 PMAmerican bumblebee could be officially declared endangered


The species' population has dropped by 89% in the past 20 years.

>>>According to the CBD, the American bumblebee — a vital pollinator of wildflowers and crops across North America — has completely vanished from eight U.S. states — Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, Idaho, North Dakota, Oregon and Wyoming — and in New York state, the species has experienced a population decline of 99%. In 19 other states across the Southeast and Midwest, populations have dropped by more than 50%.

"The American bumblebee was once the most common bumblebee species in North America, but without immediate action to protect it under the ESA, it will continue its alarming decline towards extinction," the petition authors wrote.

The bumblebee's decline is attributed to habitat destruction, exposure to disease and pesticides, climate change, loss of genetic diversity and competition with non-native bees, according to the CBD. In fact, the states with the largest declines in American bumblebee populations "are the same states that have seen the largest quantified increase in pesticide use, including neonicotinoid insecticides and fungicides."

https://www.livescience.com/american-bumblebee-endangered
Still plenty of them around here.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 17, 2021, 19:40:02 PM
A long-fought battle for public access to a road leading into the Jefferson National Forest has made its way to the Smyth County Court House.

In a complaint filed in circuit court last Tuesday, Friends of Glade Mountain have asked a judge to declare a .3-mile section of Glade Mountain Road in Atkins a public roadway.

According to the complaint, the public enjoyed access to the road for several decades, saying that the Virginia Department of Transportation maintained the road from approximately 1930 until at least 2007 and that the U.S. Forest Service also maintained the road for a time.


https://swvatoday.com/news/article_c182bf74-c79b-11eb-9685-4bca6a3124b6.html?fbclid=IwAR3jU8MDA7M0nJkxJcur98SPi3FtTNE6Di7_7eAYP56Owqh8MAlLiLCgHPU
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: jwgnc on October 19, 2021, 11:25:43 AM
Rabies Vaccine.jpg

Sept. 29 press release from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services explains ...
The department announced it's working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture "to help prevent the spread of rabies by distributing oral rabies vaccine for wild raccoons along western North Carolina's borders with Tennessee, Georgia and Virginia."
"This bait-drop vaccine program has been shown effective in reducing the number of rabid raccoons and other animals," the department's release stated. "In the past 10 months, Macon County has had 14 confirmed cases of animals with rabies, which is a large increase from previous years."
The bait drop in Macon County should wrap up Oct. 20. Macon notes the vaccines are also effective with foxes and coyotes.
"The vaccine has been shown to be safe in over 60 different species of animals, including domestic dogs and cats," the county states.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 19, 2021, 22:31:30 PM
Now we need to do a doughnut drop for the cops who won't get the vaccine!
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on October 20, 2021, 01:55:58 AM
Rabies is bad again this year. I remember a couple of years ago when the cops went door to door asking about your dogs and wanting to see proof of vaccine. Guess soon it will be Covid vaccine proof.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dougfish on October 22, 2021, 20:23:46 PM
Keith,
You might have to start counting fish.

https://mattlabash.substack.com/p/fish-syphus?r=1emko&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source= (https://mattlabash.substack.com/p/fish-syphus?r=1emko&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=)

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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 22, 2021, 22:20:35 PM
Quote from: Dougfish on October 22, 2021, 20:23:46 PMKeith,
You might have to start counting fish.


I don't have that many fingers and toes
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on October 23, 2021, 01:12:26 AM
I always chuckle a little bit when someone tells me they caught 57, 72, 91 or some number like that. How in the hell can you remember the exact number when the catching is that good. They all kinda run together for me when the numbers get over a dozen or so. I might remember the best couple of fish, but short of having some type of counting device there's no way. At this point I couldn't remember to click the counting device ever time.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 23, 2021, 12:25:19 PM
Quote from: Trout Maharishi on October 23, 2021, 01:12:26 AMI always chuckle a little bit when someone tells me they caught 57, 72, 91 or some number like that. How in the hell can you remember the exact number when the catching is that good. They all kinda run together for me when the numbers get over a dozen or so. I might remember the best couple of fish, but short of haveing some type of counting device there's no way. At this point I couldn't remember to click the counting device ever time.

I know some one, Fred, who uses a counter, jis say'im

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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Yallerhammer on October 23, 2021, 16:20:44 PM
I don't count fish. Except the ones I knock in the head to fry or grill, and that's because I don't wanna go to jail over an 8" rainbow.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on October 24, 2021, 10:42:01 AM
Quote from: Yallerhammer on October 23, 2021, 16:20:44 PMI don't count fish. Except the ones I knock in the head to fry or grill, and that's because I don't wanna go to jail over an 8" rainbow.

You're just keeping count so you know when to go back to the car and drop that first limit off :P
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 28, 2021, 17:09:06 PM
'Shoot it if possible': Bobcat attacks cattle, dog, 2 people in Grayson County, VA, sheriff says


Two people were bitten by a bobcat in Grayson County, Virginia, on Wednesday.


The bobcat reportedly attacked cattle, a dog and bit two people. One victim was flown to the hospital by helicopter, the sheriff said.

Officers searched the Flat Ridge area but did not locate the animal.

"Residents in the area were warned to be on the lookout for the bobcat and to shoot it if possible," the sheriff said Thursday.

https://www.wxii12.com/article/bobcat-attacks-cattle-dog-grayson-county-virginia/38090488#
WXII video news reporter says coyote so its either a bobcat or a coyote ....


Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on October 28, 2021, 18:06:29 PM
Rabies, probably a black panther.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 16, 2021, 15:39:10 PM
This is an article about my Scottish relative

IAIN WILSON IS MANAGER OF THE FISHING DEPARTMENT AT THE Borders Gunroom in St Boswells on the River Tweed. He's a great catcher of salmon but is best known as the man behind the much-Ioved Posh Tosh salmon fly. He was born in East Kilbride. Tragically, his father died when he was just three years old, leaving his mother to raise three children on a war widow's pension.
He lost his mother when he was 17 and moved in with his elder sister Elaine. As a child, Iain always loved the outdoors, spending any and all unsupervised time chasing trout in the River Calder, occasionally resulting in a free ride home from the police, a knock on the door and "Is this yours?" Recognising this passion, Elaine steered Iain to the Borders college to study for a iife in the corlntryside.
A work placement at the Bemersyde beat followed as a seasonal gillie under the tutelage of Eric Stevenson and Ian Farr. Iain netted a 4Olzlb salmon for Mr Ken Beattie in October 1989, which he said was "Huge. The biggest I've ever seen." A deep connection to the river and the Borders landscape had been sparked.
Iain and I fi.rst met on Deeside, at the Invery & Tilquhillie beat, as weeagerly awaited the first cast of a new season.

download the rest of the article here: ianWilson.pdf
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 17, 2021, 09:23:58 AM
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on November 17, 2021, 15:38:53 PM
I was about 30 before I realized everybody is fucked up to some degree. Never worried much about it since then.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on November 19, 2021, 20:47:54 PM
Some time ago, a collection of Fulbright scholars from Turkey, Georgia, Russia, Mali, and India came to visit my wife's classroom and others within the school.  She is a heavily involved with UNC World View and pretty much runs the global ed program at her school.  During the course of interactions, agreements were made to conduct zoom meetings with classrooms around the world.  Yesterday, some of the students at our backwater local school had the opportunity to share a class meeting with a Russian English class.  This Russian school was located about 40 miles north of Moscow. The pupils were well dressed and groomed, and spoke clear English, and the teacher was quite rigid, but very determined and focused. The Americans involved in this meeting came away being both intrigued, and a bit sad.  The Russians were multilingual, looked and sounded far more professional than the locals. This experience was a gut punch for some, but the local lads are craving for more interaction with other youth all over the globe.   American youth needs more of this type of interaction. It was kind of the Russians to agree to meet at 7 PM their time.



Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on November 23, 2021, 19:53:45 PM
https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-next-great-casualty-of-climate-change-could-be-global-fishing-stocks-203726802.html

"Fifteen years ago in rural parts of the state, people would say, 'Oh, this is just some Ivy League invention,'" Merkley said. Today those same constituents, many of whom are fishermen, understand that "the trout streams were warmer and smaller, and it affects them."

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on December 04, 2021, 19:25:17 PM
Jeff J aka Fish Whisperer hammered the largemouth today on one of NC's Piedmont rivers. Look for dark deep pools where the bottom cannot be seen.  24 were caught, mostly on the long rod.  Full sink with clousers, deceivers, or whatever looks like a baitfish.  Crappies are hitting large woolly buggers. Largest bass hooked was about 4 pounds.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dee-Vo on December 05, 2021, 10:41:21 AM
Quote from: Onslow on December 04, 2021, 19:25:17 PMJeff J aka Fish Whisperer hammered the largemouth today on one of NC's Piedmont rivers. Look for dark deep pools where the bottom cannot be seen.  24 were caught, mostly on the long rod.  Full sink with clousers, deceivers, or whatever looks like a baitfish.  Crappies are hitting large woolly buggers. Largest bass hooked was about 4 pounds.

I seen that. Fun stuff.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 09, 2021, 09:15:35 AM
Helping out the trout at Canyon Creek


Built to carry 100-year floods, the concrete rectangular tube flows with huge velocity during spring runoff, but is barely inches deep with water in fall. This creates problems for brown trout during low flow, as they struggle to swim the culvert. Rainbow trout spawn in the spring and are also affected, with flow velocities preventing some from getting through. During spawning, hundreds of trout stack up in the pool below the culvert. The mouth of the creek has fishing closures in spring and fall to protect these reproducing fish.

To fix the problem, the project's engineer modeled different features for the floor of the culvert to determine how to simultaneously slow flows and make them deeper. The best model called for a combination of hemispheres and baffles that create a less direct flow of water and help water pool. Baffles resemble the tire stops common in parking lots. In this case, the contractor cast more than 300 hemispheres and more than 20 baffles. Both shapes were cast in concrete off site, and then later glued and grouted into the floor of the culvert.


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https://www.soprissun.com/2021/12/08/helping-out-the-trout-at-canyon-creek/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dougfish on December 10, 2021, 08:29:17 AM
Read:
https://www.gothamcanoe.com/scent-of-deer-descent-of-man/ (https://www.gothamcanoe.com/scent-of-deer-descent-of-man/)
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 11, 2021, 15:42:52 PM
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And that's why I didn't got fishing today
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on February 06, 2022, 19:32:24 PM
My brother in law's pet bull died.  Tis a very sad day.

Dee's devotion to the cattle in the community (Evant TX) is second to none.  He did not loose one head during last year's freakish freeze.  He hauled and carried water day and night.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on February 09, 2022, 18:00:57 PM
"A giant bull moose spent an hour trampling a dog sled team in Alaska even after the owner emptied her gun into the animal.
Bridgett Watkins and her team of dogs were attacked by the moose last week while on a 52-mile run. Three dogs needed surgery.
Musher advice; carry a bigger gun."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/giant-moose-tramples-dog-sled-182028294.html
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: greg on February 09, 2022, 23:32:28 PM
Damn that would be scary.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dougfish on February 17, 2022, 19:03:39 PM
For my zip code:
Tomorrow's daylight will be 2 minutes and 14 seconds longer than today.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on February 17, 2022, 19:25:24 PM
Quote from: Dougfish on February 17, 2022, 19:03:39 PMFor my zip code:
Tomorrow's daylight will be 2 minutes and 14 seconds longer than today.

Tomorrow may have 2 minutes and 14 seconds more of daylight, but it will be the same length as every other day, 24 hours. <-;:
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on February 18, 2022, 18:24:39 PM
Are the friars getting baked?

I've not listened to or entertained any person of religion in many moons, except maybe Big J on occasion. 

Now, I would heed a ripped friar.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/catholic-church-filed-lawsuit-over-permeating-odor-of-cannabis-smoke/ar-AAU2BSD?ocid=msedgntp
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on February 19, 2022, 07:52:42 AM
Although content size may have shrunk on some items over the years, they hung in there for a long time, and for that they have earned my loyalty. Ten bits for a loaf of bread is still a pretty good deal in this day and age.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/business/dollar-tree-price-increase.html#:~:text=Dollar%20Tree%20will%20raise%20the%20prices%20of%20most,a%20successful%20test%20of%20the%20new%20pricing%20strategy.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on February 21, 2022, 21:22:49 PM
It feels like 1979 all over again.  Inflation, social chaos, high crime, and heavy equipment heading to DC.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on March 06, 2022, 21:12:49 PM
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/breaking-invasive-smallmouth-bass-caught-within-spitting-distance-of-yellowstone-national-park/ar-AAUEonm?ocid=msedgntp
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 06, 2022, 21:21:42 PM
Quote from: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on March 06, 2022, 21:12:49 PMhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/breaking-invasive-smallmouth-bass-caught-within-spitting-distance-of-yellowstone-national-park/ar-AAUEonm?ocid=msedgntp
Rut rough

Did he kill it?


https://youtu.be/sT5zNQUjJuo

Guess not
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on March 10, 2022, 20:56:16 PM
This is interesting.  Sounds great if it works, and there are no unforeseen ecosystem woes.  Seems a bit risky to me, because as the article states, "Once released into the environment, genetically engineered mosquitoes cannot be recalled."

I worked with radioactive Aedes aegypti years ago on a project at Oak Ridge TN, but it was in a controlled, isolated lab.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/billions-of-genetically-modified-male-mosquitos-will-be-released/ar-AAUTfrV?ocid=msedgntp
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on March 10, 2022, 22:13:23 PM
I hope it works. I have some around my house that can stand flat footed and screw a turkey.  :laugh:
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 13, 2022, 09:45:13 AM
The newest way to float down the James River is 200 years old

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>>>n Central Virginia, when you tell someone you're going to float the river, that typically means you're hitting the James on an inflatable tube with a cooler full of beer in tow. But now a new tour company is offering a bygone way to travel in a vessel that ruled the river's rapids more than 200 years ago.

In the late 18th and 19th centuries, bateaux, flat-bottomed pole boats, navigated the tempestuous James, bringing cash crops such as tobacco, flour and later coal to the Eastern Seaboard. One of the first references to this economically transformative armada was written by Thomas Jefferson in 1775 when he noted in his diary that one bateau could carry 11 hogsheads or 11,000 pounds of tightly packed tobacco. An enormous shift from the costly and exhausting process of rolling hogshead barrels by land over bumpy roads behind oxen, bateaux would help open the Virginia frontier and fill the pockets of the farmers who stocked them.

Doing the heavy lifting, however, were crew members — usually enslaved people, freedmen or poor White people — extraordinary watermen who poled their flotillas to market in Richmond. In fact, between 1820 and 1840, some 1,500 bateaumen operated 500 boats along the river. Today, outdoor and history enthusiasts annually re-create their journey each June from Lynchburg to Maidens during the eight-day James River Batteau Festival.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/03/10/james-river-bateau-virginia/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 13, 2022, 11:53:10 AM
"There's an app for that!"


Road to table: Wyoming's got a new app for claiming roadkill

>>> LANDER, Wyo. (AP) — The aroma of sizzling meat in melted butter wafts from a cast iron pan while Jaden Bales shows his favorite way to cook up the best steak cuts from a big game animal.

The deep red backstrap pieces, similar to filet mignon of beef, are organic and could hardly be more local. They're from a mule deer hit by a car just down the road from Bales' rustic home in a cottonwood grove beneath the craggy Wind River Range.

Bales was able to claim the deer thanks to a new state of Wyoming mobile app that's helping get the meat from animals killed in fender benders from road to table and in the process making roads safer for critters.

State wildlife and highway officials rolled out the app — possibly the first of its kind in the U.S. — this winter when Wyoming joined the 30 or so states that allow people to collect roadkill for food.

https://apnews.com/article/technology-lander-wyoming-animals-lifestyle-47a2c9bc266d5b52f724fd2126bfc366
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on March 13, 2022, 13:16:59 PM
One of the Eden river outfitters used to have a bateau and would offer trips down the Dan R.  Last I saw it was under water at the Hamilton St canoe access in Eden a number of years ago.
Downtown Eden also had a nice mural showing a historic depiction of river transport. A few years ago it was removed and replaced with another mural. I liked the old one better, but I don't recall being asked for my opinion. 🤔
Just another piece of Eden history gone by the wayside.
https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=63054
213B320E-CD66-4EB1-9576-D82445789AA5.jpeg
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on March 15, 2022, 20:02:55 PM
While speaking with a customer at Smith Mt lake today, 30 plus carp were spotted in a cove getting a sun tan. They were punes, but.....carp season is back!!
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on March 16, 2022, 09:14:51 AM
Quote from: Onslow on March 15, 2022, 20:02:55 PMWhile speaking with a customer at Smith Mt lake today, 30 plus carp were spotted in a cove getting a sun tan. They were punes, but.....carp season is back!!

Those SML carps are a real challenge on the fly. Many have been reared on hot dog and hamburger buns, corn chips, popcorn and cracker jacks. I've been at cookouts up there where pretty much any kind of people food was scoffed up immediately, but getting them to take my flies was extremely frustrating. Perhaps a popcorn imitation would be the ticket.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on March 17, 2022, 08:28:06 AM
To all the Micks out there.
"May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future"
                                 (Old Irish blessing)

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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on March 17, 2022, 08:54:14 AM
Fascinating stuff!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/extinct-human-species-how-different-were-they-from-us/ss-AAVbCfY?ocid=msedgntp
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on March 18, 2022, 06:20:48 AM
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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on March 18, 2022, 06:42:21 AM
Quote from: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on March 17, 2022, 08:54:14 AMFascinating stuff!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/extinct-human-species-how-different-were-they-from-us/ss-AAVbCfY?ocid=msedgntp


I wonder if they've all had as much desire as we to eliminate one another. 🙁
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on March 18, 2022, 08:08:41 AM
Quote from: trout-r-us on March 18, 2022, 06:42:21 AM
Quote from: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on March 17, 2022, 08:54:14 AMFascinating stuff!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/extinct-human-species-how-different-were-they-from-us/ss-AAVbCfY?ocid=msedgntp


I wonder if they've all had as much desire as we to eliminate one another. 🙁

I doubt it.  There were far fewer of them, and much more space to meander about. 

Plus, they surely must have got along because they fornicated with each other and their similar species, and many of us even today carry those traits.  This is something I knew at an early age from attending that Methodist church and reaffirmed later in life after meeting some of my first wife's relatives.  My hunch is they were more understanding, compassionate, and randy towards each other and other species than modern Homo sapiens.  Think about it, how many of us would engage in coitus with Marjorie Taylor Greene?

http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/anthropology/humans-hominin-introgression-07438.html

https://www.history.com/news/denisovans-interbreeding-discovery
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 18, 2022, 09:17:00 AM
Quote from: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on March 18, 2022, 08:08:41 AMThink about it, how many of us would engage in coitus with Marjorie Taylor Greene?


any port in a storm....
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: jwgnc on March 18, 2022, 10:15:16 AM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on March 18, 2022, 09:17:00 AM
Quote from: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on March 18, 2022, 08:08:41 AMThink about it, how many of us would engage in coitus with Marjorie Taylor Greene?


any port in a storm....
I've known guys who would fu(k a wood pile if they thought there was a rabbit in it.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 23, 2022, 11:57:59 AM

Plan to reconnect the Colorado River for the first time since 1985 gets major donation
Plan championed by Trout Unlimited for 1-mile channel around Windy Gap Reservoir would restore flows and allow fish passage

>>>brand new stretch of the Colorado River is closer to reality in Grand County.

A $2 million donation by PepsiCo has pushed a consortium led by Trout Unlimited closer to its $27.1 million plan to build a 1-mile channel around the Windy Gap Reservoir, which has blocked fish passage and separated the river since it was built in 1985.

"It's a very generous contribution," said Mely Whiting, the attorney for Trout Unlimited who has led the Colorado River Headwaters Connectivity Project for more than a decade. "We are close. So close to a new mile of the Colorado River."

Northern Water's Windy Gap Reservoir has never been popular. It cuts the Colorado River in half, preventing unfettered flows and injuring trout populations. In the early 2000s, biologists found Windy Gap Reservoir, below Granby, harbored the worms with the parasites that cause whirling disease and was a major contributor to infecting wild rainbow trout populations in the Upper Colorado River.

https://coloradosun.com/2022/03/22/colorado-river-connectivity-project-windy-gap/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 29, 2022, 08:58:19 AM
Six endangered foods worth saving

Volumes of these historic and valuable crops and livestock have been decimated in recent years. But the fightback to save them is on




https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/supply-chain/six-endangered-foods-worth-saving/665998.article
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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on March 30, 2022, 13:19:55 PM
We continue to learn.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/primordial-helium-from-billions-of-years-ago-seems-to-be-leaking-out-of-earth-s-core/ar-AAVE5JH?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=11f9d694b8744c03a1920e64279b0665
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on March 31, 2022, 09:19:24 AM
Pay no attention to #9 and #14 (spiders).  Someone was not paying attention in school.

But the others are indeed attractive.  Of the lot, #13, the Spiny Flower Mantis, would be my number 1.
 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/the-15-most-beautiful-insects-in-the-world/ss-AATPWDA?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=ee2e39d27b1b4b54b5a2750d159d3408#image=1

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on April 04, 2022, 07:48:38 AM
Now this is hilarious and illuminating!!!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fox-viewers-are-less-likely-to-believe-lies-after-being-paid-to-watch-cnn-for-30-days-study/ar-AAVP1x6?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=15fa54fc6c8341a48ee11578d8e823f6
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 06, 2022, 07:39:01 AM
another case of crazy...


Stokesdale woman charged with DWI, leading troopers on high-speed pursuit in Greensboro

V=At 8:36 a.m., troopers were on routine patrol near Joseph M. Bryan Boulevard and Holden Road in Greensboro when a trooper saw a speeding vehicle behind them.

Kimberly Smith Quate, 48, of Stokesdale, was driving south on Joseph M. Bryan Boulevard in a 2003 Mitsubishi Galant when she passed a marked State Highway Patrol vehicle, the release says.

Troopers say Quate was going 101 in a 65 mph zone.

A trooper tried to stop the vehicle, and a pursuit began.

The pursuit lasted around five minutes before Quate stopped her vehicle in a public area of Wesley Long Hospital in Greensboro.

She was cited with multiple motor vehicle violations to include:



https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/greensboro/stokesdale-woman-charged-with-dwi-leading-troopers-on-high-speed-pursuit-in-greensboro/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on April 06, 2022, 08:48:31 AM
I'm impressed that an '03 Mitsubishi Galant could do 101 mph.  :o
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 06, 2022, 08:55:40 AM
Quote from: trout-r-us on April 06, 2022, 08:48:31 AMI'm impressed that an '03 Mitsubishi Galant could do 101 mph.  :o

https://youtu.be/78fQg17cLc0

150 MPH!!!
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on April 06, 2022, 15:21:17 PM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on April 06, 2022, 07:39:01 AManother case of crazy...
  • Woman
  • DWI
  • 8:36 a.m
  • 110 in a 65


Stokesdale woman charged with DWI, leading troopers on high-speed pursuit in Greensboro

V=At 8:36 a.m., troopers were on routine patrol near Joseph M. Bryan Boulevard and Holden Road in Greensboro when a trooper saw a speeding vehicle behind them.

Kimberly Smith Quate, 48, of Stokesdale, was driving south on Joseph M. Bryan Boulevard in a 2003 Mitsubishi Galant when she passed a marked State Highway Patrol vehicle, the release says.

Troopers say Quate was going 101 in a 65 mph zone.

A trooper tried to stop the vehicle, and a pursuit began.

The pursuit lasted around five minutes before Quate stopped her vehicle in a public area of Wesley Long Hospital in Greensboro.

She was cited with multiple motor vehicle violations to include:



https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/greensboro/stokesdale-woman-charged-with-dwi-leading-troopers-on-high-speed-pursuit-in-greensboro/

Nothing like a little day drinking and a scenic drive.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 13, 2022, 09:14:12 AM
One person is recovering after being rescued from the Smith River in the Ridgeway District in Henry County.

It happened around 5:20 p.m. on Sunday, April 10. That's when the 911 Center received a distress call from along the river. The initial report stated that someone was off the roadway and would an ATV would be needed to access that person. However, after the Ridgeway District Volunteer Rescue Squad arrived, they found the person was still on a rock in the river and needed swift water rescue.

https://www.wfxrtv.com/news/local-news/southside-virginia-news/one-recovers-after-water-rescue-from-smith-river-in-henry-county/


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The approximate location of where the person was rescued on Sunday evening

A person was rescued Sunday evening in a swift-water rescue operation in Henry County.
At around 5:20 p.m., emergency services were called to the 1000 block of Meeks Road for a person in distress.
Once first responders arrived, they say they walked into the woods and found the patient along the Smith River on a rock.

The Ridgeway District Volunteer Rescue Squad responded with units 600, 601, 631, 635, 636, and Boat6, which include an all-terrain vehicle.
Boat6 was launched into the river and found the patient was "immobilized," according to the Ridgeway rescue squad.

https://www.btw21.com/post/person-rescued-from-smith-river-in-henry-county


more detailed report in the Martinsville Bulletin

https://martinsvillebulletin.com/news/local/swift-river-rescue-unit-saves-person-on-smith-river/article_472813b8-b9b3-11ec-a95b-2ff876381672.html
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on May 22, 2022, 19:21:03 PM
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/piedmont-lithium-mine_n_62869f4be4b0933e7362d58c

This is worth reading.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 23, 2022, 10:10:08 AM
R.I.P.

Man fly fishing in Monroe County Pennsylvania found dead

State police say an 81-year-old man was fly fishing in the area of Brodhead Creek near Stroudsburg Sunday afternoon when he fell into the water.

The man was swept downstream while the victim's friend called emergency services.

https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/monroe-county/fisherman-found-dead-in-monroe-county-philadelphia-man-stroudsburg-brodhead-creek-death-investigation/523-64a907c9-0872-4347-ac55-9c2905ed09eb
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dee-Vo on May 23, 2022, 10:16:52 AM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on May 23, 2022, 10:10:08 AMR.I.P.

Man fly fishing in Monroe County Pennsylvania found dead

State police say an 81-year-old man was fly fishing in the area of Brodhead Creek near Stroudsburg Sunday afternoon when he fell into the water.

The man was swept downstream while the victim's friend called emergency services.

https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/monroe-county/fisherman-found-dead-in-monroe-county-philadelphia-man-stroudsburg-brodhead-creek-death-investigation/523-64a907c9-0872-4347-ac55-9c2905ed09eb

Sounds like the start of a John Galligan novel. Although disheartening, I can think of much worse ways to go than this.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 23, 2022, 15:01:36 PM
Quote from: Onslow on May 22, 2022, 19:21:03 PMhttps://www.huffpost.com/entry/piedmont-lithium-mine_n_62869f4be4b0933e7362d58c

This is worth reading.


ATACAMA DESERT, May 19 (Reuters) - On the white plains of Chile's lithium-rich Atacama desert, bright pink flamingos enliven the sprawling salt flats where sporadic blue pools provide much needed hydration.

But flamingo numbers are falling, with a new study linking this to the water extracted by mining firms to pump up brine filled with lithium, the metal used to make batteries for mobile phones, laptop computers and electric vehicles.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/chiles-atacama-lithium-mining-stirs-fight-over-flamingos-2022-05-19/

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 20, 2022, 08:39:48 AM
Video: An Osoyoos rattlesnake hitches ride in Ferrari to Vancouver

Meet Enzo Ferrari, a Northern Pacific rattlesnake with a need for speed.

Last week, the rattlesnake hitched a ride from Spirit Ridge Lodge in Nk'Mip, Osoyoos to the Ferrari dealership in Vancouver.

The Wildlife Rescue Association of B.C. Support Centre Helpline received a call about a snake spotted inside a Ferrari and they were sent a picture.


"To our surprise, a photo determined it wasn't a local Garter snake, but a Northern Pacific Rattlesnake," said the wildlife rescue.

https://www.saobserver.net/news/video-an-osoyoos-rattlesnake-hitches-ride-in-ferrari-to-vancouver/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 22, 2022, 10:27:17 AM
Next construction phase of Dick and Willie Passage to begin next month

>>>HENRY COUNTY, VA – Trail enthusiasts will soon have more ground to cover as construction of Phase 6A of the Dick and Willie Passage will get underway next month.


Once the additional 1.75 miles is constructed, there will be approximately 9.5 miles of paved trail along the former railroad passage.


"The Dick and Willie Passage is an absolute gem for our community and we couldn't be more excited to start Phase 6A of the project," said Henry County Administrator Tim Hall. "Projects like these don't happen overnight. Our Board of Supervisors and community partners deserve credit for having the fortitude to see it to its completion."

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https://www.btw21.com/post/next-construction-phase-of-dick-and-willie-passage-to-begin-next-month
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on June 23, 2022, 07:32:02 AM
It has been very dry in the upper Yadkin Valley lately with few pop up storms.  The pop up storms are the primary culprit for muddy flows.  The Yadkin is clear and low, prime conditions for fishing.  This should hold through the 4th. Those seeking solitude should avoid Elkin on the weekends.  It has turned into a major cluster over the years, much like the Dan.

There is an unofficial access at Rockford, and one can get out at Siloam on the NW side of the bridge, but it isn't easy.  Aforementioned section sees the least amount of use.  A camper from Shoals > Yadkinville Rd would not be a bad choice either. There is a couple miles of backwater ahead of the water intake dam a mile from the takeout.

Not sure how the river has been impacted by years of poor recruitment due to persistent high water.

Also, there is bridge construction at Rt. 67 so the access at East Bend is closed.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Ronbo on June 23, 2022, 10:25:47 AM
I have had reasonable success on the Yadkin so far this year.  Not a ton of fish, but quality fish.  I have caught more spotted bass than I would like, but they pull and will readily eat a clouser.  I agree that the next 10 days or so should be really good if we don't get any storms. I don't mind saying that I am fishing from Roaring river to Elkin and then also wading at Shoals.  Both areas seem to be producing about the same for me.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on June 26, 2022, 05:52:51 AM
I did a quick lap down the Yadkin Friday from Burch to Yadkin Shores with my son.  Did a little fishing along the way.  Didn't boat any, but had several chases near the Mitchell, but as most know, the bite can be very spotty.

The Pee Dee below Blewett Falls lake has great flows as well as the Roanoke at Roanoke Rapids. The Roanoke between Rt 42 and Weldon is a worthwhile.  Not only does it have stripers year round, it is also a great place to catch a 4-5 pound bass on topwater. The key to catching stripers this time of year is being on the water at 5:30 AM -8AM.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on July 06, 2022, 16:11:34 PM
It is July 6, and we're at 6 inches of rainfall for the month of July after only getting .4 in June.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on July 07, 2022, 19:59:41 PM
It is now the 7th, and the rainfall total for the month is now over 9 inches.  We just had 2 inches in 15 minutes, 3 inches total in about 30 minutes.  I've never seen rain like this.  This is insanity. I don't even want to look in the basement.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on July 10, 2022, 16:23:46 PM
11 inches of rain in Elkin for July thus far.....
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Phil on July 10, 2022, 16:40:25 PM
Quote from: Onslow on July 10, 2022, 16:23:46 PM11 inches of rain in Elkin for July thus far.....

Pretty weird how localized it can be. We finally got 2 1/2 inches this morning and today, but have had very little this month until this rain. Also, almost none in June. Other areas around us have gotten several heavy storms recently that have passed us by with hardly a drop.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on July 11, 2022, 21:13:57 PM
While working at OKI today, I glanced down at the golf course pond about 15 yards away, and damn,a 10-11 foot gator that probably weighed 400 was cruising on the top. Later in the day, a young lady reached in to grab a ball.  Just a matter of time.  The head on that thing is as wide ad my chest.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on July 29, 2022, 07:20:17 AM
One gaging site on the NF Kentucky crested at a flow exceeding 50k. This rate of flow is around 500 cfs per sq mile. This is on par with the intensity of flooding experienced in Amherst county VA after hurricane Camille. Most watersheds do not exceed 100-200 cfs per sq mile flows, especially large ones such as this.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on August 01, 2022, 12:14:13 PM
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/giant-colorado-brook-trout-breaks-75-year-old-state-record/ar-AA10bVKo?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=9220862283fe43ac9b0a4e5c3a7312d5


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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on August 03, 2022, 19:46:02 PM
FYI, new front load washers of nearly all makes and models have piss poor water discharge pumps.  In other words, if you have soiled clothes, take them to the laundromat. I seriously thinking about purchasing a hand crank ringer washer being I'm tired of dealing with poorly designed and constructed washers.

Fridge interface panel is gone too.  Had it for three months. $2.7K POS GE. I may not have an ice maker for 3 months, and have no room for ice trays. I'm missing the old school fridges.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 03, 2022, 22:34:15 PM
I went with a top loader - no complaints
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Phil on August 04, 2022, 06:40:03 AM
Top load washer and dryer plus a fridge with no ice maker bought new a year ago. No complaints so far -- keeping fingers crossed. I don't, however, expect them to last 25 years like my last appliances. New stuff is shit.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dee-Vo on August 04, 2022, 07:31:29 AM
Quote from: Onslow on August 03, 2022, 19:46:02 PMFYI, new front load washers of nearly all makes and models have piss poor water discharge pumps.  In other words, if you have soiled clothes, take them to the laundromat. I seriously thinking about purchasing a hand crank ringer washer being I'm tired of dealing with poorly designed and constructed washers.

Fridge interface panel is gone too.  Had it for three months. $2.7K POS GE. I may not have an ice maker for 3 months, and have no room for ice trays. I'm missing the old school fridges.

You know I can help you with anything furniture/appliance related. If you have any issue all you have to do is call to have it serviced in the home. Old-fashioned service, dude.

Also, whether you go with top-load or front-load, you need to purchase Speed Queen. The best BY FAR in the business. And still made in the USA. Also, backed with a very lengthy, impeccable warranty that no other brand will give you.

Let me know if I can help. Still free delivery and setup and disposal. Good luck.

As for the rest of you fellas, anything furniture/appliance/bedding related, I'll hook you up. It's what I do.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on August 04, 2022, 11:01:46 AM
Quote from: Onslow on August 03, 2022, 19:46:02 PMFYI, new front load washers of nearly all makes and models have piss poor water discharge pumps.  In other words, if you have soiled clothes, take them to the laundromat. I seriously thinking about purchasing a hand crank ringer washer being I'm tired of dealing with poorly designed and constructed washers.




We purchased a LG Combination Washer Dryer in early 2017, a front loader.  We needed the space, no room for 2 "white metal boxes". 

It seems to be working fine.  I have no idea if it thoroughly cleans our clothes, and honestly don't care.  If I can't smell myself then I assume clothes and body are tidy, acknowledging that with age comes the loss of smell.  Also, I have no clue if the Mrs. is clean and wearing fresh clothes; we rarely are close enough to tell.

I do think the LG Combo uses less H2O and seems to be energy efficient. 

I believe I have a hand ringer washer stored in my old granary.  If I can locate it, I'll let you know.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on August 04, 2022, 18:47:02 PM
None of the newfangled contraptions seem to hold up like the old stuff.

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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 07, 2022, 23:32:12 PM
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Macro photography: The hidden world of garden insects https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-62425367
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 12, 2022, 12:15:22 PM

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/02/us/sacred-land-rappahannock-tribe-trnd/index.html


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>>>The Rappahannock Tribe, a Native Tribe in Virginia, has reacquired 465 acres of sacred land at Fones Cliff.

Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and US Fish and Wildlife Service Director Martha Williams celebrated the tribe's reacquisiton of the land Friday, according to a press release from the Department of the Interior.

"We have worked for many years to restore this sacred place to the Tribe," said Rappahannock Tribe Chief Anne Richardson, according to the Chesapeake Conservancy. "With eagles being prayer messengers, this area where they gather has always been a place of natural, cultural and spiritual importance."

Fones Cliff is the ancestral home of the tribe, located on the eastern side of the Rappahannock River in Virginia. The area, located inside the Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge, will be publicly accessible and placed in trust with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Tribe plans to educate the public about their history by constructing a replica 16th-century village and expand their "Return to the River" program, which trains Tribal youth in traditional river knowledge and practices.


https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/02/us/sacred-land-rappahannock-tribe-trnd/index.html

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dougfish on August 12, 2022, 16:35:59 PM
Close to hometown.
And also close to one of the finalist locations of our nation's capital. Leedstown, VA. Uppermost deepwater harbor on the river.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on August 12, 2022, 23:58:29 PM
I've got some sacred land I'd like to sell. How do I get in touch with little Debbie? Looks like a good place to build a casino.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on August 19, 2022, 11:51:07 AM
Bugs that look like birds.
These moths are fun to watch.

Wish I knew how to post video on this forum.🤔
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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dougfish on August 19, 2022, 12:40:53 PM
Hummingbird moth.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 19, 2022, 21:45:10 PM
Quote from: trout-r-us on August 19, 2022, 11:51:07 AMWish I knew how to post video on this forum.🤔

UPLOAD your video to youtube or vimeo then post the share link here...


 
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on August 20, 2022, 17:32:14 PM
https://vimeo.com/741486806 (https://vimeo.com/741486806)
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on August 29, 2022, 08:25:08 AM
Unlike humans, even a tree knows how to conserve water.🧐

https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-maple-leaves-turning-yellow-100000100.html

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 30, 2022, 14:59:45 PM
New Jersey town cuts down trees in town square to deter homeless population


New Jersey township cut down all of the shade trees that once lined its town square in a controversial move designed to prevent homeless people from spending time there.

Lakewood Mayor Ray Coles said the decision was made after a recommendation from the Police Department Quality of Life Unit, which the township said was triggered by numerous complaints from residents and township employees about homeless people defecating and urinating in the area.

"They (homeless people) were harassing people, defecating between the cars and residents were complaining," Coles said.

Claudia Romero, who works in a tax preparation company across from the Town Square, said that one day she found human feces on the sidewalk in front of her office and then submitted a complaint to the township. The township did not say how many complaints it received.

Advocates for those who are unhoused say the move was unnecessary and does nothing to help those in need.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-jersey-town-cuts-down-trees-in-town-square-to-deter-homeless-population/ar-AA11hiye?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=630e4c3c4fdb499fbf8e7931c5a8583d


 n!n  :;!
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on August 30, 2022, 19:50:58 PM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on August 30, 2022, 14:59:45 PMNew Jersey town cuts down trees in town square to deter homeless population


New Jersey township cut down all of the shade trees that once lined its town square in a controversial move designed to prevent homeless people from spending time there.

Lakewood Mayor Ray Coles said the decision was made after a recommendation from the Police Department Quality of Life Unit, which the township said was triggered by numerous complaints from residents and township employees about homeless people defecating and urinating in the area.

"They (homeless people) were harassing people, defecating between the cars and residents were complaining," Coles said.

Claudia Romero, who works in a tax preparation company across from the Town Square, said that one day she found human feces on the sidewalk in front of her office and then submitted a complaint to the township. The township did not say how many complaints it received.

Advocates for those who are unhoused say the move was unnecessary and does nothing to help those in need.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-jersey-town-cuts-down-trees-in-town-square-to-deter-homeless-population/ar-AA11hiye?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=630e4c3c4fdb499fbf8e7931c5a8583d


 n!n  :;!

Coming to your town soon. Last time on the way back home from the western part of the state I stopped for a Taco Bell fine dinning experience in West Ashville. They had the bathroom doors locked because they said they were tired of people overdosing in their bath rooms. It's in every city of any size now days.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Phil on August 31, 2022, 08:57:52 AM
That video is some truly depressing shit.  :o
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 31, 2022, 10:20:06 AM
Quote from: Phil on August 31, 2022, 08:57:52 AMThat video is some truly depressing shit.  :o

truly depressing, I regret watching it, as I feel guilty as we're having a Maine Lobster boil for dinner tonight!

https://youtu.be/9bynQvcIxQ8
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 31, 2022, 16:16:00 PM
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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Big J on August 31, 2022, 19:05:43 PM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on August 31, 2022, 10:20:06 AM
Quote from: Phil on August 31, 2022, 08:57:52 AMThat video is some truly depressing shit.  :o

truly depressing, I regret watching it, as I feel guilty as we're having a Maine Lobster boil for dinner tonight!

https://youtu.be/9bynQvcIxQ8

Don't worry, dip some lobster in some creamy butter and you'll forget all the guilt.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 20, 2022, 06:19:15 AM
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 21, 2022, 13:00:08 PM
Scientists reveal how many ants there are across the entire planet: 20,000,000,000,000,000!

https://studyfinds.org/how-many-ants-on-earth/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on October 03, 2022, 14:59:09 PM
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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on October 09, 2022, 06:24:25 AM
Dave's annual open house is the first two Saturdays of November.  I've been buying trees apple trees from Dave off an on since 2004.

https://www.centuryfarmorchards.com/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 15, 2022, 09:02:28 AM
Ancient eel migration mystery unravelled

Scientists have unravelled a mystery surrounding one of nature's most incredible journeys.

Every year, eels leave European rivers to travel in an epic migration to the Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic to breed for a single time, then die.

Although this final destination has long been suspected, until now there has been no direct evidence.

By fitting eels with satellite tags, researchers have tracked the creatures on the final leg of the route.

And they say the information will help in the conservation of the critically endangered species.


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https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63259738

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on October 15, 2022, 10:23:32 AM
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I've only been to starbucks once.  Highly evolved peeps don't go there :P

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 23, 2022, 09:49:41 AM
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It was a crisp fall day when biologist Bernie Kuhajda drove to a nondescript trickle of water running through a Middle Tennessee cow pasture to try to keep a small, brightly colored fish from becoming extinct.

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https://nypost.com/2022/10/21/tiny-tennessee-fish-protected-but-us-has-yet-to-say-where/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=pasteboard_app

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 27, 2022, 11:52:56 AM
What the World Will Lose if Ancient Trees Die Out

Old trees are in big trouble.

Whole forests with fire-resistant giant sequoias up to 3,000 years in age have recently gone up in flames. Whole stands of drought-resistant Great Basin bristlecone pine, a species that can reach 5,000 years in age, have been sucked dry by bark beetles. Monumental baobabs, the longest-living flowering plants, buckle under the stress of drought in southern Africa. The iconic cedars of Mount Lebanon, ancient symbols of longevity, struggle in warmer, drier conditions. Millennial kauris in New Zealand and centenarian olive trees in Italy succumb to invasive diseases.

Cumulatively, this is more than a cyclical turnover. This is a great diminution: fewer megaflora (massive trees), fewer elderflora (ancient trees), fewer old-growth forests, fewer ancient species, fewer species overall.

Although Earth's "tree cover" — three trillion plants covering roughly 30 percent of all land — has expanded of late, the canopy increasingly consists of trees planted for timber, paper pulp and cooking oil and for services such as protecting soil from wind erosion and offsetting carbon emissions. It's young stuff. Old-growth communities are scarce and getting scarcer.



https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/opinion/environment/ancient-trees-sequoia-climate-change.html



Old trees have much to teach us

An expansive global history explores humanity's vexed relationship with venerable plants.


Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees Jared Farmer Basic (2022)


About 45 million years ago, when the Arctic was ice-free, the world's earliest known mummified trees flourished on what is now Axel Heiberg Island in Canada's Qikiqtaaluk Region. In 1986, palaeobotanists identified the megaflora as members of Metasequoia occidentalis, an extinct redwood species. They had been buried in silt, then frozen, their wood preserved.

The lead palaeontologist "celebrated his eureka by kindling a fire with 45-million-year-old twigs and boiling water for tea time," writes historian Jared Farmer in Elderflora, his expansive global history of grand and venerable trees. Granted, these plants had been dead since the Eocene epoch. Nevertheless, as the author describes, the incident is part of a troubling pattern in which scientists rejoice at their discovery of the 'oldest' tree of their time — and then destroy it.


https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03393-1
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 08, 2022, 07:28:59 AM
Climate change threatening 'things Americans value most,' U.S. report says

>>>Climate change is unleashing "far-reaching and worsening" calamities in every region of the United States, and the economic and human toll will only increase unless humans move faster to slow the planet's warming, according to a sprawling new federal report released Monday.

>>>"Over the past 50 years, the U.S. has warmed 68 percent faster than the planet as a whole," the report finds, noting that the change reflects a broader global pattern in which land areas warm faster than the ocean, and higher latitudes warm more rapidly than lower latitudes.

Since 1970, the authors state, the continental United States has experienced 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit of warming, well above the average for the planet.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/11/07/cop27-climate-change-report-us/

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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Phil on November 08, 2022, 07:44:16 AM
I can't hit "like" on that. We're screwed with a capital "F."  :o  b';
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 11, 2022, 08:56:17 AM

Runway Rubber Removal


Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 15, 2022, 19:13:12 PM
Washington Post - Interactive story of the population growth of the world

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/world-population-8-billion/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f003


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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on November 19, 2022, 09:33:49 AM
Sad situation. 🙁

"Absent any meaningful water quality improvements in the short term, feeding manatees this winter is the right thing to do, according to Pat Rose, an aquatic biologist and executive director of the Maitland-based Save the Manatee Club. But remember: It's illegal for the public to feed wild manatees."

"There is no excuse for this die-off to get to where it is. It was well-understood for years that this system was undergoing serious changes with one algal bloom after another," Rose said in an interview. But as overly thin manatees continue to succumb to a lack of forage, feeding is a smart decision — so long as other efforts, like ecosystem restoration, continue at the same time, Rose said."

"We are so far behind the eight-ball that it's going to take so much more to help these animals," Rose said. "But we can't just allow hundreds more manatees to go through this agonizing death like others before them."

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2022/11/16/florida-manatees-feeding-program-indian-river-lagoon/
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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 19, 2022, 18:36:19 PM
Nations have agreed to protect a third of the planet for nature by 2030 in a landmark deal aimed at safeguarding biodiversity.

COP15: Nations reach 'historic' deal to protect nature https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64019324
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 27, 2022, 08:36:36 AM
One careful step at a time through Lebanon's minefields https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-63949280

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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on December 29, 2022, 12:03:01 PM
FOX 10 News Phoenix: Coolidge Dam records highest water level in 5 years, a relief for Arizona farmers.
https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/coolidge-dam-records-highest-water-level-in-5-years-a-relief-for-arizona-farmers
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 29, 2022, 15:53:56 PM
Quote from: Onslow on December 29, 2022, 12:03:01 PMFOX 10 News Phoenix: Coolidge Dam records highest water level in 5 years, a relief for Arizona farmers.
https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/coolidge-dam-records-highest-water-level-in-5-years-a-relief-for-arizona-farmers

Quick, let's water the lawns, and grow more alfalfa to export
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dougfish on January 01, 2023, 16:42:41 PM
I was looking at the bottom of the home page and saw all the upcoming birthdays.  :o
A bunch of 53 y.o.'s.
April of '69 was a doinking good month.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 01, 2023, 19:39:26 PM
Quote from: Dougfish on January 01, 2023, 16:42:41 PMI was looking at the bottom of the home page and saw all the upcoming birthdays.  :o
A bunch of 53 y.o.'s.
April of '69 was a doinking good month.

There was a conversion flaw when the board was upgraded and "blank" dob field was converted to jan 1
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 02, 2023, 20:36:45 PM
Listened to a story about this on NPR today...

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cm1yHNrKVFg/?igshid=NDk5N2NlZjQ=

Here are some other articles

New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/technology/chatgpt-ai-twitter.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuonUktbfqYhlSlUbBibJUNMnqBqCgvfeh7c8j2PxNDTQQDcH0_sUH5SN4QHNea9nLZMV7giseeVgYvUpVeAgiahWJVBsQA2l5ZbflJ5cKS9u7Nu9VG9zgpyQAPUyoDLkKzfmd-l1zeS25kqIOXL4G_CKiQ1XLw5npJRvdFmp3GVZhfuWV74ohaQtmKspFZt4Rj0fZSGVvvOOCh12OtWOaxq0-RBhEqgCGmmVxYjAnupGJAZCClvGTmd94XI_7r5eONAWNKX5LH0waV5Dzj1dovhsHhcJ1NBgLAs&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare)

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/13/chatgpt-is-a-new-ai-chatbot-that-can-answer-questions-and-write-essays.html


Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 03, 2023, 22:42:33 PM
Holy thread wrappers

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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on January 04, 2023, 05:20:47 AM
With all the societal problems that beset our nation and the world, let's waste time tying something utterly retarded that probably doesn't catch fish.  Pure genius.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 04, 2023, 09:23:38 AM
I asked the chatbot to write a fishing story for me

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It came to pass that while the Israelites were out toilin' amongst the fields and waters, one man in particular had a passion far different from the others. His name was Finnegan, and he had a zeal for fly fishing 'pon the lakes and rivers of the nation.

One summer's day, Finnegan took up his rod and lines and headed out to one of the nearby streams, where the waters ran clean, and the trout bite was sure. Alas, the waters were slower this day than they had been others, yet his patience did not falter, for it was his faith that no matter the situation, God gives a man the chance to take from the earth what he will, and so Finnegan continued to cast and to wait.

The morning was spent without any river fish biting and by the afternoon, Finnegan was beginning to despair. Just when it seemed he had hit the end of his luck, he felt a tug on the line that had been over an hour still. Drawing in his rod excitedly, Finnegan was greeted with a wild and colorful trout, larger than any he had seen before in the stream.

With trembling hands, Finnegan removed the hook from the fish's mouth, and cast it gently back into the water, knowing full well the bounty provided by God. With a great spirit of thanks, Finnegan gathered up his equipment and made his way back to his village, both joyous and humbled in his single catch.

Such was the miracle of a day of fly fishing and the power of faith that was seen both in the waters, and in Finnegan's heart. Amen.

 
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on January 17, 2023, 21:13:07 PM
https://thespectator.com/life/why-lumberjacks-are-happy-and-youre-not/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 17, 2023, 21:26:45 PM
Quote from: Onslow on January 17, 2023, 21:13:07 PMhttps://thespectator.com/life/why-lumberjacks-are-happy-and-youre-not/

https://youtu.be/FshU58nI0Ts
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 18, 2023, 08:17:46 AM
Quote from: Onslow on January 17, 2023, 21:13:07 PMhttps://thespectator.com/life/why-lumberjacks-are-happy-and-youre-not/

In another study....

Suicide by job: Farmers, lumberjacks, fisherman top list

Among various types of American workers, it is farmers, lumberjacks and fishermen who are most likely to kill themselves, according to a large new study that shows enormous differences of suicide rates across jobs.

Researchers found the highest suicide rates in manual laborers who work in isolation and face unsteady employment. High rates were also seen in carpenters, miners, electricians and people who work in construction. Mechanics were close behind.

http://wapo.st/2992SIr?tid=ss_tw
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 18, 2023, 08:26:47 AM
Locally caught freshwater fish across the United States are likely a significant source of exposure to PFOS and other perfluorinated compounds


Highlights
• PFAS are widely detected in freshwater fish across the United States.

• U.S. EPA fish testing in 2013–2015 had a median PFAS concentration of 11,800 ng/kg.

• Even infrequent freshwater fish consumption can increase serum PFOS levels.

• One fish serving can be equivalent to drinking water for a month at 48 ppt PFOS.

• Fish consumption advice regarding PFAS is inconsistent or absent in the U.S. states.



https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935122024926?via%3Dihub
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on January 18, 2023, 15:25:54 PM
I'm not scared, I drank the water at Camp Lejeune <-;: No really, I did drink the water at Camp Lejeune. :o 
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 21, 2023, 15:40:07 PM
Waze leads to brain haze? Here's why using real maps instead of GPS could prevent dementia

Turning off Waze or your favorite GPS app and using an old-fashioned map may be the best way to fight Alzheimer's disease, a new study reveals. Researchers at McMaster University say orienteering, an outdoor sport that exercises the mind and body through navigation puzzles, can train the brain and stave off cognitive decline. The aim of orienteering is to navigate between checkpoints or controls marked on a special map. In competitive orienteering, the challenge is to complete the course in the quickest time.

For older adults, scientists say the sport — which sharpens navigational skills and memory — could become a useful intervention measure to fight off the slow decline related to dementia onset. They believe the physical and cognitive demands of orienteering can stimulate parts of the brain our ancient ancestors used for hunting and gathering.

https://studyfinds.org/using-real-maps-prevents-alzheimers/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 29, 2023, 16:37:38 PM
Biden protects vast wilderness area in Minnesota from mining
The move comes as the administration faces a string of tough decisions on federal conservation for spots in Alaska and Nevada

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The Biden administration is banning mining for 20 years in a giant watershed near Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the president's latest effort to deliver on conservation pledges that would shape the future of America's wild lands.

The move, announced Thursday, extends a temporary decision from a year ago to block copper, nickel and other hard-rock mining that the Trump administration had tried to greenlight near the Canadian border. Officials said they determined the potential toxic leaching from mining would be too threatening to nature, local Native American communities and a growing recreation economy.

Boundary Waters is the most heavily visited wilderness area in the country, according to the Interior Department. And Thursday's decision will affect 225,000 acres of federal lands and waters in the Rainy River Watershed, which abuts the wilderness area northwest of Lake Superior.


https://wapo.st/3DnmrZz
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 03, 2023, 11:51:35 AM
Land-dwelling rats are upending life for coral reef fish
When rats invade tropical islands, they can trigger a chain reaction that reverberates all the way to coral reefs, researchers say

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The jewel damselfish spends its life underwater, tending to a small patch of algae, oblivious to anything outside its coral reef home.

But the tiny fish, like a marionette, is being pulled by a distant force it does not even know exists.

A rat invasion on isolated islands in the Indian Ocean has led to a remarkable ecological cascade that is upending life not just for the tiny fish, but for species across the coral reefs where it lives.

"It's disrupting the natural order," said Rachel L. Gunn, a coral reef fish ecologist and postdoctoral fellow at Germany's University of Tuebingen.

Around the world, coral reefs are under unprecedented threat. Plastic litter and other pollution are choking fish. Overfishing is shrinking the population of sharks and other endangered animals.

And most alarmingly of all, acidifying waters and rising ocean temperatures are conspiring to dissolve and bleach the vibrant corals that sustain these ecosystems. A leading scientific body, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, warns if Earth warms much more than 2 degrees Celsius, coral reefs will virtually disappear.

Now add rats to that mess.


https://wapo.st/3JIsOKS
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 07, 2023, 15:56:00 PM
While walking in the woods
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Six or more chinooks flew overhead


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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 12, 2023, 10:55:19 AM
Fighting for racial equality in the military
In 1948 President Truman issued an executive order ending segregation in America's armed forces. But the advance was met with resistance. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin looks back at how African Americans' roles in defending our country evolved, and talks with Lloyd Austin, the first Black Secretary of Defense.

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 16, 2023, 10:35:01 AM
What's known about the toxic plume from the Ohio train derailment
Pennsylvania's governor said Norfolk Southern's response to the disaster has put first-responders and residents 'at significant risk'



An Ohio town is reckoning with the aftermath of a train derailment that unleashed highly toxic chemicals into the air, water and ground on Feb. 3, causing a massive fire, displacing residents and threatening public health.

The derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, near the Pennsylvania border, has left residents uncertain and fearful about their town and the toxic mess that raises questions about the area's water and soil.

The Environmental Protection Agency has said the air is safe to breathe and Norfolk Southern, the rail company, has pledged to clean up. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said Tuesday he was "not seeing" the need for further federal assistance, though President Biden had offered it. Without the full extent of contamination known, however, environmental advocates have questioned the response, and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has said Norfolk Southern mismanaged its response to the disaster.


How are wildlife and the environment affected?

About 3,500 fish in four local waterways were killed after contaminants spilled into one waterway as a result of the crash and spread, Ohio Department of Natural Resources Director Mary Mertz said at the Tuesday news briefing. Twelve species of fish were affected, none of which are endangered.

The creeks affected flow into Little Beaver Creek, which is designated as a state scenic river. Wildlife officials will be monitoring the hellbender, an endangered giant salamander, Mertz said, to find out whether any were affected. So far, they haven't found any dead hellbenders.

https://wapo.st/3E94sq4
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 17, 2023, 09:49:05 AM
UFO shot down by $400K US missile may have been a $12 hobby balloon: report


One of the UFOs shot down last weekend by the US Air Force with a $400,000 missile may have simply been a $12 balloon belonging to an Illinois enthusiast club, a report said.

The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade told Aviation Week on Thursday that it fears one of its diligently tracked gasbags that recently went missing was the mystery object taken out by the military over Canada on Saturday.

The Pico Balloon — a silver-coated, cylindrically shaped object — reported its last position at 38,910 feet off the west coast of Alaska on Friday.

By Saturday, based on the balloon's projected path, it would have been over the central part of the Yukon Territory around the same time a military Lockheed Martin F-22 shot down an unidentified object of a similar description and altitude in the same area of Canada, the outlet reported.


>>>The K9YO balloon had circumnavigated the globe six times during a 123-day span before its tracking device went dark Friday. Such balloons usually float around until they're brought down by bad weather or damaged.

The NIBBB's balloon was equipped with a small GPS transmitter and an antenna, allowing the group to track it with a ham radio.

The Air Force used Sidewinder missiles in its targeted attacks against the Chinese spy balloon downed earlier this month and the mystery UFOs taken down last week, Fortune reported. Each missile comes at a price tag of roughly $400,000.


>>>Pico Balloons, however, typically fall between $12 and $180 each depending on the type, Aviation Week reported.




https://nypost.com/2023/02/16/ufo-shot-down-by-400k-us-missile-may-have-been-a-12-hobby-balloon/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on February 17, 2023, 12:35:43 PM
I don't understand why they haven't tried the gun the f22 is equipped with. I would think it would be more than enough to bring down one of these balloons. https://www.gd-ots.com/armaments/aircraft-guns-gun-systems/m61a1/ (https://www.gd-ots.com/armaments/aircraft-guns-gun-systems/m61a1/)
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 17, 2023, 13:07:37 PM
Quote from: Trout Maharishi on February 17, 2023, 12:35:43 PMI don't understand why they haven't tried the gun the f22 is equipped with. I would think it would be more than enough to bring down one of these balloons. https://www.gd-ots.com/armaments/aircraft-guns-gun-systems/m61a1/ (https://www.gd-ots.com/armaments/aircraft-guns-gun-systems/m61a1/)

The balloon that was shot down over the Atlantic was reported to be at 60,0000 feet, 10,000 feet above normal ceiling altitude,??
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: jwgnc on February 17, 2023, 13:10:31 PM
The F-22 was also configured with a less costly weapon.  Wonder why the Sidewinder was chosen.

The M61 Vulcan is a hydraulically, electrically, or pneumatically driven, six-barrel, air-cooled, electrically fired Gatling-style rotary cannon which fires 20 mm × 102 mm (0.787 in × 4.016 in) rounds at an extremely high rate (typically 6,000 rounds per minute).

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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on February 17, 2023, 13:18:58 PM
Ahhhh, lots more to it than I thought b'; https://theaviationgeekclub.com/heres-why-the-usaf-f-22-used-the-aim-9x-rather-than-the-gun-to-shoot-down-the-chinese-spy-balloon-and-why-the-sidewinder-dont-need-to-see-something-hot-in-order-to/ (https://theaviationgeekclub.com/heres-why-the-usaf-f-22-used-the-aim-9x-rather-than-the-gun-to-shoot-down-the-chinese-spy-balloon-and-why-the-sidewinder-dont-need-to-see-something-hot-in-order-to/)
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 17, 2023, 14:50:05 PM
Former Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.) called the ordeal the "Great Balloon Panic of 2023."

"RIP to the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade's ~$80 ham radio transmitter balloon, likely the victim of friendly fire by a $143,000,000 USAF F-22 firing a $485,000 AIM-9X Sidewinder missile during the Great Balloon Panic of 2023," he said in a tweet.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 17, 2023, 23:02:10 PM
BREAKING NEWS
The U.S. ended the search for two of the unidentified objects it shot down, raising the possibility that the devices will never be collected.
Friday, February 17, 2023 10:04 PM ET
American authorities had been trying to reach remote areas of Alaska and Lake Huron for the objects, but on Friday a U.S. official said the conditions made it too difficult to pinpoint them.

 :laugh:  <-;:  :drum
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on February 18, 2023, 00:33:06 AM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on February 17, 2023, 23:02:10 PMBREAKING NEWS
The U.S. ended the search for two of the unidentified objects it shot down, raising the possibility that the devices will never be collected.
Friday, February 17, 2023 10:04 PM ET
American authorities had been trying to reach remote areas of Alaska and Lake Huron for the objects, but on Friday a U.S. official said the conditions made it too difficult to pinpoint them.

 :laugh:  <-;:  :drum

OH MY
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 18, 2023, 09:51:03 AM


Opinion  I bought a gun — and I intend to use it



No, I won't be standing on my roof shooting at UFOs, though apparently that's a thing. Nor am I prepping for when the deep state sends the IRS, CDC and FBI to force me to take an AP African American Studies course, or whatever it is Jim Jordan and Ron DeSantis worry about these days.

But I do plan to be an armed vigilante. I will be wielding my gun against a brutal foe — one that destroys our forests, kills our wildflowers, sickens humans and threatens the very survival of birds, mammals, insects and amphibians.

I am becoming a deer hunter.


>>>Alas, peaceful coexistence with the white-tailed deer is no longer an option. Deer are no longer an adorable nuisance, munching our shrubs and flowers but otherwise minding their own business. They are causing an ecological disaster.

"The entire food web is unraveling," Bernd Blossey, a professor of natural resources at Cornell University, tells me. "I call deer 'ecological bullies,'" he adds — Bambi, a bully! — "taking house and home and the ability to live away from other organisms, whether they're birds, other mammals, insects or plants."

The Nature Conservancy several years ago argued that deer might be "a bigger threat to Eastern forests than climate change." And things have only worsened. Doug Tallamy, an entomologist and wildlife ecologist at the University of Delaware, tells me that white-tailed deer in the East are now "about 14 times over the carrying capacity," meaning the ability of the ecosystem to sustain the species.


>>>Disappearing too are native orchids, trillium, ginseng and a range of wildflowers. With the loss of these and other plants, we lose bees, butterflies, beetles and other insects that feed on them — in turn depriving birds, amphibians and other forest animals of their food.

Perhaps most ominously, the deer overpopulation prevents the growth of new trees, especially oaks, because they eat seedlings and saplings before the trees can mature. When old trees die, there are none to replace them. That means fewer acorns — the staple that allows bears, turkeys, woodpeckers, squirrels, chipmunks, mice and many other species to survive the winter. "The acorns coming out of those oaks make the world go around," says McShea, and "there ain't no oaks coming up."


https://wapo.st/3lPG4Dt
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: troutboy_II on February 18, 2023, 10:00:46 AM
Thanks for that. Really interesting.  'c;  'c;
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 20, 2023, 12:21:23 PM
I was saddened to learn that President Jimmy Carter, whom I voted for in his bid for reelection. has entered hospice at his home.

A nuclear reactor was melting down. Jimmy Carter came to the rescue.
As a 28-year-old Navy lieutenant, Carter was one of the few people on the planet authorized to go inside a damaged nuclear reactor

The world was in the grip of the Cold War in 1952 when a nuclear reactor began melting down.

That reactor, located at Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario, had suffered an explosion on Dec. 12. Radioactive material had escaped into the atmosphere, and millions of gallons of radioactive water flooded into the reactor's basement. Thankfully, no one was injured, but the Canadians needed help to disassemble the reactor's damaged core.

The United States sent 28-year-old Jimmy Carter.

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Lt. Jimmy Carter, center top, in the main control room of submarine USS K-1 in 1952. (U.S. Navy)

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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on February 20, 2023, 17:55:14 PM
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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on February 20, 2023, 21:17:18 PM
Countdown to WW III.  How much time before all hell breaks loose?
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Big J on February 21, 2023, 09:23:53 AM
Quote from: Onslow on February 20, 2023, 21:17:18 PMCountdown to WW III.  How much time before all hell breaks loose?

I'm really just amazed we have made it 78 years without a WW.  Only went 21 years between WWI and WWII.

I'm mixed on whether the US helping Ukraine is speeding up WWIII timeline or slowing it down.  I'm leaning more towards slowing it down.  I think Russia would of been more prone to rolling into Poland if they took Ukraine quickly.  That would of been instant WWIII.  I think by helping Ukrainian stack some Russian bodies and equipment, we might be buying ourselves some more time.  China is seeing what aid and sanctions are going to happen from invading another country, might slow their timeline with Taiwan too.  Also by so many Russian soldiers dying on foreign soil, you might get Russian uprise which is another coin flip if that is good or bad for Russian stabilization long term.

On the flip side of the coin, if Putin gets desperate and mashes the button on Ukraine, we will be speeding up that WWIII timeline. 

All this to say, I'm glad I'm not the one making these decisions.  We are always one crazy decision from a world leader away from WWIII or some apocalyptic scenario.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dougfish on February 21, 2023, 18:21:47 PM
^This.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on February 21, 2023, 23:40:21 PM
Today's news of the nuclear treaty with Russia being put on hold is troubling. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-putin-us-nuclear-weapons-treaty-new-start-suspending-participation/ (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-putin-us-nuclear-weapons-treaty-new-start-suspending-participation/)

Without the US Ukraine would have already been overrun. Take a few minutes and watch these videos. As far as I can tell Peter Zeihan doesn't have any agenda that he's trying to influence.  At first I though the US to some extent provoked this conflict. The expansion of NATO, the placement of missile systems in Poland, the overthrow of an elected government by Obama in 2014 all added fuel to the fire. Zelensky is certainly by no means a choir boy. But with a little research I see there is much more to it than this. The Ukraine war is just the tip of the iceberg.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on February 22, 2023, 06:30:26 AM
Quote from: Trout Maharishi on February 21, 2023, 23:40:21 PMToday's news of the nuclear treaty with Russia being put on hold is troubling. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-putin-us-nuclear-weapons-treaty-new-start-suspending-participation/ (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-putin-us-nuclear-weapons-treaty-new-start-suspending-participation/)

Without the US Ukraine would have already been overrun. Take a few minutes and watch these videos. As far as I can tell Peter Zeihan doesn't have any agenda that he's trying to influence.  At first I though the US to some extent provoked this conflict. The expansion of NATO, the placement of missile systems in Poland, the overthrow of an elected government by Obama in 2014 all added fuel to the fire. Zelensky is certainly by no means a choir boy. But with a little research I see there is much more to it than this. The Ukraine war is just the tip of the iceberg.


Putin is stupid.  If he were not stupid, he would've known that date rape or simple rape diplomacy does not work.  It did not work for the US in Iraq war II. Not only is Putin stupid, he is a coward, and feeble uncle Joe just showed all of Russia what a coward POS Putin really is. Not only is  Putin stupid and a coward, his weaponry sucks.  It isn't America's fault that Putin is stupid.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on February 22, 2023, 06:41:22 AM
I'm not sure what you think makes Putin stupid and a coward? What did Joe do that exposed Putin as a coward? This idea he has of expanding Russia to regain some of the territories that were a part of the USSR is nothing new. He's been pushing those buttons for 20 years now. The first video explained their lack of land with resources or suitable to grow crops. Russia can not sustain its self with the land that it has  We have ruined their trade and banking system, I honestly don't understand why they don't quit and try to get what the need through diplomacy. Russia would make a great trading partner,
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on February 22, 2023, 07:04:12 AM
Quote from: Trout Maharishi on February 22, 2023, 06:41:22 AMI'm not sure what you think makes Putin stupid and a coward? What did Joe do that exposed Putin as a coward?

Putin purposefully lives in a cloud of misinformation, and is delusional.  A person cannot evolve and grow living like a reclusive, mentally ill weirdo.  This Putin person cannot calibrate an effective response to anything because his knowledge foundation is lies.  Facts and good data are everything.  Policy makers here at home should take note of this because US is embracing stupid as well, e.g., wokism and Trumpism.

Body doubles?  How paranoid and cowardly is that?  Basement Joe came out into a warzone to provide moral support, and made a good speech.  Putin is doing the angry hobbit thing.  Mayor Pete and Putin have that in common, lol.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on February 22, 2023, 07:37:26 AM
Valid points. I think he lives in a state of fear of being assassinated. That P239 is some nasty stuff and they are masters at deploying it. The Russians were told Joe was coming and exactly where he would be. No way in hell they kill him and bring the wrath of the US down full force on their heard
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Big J on February 22, 2023, 09:09:18 AM
Quote from: Trout Maharishi on February 21, 2023, 23:40:21 PMToday's news of the nuclear treaty with Russia being put on hold is troubling. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-putin-us-nuclear-weapons-treaty-new-start-suspending-participation/ (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-putin-us-nuclear-weapons-treaty-new-start-suspending-participation/)

Without the US Ukraine would have already been overrun. Take a few minutes and watch these videos. As far as I can tell Peter Zeihan doesn't have any agenda that he's trying to influence.  At first I though the US to some extent provoked this conflict. The expansion of NATO, the placement of missile systems in Poland, the overthrow of an elected government by Obama in 2014 all added fuel to the fire. Zelensky is certainly by no means a choir boy. But with a little research I see there is much more to it than this. The Ukraine war is just the tip of the iceberg.


Few points I want to make. As far as the treaty goes, I argue that it was pretty moot point in 2023.  My understanding is US/Russia haven't inspected each other's nuclear capabilities since 2020.  I'd also suspect that both sides had things going on Nuclear wise that they were hiding from each other. I kind of view that treaty as a facade for the public to feel warm and fuzzy.

As far as the Zelensky criticism, Ukrainian corruption and US forcing a government change, I kind of feel like people are playing both sides of the fence here.  People claim Ukraine back in Obama years was corrupt.  Viktor Yanukovych was President then and was corrupt and a puppet for Putin.  He was ousted and Petro Poroshenko was elected.  This was who you say the US put in.  Zelensky was elected after this.  He was not a career politician and if you look at his record, I'd say he is/was doing a lot of good rooting out the corruption Ukraine historically had.  He most recently cracked down on the officials embezzling relief funds.  The whole US caused a regime change, so Zelensky must be corrupt.  Or the Ukraine has historically been corrupt, so Zelensky must be corrupt seems like a low level intelligence argument that is unsubstantiated.  I think a lot of Americans hate him because he is asking for so much from every country.  But if I was in Zelensky's shoes and fighting a war against Russia, I'd be doing the exact same thing.  You'd want everything and the kitchen sink.

Last point I'd like to make is I really wish you'd remove the upside down American flag.  This really has bothered me with you.  I know we have never met, but I've always enjoyed our conversations on here and agree with a lot of your points you make or your premises.  I don't care who is President of the United States, or how much you despise the way the direction Government has taken.  There have been a lot of people who have died for that Flag and if a simple ideological difference you have with fellow Americans makes you want to fly a flag upside down, I'd argue you never really were a proponent for what that flag stands for.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on February 22, 2023, 11:35:43 AM
Quote from: Big J on February 22, 2023, 09:09:18 AM
Quote from: Trout Maharishi on February 21, 2023, 23:40:21 PMToday's news of the nuclear treaty with Russia being put on hold is troubling. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-putin-us-nuclear-weapons-treaty-new-start-suspending-participation/ (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-putin-us-nuclear-weapons-treaty-new-start-suspending-participation/)

Without the US Ukraine would have already been overrun. Take a few minutes and watch these videos. As far as I can tell Peter Zeihan doesn't have any agenda that he's trying to influence.  At first I though the US to some extent provoked this conflict. The expansion of NATO, the placement of missile systems in Poland, the overthrow of an elected government by Obama in 2014 all added fuel to the fire. Zelensky is certainly by no means a choir boy. But with a little research I see there is much more to it than this. The Ukraine war is just the tip of the iceberg.


Few points I want to make. As far as the treaty goes, I argue that it was pretty moot point in 2023.  My understanding is US/Russia haven't inspected each other's nuclear capabilities since 2020.  I'd also suspect that both sides had things going on Nuclear wise that they were hiding from each other. I kind of view that treaty as a facade for the public to feel warm and fuzzy.

As far as the Zelensky criticism, Ukrainian corruption and US forcing a government change, I kind of feel like people are playing both sides of the fence here.  People claim Ukraine back in Obama years was corrupt.  Viktor Yanukovych was President then and was corrupt and a puppet for Putin.  He was ousted and Petro Poroshenko was elected.  This was who you say the US put in.  Zelensky was elected after this.  He was not a career politician and if you look at his record, I'd say he is/was doing a lot of good rooting out the corruption Ukraine historically had.  He most recently cracked down on the officials embezzling relief funds.  The whole US caused a regime change, so Zelensky must be corrupt.  Or the Ukraine has historically been corrupt, so Zelensky must be corrupt seems like a low level intelligence argument that is unsubstantiated.  I think a lot of Americans hate him because he is asking for so much from every country.  But if I was in Zelensky's shoes and fighting a war against Russia, I'd be doing the exact same thing.  You'd want everything and the kitchen sink.

Last point I'd like to make is I really wish you'd remove the upside down American flag.  This really has bothered me with you.  I know we have never met, but I've always enjoyed our conversations on here and agree with a lot of your points you make or your premises.  I don't care who is President of the United States, or how much you despise the way the direction Government has taken.  There have been a lot of people who have died for that Flag and if a simple ideological difference you have with fellow Americans makes you want to fly a flag upside down, I'd argue you never really were a proponent for what that flag stands for.

This is the same Peter Zeihan that's predicted the downfall of China since 2005.  His agenda?  Seems his agenda is making money off the gullible underlings, at 30 to 40 thousand bucks for speaking engagement.

I have not a damned clue on the comings and goings in the rest of the world, but I ain't believing most so-called pundits.  I am very selective when it comes to my gurus.

As far as flying the American flag upside down, both the left and right have done it.  It is a non-issue with me.  I would compare it to "Let's go Brandon", nothing more than a semi-secret tribal handshake.  Personally I would prefer for some to clearly state what they think.  Say "fuck Biden", or in the case of the inverted American flag, say or fly a flag that says, "We're going to hell fast", or "Damn, I am terrified" or "We're in dire distress".  Hair on your peaches is a good thing I say.

I'd fly this flag upside down, if I had one.   
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on February 22, 2023, 13:30:32 PM
The US has a history of meddling in other countries affairs and continues to do so with Ukraine. Zelensky is another corrupt politician influenced by Russian oligarchs and the US.

QuoteLast point I'd like to make is I really wish you'd remove the upside down American flag.  This really has bothered me with you.  I know we have never met, but I've always enjoyed our conversations on here and agree with a lot of your points you make or your premises.  I don't care who is President of the United States, or how much you despise the way the direction Government has taken.  There have been a lot of people who have died for that Flag and if a simple ideological difference you have with fellow Americans makes you want to fly a flag upside down, I'd argue you never really were a proponent for what that flag stands for.

I will absolutely remove it if it's causing you some type of distress. Yes I do think our government has gone to hell. I have paid a price for my freedoms. I would like to remind you of my involvement with Vietnam servings both as a Navy Hospital Corpsman flying medivacs  from a surgical center in Can Tho (I loaded the wounded and the body bags and bodies wrapped in poncho liners) and I was there a second time a couple of years later as a SAR rescued swimmer/medic aboard a carrier who helped with the evacuation of Vietnam (Operation Frequent Wind) in the spring of 75. I wrote the check and the government cashed it. I hope that squares with you my distress on the current state of the government. I'm an old man now but I would certainly be willing to serve in some capacity (instructor, cook, nurse, truck driver, etc) if needed again.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on February 22, 2023, 13:47:04 PM
Quote from: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on February 22, 2023, 11:35:43 AM
Quote from: Big J on February 22, 2023, 09:09:18 AM
Quote from: Trout Maharishi on February 21, 2023, 23:40:21 PMToday's news of the nuclear treaty with Russia being put on hold is troubling. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-putin-us-nuclear-weapons-treaty-new-start-suspending-participation/ (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-putin-us-nuclear-weapons-treaty-new-start-suspending-participation/)

Without the US Ukraine would have already been overrun. Take a few minutes and watch these videos. As far as I can tell Peter Zeihan doesn't have any agenda that he's trying to influence.  At first I though the US to some extent provoked this conflict. The expansion of NATO, the placement of missile systems in Poland, the overthrow of an elected government by Obama in 2014 all added fuel to the fire. Zelensky is certainly by no means a choir boy. But with a little research I see there is much more to it than this. The Ukraine war is just the tip of the iceberg.


Few points I want to make. As far as the treaty goes, I argue that it was pretty moot point in 2023.  My understanding is US/Russia haven't inspected each other's nuclear capabilities since 2020.  I'd also suspect that both sides had things going on Nuclear wise that they were hiding from each other. I kind of view that treaty as a facade for the public to feel warm and fuzzy.

As far as the Zelensky criticism, Ukrainian corruption and US forcing a government change, I kind of feel like people are playing both sides of the fence here.  People claim Ukraine back in Obama years was corrupt.  Viktor Yanukovych was President then and was corrupt and a puppet for Putin.  He was ousted and Petro Poroshenko was elected.  This was who you say the US put in.  Zelensky was elected after this.  He was not a career politician and if you look at his record, I'd say he is/was doing a lot of good rooting out the corruption Ukraine historically had.  He most recently cracked down on the officials embezzling relief funds.  The whole US caused a regime change, so Zelensky must be corrupt.  Or the Ukraine has historically been corrupt, so Zelensky must be corrupt seems like a low level intelligence argument that is unsubstantiated.  I think a lot of Americans hate him because he is asking for so much from every country.  But if I was in Zelensky's shoes and fighting a war against Russia, I'd be doing the exact same thing.  You'd want everything and the kitchen sink.

Last point I'd like to make is I really wish you'd remove the upside down American flag.  This really has bothered me with you.  I know we have never met, but I've always enjoyed our conversations on here and agree with a lot of your points you make or your premises.  I don't care who is President of the United States, or how much you despise the way the direction Government has taken.  There have been a lot of people who have died for that Flag and if a simple ideological difference you have with fellow Americans makes you want to fly a flag upside down, I'd argue you never really were a proponent for what that flag stands for.

This is the same Peter Zeihan that's predicted the downfall of China since 2005.  His agenda?  Seems his agenda is making money off the gullible underlings, at 30 to 40 thousand bucks for speaking engagement.

I have not a damned clue on the comings and goings in the rest of the world, but I ain't believing most so-called pundits.  I am very selective when it comes to my gurus.

As far as flying the American flag upside down, both the left and right have done it.  It is a non-issue with me.  I would compare it to "Let's go Brandon", nothing more than a semi-secret tribal handshake.  Personally I would prefer for some to clearly state what they think.  Say "fuck Biden", or in the case of the inverted American flag, say or fly a flag that says, "We're going to hell fast", or "Damn, I am terrified" or "We're in dire distress".  Hair on your peaches is a good thing I say.

I'd fly this flag upside down, if I had one.   


Joe is a minor problem, actually he's incapable of causing any real damage. I am currently in distress with the government. I have been since 1969. I'm not surprise that Peter doesn't meet your approval, heck I don't think anything I've ever posted meets your approval. :laugh:  I think he actually has some interesting insights into current affairs. His ideas about China's aging population is interesting. I have ask you this before and I'm going to again, who should I be listing to? Who are your gurus and speakers of truth that I should trust? I'm always skeptical (by nature) but I'm always willing to listen.  Give Peter's video on China's population a listen. I think he makes a lot of valid points. The one child thing is coming back to haunt them and no one wants to immigrate there. They can't grow enough food to feed themselves and he thinks they are on the brink of a mass starvation event. Seems like he's not the only one that thinks they have a problem.

I still like Peter's explanation and talking points the best.


Standing by for your guidance on who I should trust and listen to.  :bow  :laugh:
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Big J on February 22, 2023, 13:48:40 PM
Quote from: Trout Maharishi on February 22, 2023, 13:30:32 PMThe US has a history of meddling in other countries affairs and continues to do so with Ukraine. Zelensky is another corrupt politician influenced by Russian oligarchs and the US.

QuoteLast point I'd like to make is I really wish you'd remove the upside down American flag.  This really has bothered me with you.  I know we have never met, but I've always enjoyed our conversations on here and agree with a lot of your points you make or your premises.  I don't care who is President of the United States, or how much you despise the way the direction Government has taken.  There have been a lot of people who have died for that Flag and if a simple ideological difference you have with fellow Americans makes you want to fly a flag upside down, I'd argue you never really were a proponent for what that flag stands for.

I will absolutely remove it if it's causing you some type of distress. Yes I do think our government has gone to hell. I have paid a price for my freedoms. I would like to remind you of my involvement with Vietnam servings both as a Hospital Corpsman with the 3rd Marine Division flying medieval from a surgical center in Con Dao (I loaded the body bags and bodies wrapped in poncho liners) and was there a second time as a SAR rescued swimmer/medic aboard a carrier who helped with the evacuation of Vietnam (Operation Frequent Wind) in the spring of 75. I wrote the check and the government cashed it. I hope that squares with you my distress on the current state of the government.

I guess my question would be on what substantiation do you have to point towards Zelensky being corrupt?  I agree the US meddles in foreign politics, as it has been evident in history (some good, some bad), but I've yet to see any evidence that ties corruption directly to Zelensky.  Some of his advisors and other Ukranian politicians, but nothing to Zelensky.


Also thanks for your service.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on February 22, 2023, 14:31:21 PM
Quote from: Trout Maharishi on February 22, 2023, 13:47:04 PM......  I have ask you this before and I'm going to again, who should I be listening to? Who are your gurus and speakers of truth that I should trust? 

I can't inform you on whom to listen, other than keeping an open mind in your own head.  I've only had one "guru" in my 66 years.  His name was Julian and he passed in October 2016.  He served in the Army during the Korean War and was the most levelheaded, compassionate, rational, calming human I have ever known (politics, religion, gays, race, etc.).  He was my dad, and I have yet to find his equal, and I am far from the man he was.

As I believe I've stated before, I have the utmost respect for anyone that serves or served this country in a military capacity, but their service does not make them immune from being dipsticks as citizens.  Heck fire, my wife was in the Navy, and when she displays bitchy, illogical civilian behavior, I promptly let her know.  Now, my judgment on what might be dipstickish, or bitchy, or illogical is completely on me; sometimes I am right and sometimes I am way wrong. 

I wish you the best in your struggles with today's world.  Peace for all of us will eventually arrive. 
 
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on February 22, 2023, 14:40:08 PM
Quote from: Big J on February 22, 2023, 13:48:40 PM
Quote from: Trout Maharishi on February 22, 2023, 13:30:32 PMThe US has a history of meddling in other countries affairs and continues to do so with Ukraine. Zelensky is another corrupt politician influenced by Russian oligarchs and the US.

QuoteLast point I'd like to make is I really wish you'd remove the upside down American flag.  This really has bothered me with you.  I know we have never met, but I've always enjoyed our conversations on here and agree with a lot of your points you make or your premises.  I don't care who is President of the United States, or how much you despise the way the direction Government has taken.  There have been a lot of people who have died for that Flag and if a simple ideological difference you have with fellow Americans makes you want to fly a flag upside down, I'd argue you never really were a proponent for what that flag stands for.

I will absolutely remove it if it's causing you some type of distress. Yes I do think our government has gone to hell. I have paid a price for my freedoms. I would like to remind you of my involvement with Vietnam servings both as a Hospital Corpsman with the 3rd Marine Division flying medieval from a surgical center in Con Dao (I loaded the body bags and bodies wrapped in poncho liners) and was there a second time as a SAR rescued swimmer/medic aboard a carrier who helped with the evacuation of Vietnam (Operation Frequent Wind) in the spring of 75. I wrote the check and the government cashed it. I hope that squares with you my distress on the current state of the government.

I guess my question would be on what substantiation do you have to point towards Zelensky being corrupt?  I agree the US meddles in foreign politics, as it has been evident in history (some good, some bad), but I've yet to see any evidence that ties corruption directly to Zelensky.  Some of his advisors and other Ukranian politicians, but nothing to Zelensky.


Also thanks for your service.


You have a point J. I would be hard pressed to point to one specific event that would confirm his corruption.  There is lots of circumstantial evidence by many if you seek it out. Don't forget Ukraine is just like the US. It's one of the most corrupt places on earth. It would be hard to not be touched by corruption. Maybe you should seek some opinions from others that know more than me. One thing he does that bothers me is he has no problem with controlling the media. He has on many occasions shut down news sources and jailed reporters who have portrayed him in a negative light. He is indeed the US's current choice to run Ukraine. He was heavily involved in the impeachment of Trump (Trump should have never implied aid would be withheld if he did not investigate the Bidens). He had a great deal to do with the refusal of the Ukraine government to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden. There should still be to this day an investigation of the Biden crime family.

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on February 22, 2023, 14:53:38 PM
Quote from: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on February 22, 2023, 14:31:21 PM
Quote from: Trout Maharishi on February 22, 2023, 13:47:04 PM......  I have ask you this before and I'm going to again, who should I be listening to? Who are your gurus and speakers of truth that I should trust? 

I can't inform you on whom to listen, other than keeping an open mind in your own head.  I've only had one "guru" in my 66 years.  His name was Julian and he passed in October 2016.  He served in the Army during the Korean War and was the most levelheaded, compassionate, rational, calming human I have ever known (politics, religion, gays, race, etc.).  He was my dad, and I have yet to find his equal, and I am far from the man he was.

As I believe I've stated before, I have the utmost respect for anyone that serves or served this country in a military capacity, but their service does not make them immune from being dipsticks as citizens.  Heck fire, my wife was in the Navy, and when she displays bitchy, illogical civilian behavior, I promptly let her know.  Now, my judgment on what might be dipstickish, or bitchy, or illogical is completely on me; sometimes I am right and sometimes I am way wrong. 

I wish you the best in your struggles with today's world.  Peace for all of us will eventually arrive. 
 


I agree military service doesn't exempt you from being a dipstick anymore than not serving makes you a dipstick. So quit messing with me. I ain't got time for you, I'm learning to play golf  :laugh:  :P
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on February 22, 2023, 14:53:59 PM
Regarding allegations Ukrainian corruption, I suppose it exists, just as it does in nearly every county in the US, and every nation in the world. No need to point that finger. It's kinda like Putin being angry with the western world over gays and trannies. He may have a point, but he is ok with murder, and having his own people slaughtered.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on February 22, 2023, 14:56:34 PM
Agree with that Onslow :cheers Now all of y'all get off my lawn! :laugh:
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on February 22, 2023, 17:52:46 PM
https://www.wired.com/story/workers-are-dying-in-the-ev-industrys-tainted-city/#intcid=_wired-verso-hp-trending_2daac073-8592-4876-8222-1ae8b764c8f9_popular4-1

QuoteMeeting this demand has come at a huge social and environmental cost. Workers claim that deaths and injuries are common at IMIP. Medical professionals and environmentalists say the polluted air and water are causing respiratory problems, sickness, and eye injuries and destroying forests and fisheries. The rush to expand production has pushed local communities and infrastructure to the brink of collapse.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on February 27, 2023, 11:06:11 AM
The shad are rolling in.

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 27, 2023, 11:41:31 AM

Simone Segouin, French Resistance fighter, dies at 97
'It's true, the Germans were our enemies, it was the war, but I don't draw any pride from it,' she later said



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When Life magazine war correspondent Jack Belden drove into the embattled French city of Chartres in August 1944 with soldiers from Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army, he spotted a young French woman toting a captured German MP-40 submachine gun.

Although the occupying German forces had begun retreating, snipers in and around the city's historic twin-spired 13th-century Gothic cathedral were still firing at the arriving American and French army troops and the ragtag local resistance fighters. Among the latter was 18-year-old Simone Segouin, who used the nom de guerre Nicole.

She was "clad in a light-brown jacket and a cheap flowered skirt of many hues which ended just above her knees," Belden wrote in the Life article titled "The Girl Partisan of Chartres," which included photos by Robert Capa. Belden described her as looking like "a charming hoyden."



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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 27, 2023, 13:02:38 PM
Is There an Ethical Way to Kill Rats? Should We Even Ask?


>>>There are more than 4,400 mousetrap patents in the United States, but it is difficult to find designs specifically for catching rats — most are just bigger mousetraps. Rat infestations are also often more of an industrial undertaking than mouse infestations are, less of a do-it-yourself project and more of a job for professional exterminators, who are better at reusing traps. Partly because of this, Woodstream, the country's largest rat and mousetrap manufacturer, sells some 60 million mousetraps a year and nine million rat traps, according to Miguel Nistal, the company's president and chief executive. Most of these are the classic wooden spring-loaded snap trap, which Woodstream sells under the brand name Victor.

Mr. Nistal said that the main complaint he gets about his rat traps is simply that they don't kill rats. Mice are relatively uncomplicated pests; they go for whatever food source is available and, because they're small, are easy to dispatch. But Mr. Nistal said that, according to his company's research, only about 65 percent of the rats that trigger snap traps die. They will wriggle free or outsmart the trap, swiping the bait out safely. Rats are also wary of new things, like traps. "When you and I are gone, and there's nothing else on earth, there will be roaches and rats," Mr. Nistal said.


>>>The argument for researching wild rats often amounts to something like "know thy enemy." Rats cause an estimated $20 billion in damage annually in the United States alone, gnawing through electrical wires and burrowing into the walls of buildings; they also feast on crops. Jason Munshi-South, a biologist and rat researcher at Fordham University, has written about the evolutionary differences of brown rats worldwide, as well as the genetic variation among rats living in uptown and downtown New York City. Because rats reproduce so prolifically, the invisible hand of natural selection becomes more noticeable. Most city rats have developed immunity to first-generation anticoagulants, rendering many poisons useless.

But much less science has been focused on wild rats as rats, rather than as pests. For Dr. Parsons and Dr. Munshi-South, this is a manifestation of society's bias against the animals. Rats fall into the "special category of things we don't want to exist," said Dr. Munshi-South. It's a self-perpetuating intolerance: The less we know about the animals, the easier it is to hate them, and the easier it is to kill them. "In a way, they are the enemy," Dr. Parsons said. "But it doesn't mean we can't have a heart for them."


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Post by: Trout Maharishi on February 27, 2023, 18:52:59 PM
Top 10 cities for rats in the US. Deep blue country :o  :embarassed:  https://a-z-animals.com/blog/discover-the-10-most-rat-infested-cities-in-the-united-states/#:~:text=Most%20Rat%20Infested%20Cities%20in%20the%20United%20States,...%208%208.%20Detroit%2C%20Michigan%20...%20More%20items (https://a-z-animals.com/blog/discover-the-10-most-rat-infested-cities-in-the-united-states/#:~:text=Most%20Rat%20Infested%20Cities%20in%20the%20United%20States,...%208%208.%20Detroit%2C%20Michigan%20...%20More%20items)
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on February 27, 2023, 18:54:25 PM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on February 27, 2023, 11:41:31 AMSimone Segouin, French Resistance fighter, dies at 97
'It's true, the Germans were our enemies, it was the war, but I don't draw any pride from it,' she later said



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When Life magazine war correspondent Jack Belden drove into the embattled French city of Chartres in August 1944 with soldiers from Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army, he spotted a young French woman toting a captured German MP-40 submachine gun.

Although the occupying German forces had begun retreating, snipers in and around the city's historic twin-spired 13th-century Gothic cathedral were still firing at the arriving American and French army troops and the ragtag local resistance fighters. Among the latter was 18-year-old Simone Segouin, who used the nom de guerre Nicole.

She was "clad in a light-brown jacket and a cheap flowered skirt of many hues which ended just above her knees," Belden wrote in the Life article titled "The Girl Partisan of Chartres," which included photos by Robert Capa. Belden described her as looking like "a charming hoyden."



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I wish she had left me that MP-40. /"\
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 27, 2023, 21:11:04 PM
Quote from: Trout Maharishi on February 27, 2023, 18:54:25 PMI wish she had left me that MP-40. /"\

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 05, 2023, 11:46:31 AM
Long-lost ship found in Lake Huron, confirming tragic story

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Even for the Thunder Bay area, a perilous swath of northern Lake Huron off the Michigan coast that has devoured many a ship, the Ironton's fate seems particularly cruel.

The 191-foot cargo vessel collided with a grain hauler on a blustery night in September 1894, sinking both. The Ironton's captain and six sailors clambered into a lifeboat but it was dragged to the bottom before they could detach it from the ship. Only two crewmen survived.

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 09, 2023, 13:30:08 PM
11:54a ET 3/9/2023 - Dow Jones
When Taxis Were Drawn by Horses -- WSJ
Mentioned:   LYFT UBER
By Amanda Foreman

Last month drivers working for Uber and Lyft went on strike in cities in the U.S., Great Britain and the Netherlands. This was on top of strikes in December. The digital ride-hailing companies are looking increasingly like the taxi industry of old: Customers complain about the prices while drivers say they are struggling financially.

Taxis have been a hallmark of urban life since ancient times. In Rome, the most ubiquitous taxi was the cisium, a two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage that could accommodate a single passenger plus a small amount of luggage. Customers could hail them from designated cisium ranks on the city's main roads. In theory, drivers could be fined for speeding and other infractions, but they were very often a public nuisance. In the first century, the emperor Claudius went so far as to ban all for-hire wheeled vehicles from city centers, forcing travelers and those without private carriages to rely on independent litter-bearers and sedan chair porters.

During the Middle Ages, one of the first European cities to have strict regulations governing for-hire vehicles was Venice. In a city of canals, the vehicles in question were gondolas, and from at least the mid-14th century every gondolier had to belong to a guild, known as a scuola. Membership was relatively open and offered a way for immigrants to get ahead. A lawsuit between two scuolas in 1514 reveals that Giovanni the Ethiopian was one of the chief guild officers.

Other cities had battles over competition. In 1635, London's watermen lobbied King Charles I to ban hackney carriage drivers from accepting journeys shorter than 3 miles. Neither this nor subsequent bans were well-enforced. In 1660, King Charles II prohibited hackney carriages from picking up fares in the streets, which, again, people ignored. On Nov. 22, 1660, the diarist Samuel Pepys wrote of hailing a coach after dinner and sending his wife home in it.

The regulation of public carriage services in Paris and London is a tale of two very different approaches. Single horse-drawn cabriolets, from which the term "cab" derives, emerged in Paris in the 18th century, but the city saw them as a threat to traditional coachmen and so refused to license them. Customers complained that Paris coachmen were rude and unhelpful for want of competition.

London, for its part, frequently revised its licensing rules and coach regulations. Most important, it introduced the "knowledge" system, consisting of routes that every driver must able to recite to pass the license exam -- a requirement that still exists today. A London taxi was, and is, expensive, but driving is a middle-class job, and the industry has largely avoided the labor strife that plagues New York.

Nor did London have the same terrible accident rates. In 1931, New York recorded more than 23,000 traffic accidents; incredibly, 21,000 of them involved a taxicab. Although the iconic Checker cabs provided more room for passengers and even helped to give New York its distinctive look until their production ended in 1982, taxi-driving was still regarded as a dangerous and low-status profession, exemplified by the introduction of the bulletproof partition in the 1990s.

The arrival of the new ride-hailing companies in 2009 disrupted the traditional taxi industry and forced cities to think about improving their systems. Now it is the turn of the disrupters to do the same.

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 10, 2023, 09:17:18 AM
West Virginia train derailment causes diesel to spill into New River, leaves three hurt

Crews are expected to be working throughout the night to clean up a train derailment in West Virginia that caused diesel to spill into the New River and left three workers with non-serious injuries.

The West Virginia Emergency Management Division said a rockslide caused a CSX train to derail around 5 a.m. Wednesday. The train came around a corner to find a big boulder on the tracks.

Three of the crew members do have non-life-threatening injurie

The train was made up of 109 train cars, all of which were empty. The incident did cause some of the cars to catch fire and sent at least one locomotive and one fuel tank into the New River. Diesel fuel from the wreck was seen spilling into the New River.

A locomotive and fuel tank did fall into the river, but many people 10 News spoke with said they commend the response to the situation, especially the response of the Sulphur District Volunteer Fire and Rescue Squad who was the first team on scene.

https://youtu.be/NJyrYmfZYGI

https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/03/08/crews-respond-to-west-virginia-train-derailment-off-new-river/


https://youtu.be/QQy-dfUlg58
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Post by: Trout Maharishi on March 10, 2023, 09:40:52 AM
I'm always curious when I read this phase "Three of the crew members do have non-life-threatening injuries" Is that like yea I cut both hands off but I'm gonna live. :o Pipelines don't look so bad at this point with all these derailments lately. 
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on March 10, 2023, 18:34:39 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1862

It appears the entire Sacramento valley is at risk of being a large inland sea this year.  Please take a moment, and imagine what this will do to the already stressed food supply if this does in fact happen this year.
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Post by: Trout Maharishi on March 10, 2023, 20:19:43 PM
Quote from: Onslow on March 10, 2023, 18:34:39 PMhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1862

It appears the entire Sacramento valley is at risk of being a large inland sea this year.  Please take a moment, and imagine what this will do to the already stressed food supply if this does in fact happen this year.

The Sierras have been hammered this year. Yosemite has been closed for a couple of weeks and the valley's floor isn't all that high in elevation. Tioga pass may not even open this year. The Central valleys could flood to. The Kings and the San Joaquine forks drain a lot of water. If any of you have a trip planned for any earlier in the year than mid to late August, you may want to rethink it.
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Post by: Trout Maharishi on March 11, 2023, 18:59:20 PM
Quote from: Onslow on March 10, 2023, 18:34:39 PMhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1862

It appears the entire Sacramento valley is at risk of being a large inland sea this year.  Please take a moment, and imagine what this will do to the already stressed food supply if this does in fact happen this year.

First levee broke today. It looks like the Eastern side of the Sierras are also in danger. 
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 11, 2023, 19:42:24 PM
That's one way to replenish the ground water
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Trout Maharishi on March 13, 2023, 16:58:06 PM
About the only thing we are hearing out of Ukraine now days is about funding. Things are not going well for Ukraine and they may be on the verge of getting much worse.
https://youtu.be/BFNgM_OhNHw
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on March 14, 2023, 18:54:27 PM
Trying to protect a lace-leaf maple from frost. Hoping the DOD doesn't mistake it for a spy balloon.
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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on March 15, 2023, 20:39:53 PM
https://youtu.be/3a5nfaPgExo
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dee-Vo on March 22, 2023, 07:50:51 AM
https://www.yahoo.com/news/species-giant-spider-discovered-hiding-192525332.html
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Post by: driver on March 23, 2023, 20:56:35 PM
Well, if a 2 inch spider is considered giant....  -+;
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Big J on March 24, 2023, 07:58:17 AM
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/24/sport/aurelien-sanchez-barkley-marathons-ultrarunning-spt-intl/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/24/sport/aurelien-sanchez-barkley-marathons-ultrarunning-spt-intl/index.html)

Just nuts
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dee-Vo on March 25, 2023, 07:53:19 AM
Quote from: driver on March 23, 2023, 20:56:35 PMWell, if a 2 inch spider is considered giant....  -+;

True.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dee-Vo on March 25, 2023, 07:55:54 AM
Quote from: Big J on March 24, 2023, 07:58:17 AMhttps://www.cnn.com/2023/03/24/sport/aurelien-sanchez-barkley-marathons-ultrarunning-spt-intl/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/24/sport/aurelien-sanchez-barkley-marathons-ultrarunning-spt-intl/index.html)

Just nuts

It is nuts. If you haven't watched any of the Youtube videos on this race, please do. Those people are tough. I picked up running prettiest much daily 8 months ago and have never felt better, physically or mentally. Some of these ultra-rugged challenges are insane. I give them credit.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 26, 2023, 10:52:29 AM
The untold story of Jimmy Carter, his best friend and a murder charge

History remembers him as Jimmy Carter's closest childhood friend.

In his best-selling memoirs and poetry, the former president detailed his adventures with Alonzo "A.D." Davis, the nephew of Black tenant farmers who labored on Carter family land in Depression-era southwest Georgia.

At a time of violently enforced racial segregation, the boys grew up together, the 39th president wrote: They wrestled, hunted rabbits, caught catfish and slipped off to the movies, forging a bond that led a 14-year-old Carter to question the Jim Crow norms that barred his "primary playmate" from joining his family at the dinner table.


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Post by: Woolly Bugger on March 31, 2023, 08:20:47 AM
Feds bust small-town Virginia mayor for dumping raw sewage in New River

In the town of Glen Lyn, perched on the New River in Virginia's remote Giles County, a small-town mayor is facing federal charges after he allegedly ordered town employees to dump raw sewage into the river.

The town, which is home to less than 100 inhabitants, boasts on its website of the beautiful parks, trails and 1,500-acre Kairos Resort nearby. But, lacking in its own facilities, the town shared a waste treatment plant with the nearby town of Rich Creek — population 741.

Now, James Howard Spencer, the mayor of Glen Lyn, is accused of violating the Clean Water Act by ordering town employees to dump raw sewage from a pump station directly into a tributary of the New River on at least three separate occasions.

"The defendant abused his position of authority and violated the public's trust by ordering public employees of Glen Lyn to illegally discharge raw sewage into the East River, a tributary of the New River," said Acting Special Agent in Charge Richard Conrad.

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Post by: Onslow on April 01, 2023, 21:19:30 PM
Who all will be breaking out the camp stoves due to Saturday evening's big blow?

Power is rarely lost in my street/town, but it happened.  Bet it was wild in Blowing Rock and the Three Top area in Ashe county.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 01, 2023, 21:33:59 PM
We lost power for an hour this morning —
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on April 16, 2023, 15:23:02 PM

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/3950467-is-there-a-worldwide-run-on-the-bank-of-the-united-states-of-america/


QuoteIn talking this week with a friend about the United States seemingly imploding from within across multiple sectors, my friend stressed: "It's not just from within. There is a run on the United States from certain nations and business interests around the world. Just like there was a run on banks after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, many nations are either thinking about — or actually proceeding with — transferring at least a portion of their allegiance, assets and commitments from the 'Bank of the U.S.' to the 'Bank of China' or elsewhere."

This was not just some person sitting on a porch casually talking about current events while whittling a stick waiting for his Social Security or pension check to hit the mailbox. This was a former high-level U.S. government official, now a CEO, someone who sits on the boards of directors for multiple companies. He has massive real-world and business experience and believes the United State may be on the verge of collapse.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 23, 2023, 08:06:19 AM
Our Way of Life Is Poisoning Us

There is plastic in our bodies; it's in our lungs and in our bowels and in the blood that pulses through us. We can't see it, and we can't feel it, but it is there. It is there in the water we drink and the food we eat, and even in the air that we breathe. We don't know, yet, what it's doing to us, because we have only quite recently become aware of its presence; but since we have learned of it, it has become a source of profound and multifarious cultural anxiety.

Maybe it's nothing; maybe it's fine. Maybe this jumble of fragments — bits of water bottles, tires, polystyrene packaging, microbeads from cosmetics — is washing through us and causing no particular harm. But even if that was true, there would still remain the psychological impact of the knowledge that there is plastic in our flesh. This knowledge registers, in some vague way, as apocalyptic; it has the feel of a backhanded divine vengeance, sly and poetically appropriate. Maybe this has been our fate all along, to achieve final communion with our own garbage.

The word we use, when we speak about this unsettling presence within us, is "microplastics." It's a broad category, accommodating any piece of plastic less than five millimeters, or about a fifth of an inch, in length. Much of this stuff, tiny though it is, is readily visible to the naked eye. You may have seen it in the photographs used to illustrate articles on the topic: a multitude of tiny, many-colored shards displayed on the tip of a finger, or a lurid little heap on a teaspoon. But there is also, more worryingly still, the stuff you can't see: so-called nano-plastics, which are a tiny fraction of the size of microplastics. These are capable of crossing the membranes between cells and have been observed to accumulate in the brains of fish.

We have known for a while now that they are causing harm to fish. In a study published in 2018, fish exposed to microplastics were shown to have lower levels of growth and reproduction; their offspring, even when they were not themselves exposed, were observed as also having fewer young, suggesting that the contamination lingers through the generations. In 2020, another study, at James Cook University in Australia, demonstrated that microplastics alter the behavior of fish, with higher levels of exposure resulting in fish taking more risks and, as a consequence, dying younger.




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Post by: trout-r-us on April 23, 2023, 18:16:22 PM
Happy Earth Day!

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 25, 2023, 13:55:36 PM
Two new species of crayfish have been revealed by a team of North Carolina scientists

Two new species of crayfish have been revealed by a team of North Carolina scientists. Among the researchers was the NC Museum of Natural Sciences' Bronwyn Williams. She spoke with WFDD's David Ford.




https://www.wfdd.org/story/two-new-species-crayfish-have-been-revealed-team-north-carolina-scientists
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 25, 2023, 20:18:12 PM
Massive swarm of mayflies stuns residents at NC lake


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Residents at a North Carolina lake are still stunned by the size of a swarm of insects earlier this month.

Large groups of mayflies are known to gather around Lake Waccamaw every April, but residents said this year's massive swarm of millions of aquatic insects was the worst in 30 years.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/massive-swarm-of-mayflies-stuns-residents-at-nc-lake/ar-AA1ajZRI
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 26, 2023, 08:37:18 AM
How Scotland plans to rewild its seas
The Scottish Government and Scottish Green Party have pledged to designate 10% of the country's seas as Highly Protected Marine Areas, offering depleted ecosystems a chance to bounce back. It's a complicated task.


Our boat is rocking just a few miles offshore, as we watch nature unleash a wildly dynamic display. Churning the ocean into a bubbling cauldron creatures from sea and sky dart and dive to feast on the invisible schools of mackerel and sand eels below the waves. At least seven minke whales rise and fall as seals swirl, shearwaters swoop and gannets launch missile attacks with pointed precision from above. This astonishing scene could be taking place in South Africa or New Zealand, but my boat is bobbing in the frigid North Atlantic waters of the Inner Hebrides, an archipelago off the coast of Argyll in western Scotland.

"Our marine and birdlife here is pretty spectacular," says Shane Wasik, founder of Basking Shark Scotland, which leads low-impact wildlife and water sport tours around Argyll's coastline and islands. A hotspot for the second-largest fish in the ocean, the Inner Hebrides sees large numbers of basking sharks visiting the region each summer, feeding with their huge mouths agape in the zooplankton-rich seas.

I'm on a five-day mission to find them from my guesthouse base on the Isle of Coll. We see dolphins, porpoises and whales, cruise uninhabited islands and snorkel in legendary Fingal's Cave, swim with seals and explore forests of swaying kelp and golden spaghetti seaweed: vital fish nurseries around the rocky islets of the idyllic Cairns of Coll.


https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/environment-and-conservation/2023/04/how-scotland-plans-to-rewild-its-seas
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Post by: Onslow on April 28, 2023, 20:23:42 PM
Wasn't expecting nearly 5 inches of rain today. First time in over a half year the Yadkin has been blown out
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on April 28, 2023, 22:01:49 PM
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cp5x_wSowXH/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: greg on April 29, 2023, 05:53:34 AM
Quote from: Onslow on April 28, 2023, 20:23:42 PMWasn't expecting nearly 5 inches of rain today. First time in over a half year the Yadkin has been blown out

we had about that inch in spartanburg. Y dad had about 5 inches in his rain gauge.
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 02, 2023, 08:27:12 AM

Writers on the Range: Killing fish to save frogs

Shortly after World War II, California fish managers had a brainstorm: They loaded juvenile trout into airplanes and saturation-bombed naturally fishless lakes in the High Sierra Mountains of California. Some of the fish hit rocks and ice, but most hit water.

Gorging on zooplankton, insects and two kinds of mountain yellow-legged frogs, the alien invaders unraveled aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, often in designated wilderness.

In 2014, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed both groups of frog as endangered, prompting aggressive action by Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks. The agency plan called for eradicating trout in 110 lakes, though trout would remain in 465 park lakes and hundreds of stream miles, leaving plenty of fishing opportunity.

https://www.vaildaily.com/opinion/writers-on-the-range-killing-fish-to-save-frogs/

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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 06, 2023, 08:44:18 AM
Local Cub Scouts makes 'sad' discovery while cleaning up local reservoir: 'It's a damn shame'

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viral Reddit post highlights exactly what you don't want to find at your favorite camping spot — nearly 70 tires that were dumped into the nearby lake.

According to the post, a Cub Scout pack managed to pull the tires out of Falls Lake, which is in a state recreation area near Raleigh, North Carolina. The area offers a large variety of activities, including camping, biking, hiking, and swimming.

Unfortunately, litter in any form takes away from the beauty of nature, and it also poses a threat to the wildlife in the area — tires are no exception.

Tires can take up to 2,000 years to decompose, according to Stacker, so once they are dumped in a place like the Falls Lake, they'll be interrupting your scenic views for quite a while.

On top of that, as tires break down, they leach harmful chemicals into the ground and water. Tires are flammable as well and difficult to extinguish once they've caught fire. Having a number of them dumped in natural areas creates a fire hazard, Ecogreen reports.  /'/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/local-cub-scouts-makes-sad-discovery-while-cleaning-up-local-reservoir-it-s-a-damn-shame/ar-AA196h7z
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 08, 2023, 20:06:22 PM
Muhammad Ali won a title fight in Maryland. Then he went to prom.

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World heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali keeps challenger Jimmy Young up against the ropes during their championship fight at Landover, Md., on April 30, 1976. The following night, Ali surprised hundreds of teens attending prom in Prince George's County. (AP) (Associated Press)

The day after Muhammad Ali unanimously won a 15-round championship fight against Jimmy Young at the Capital Centre in Landover, Md., he stunned hundreds of Prince George's County teens when he walked into their high school prom.

It was May 1, 1976, long before such a celebrity appearance might make the rounds on social media. Few people took pictures of Ali, and no newspapers documented the visit at the time. But earlier this year, a spokesperson for the Prince George's police department happened to see photos from the prom in the house of a former Parkdale High School teacher and began sharing the tale.

Now as prom season gets underway at high schools around the D.C. metro area and beyond, attendees at the 1976 Parkdale High prom are remembering the unforgettable visit from the champ.



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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 14, 2023, 08:26:12 AM
https://youtu.be/tSkv_sEyPSc
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 28, 2023, 13:47:15 PM
Baby eels remain one of America's most valuable fish after strong year in Maine


Fishermen in the U.S.'s only commercial-scale fishing industry for valuable baby eels once again had a productive season searching for the tiny fish.

Baby eels, called elvers, are often worth more than $2,000 per pound because of how valuable they are to Asian aquaculture companies. That makes them one of the most valuable fish species in the U.S. They're raised to maturity so they can be used in Japanese food, some of which is sold in the U.S. in unagi dishes at sushi restaurants.

The elvers have again been worth more than $2,000 per pound at the docks this year, according to the Maine Department of Marine Resources. The fishermen are limited to a combined quota of a little less than 10,000 pounds per year and were about through it by early May, the department said. The price was a tick below last year's, but higher than the previous two.

Fishermen this year have been aided by favorable weather and strong international demand, said Jeffrey K. Pierce, a former Maine state representative and adviser to the Maine Elver Fishermen Association. Foreign sources of baby eels have largely dried up, and that has made Maine eels more valuable in recent years.

https://apnews.com/article/23f58535fc7be7232081072b016c4929
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 08, 2023, 09:46:52 AM
Find out just how bad wildfire smoke has been in your area


Smoke from wildfires in Canada brought record-breaking air pollution to the United States this spring, creating dangerous air quality from Bismarck, N.D., to Denver and Detroit to New York City.

According to a Washington Post analysis of smoke data through June 6 from Stanford University, 160 air quality monitoring stations have reported all-time high pollution from wildfires. The Post will continue to update this page as data becomes available.

https://wapo.st/3NtDBdD
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dee-Vo on June 08, 2023, 09:51:34 AM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on June 08, 2023, 09:46:52 AMFind out just how bad wildfire smoke has been in your area


Smoke from wildfires in Canada brought record-breaking air pollution to the United States this spring, creating dangerous air quality from Bismarck, N.D., to Denver and Detroit to New York City.

According to a Washington Post analysis of smoke data through June 6 from Stanford University, 160 air quality monitoring stations have reported all-time high pollution from wildfires. The Post will continue to update this page as data becomes available.

https://wapo.st/3NtDBdD

I don't keep up with the news much (none, really), but noticed the hazy look of the air out in the distance in Winston a couple evenings ago. I looked it up and put two and two together after seeing the air quality warnings on the weather app, and found out about the wildfire smoke traveling to us from Canada. Reminds me of a few years back when all that smoke reached us in Elkin from all the fire in Tennessee.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: driver on June 08, 2023, 16:54:29 PM
It was rough in NY

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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on June 09, 2023, 09:20:27 AM
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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dougfish on June 10, 2023, 10:49:36 AM
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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on June 18, 2023, 07:22:22 AM
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Bass dreams for the 4th weekend appear to be up in the flotsam.

It will take a while for the rivers to settle down....
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on July 08, 2023, 19:05:12 PM
The VDOT pull off at the Double Cabin road bridge at Big Reed Island Creek is no longer a semi public parking area for those wanting access for a float or wading.  This spot has been trashed for years, and now it is posted/purple painted with cams.

Anyone floating this will need to have their mess dropped off at the bridge, and all vehicles will need to be gone. This affects access to 13 miles of floatable water.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 08, 2023, 21:32:34 PM
Quote from: Onslow on July 08, 2023, 19:05:12 PMThis spot has been trashed for years, and now it is posted/purple painted with cams.


This is why we can't have nice things
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 11, 2023, 14:23:55 PM
Appeals court again blocks construction on Mountain Valley Pipeline

A federal appeals court has again blocked construction on a segment of a contentious natural gas pipeline being built through Virginia and West Virginia, this time doing so even after Congress ordered the project's approval.

The stay issued Monday by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond comes after Congress passed legislation last month requiring all necessary permits be issued for construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline. The law also stripped the 4th Circuit from jurisdiction over the case.

Environmentalists, though, argued that Congress overstepped its authority by enacting the law, saying it violates the separation of powers outlined in the Constitution.

"Congress cannot pick winners and losers in pending litigation by compelling findings or results without supplying new substantive law for the courts to apply," lawyers for the environmentalists wrote in court papers.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 15, 2023, 08:35:46 AM

Meet the 486-legged creature found in an LA area park

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A previously unknown species has been discovered lurking in the parks of Los Angeles and Orange counties.

The animal boasts 486 legs and a toothy, Predator-style head. It has the greenish translucence of a glow-in-the-dark toy in daylight, and weaves through the soil as elegantly as an embroiderer's needle



Across the country, Virginia Tech entomologist Paul E. Marek was browsing the app and noticed their discovery. That Christmas, while visiting his family in Los Angeles, Marek and his wife drove out to Whiting Ranch to see if they could find the same animal.

https://m.arcamax.com/currentnews/newsheadlines/s-2850807?fs
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Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 16, 2023, 11:32:54 AM
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Royal Mail has issued a set of 10 stamps that celebrate the diversity of birds, mammals, insects and fish that inhabit the UK's rivers and streams.

Featured on the stamps are the: Beaver; Atlantic Salmon; Kingfisher; Beautiful Demoiselle; Water Vole; Grey Wagtail; Common Mayfly; Otter; Brown Trout; and Dipper.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on July 20, 2023, 03:20:50 AM
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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 27, 2023, 09:32:36 AM
Smith River Sports Complex Authority dissolves

Board members of the Smith River Sports Complex will hand the keys over to Henry County Parks and Recreation Director Rogers Adams.

The board of directors for the Southern Virginia Recreation Facilities Authority, which operates the Smith River Sports Complex, submitted a letter to Martinsville and Henry County requesting that the authority be dissolved and all of the assets and operations be transferred to Henry County. Both governments accepted the request at separate meetings on Tuesday.

Scott Prillaman, chairman of the SVRFA board, said in the letter that the current model of funding for SRSC is not sustainable and he noted that inflation and limited access to top-tier tournaments have restricted its ability to be profitable as a stand-alone organization.

"For many years it was funded by The Harvest Foundation, but that's no longer available," said Henry County Administrator Dale Wagoner. "Much of the operation will continue, such as sponsorship. In all frankness, it's been operating on a shoestring budget for the last couple of years."


https://martinsvillebulletin.com/news/local/government-politics/smith-river-sports-complex-authority-dissolves/article_e97953e4-2bad-11ee-b04a-a3a3f89dfb4e.html
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 28, 2023, 08:43:03 AM
Why the famed Appalachian Trail keeps getting longer — and harder
As America has transformed, so too has its celebrated footpath. Less than half the A.T. remains where it was originally laid.

The morning fog had just begun to clear as the hikers made their way uphill, beckoned by a series of white blazes splashed on the trunks of hardwood and tall pine, the paint cracked where the bark rippled and whorled.
It was a weekday in mid-May on the Appalachian Trail, and their footsteps were muffled by the forest. Away they hiked — from the cramped parking lot glittering with vehicles, from the frenetic buzz of highway traffic, from the busyness and anxiety that compel people to step out of their lives, if only for a few hours, and escape into the wilderness.



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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dee-Vo on July 28, 2023, 10:23:01 AM
Very cool. I wish I had the time.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 02, 2023, 08:43:38 AM
https://youtu.be/0ns-MA6y1MI
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 04, 2023, 14:29:23 PM
Scientists want you to mail dead butterflies for research if you live in these states

Have you seen any dead butterflies lately?

If so, the U.S. Geological Survey wants you to mail them their way, along with deceased moths and skippers. The agency is collecting specimens from six states — Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas — to test if contaminants are leading to declining insect populations.

The U.S. Geological Survey wants you to send in dead butterflies for research  - https://www.npr.org/2023/08/04/1191988090/usgs-dead-butterflies-moths
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 08, 2023, 09:18:06 AM
Paint has spilled into Rock Creek and the New River after a crash in Alleghany County.

Firefighters tell WXII 12 News the crash happened near where Highway 93 connects to Highway 21 North, just past the city limits of Sparta.

https://wxii12.com/article/north-carolina-paint-new-river-alleghany-county-tractor-trailer-crash/44757336
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 08, 2023, 10:01:03 AM
Look at a moth — and find a wonder that's been waiting all along

Think of a monarch butterfly flying near flowers in your backyard on a summer day. Now think of a moth circling a lamp. Which caught your attention? If you said the butterfly, you're probably not alone. But you're missing out.

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As a lepidopterist, I am here to tell you that moths are woefully underappreciated, despite their importance to the environment. Their sheer numbers only begin to speak to their relevance: One in 10 described species of organisms on Earth is a moth, and a recent study from the University of Sussex in Britain showed that moths are more efficient pollinators than bees. They serve as main dietary sources for bats (when moths aren't jamming their sonar) and birds (96 percent of songbirds rely on them for food). Moths also contribute directly to our lives; they produce silk that we use for our clothing, for example. Did you know that the worm in a bottle of tequila is also a moth caterpillar?



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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dee-Vo on August 08, 2023, 12:27:00 PM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on August 08, 2023, 10:01:03 AMLook at a moth — and find a wonder that's been waiting all along

Think of a monarch butterfly flying near flowers in your backyard on a summer day. Now think of a moth circling a lamp. Which caught your attention? If you said the butterfly, you're probably not alone. But you're missing out.

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As a lepidopterist, I am here to tell you that moths are woefully underappreciated, despite their importance to the environment. Their sheer numbers only begin to speak to their relevance: One in 10 described species of organisms on Earth is a moth, and a recent study from the University of Sussex in Britain showed that moths are more efficient pollinators than bees. They serve as main dietary sources for bats (when moths aren't jamming their sonar) and birds (96 percent of songbirds rely on them for food). Moths also contribute directly to our lives; they produce silk that we use for our clothing, for example. Did you know that the worm in a bottle of tequila is also a moth caterpillar?



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Neat. I've always wanted to do the thing where you take a white sheet and a light out at night and collect insects to identify. Maybe I'll do that soon.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on August 11, 2023, 09:26:11 AM
Next door neighbor was out with a big backpack blower/sprayer a couple days ago. I assume maybe spraying insecticide, as he seemed to be hitting every bush, shrub, plant, and the lawn itself over in his yard.
Over the next 36 hrs, I found two dead dragonflies in the pool, one on the grass, and one on the front porch in our yard.🙁 Hate seeing that, since I do enjoy watching those dragons feed.
Maybe just a coincidence. 🤔
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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 11, 2023, 10:26:53 AM
Need more birds and bats and less insecticides / herbicides

And possums to control the tick population
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 14, 2023, 08:18:50 AM
"We'd lose one after the next": Texas bats face a pandemic of their own

Weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic swept into Texas, a biologist found a dead bat covered in a white fungus — the state's first official case of white-nose syndrome. Now, scientists are on a mission to understand how many bats have been lost.

There should have been 16,000 bats flying that night in mid-July. Instead, only about 500 remained at the cave in Central Texas next to the Colorado River. The rest succumbed to white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease that has ravaged bat populations across the country.

Gorman Cave, in Colorado Bend State Park, is one of the caves that Nate Fuller monitors. Fuller, the state bat biologist with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, said by the spring of 2020 — as COVID-19 became a global pandemic — bats in caves and across Central Texas were facing a pandemic of their own.

White-nose syndrome was first detected in Texas on Feb. 18, 2020, when Charles Pekins, a wildlife biologist at the U.S. Army base Fort Cavazos, formerly known as Fort Hood, found a dead bat covered with a white fungus. A few weeks later, a swab he sent to the National Wildlife Health Center confirmed that the disease had infiltrated the Lone Star State.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/14/texas-bats-white-nose-disease-wind-climate/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 07, 2023, 09:13:28 AM
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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on September 09, 2023, 10:03:12 AM
It feels like we're at the cusp of another 2008.  Will the next recession be worse? 

It is not jobs, stupid. It is credit default!....

The Trump/Covid/Biden spending orgy hangover is upon us.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 09, 2023, 11:03:23 AM
Quote from: Onslow on September 09, 2023, 10:03:12 AMIt feels like we're at the cusp of another 2008.  Will the next recession be worse? 

It is not jobs, stupid. It is credit default!....

The Trump/Covid/Biden spending orgy hangover is upon us.


The Surge in Credit Card Delinquencies Might Be a Harbinger of a Coming Recession

Late payments on credit card balances are rising, and that could be a warning sign of difficult times to come in the US economy, according to Wells Fargo. Strategists at the bank pointed to credit card delinquencies surging among commercial banks. And for banks outside of the top 100 in asset size, late payments on credit card balances hit an all-time high. Rising late payments put more pressure on small- and medium-sized banks, strategists said, during a time when markets have been increasingly concerned about bank stability and rising debt levels in the US. In August, Moody's downgraded several US banks, with S&P making similar moves on Monday. Meanwhile, credit card debt also notched $1 trillion for the first time in early August.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/billhardekopf/2023/09/08/this-week-in-credit-card-news-card-delinquencies-keep-rising-buy-now-pay-later-continues-to-grow/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on September 12, 2023, 18:37:31 PM
Though I've seen similar systems on a large river, this is first I've seen on a little crick.

Pretty neat idea, but crazy name, i.e. "Trash Trout"


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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 13, 2023, 07:50:28 AM
There is a Trash Trout in Silas Creek in Reynolda Village
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on September 13, 2023, 20:45:37 PM
Another toad strangler today.  7 inches of rain since September 9.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 14, 2023, 12:15:59 PM
Devastating floods in Lybia dwarf the fire-stricken lives in Maui.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66799518


This month's donation is to Médecins Sans Frontières (https://www.msf.org/) (Doctors without Borders)


Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 20, 2023, 10:52:36 AM
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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 20, 2023, 10:57:41 AM
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game on https://www.youtube.com/watch
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on September 25, 2023, 10:09:46 AM

What Is Pacific Lamprey? Blood Sucking Creature That Survived 45 Crore Years, Feasted On Dinosaurs
September 24, 2023  Bharat Times English News
New Delhi: Meet the Pacific Lamprey, a jawless fish that has roamed the Earth for a staggering 45 million years, dining on the likes of dinosaurs and even trees. This remarkable creature has a rather macabre dining habit – it sucks the life out of its prey, dehydrating them to their demise. Despite the challenges posed by four mass extinctions, these fish continue to thrive. Let's delve into the intriguing world of the Pacific Lamprey.




https://eng.bharattimes.co.in/what-is-pacific-lamprey-blood-sucking-creature-that-survived-45-crore-years-feasted-on-dinosaurs/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 05, 2023, 08:39:58 AM
For Fat Bear Week, a close-up look at lifestyles of the fat and famous
Seeing the stars of Fat Bear Week might be harder than scoring Taylor Swift tickets

KATMAI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, Alaska — You won't be able to hear a bear walking behind you here. Despite weighing around 1,000 pounds, the park's 2,200 brown bears are inordinately quiet. But you will register their roars from deep in the woods. And the snapping of salmon spines when an apex predator cracks open a cold one.

Those sounds are particularly loud in a "bear vortex," which is how wildlife guide and photographer Jon Kuiper describes being surrounded by four bears. A "bear-nado" means you're at the center of six bears. Eight bears is a "bear-nami," and "double digits is just like, 'bear-icane,'" said Kuiper, 35, who's earned the nickname "Bear Daddy." He has a large tattoo of his favorite bear, 32 "Chunk," on his right triceps.

Kuiper works at Brooks Lodge at Brooks Camp, arguably the best place in the world to see swarms of bears up close.

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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on October 17, 2023, 08:25:56 AM
"I love the poorly educated". - Donald Trump Feb, 2016

As campaigns hit the road, it appears the dumbasses still follow.

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 17, 2023, 09:52:00 AM
Why the Katahdin region is no place for a mine


Have you ever paddled on a remote pond in the early morning mist listening to the eerie calls of the loon? Perhaps you've stood ankle deep in water in a bog between two ponds, and reveled in the dawn chorus filled with the songs of Common Yellowthroats, Palm Warblers, Lincoln's Sparrows, and Olive-sided Flycatchers—a mix of buzzes, trills, and crisp notes that bring the wetland alive. Maybe you've stared up into the night sky while camping next to a cascading stream after a day of trout fishing, with no lights, no cars, no voices to distract you except the hooting of the Barred Owl.

These are the places that make Maine special. And the voices we need to listen to. They are calling to us to speak for them.

Unfortunately, all of this and more could be at risk if the Land Use Planning Commission (LUPC) agrees to rezone more than 300 acres near Pickett Mountain in northern Maine so Wolfden, a Canadian mining company, can extract zinc ore near the mountain.

https://maineaudubon.org/news/why-the-katahdin-region-is-no-place-for-a-mine/

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on October 20, 2023, 08:52:47 AM
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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Big J on October 20, 2023, 12:43:37 PM
https://www.foxnews.com/us/virginia-euthanizes-40k-trout-testing-finds-parasitic-whirling-disease (https://www.foxnews.com/us/virginia-euthanizes-40k-trout-testing-finds-parasitic-whirling-disease)
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on October 25, 2023, 18:58:14 PM
There is no creel or size limit for Spotted and Alabama bass in NC.  Chowed down on some spots the last couple evenings.  Not as delicate as some fish, but neither is Tuna. Much better than catfish or crappie.

There are still a ton of stocked fish in the NC hatchery streams from this past season.  In many cases, these holdover bows are competing against wild browns. They need to be cleaned out as well.

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 28, 2023, 11:21:37 AM
Fisherman missing for two weeks found in raft and ate salmon to survive

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A fisherman who had been missing for nearly two weeks has been found alive floating in a life raft about 70 miles (110km) off the west coast of the US.

Good Samaritans found the fisherman on Thursday, the US Coast Guard Pacific Northwest said in a statement one day after they had suspended their search.

The Canadian rescuers who found him say he caught and ate a salmon to survive.

The man, who was not identified, had left Gray Harbor in Washington state on 12 October on Evening, a 43-foot ship.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67246163
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on October 29, 2023, 08:16:56 AM
State acquires 79-acre lake in Bladen County for recreation and conservation


Dr. Clemuel Johnson of Elizabethtown wielded oversized shears to slice through a blue ribbon at Bakers Lake on Friday, marking the end of an era of land ownership filled with family memories on the 79-acre natural lake he'd owned for 41 years.

The primary goal of the property will be to preserve the natural resources there, but the public will be able to access the 1156-acre area for activities like hiking and kayaking.

https://wr.al/1Qbwx

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 01, 2023, 10:02:59 AM
n Maine, a return of tribal land shows how conservation can succeed

PENOBSCOT COUNTY, Maine — On a recent morning at the Penobscot Nation headquarters, moose mating rituals dominated the office banter: the wacky way a lovesick moose had stumbled around someone's pickup truck, the grunts a bull moose made when he heard a hunter's low moan — an imitation of a female mating call. "I don't care anymore how ridiculous I sound to people," said Chuck Loring, who heads the tribe's department of natural resources. "What matters is how I sound to a moose." He had just shot a bull with a 40-inch antler span. Outside, a stretched-out hide — the future head of a ceremonial drum — was drying in the sun.

The Penobscot Nation's record of caring for nature while still using it — hunting moose and duck while keeping their populations steady, selectively harvesting timber to preserve forests and restoring rivers to support fisheries — inspired an effort to return a 31,000-acre tract of forested land to tribal ownership. Late last year, the Trust for Public Land, a conservation group, bought the parcel from an industrial timber company, and today it announced it will give the land to the tribe once it pays off $32 million in loans. Called Wáhsehtəkʷ by the Penobscot, which means east branch of the river (and is pronounced WAH-seh-teg), it's the largest contiguous tract that the tribe will have acquired in more than four decades.

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The land is close to Mount Katahdin, sacred in Penobscot tradition, and to an 87,000-acre national monument created in 2016 in the North Woods of Maine. It contains 53 miles of streams in the watershed of the Penobscot River, which has been for the tribe a central highway and a source of food and water.

https://wapo.st/3tYWHAY
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on November 04, 2023, 05:10:11 AM
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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 05, 2023, 11:18:39 AM
Alarming': Unexpected pathogen spread by infected chiggers found for 1st time in North Carolina


Wildlife researchers at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro found a novel pathogen for the first time in North Carolina that is carried by chiggers.

Bacteria called Orientia tsutsugamushi causes the disease scrub typhus, which is spread to people through bites of infected chiggers, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"That is a disease that has never been described in North America or in the Americas altogether," said Dr. Gideon Wasserberg, an infectious disease expert who works in the UNCG Department of Biology.

Symptoms include:

a dark scab at the site of the bite
confusion
fever
chills
headache
body aches
rash
larger lymph nodes

https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/greensboro/alarming-unexpected-pathogen-spead-by-infected-chiggers-found-for-1st-time-in-north-carolina?utm_source=wghp_app&utm_medium=social&utm_content=share-link
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dougfish on November 09, 2023, 08:34:03 AM
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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 11, 2023, 17:24:09 PM
Oh joy!

Since 2017, researchers have watched as Asian longhorned ticks, an invasive species not usually found in the Western Hemisphere, have spread across the United States.

Now, researchers are using the gruesome deaths of three cows in Ohio to sound the alarm about the parasitic arachnids.

https://wapo.st/3QUgvOO

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on November 12, 2023, 07:35:16 AM
A new apple called Ludicrisp developed by a consortium of growers who prefer to sell apples not necessarily suited for grocery store chains, but more for farmers market and u pick operations. It may be a while before we see these in NC.  The flavor description seems to be more in line with a Royal Limbertwig or something perhaps even more unusual.

https://www.freshforwardfarms.com/ludacrisp-apples-fast-facts-about-the-latest-apple-variety/

https://youtu.be/mZQl5rr6xpI?feature=shared

FYI, all of the Wilson Orchard vids are interesting.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 19, 2023, 09:59:37 AM
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 22, 2023, 12:46:37 PM
Quail Hill Farm
178 Acres Protected along the Mitchell River

These days, farmers see many high value offers to buy their land – to develop residential neighborhoods, to install utility scale solar farms, and lots more. While these are not bad things on their own, these immense pressures to sell are part of why we are losing farmland and open space at the largest scale and fastest pace yet. According to a 2016 report done by American Farmland Trust, North Carolina "will convert 11.6% of its agricultural land—nearly 1.2 million acres—to subdivisions, strip malls, and scattered rural housing" by 2040. This is the second fastest farmland loss in the nation after Texas.

Tracy Hayes has seen many of these offers, but always refused. He had something different in mind. As of October 2023, 178 acres of Quail Hill Farm are now permanently protected by a conservation agreement with Piedmont Land Conservancy. That means this land can never be developed or subdivided.

Tracy first protected 9.5 acres in 2001 and 11 acres in 2005 as part of the early Mitchell River Coalition efforts, both of which were buffers along the Mitchell River. This year he expanded that protection extensively.

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https://www.piedmontland.org/2023/11/17/quailhillfarmprotected/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 26, 2023, 09:11:53 AM
Opinion: How a few days in the wild can expose our wasteful habits
It's amazing to realize how fragile our luxuries are.

Guides in the outdoor industry inevitably come up with collective nicknames for customers. On horseback they're "dudes," on the river they're "mers" — short for customers — and they're "sticks" if you're trying to trick a trout. Sometimes the terms trend a little negative — "flatlander" comes to mind, and there's another name I've come to use but need to explain it.

It comes out of what I do: For the last decade, I've guided multi-day whitewater fly-fishing trips through western Colorado's Gunnison Gorge during the summer. Then I spend the fall guiding horseback hunting outfits in wilderness. It adds up to around 100 nights a year sleeping rough.

I've met a lot of people from all over the country, and, sad to say, too many seem oblivious to how scarce clean water is in the outback and also how much work it takes to make water safe for drinking. That's why I sometimes call them "water poopers."

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2023/11/25/opinion-how-few-days-wild-can/
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on November 29, 2023, 13:08:13 PM
It's furry, it's fierce — and in much of the U.S., it's now protected
Wolverines in the Lower 48 are set to be protected under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Wednesday


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It's furry, it's fierce — and it's served as inspiration for sports mascots in Michigan and beyond.

But now in much of the United States, the wolverine is at risk of disappearing as the climate warms, prompting federal wildlife officials to protect the animal under the Endangered Species Act.

https://wapo.st/3sMj64l
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 04, 2023, 08:03:20 AM
Three American Climbers Solve the 'Last Great Problem in the Himalayas'
Scaling Mount Jannu's north face without fixed ropes or oxygen was "the greatest climb ever," one expert said, far more difficult than reaching the summit of Everest.

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Three American climbers lay in the dark, sharing a custom-made sleeping bag on a portable ledge dangling from a massive cliff high in the Himalayas. They were anchored to the north face of Mount Jannu, one of the world's biggest, sheerest rock walls.

The void below them was 10,000 feet of thin black air. Above them, within reach, was something most people can only imagine.

"I know we still have a lot to do," Alan Rousseau said to his two fellow climbers. "But I feel like we just did something cool."

The next day, Rousseau, Matt Cornell and Jackson Marvell — little known outside of climbing circles, for the moment — stood at Jannu's summit. Before them were the white tips of other major peaks, including Everest and Kangchenjunga.


Continue Reading at the NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/us/climbing-jannu-north-face.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DU0.LqFR.fQlkgBdFSIo2&hpgrp=k-abar&smid=url-share
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on December 04, 2023, 09:30:45 AM
Just when I thought I could bust for fishing today, this letter is hand delivered by town management Sunday.

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 :laugh:

Now we're guilted into entertaining peeps from the hinterlands riding on haybuggies.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on December 04, 2023, 15:01:37 PM
Quote from: Onslow on December 04, 2023, 09:30:45 AMJust when I thought I could bust for fishing today, this letter is hand delivered by town management Sunday.

 :laugh:

Now we're guilted into entertaining peeps from the hinterlands riding on haybuggies.

Enjoy!
The joy of small town living.
Any minor inconvenience is more than offset by not having to contend with the masses of asses in the big city.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on December 08, 2023, 06:53:39 AM
To those who light the hanukkiah, happy holidays.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on December 10, 2023, 09:30:27 AM
This person is spot on.  Greta is not. Reducing CO2 will do nothing for humanity if deforestation and soil depletion persists at the current rate.



QuoteThe save the soil movement Bringing humanity together to keep magic of soil alive says Sadhguru
Documentary film being played at the Save Soil press conference at The Claridges hotel in New Delhi, on Sunday. F
Stakeholders of both private and government sectors have come in support of the Save Soil campaign.

After the two documentaries, Sadhguru took the questions of the press.


When asked about the challenges he had to face during his journey, he said everyone was walking with him in the journey as nobody can really argue on soil being the source of human life.

When asked about the response he garnered from the nations that he visited, the Isha Foundation founder told about the many MOUs that he signed with governments of various nations. He also said that the United Nations has also come in support of the Save Soil movement.

One of the journalists asked Sadhguru why he chose to ride a bike and not any other vehicle, Sadhguru responded by saying that there was no better way than riding a motorcycle to maintain social distancing in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.

He added, "If I flew my city to city by an airline, do you think it would excite anybody's interest if I drive a car then no. If I walked then it may be... I would kill myself probably. If I ride a bicycle, maybe a sure death. The motorcycle is near death but not death. If you make a mistake, you could die. There are many dangerous moments out there."

When asked if he enjoy riding a bike, the 64-year-old said, "I don't enjoy anything in my life. I am just joyful."

As per Sadhguru, agriculture, deforestation, and other factors have degraded and eroded topsoil at alarming rates. Globally, 52% of agricultural land is already degraded. The planet is in crisis, if current rates of soil degradation continue, this would be the end of life as we know it, he added.

Almost every major ecological crisis is, to some degree or form, a consequence or symptom of the degradation of soil. Similarly, almost every environmental or environment-related pain point can be addressed by creating healthy soil.

Highlighting the importance of enhancing the organic content of soil, he said, "As the soil becomes rich, the usage of pesticides, chemicals, and fertilizers will start sliding down. That is how it should happen. Not the other way round, because we do not like chemicals, we say remove them. If you do that, you cannot provide food to 8 billion people. Without fertilizers, you cannot do it right now. We are not in that condition. Soil is not in that condition anywhere. If you raise your organic content to 12 to 15 per cent, then maybe it is possible to think of raising food output without chemical fertilizer."

"But I am not such a stickler against chemical fertilizer at all. If you have to use it a little bit, use it. It just has to be used in a doctored manner. Right now, it is being used extensively because the soil is so poor. It is like if you are eating good food and you are healthy, maybe you take one Vitamin pill. But now you are seriously ill, now all sorts of stuff are being pumped into you all the time. That is the state of a sick person and sick soil right now," he stated.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 10, 2023, 10:49:18 AM
Quote from: Onslow on December 10, 2023, 09:30:27 AMThis person is spot on.  Greta is not. Reducing CO2 will do nothing for humanity if deforestation and soil depletion persists at the current rate.


Carbon removal technology: How far have we come and what does the future hold?

Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd and Chris Bentley visited locations across the U.S. to understand how carbon removal technology is working to reverse some effects of climate change. They unpack the promising future of this technology and the limitations of it.

And, O'Dowd reports on carbon capture technology that sucks CO2 directly from the air and stores it in concrete used to make buildings, roads and more. While it's certainly helpful in the fight against climate change, critics say it doesn't go far enough.

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 10, 2023, 12:23:52 PM
Don Walsh, Navy officer who reached ocean's deepest spot, dies at 92
The mission in January 1960 reached the seabed more than 6.7 miles down and opened frontiers in deep-sea exploration.

The depth gauge counted off the descent through the inky ocean darkness: 29,000 feet, 30,000 feet, 31,000 feet.

At nearly 32,400 feet into the Pacific's Mariana Trench, a muffled bang jolted the bathyscaph Trieste. The two men on board froze in dread. The water pressure at this depth was nearing eight tons per square inch. Any breach in the structure would be the end. Another moment passed. Nothing more.

What they didn't know at the time was that one layer of acrylic glass in a viewing port had cracked because of a shifting metal fixture. The rest held. "We decided to proceed," recalled Don Walsh, then a Navy lieutenant, who joined Swiss oceanographer Jacques Piccard on the mission.

Deeper still: 33,000 feet, 35,000 feet. Nearly five hours after leaving the surface on Jan. 23, 1960, the Trieste sensors detected the seabed: the deepest point in all the oceans, known as the Challenger Deep. The descent stopped at about 35,800 feet. The craft's lights lit up the silty flats at more than 6.7 miles down. They were the first humans to set eyes on it.

https://wapo.st/46UT8t4
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on December 16, 2023, 18:33:34 PM
Everyone in NC should become familiar with ch. 113A article 4 of the General Statutes.

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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on December 25, 2023, 16:05:59 PM
The WW1 Christmas Truce: 'The war, for that moment, came to a standstill'

During the bleak winter of 1914, amid the mud, blood and chaos of World War One, an extraordinary series of ceasefires spontaneously occurred along the Western Front. In the 1960s the BBC spoke to some of the men who, over that exceptional Christmas period, decided to lay down their arms.
On Christmas Eve 1914, Rifleman Graham Williams, of the 5th London Rifle Brigade, stood out on sentry duty staring out anxiously across the wasteland of no man's land to the German trenches. He had already endured months of the brutal violence, bloodshed and destruction that would come to characterise World War One, when something remarkable happened.
"All of a sudden, lights appeared along the German trench. And I thought this is a funny thing. And then the Germans started singing 'Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht'. And I woke up, and all the sentries did the same thing, all woke up the other people to come along and see this and what the Earth is going on," he recalled, in the BBC radio show Witness History


https://bbc.com/culture/article/20231219-the-ww1-christmas-truce-the-war-for-that-moment-came-to-a-standstill
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 13, 2024, 22:28:51 PM
He spent his life building a $1 million stereo. The real cost was unfathomable.
Ken Fritz turned his home into an audiophile's dream — the world's greatest hi-fi. What would it mean in the end?

Ken Fritz was years into his quest to build the world's greatest stereo when he realized it would take more than just gear.

It would take more than the Krell amplifiers and the Ampex reel-to-reel. More than the trio of 10-foot speakers he envisioned crafting by hand.

And it would take more than what would come to be the crown jewel of his entire system: the $50,000 custom record player, his "Frankentable," nestled in a 1,500-pound base designed to thwart any needle-jarring vibrations and equipped with three different tone arms, each calibrated to coax a different sound from the same slab of vinyl.







https://wapo.st/47ErwZI
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on January 14, 2024, 14:20:54 PM
Some significant changes have occurred in WV concerning the expansion of designated waters, particularly in the upper Tug and Guyandotte watersheds.  The whole of Elkhorn and tribs are designated waters as well as a large chunk of the upper Guy.

I'm almost tempted to test some of the few remote tribs.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 21, 2024, 09:19:08 AM
"You can't park there"
"Boat Ramp champ"

PATRICK COUNTY, VA – An SUV was recovered from Fairy Stone Lake after it rolled off a boat ramp on Saturday.

Crews were called to the boat ramp off of Union Bridge Road in Patrick County around 5 p.m


https://www.btw21.com/post/vehicle-rolls-into-fairy-stone-lake-state-police-says
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 21, 2024, 12:57:37 PM

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The nation's rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with nutrients that contaminate drinking water and fuel a gigantic dead zone for aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a recently released Environmental Protection Agency assessment.

It's a difficult problem that's concentrated in agricultural regions that drain into the Mississippi River. More than half of the basin's miles of rivers and streams were in poor condition for nitrogen and phosphorus from fertilizer that drains into waterways, the agency found. For decades, federal and state officials have struggled to control farm runoff, the biggest source of nutrient pollution that is not typically federally regulated.

It's a problem only expected to get harder to control as climate change produces more intense storms that dump rain on the Midwest and South. Those heavy rains flood farm fields, pick up commercial fertilizers and carry them into nearby rivers.

https://apnews.com/article/571eb54cb69cc06f43d5f1253e990337

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on January 21, 2024, 15:54:29 PM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on January 21, 2024, 12:57:37 PMST. LOUIS (AP) — The nation's rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with nutrients that contaminate drinking water and fuel a gigantic dead zone for aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a recently released Environmental Protection Agency assessment.

It's a difficult problem that's concentrated in agricultural regions that drain into the Mississippi River. More than half of the basin's miles of rivers and streams were in poor condition for nitrogen and phosphorus from fertilizer that drains into waterways, the agency found. For decades, federal and state officials have struggled to control farm runoff, the biggest source of nutrient pollution that is not typically federally regulated.

It's a problem only expected to get harder to control as climate change produces more intense storms that dump rain on the Midwest and South. Those heavy rains flood farm fields, pick up commercial fertilizers and carry them into nearby rivers.

https://apnews.com/article/571eb54cb69cc06f43d5f1253e990337



Not only is there a lack of Federal regulation, but Federal subsidies continue to rise for an irresponsible industry that has bought and paid for legislators that support their every wish.
The "double whammy" on the backs of the American taxpayer. 😡
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 25, 2024, 17:01:05 PM
Utah Teen Facing Charges For Allegedly Taping Fish To ATMs

https://97x.com/utah-teen-facing-charges-taping-fish-atms/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referra

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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 25, 2024, 21:07:39 PM
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Any idea what would cause this squirrel to take a dirt nap in my back yard?
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on January 25, 2024, 21:44:58 PM
Probably from chewing on an auto fuel line, lol.

Ramik green filled squirrel feeder

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on January 26, 2024, 10:02:00 AM
Quote from: Woolly Bugger on January 25, 2024, 21:07:39 PMIMG_1360.jpg

Any idea what would cause this squirrel to take a dirt nap in my back yard?

Head trauma, likely the cause.  They do slip and fall more than you might think.

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Dougfish on January 26, 2024, 11:21:54 AM
I hate English Ivy.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on January 29, 2024, 12:47:48 PM
Crazy driver drove off a fishing pier in VA the other night — crews are working to recover vehicle and search for occupants

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2m73kqLsaz/?igsh=MTV2eTNjdHM2djlwcA==
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 06, 2024, 09:29:17 AM
Automakers keep glorifying bad behavior

Kia is the latest in a long line of auto brands celebrating "creek riding"


https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/automakers-keep-glorifying-bad-behavior/7715862
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Woolly Bugger on February 19, 2024, 09:14:00 AM
Johns River Headwaters in Blowing Rock Permanently Protected

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On February 9, 2024, Foothills Conservancy acquired and permanently protected a 326-acre tract of land in Blowing Rock, positioned directly on the Blue Ridge Escarpment, which contains the source of the Johns River. This extremely significant parcel of land is a major part of the iconic, expansive mountainous view seen from The Blowing Rock attraction, the oldest travel attraction in North Carolina, as well as from various places along the heavily-traveled US 321 corridor and other locations within the town limits of Blowing Rock. 

The purchase was made possible by state grants from the North Carolina Land and Water Fund and the North Carolina Ecosystem Enhancement Grant program, foundation grants from the Glass Foundation and the Wilson Family Foundation, contributions from conservation philanthropists Fred and Alice Stanback, and Brad and Shelli Stanback, as well as generous donations and support from 97 individuals and local businesses in the Blowing Rock community and other grant funders.

Millions of people receive clean drinking water from the Catawba River, and the Johns River is its longest headwater tributary. This now-protected land also harbors a number of significant natural communities and threatened plant and animal species documented by the North Carolina Natural Heritage Program.

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https://www.foothillsconservancy.org/news2/fcnc-permanently-protects-johns-river-headwaters-in-blowing-rock

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on February 20, 2024, 16:37:26 PM
How much would you pay for a .6 of an acre creek side lot along Cranberry Creek a couple miles upstream of the SF New?  The lot is in a nice bend in the creek.  Stream is large, and stocked.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on February 22, 2024, 07:03:33 AM
Quote from: Onslow on February 20, 2024, 16:37:26 PMHow much would you pay for a .6 of an acre creek side lot along Cranberry Creek a couple miles upstream of the SF New?  The lot is in a nice bend in the creek.  Stream is large, and stocked.

Will it perc?
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on February 23, 2024, 11:27:04 AM
Quote from: trout-r-us on February 22, 2024, 07:03:33 AM
Quote from: Onslow on February 20, 2024, 16:37:26 PMHow much would you pay for a .6 of an acre creek side lot along Cranberry Creek a couple miles upstream of the SF New?  The lot is in a nice bend in the creek.  Stream is large, and stocked.

Will it perc?

More than one.  Yes and no.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on March 03, 2024, 12:09:23 PM
Big time stone hatch on the Yadkin in Elkin.  Acres of them moving upriver.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on March 15, 2024, 07:45:25 AM
Beware, the Ides of March are upon us.

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Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on March 24, 2024, 12:39:19 PM
More fun coming for folks that have fun hating Yankees.


"Boomers fed up with Florida are moving to southern Appalachia, fueling a population spike in longtime rural communities"

https://www.yahoo.com/news/boomers-fed-florida-moving-southern-152041744.html
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: troutboy_II on March 25, 2024, 12:20:08 PM
While I am sure that concerns about severe weather may have some impact on these folks, I think having an insane governor must have an equal impact if not more so. What a wack doddle.  :o

Imho of course... Your milage may very.

TB
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on March 26, 2024, 05:05:53 AM
Quote from: troutboy_II on March 25, 2024, 12:20:08 PMWhile I am sure that concerns about severe weather may have some impact on these folks, I think having an insane governor must have an equal impact if not more so. What a wack doddle.  :o

Imho of course... Your milage may very.

TB
Quote from: troutboy_II on March 25, 2024, 12:20:08 PMWhile I am sure that concerns about severe weather may have some impact on these folks, I think having an insane governor must have an equal impact if not more so. What a wack doddle.  :o

Imho of course... Your milage may very.

TB

DeSantis is a moral supremacist just as the Neo Woke crowd are.  Same smelly shit in a different wrapper.

Perhaps a tuition refund for all his advance degrees are in order being he does not have the smarts to handle the dumb-dumbs he's quarreling with.  Yes, he is correct, there are materials that should not be in public schools.  My issue is how he exposed weakness in handling the situation by compromising the 1st, and not enforcing existing child protection laws.

Shining a light on the stupid is a great way to confront the issue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBhy_vlgKS4

Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: trout-r-us on March 26, 2024, 08:03:11 AM
Making books available vs making books required reading are two different things.
I would agree that the public schools should be monitored regarding books that are required reading, but the libraries should offer the opportunity for students to research any topic they would like. To do otherwise, restricts learning which in turn can lead to the creation of more ignorant bigoted blowhards such as Senator Kennedy.
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on March 26, 2024, 11:03:31 AM
Quote from: trout-r-us on March 26, 2024, 08:03:11 AMMaking books available vs making books required reading are two different things.
I would agree that the public schools should be monitored regarding books that are required reading, but the libraries should offer the opportunity for students to research any topic they would like. To do otherwise, restricts learning which in turn can lead to the creation of more ignorant bigoted blowhards such as Senator Kennedy.

I agree, 100 percent!

Simply seeing students in a library reading/researching anything is encouraging, at least to me.  Plus, the material available on the web surely dwarfs any material found in a school or public library.

Of all the crap our youth must deal with during this chapter of human existence, questionable readings/books located in school libraries are darned close to the bottom of the list.

Also, one of you pretentious peckerwoods please tell me the true definition of woke.   
Title: Re: unlimited odds and ends
Post by: Onslow on March 27, 2024, 17:08:28 PM
June 2, 1924, Calvin Coolidge signed the Snyder act. Some American Indians were eligible for citizenship in 1919 after WWI, but it wasn't until the Snyder Act was signed that all were :'(

Just thought I'd bring this up during this traditional season of self reflection as the 100 anniversary mark nears.