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#91
The Gravel Bar / Re: unlimited odds and ends
Last post by Onslow - March 03, 2024, 12:09:23 PMBig time stone hatch on the Yadkin in Elkin. Acres of them moving upriver.
#92
The Gravel Bar / Re: Beetle's Book and Word Thr...
Last post by trout-r-us - March 03, 2024, 09:20:32 AMGood schtuff.
🎶The magical mystery tour is waiting to take you away.🎶
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#93
The Gravel Bar / Re: Unlimited Everything Everg...
Last post by trout-r-us - March 02, 2024, 09:34:18 AMWhen man has finally destroyed it, we will be left with history, books, images, and a few other forms of memorabilia to remember it by. As the unwoke disallow the history, burn the books, the photos, and in anyway they can the destroy the other memories, perhaps some of the more permanent objects will survive.
Maybe my grandchildren will find this in their attic in the next century and wonder just what it represented.
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#94
The Gravel Bar / Re: Unlimited Dead People; R.I...
Last post by Woolly Bugger - February 29, 2024, 08:05:46 AMRoni Stoneman, the "first lady of the banjo," who picked her way into bluegrass and country music history as a member of the Stoneman Family band and found wider fame as an irascible performer on "Hee Haw," the down-home variety show, died Feb. 22 at her home in Murfreesboro, Tenn. She was 85.
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#95
The Gravel Bar / Re: Trump Sucks
Last post by Onslow - February 28, 2024, 19:58:36 PMJoe and Trump need to git.
#96
The Gravel Bar / Re: Trump Sucks
Last post by trout-r-us - February 28, 2024, 16:55:50 PMGreat movie memory.
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#97
The Gravel Bar / Re: Unlimited Poacher News
Last post by Woolly Bugger - February 27, 2024, 14:59:04 PMMan to plead guilty to helping kill 3,600 eagles, other birds and selling feathers prized by tribes
A Washington state man accused of helping kill more than 3,000 birds — including eagles on a Montana Indian reservation — then illegally selling their feathers intends to plead guilty to illegal wildlife trafficking and other criminal charges, court documents show.
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A Washington state man accused of helping kill more than 3,000 birds — including eagles on a Montana Indian reservation — then illegally selling their feathers intends to plead guilty to illegal wildlife trafficking and other criminal charges, court documents show.
https://wr.al/1RNro
#98
The Gravel Bar / Re: Damn Dams -- Unlimited dam...
Last post by trout-r-us - February 24, 2024, 18:03:39 PMDamn Imigrants!!!!!
"On a spring day more than 300 years ago, the people of the Lenape tribe gathered in their homeland along the Brandywine Creek in Delaware.
Hundreds of fish had just begun to make their way from the Atlantic Ocean, up the Delaware River and into the Brandywine to spawn in the creek's upstream headwaters in Pennsylvania.
After a long, lean winter for the Lenape, these fish — now known as the American Shad — were greeted as relatives and the first source of fresh food for the Lenapes every year. But when Samuel Kirk built a dam in 1720 near where the Brandywine Creek meets the Christina River — which bridges the Brandywine with the Delaware River in the city of Wilmington — the shad could no longer swim to their ancestral spawning grounds upstream.
The Lenape, in turn, largely lost the springtime food source they'd relied on for thousands of years, according to Dennis Coker, the principal chief of the Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware. And what wildlife remained in the area, Coker added, the Europeans hunted competitively, with a "voracious appetite."
"It's very much akin to killing all of the buffalo for Plains Indians," Coker said, "with the intention of starving them."
The Lenape asked the settlers to remove the dam in the mid-1730s, according to Coker. Their "request fell on deaf ears," he said. And after the Europeans brought the smallpox virus that wiped out around 90 percent of the indigenous population, Coker said the Lenape started to leave the Brandywine."
https://delawarecurrents.org/2024/02/19/delaware-river-mill-dams/
"On a spring day more than 300 years ago, the people of the Lenape tribe gathered in their homeland along the Brandywine Creek in Delaware.
Hundreds of fish had just begun to make their way from the Atlantic Ocean, up the Delaware River and into the Brandywine to spawn in the creek's upstream headwaters in Pennsylvania.
After a long, lean winter for the Lenape, these fish — now known as the American Shad — were greeted as relatives and the first source of fresh food for the Lenapes every year. But when Samuel Kirk built a dam in 1720 near where the Brandywine Creek meets the Christina River — which bridges the Brandywine with the Delaware River in the city of Wilmington — the shad could no longer swim to their ancestral spawning grounds upstream.
The Lenape, in turn, largely lost the springtime food source they'd relied on for thousands of years, according to Dennis Coker, the principal chief of the Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware. And what wildlife remained in the area, Coker added, the Europeans hunted competitively, with a "voracious appetite."
"It's very much akin to killing all of the buffalo for Plains Indians," Coker said, "with the intention of starving them."
The Lenape asked the settlers to remove the dam in the mid-1730s, according to Coker. Their "request fell on deaf ears," he said. And after the Europeans brought the smallpox virus that wiped out around 90 percent of the indigenous population, Coker said the Lenape started to leave the Brandywine."
https://delawarecurrents.org/2024/02/19/delaware-river-mill-dams/
#99
The Gravel Bar / Re: unlimited odds and ends
Last post by Onslow - February 23, 2024, 11:27:04 AMQuote from: trout-r-us on February 22, 2024, 07:03:33 AMQuote 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.
#100
The Gravel Bar / Re: Unlimited Nuclear Disaster...
Last post by Woolly Bugger - February 23, 2024, 10:00:00 AMTackling nuclear legacies, 70 years after Bravo
On 1 March 1954, the US government exploded a thermonuclear weapon on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, codenamed Bravo. The test had an explosive yield of nearly 15 megatons, a thousand times more powerful than the US atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
This year, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) will hold ceremonies on 1 March to mark the 70th anniversary of the Bravo test. Many direct participants in the testing program have since died, but the commemoration is a day for younger Marshallese to learn about the 67 US nuclear tests at Bikini and Enewetak Atolls between 1946 and 1958.
Ariana Tibon-Kilma is one of three commissioners on the RMI National Nuclear Commission (NNC), and she highlights the importance of this year's anniversary for younger Marshallese.
"The government has set aside 1 March as a national holiday and a national day of mourning," she said. "It's become a day of remembrance."
The NNC was established in 2017 during the first administration led by RMI President Hilda Heine (who has just won another term of office). The commission works to build awareness about nuclear justice, coordinating activities between government ministries, the College of the Marshall Islands (CMI) and agencies like the Environment Protection Agency.
Working with school children is a key focus. Tibon-Kilma explained that "prior to recent improvements in the school curriculum, 1 March was really the only day that young children and students would hear about the nuclear testing program. For the longest time, we weren't learning about this period. So, when school children would march in Majuro on 1 March, it was really the only time that we talked about the history of nuclear testing and the nuclear legacies."
https://islandsbusiness.com/news-break/tackling-nuclear-legacies-70-years-after-bravo/
On 1 March 1954, the US government exploded a thermonuclear weapon on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, codenamed Bravo. The test had an explosive yield of nearly 15 megatons, a thousand times more powerful than the US atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
This year, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) will hold ceremonies on 1 March to mark the 70th anniversary of the Bravo test. Many direct participants in the testing program have since died, but the commemoration is a day for younger Marshallese to learn about the 67 US nuclear tests at Bikini and Enewetak Atolls between 1946 and 1958.
Ariana Tibon-Kilma is one of three commissioners on the RMI National Nuclear Commission (NNC), and she highlights the importance of this year's anniversary for younger Marshallese.
"The government has set aside 1 March as a national holiday and a national day of mourning," she said. "It's become a day of remembrance."
The NNC was established in 2017 during the first administration led by RMI President Hilda Heine (who has just won another term of office). The commission works to build awareness about nuclear justice, coordinating activities between government ministries, the College of the Marshall Islands (CMI) and agencies like the Environment Protection Agency.
Working with school children is a key focus. Tibon-Kilma explained that "prior to recent improvements in the school curriculum, 1 March was really the only day that young children and students would hear about the nuclear testing program. For the longest time, we weren't learning about this period. So, when school children would march in Majuro on 1 March, it was really the only time that we talked about the history of nuclear testing and the nuclear legacies."
https://islandsbusiness.com/news-break/tackling-nuclear-legacies-70-years-after-bravo/