We live on a beautiful, fragile yet amazingly resilient world, which we celebrate on April 22. It’s the third planet from our star, the sun, formed over four and half billion years ago from accreting stellar matter, along with the rest of our system. Life developed rapidly on the new planet, taking merely half a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘habitat’
Happy Earth Day
Posted in environment, nature, science, tagged ecology, events, habitat, landscape, media, photography, physics on 22 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
U.S. bird populations and diversity in decline?
Posted in current events, environment, science, tagged birds, environment, habitat, impacts, science on 20 March, 2009 | 1 Comment »
According to the recently released U.S State of the Birds 2009 report, a study prepared under the Bush administration by 13 major agencies and conservation organizations, almost one third of the 800 species of birds found in the US are “endangered, threatened or in significant decline”, particularly due to the influence of human activity, loss [...]
California coast threat: oil drilling
Posted in current events, environment, technology, tagged california, energy, environment, habitat, impacts, natural resources, oil on 29 December, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle reports that the Department of the Interior, headed by industry-friendly, environmentally-challenged Dirk Kempthorne, is moving to open some or all of the U.S. coastal waters outside state control to offshore oil exploration starting in 2010. Planned assault The Bush administration has been gunning for this for a long time. Back in [...]
Temporary fix for Jacoby Creek flooding
Posted in current events, environment, technology, tagged engineering, habitat, humboldt, management, natural resources, restoration, salmonid, watershed on 3 December, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An article in yesterday’s Times-Standard described a sediment removal project that Humboldt County will undertake to control flooding in the lower reach of Jacoby Creek. The project is acknowledged as a stop-gap action, but it’s what the County can do with the access and means it has to bring the problem under some measure of [...]
How tall can a tall tree be?
Posted in nature, science, tagged california, habitat, landscape on 13 August, 2008 | 1 Comment »
How topical: just as I’m returning to the land of the tallest known trees, taller even than those left in Washington state, the BBC’s Science and Nature section has an article on a study that estimates the theoretical maximum possible height a tree can reach. This height is limited by the physics of getting water [...]
Salmon habitat restoration in the Nisqually Estuary
Posted in environment, local, tagged environment, habitat, natural resources, puget sound, restoration, salmonid, watershed on 15 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A large aquatic habitat restoration project has been announced for the mouth of the Nisqually River; it will provide habitat for South Sound chinook salmon, a federally-listed threatened species as well as a state candidate species. Some 762 acres (308 hectares) of saltwater estuary habitat will be restored by removing the old levees isolating them [...]
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