Seeing no Daily Bucket and itching to post more links I see in my online neighborhood of the NW Coast..here tis.
As usual, haha, you don't need my permission to use this as an open thread related to natural sciences, stuff we see in our yards and elsewhere, and any political machinations we need to know about:
like this:
Washington State allows Oyster company to spray imidacloprid on Willapa Bay?!?!?!?>
That's the stuff that is blamed for killing honeybees..it's is labeled not to be used on water, but a Oyster company has appealed to use it to kill native shrimp that hurt the oyster farming ..a practice where they seem to lay the oysters on the bottom. Other operations such as the ones in Humboldt bay they now hang them in nets above the bottom avoiding some of the shrimp problems and the still to be seen with google earth eelgrass bed harms.
And that is about all I know about oyster farming practices...
They are going to spray this neurotoxin in Willapa Bay Washington in about 14 days..so you have 13 to complain. To whom is maybe relevant...we'll read the article and see.
Today a follow up:
Chefs ‘horrified’ by plan to spray pesticide on oyster beds
Don't make the chefs mad....or me.
I hope I don't lay an egg....I have people for that. well, not people exactly but we raised her from an egg...
Any pictures might maybe actually work in Lightbox mode..click them, if they embiggenate for you...it's in Lightbox mode.
more on over past the shrimpy thing..
See, this has been happening in our garden patch, haha, four Milkweed pots with now about 20 eggs, courtesy of this new hatchling that hatched here, flew off MsBee's hand, got herself knocked up, and came flying in around my face to lay another 20 eggs!!!!...which means now we have to buy another 15-20 plants, the caterpillars are voracious...they devoured these, about 8 of them, several hatched and flew, one hatched and flew last night, the last two are ready later today...a couple crawled away before they cocoonated...(flapflap) ahhhh!!...her she is again!!!
And, of course...guess what...the same dam neurotoxin they want to blast the oysters with is killing Bees as well as these beautiful Gifts from God as well.
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Well, here is another story along with the two linked above, all have great pictures that I'd so steal and post, but the complaint dept is down right now, soooo.......
Great story about the research into the shrimp problem and more terrific pictures in the Bloomberg(!) article...(I know, right?...What could go wrong?)
A pesticide from the group of chemicals linked to colony collapse disorder will now be sprayed in US waters. What could go wrong?.
So there's that, now you know more about it than I do..
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California Assembly to vote on the proposal for Nickle Mining in a giant open pit mine in the headwaters of the irreplaceable and unscrewed up Smith River, at the border between California and Oregon.
This is that fantastic river you can see after you have ever driven north thru Calif. on Hiway 1 or Hiway 101 north of San Francisco thru Sonoma, Eureka, Arcata, Trinidad, and Crescent City, you will then go up Hiway 199 past CCity which snakes along the Smith River while it goes up the mountain range to the higher valley above leading to Grant's Pass, Oregon.
I love it, and it is clear and COLD.
Alongside 199 by the Smith River I once lay on a rock with my arm in the water for an hour until three large Salmon drifted over in the rushing water of the pool and I could pet their bellies.
They liked it.
I was young..my arm has warmed up since.
This a major threat to this scenic and beautiful river which PBO should designate as..well, read the article for better details.
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Volcanos!!??
A volcano erupting off the Oregon Coast probably!!
Pretty cool, a seamount is rumbling back to life as magma bubbles up below it..scientists say it is no threat to inspire the giant fault threatening to wreak havoc to the entire NW Coast any day now...
Scientists are monitoring it with instrumentation via a 300 mile cable...don't tell Bobby Jindal, he's too busy right now..
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And in the science of politics and people, here's an article about Portland Oregon's struggles with it's homeless problem..and typical of the to and fro in every city as we struggle to deal with this issue here in the NW and well, everywhere.
Daily Bucket material..well, mine anyway..
Authorities are currently rousting about 100 campers with their large messy camps right along Humboldt Bay's shoreline..there is The Plan, then there is another, then oop's, budget problems, so sorry....
It is an ongoing problem, housing, effective help, policing, and the water quality in the Bay with it's fresh oysters from the bay industry issues.
A like Portland, like the Detroit prosecuter who said protesters should be shot, like in Humboldt County around Humboldt Bay, if some of the annoyed could spray neurotoxin on the homeless campers they would, they have suggested it and worse in the usual anonymous online forums.
Locally, in relatively poor and rural Humboldt County locals are self organizing huge parties where they focus on a rural dumping spot (usually junk from housed people, ugh) and remove the dead and broken crap usually thrown over a road side into a watershed. Cars and appliances winched out, using climbing gear, truck mounted winches..and with hot dogs and music. Similar groups also meet and focus on beaches and trash from housed as well as unhoused dumpers along the bay and nearby watersheds.
And it is not unusual for homeless and formerly homeless to be part of these cleanups.
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Okok, one last cool thing here...
The eagles and most other birds are making busy making and rearing babies everywhere, if you have a nest cam view you have seen em, the cuddly little killers. We have a couple of Bald Eagle nest cams with little hungry fluffballs in Humboldt County inside the Emerald Triangle, behind the Redwood Curtain, (your metaphor here)...but instead of a nest cam, here is a cool video of a Pileated Woodpecker with it's Stellar Jay pals. The woman is one of the best photographers of nature in that area...always love to see her work.
No, I have never seen a Pileated Woodpecker!!!
Everybody needs a guard spider when they are but an egg.