From the daily archives: Saturday, September 6, 2008

As Arctic Sea Ice Melts, Experts Expect New Low

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As Arctic Sea Ice Melts, Experts Expect New Low. New York Times.

After a harder than usual winter in 2007-8, climate change skeptics were hailing the winter refreezing of the Arctic Ocean, and even suggesting global cooling was underway because there were not enough sunspots. . . as though ice shelves thousands of years […]

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Unanticipated effects of using gall-flies to control spotted knapweed

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We have talked a lot about knapweed on this forum because of its negative consequences for wildlife habitat.

Biocontrol has been pushed as an alternative to herbicides, but this is bad news.

“ScienceDaily (Sep. 5, 2008) — Biocontrol agents, such as insects, are often released outside of their native ranges to control invasive plants.”

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Yellowstone Park visits high in August

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Yellowstone numbers strong for August. By Cory Hatch, Jackson Hole News and Guide.

The bad economy and high gas prices have not reduced visits to Yellowstone.

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‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey