duncan elkins
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Just what is Reddit? I looked at the site and read some comments. Glad you interjected. I’m familiar with forums for certain interests, so is Reddit just for guys living in their parent’s basements or what?
The term of art is “neckbeards.”
Looks like Morgan Falls was relicensed in 2008. That was probably the best opportunity to get it removed, so we’re probably stuck with it for another 26 years.
That PDF linked above contains some interesting reading, including acknowledgement of a recommendation the the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper and American Rivers that GaPower investigate dredging the pool. But, “As noted, the sediment in the reservoir is at or approaching equilibrium, which means that the total amount of sediment currently within the reservoir is not expected to increase, rather the amount of sediment should be at or nearly the same in the future. Staff expects that because the reservoir is nearing, or at, equilibrium, the total amount of sediment obstacles that the boating clubs experience should not increase in the future.”
Further down:
“Commission staff did not find that all of the erosion was caused by the operation at Buford dam. Rather, staff found that the most common potential sources of erosion observed during the 2005 reconnaissance survey (in descending order of frequency of occurrence) were adjacent impervious surfaces (and associated runoff), stormwater runoff from surrounding areas, public recreation/access activities, and water level fluctuations associated with Buford dam peaking releases. Typically, the sites with a high potential for erosion were in areas
having a lack of vegetation caused by activities other than project operations, such as human activity, runoff from adjacent impervious surfaces, animal activity, Buford dam flows, and storm water discharges.
Georgia Power proposes to provide a one time funding for the Riverkeeper’s Get The Dirt Out Program, which helps educate and increase awareness among the public about water quality issues and measures to control urban runoff from areas outside the
project boundary.”I’d love to hear a podcast with Halverson, Zach. He’s published at least one journal article, too, on the history of stocking and tried to come up with estimates of just how many fish we’re dumping into the various waterways in this country.
I borrow liberally from Halverson’s history for introductory material when I talk about my research, as context for why I’d be interested in trout stocking in the southern Appalachians. Besides the great shots of Dundrearies, I particularly enjoyed the early sections of the book, in which he describes the mentality of assisted natural selection that drove a lot of the initial stocking efforts. It’s pretty valuable context for anyone working with management decisions, today, to see just how faddish the “science” was in those early years.
And don’t sweat the nerd cracks. I’d have been lost in my -ology classes without the 6 years of Latin I took in high school, and I still can’t keep names straight without working backwards from the characters to the sci-latin. As a student, I heard a great story of a professor who told all his classes, “Don’t be offended if I don’t learn your names; every time I learn a student, I forget a fish.” (Perhaps appropriately, I’ve forgotten to whom that quote should be attributed.)
I quit eating at Quizno’s over their sponsorship of shark tournaments, but they steadfastly refuse to go bankrupt. 😉
The HSUS’s position on shark finning is entirely consonant with CCA’s http://www.joincca.org/TIDE/7%20signs.html.
Lost:
The leather case for my original Canon Elph IXUS, set it down on a rock to take a shot, walked downstream to get a better angle…
The butt cap and uplock hardware of a brand-new Sage VT2, fished once, at ~10 am on my first day fishing the Collon Cura in Argentina.Good suggestions, above, and some I need to check out, myself.
I like the Fiction Podcast from the New Yorker, in which the fiction editor gets writers from the current stable to pick a favorite story from the New Yorker’s archives and read it, then discuss why they chose it.I don’t see anything in that report that makes sense of the histrionics in the Shimano announcement. All the spatial planning is to take place in the second 90 days, which that report doesn’t cover. The report says they received “over 500” comments to the website during the initial public comment period, which isn’t really all that many. There were some roundtable discussions, but they were just to generate the high-level recommendations in that report, which doesn’t appear to say anything specific about closures. (Though, I’ll admit, I didn’t read every word of it.)
I don’t see a problem with the mandate for ecosystem-based management, in principle, as opposed to uncoordinated and disjunct management for individuals species or resources.
I don’t see a problem with the “best available science” language, in principle or in practice. That’s the same language the FWS uses in it’s management directives, too, as far as I know.
I don’t see a problem with making the recommendations consistent with the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. That policy is old enough to drink, it’s about time we signed on. 🙂 Seriously, though, international fisheries agreements are notoriously toothless. I’d like to see this administration grow a pair and shame the Europeans into some meaningful international policies on defensible quotas, subsidies, migratory stocks, and flags of convenience, but this policy appears to address only EEZ regulations.
So, am I missing something?
I tried to do some background research on the stories, but they all seem to refer back to a single study by the USGS. Even this study seems to have some odd anomolies in it. I know of some saltwater species that change sex during their lifetime as a natural occurance, so I was wondering if this may be the case.
The jury is definitely still out.
I’ve heard it said that it’s easier to test for caffeine than E. coli as evidence of a sewage leak, since you never find one without the other in a sewer system. The same would probably go for Prozac, birth-control hormones, and acetaminophen, to name a few.
Here’s a nice little summary from the USGS, detailing some of their findings on intersex bass from all over the country. (Hat tip to one of the profs at Warnell for bringing it to my attention.)
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=2305">
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=2305A case in point is the Barramundi we have here in
Australia. Similar I believe to your snook – Mr Morse
would know.Barramundi are ecologically quite similar to the Atlantic snooks.
