Environment Blogs
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Slightly Rattled – The Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake
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Not everyone has the good fortune of seeing an Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus) in the wild and most are probably content to keep it that way. There’s also a vast difference between spotting one from a vehicle and having one slither across a path in front of you. The Big Cypress National Preserve [...]
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Choo choo at tunnel's end
What's that saying about the light at the end of the tunnel?
Something about a train coming the other way.
Long ago there was a railroad track nearby.
Sometimes in the solitude you can still hear its whistle blow.
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Big Cypress Nat'l Lakeshore?
Right next to the refugia pool (bottom)
was a dry shore of cypress (top).
Can you see the gator trail?
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Battle of the Cold Front and Spring ET
Word is on Friday we could see a front.
The result could be some coveted spring rain.
Foreground: In the foreground is actual weekly rainfall (blue bars), average weekly rainfall (dotted black line) and median weekly rainfall (solid black line). The dotted line nicely shows that on [...] -
Dry season refugia pools ...
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Thunder Pumpers - The American Bittern
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Stick your head in an aquarium and say “glunk-ga-glunk” repeatedly. This was the best description I could offer to a friend who was trying to help me identify the other worldly noise I was hearing coming from just outside my home in Londonderry, VT back in 2002. I had never heard such a sound [...]
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Happy to stand in fear at water's edge?
I don't know what changed ...
But this time last year I walked fearlessly straight into the pool below.
April 2012
Maybe I'm just getting softer in my old age, as in the saying:
"Another year older, another year slower."
Same view the year [...] -
Deep water haunts
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March of the alien invaders!
How unusually warm was March?
"It's almost like science fiction" was quoted in the national news. (read article)
March 2012 Temperature Comparison
Not that I or anyone saw any extraterrestrials.
But it did inspire me to dig manically into the March temperature data to see [...]
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