Sunday Sept 15, 2013
Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows
Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows
University of Colorado, Boulder law school
professor Brad Udall has long written and lectured about water issues in
the American West, but this week’s Colorado floods have brought the
subject to his doorstep.
Four people have lost
their lives in flooding this week that has engulfed swaths of Colorado
and that has forced thousands to evacuate their homes.
Udall, director of the University of Colorado, Boulder’s Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment says that the Boulder area (see map)
has received more rain in the past three days (up to 15 inches, or 38
centimeters) than the previous precipitation record for a whole month.
Udall’s
house sits about 30 feet (9 meters) from a creek that is normally dry
this time of year. In the past two days, he said the creek rose more
than five feet (1.5 meters), and has become a raging stream that’s 20
feet (6 meters) wide.
“[Thursday] night I had a hard
time going to sleep because of the ominous rumblings of large boulders
tumbling down the creek bed,” Udall said. His house narrowly escaped
major damage, but many neighbors weren’t so lucky.
U.S.
President Barack Obama declared an emergency for Boulder, Larimer, and
El Paso counties on Friday and the Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) has deployed four rescue teams to the area, the most ever in the
state.
Just as troubling as all the damage, Udall says,
is that this week’s floods do not fit into the usual pattern of high
water in the West.
BEAR by Rick Price
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Ocean acidification can rewire fish brains
Want to work in Seattle during the week and then fly away to a ranch for the weekend? Check out Venture Farms,
1850 Venture Road, in Ellensburg, scheduled to go up for auction on
Sept. 12. The 579-acre range includes an office, a "mare motel," an
indoor equestrian facility, a breeding barn, cattle corrals and
facilities, a four-bedroom ranch home, three caretaker homes, an organic
farm, a home, a 2,200-foot airstrip and an airplane hangar. The
property is set to be offered in 16 tracts or as a whole.
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The
fall Chinook salmon run on the Columbia River is the largest ever since
construction of the Bonneville Dam, and could hit 1 million fish by the
time it is done.The fish count at the dam east of Portland went over 613,700 on Friday, the largest number since the dam was completed in 1938.
At the peak of the run, nearly 64,000 fish passed the viewing windows in a single day.
The unprecedented abundance has prompted fisheries manager to extend sport, commercial and tribal fishing seasons on the river, and expand daily bag limits.
We knew they’d be back. With their bald-faced lies. Their brazen disregard for your health and our environment. Their arrogant plans to deny you the right to know what franken-ingredients they’re cooking up in their labs and disguising as “food” on your grocery shelves.
And their deep, deep pockets.
Sure enough, they are back. This week, Monsanto and Dupont dumped millions more of their GMO-tainted dollars into the campaign to defeat I-522, Washington State’s GMO labeling initiative. To date, Monsanto has ponied up $4.8 million. Dupont as kicked in $3.4 million. In all, so far, the NO on 522 campaign has raised more than $11 million. All from a handful of corporations. Not a penny from people like you.
Who’s supporting the YES on I-522 campaign? You. Your family. Your neighbors. Your friends. Tens of thousands of us. To their four chemical companies and one big front group representing junk food makers.
The polls show us winning in Washington. But the opposition is trying to whittle away at our poll numbers by rallying newspaper editors (who take advertising dollars from biotech and Big Food) and Big Ag trade groups to their side. Soon they’ll launch a full-on media blitz to try to scare voters into taking their side.
We recovered from, were galvanized around, the loss in California last year. Can we lose this battle again this year and still win the war? Let’s not go there.
Hoverfly by Bob Shannon and Pentax DSLR
Ferry County Officer Shooting
The Washington State Patrol is currently investigating an officer involved shooting in Ferry County. The shooting occurred after two National Park Service Rangers patrolling the Kettle River Campground stopped to investigate a noise complaint around 10:30 p.m. last night. The suspect that was shot has been transported by Medstar to Sacred Heart Medical Center and is in satisfactory condition. Another suspect was taken into custody and booked into the Spokane County Jail.
The Kettle River Campground is closed at this time and will remain closed until detectives finish gathering evidence at the scene.
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