Wednesday, December 10, 2014

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Oregon prison's 'Blue Room' project named to Time magazine's top 25 inventions of 2014

Titan's 300-foot-high sand dunes were formed by westerly wind








Kathy Meader

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In the 20-plus years the Swannacks have raised sheep in Whitman County, Friday's event is a first. When the family was rounding up their flock that escaped their pasture the night before, they found one half-eaten in the field.
“As we went on moving the sheep back to the field they were suppose to be in we discovered the kill in the straw," Ranch owner Art Swannack said.
Swannack said before they found the kill, his wife saw a wolf on the ridge, a rare occurrence for the Lamont area.
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BobShannon

Consumers spent $1 million last month on legal marijuana in Spokane County, the first time recreational sales eclipsed that mark since shops opened this summer.
While market shares have tumbled for many of the county’s early openers, overall sales continued to rise in November as the nascent industry grabs a foothold in the market. Customers at the county’s eight pot shops spent 22 percent more on recreational marijuana last month than they did in August.
Sales figures reported to the Washington Liquor Control Board have local officials jockeying for a piece of the growing tax revenue pie, while shop owners scramble for customers who have more options.

RobFry

Humpback whales, the gigantic, endangered mammals known for their haunting underwater songs, have been approaching New York City in greater numbers than even old salts can remember.
Naturalists aboard whale-watching boats have seen humpbacks in the Atlantic Ocean within a mile of the Rockaway peninsula, part of New York's borough of Queens, within sight of Manhattan's skyscrapers.
"It is truly remarkable, within miles of the Empire State Building, to have one of the largest and most charismatic species ever to be on this planet," said Howard Rosenbaum, director of the Ocean Giants program at the Wildlife Conservation Society.

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 Bob Shannon



Salmon, other marine species will move north as water warms

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More than 150 cattle valued at about $350,000 have been reported missing in southeastern Idaho, and authorities aren't excluding modern-day cattle rustling as beef prices have soared.
Three ranchers say roundup searches in recent weeks in the hills and gulches on the remote summer range where the cattle graze have come up empty in two counties.


I saw this along Highway 1 N of Cur on the Kettle River side.
I forget whether there was some sort of gripe or not but it sure
turned many heads, including the cougars. YES it was a real cougar head.

Shoot a wolf, kill a cow?
That’s the counterintuitive outcome of a look at 25 years of wolf management statistics in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming by a Washington researcher wondering how wolf populations might affect his state.
“People are afraid of grizzlies, black bears and cougars, but the wolf thing is really different,” said Rob Wielgus, who’s been studying how predators and people interact since 1981. 
http://missoulian.com/lifestyles/recreation/killing-wolves-could-hurt-not-help-livestock-study-finds/article_240035d8-9e7f-577a-a528-72eb7506bb27.html






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