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The sooner you get into the field after a large rain event the better, especially here.   This involves rubber boots (mine leaked today...I bought women's boots last time.  Just sayin'.)   What you want to see is how the water's moving on the land, if any checkdams or gabions have been damaged, where erosion is active (you hope for nowhere, but ( Read more... )

Soft blue sky, little fluffy clouds, sunshine, temp in the low 80s, humid, breeze.


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We all live in habitats, and all our habitats are subdivided into microhabitats.   Wildlife are the same.  For most of them, they utilize a variety of microhabitats in the range of their overall habitat...a hispid cotton rat may live in grassland, but it chooses particular parts of that grassland for its burrow, its traveling trails, its food ( Read more... )

http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-SPECIES/2007/January/Day-19/e738.htm

Chertoff's own words, in the above referenced site:

"I hereby
waive, in their entirety, all Federal, State, or other laws,
regulations and legal requirements of, deriving from, or related to the
subject of, the following laws, as amended: the National Environmental
Policy Act (Pub ( Read more... )