Comments | e_moon60: 80 Acres; Website update

e_moon60

80 Acres; Website update

Apr 09, 2009 16:35

http://www.80acresonline.org/

Species lists are now live on the website. When you mouse over the Species List, three choices appear: birds, plants, and "zoology" (which in this instance means non-bird wildlife.)

And each of these lists has three pictures of representative species up there on the top green line.

Ruta's a genius.

widlife, website

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wordslinger April 10 2009, 04:19:56 UTC

What a valuable resource for a research biologist!!

e_moon60 April 10 2009, 04:39:35 UTC

You made my day.

That's exactly why I'm trying to find everything, identify it, photograph it, etc. I may not have made it as a research biologist myself, but at least I can contribute something to the knowledge base.

comrade_cat April 10 2009, 04:38:40 UTC

I just finished reading 'Chameleons' in ARC format, I liked it a lot. (I work in a sf/f bookstore, so we get tons of ARCs.) Are you going to write more about Glia's chameleons in future? (I don't want to give any spoilers.)

Thank you for writing nice stuff.

e_moon60 April 10 2009, 04:41:21 UTC

I'm not sure. First I have to finish the books I'm working on. I discovered (fighting to get that story and another done last year) that these books do not want to be interrupted by something outside their universe, so I promised agent and editor that I would not commit to any short fiction for the duration.

e_moon60 April 10 2009, 04:41:46 UTC

Oh, and thank you. I'm delighted you liked it!

okay, spoilers comrade_cat April 10 2009, 04:45:11 UTC

Me too. :) I'm looking forward to your new Paks-world books. I found the humods interesting, though, it would be nice to read more about them in a few years...

Cool! ysabetwordsmith April 10 2009, 04:51:10 UTC

I linked to this on my blog too.

I've got a 2-acre yard that's managed for mutual human/wildlife enjoyment. It includes a prairie garden/butterfly meadow that we mow only occasionally to keep the thatch down. We have mucho wildlife.

Re: Cool! e_moon60 April 10 2009, 23:08:25 UTC

Sounds lovely. Are you keeping a species list?

Re: Cool! ysabetwordsmith April 13 2009, 04:16:23 UTC

Not with photos and all, but I have sometimes listed things seen in the yard -- usually by type, so a list of birds, or mammals, or butterflies, etc. There must be dozens of grasses alone, and I'm probably not good enough to identify all of them precisely.

Re: Cool! e_moon60 April 13 2009, 04:26:57 UTC

Grasses are hard. I'm not that good at them. We have books on grasses, but pictures of grasses, either drawn or photographed, don't always solve the problem. Depending on where you are, a county agent might be able to help with that. We have a few 'gems'--old natives, survived years of abusive management, and not the commonest of the natives. But we have way too much of the non-natives someone thought would improve the place: King Ranch bluestem and silky bluestem. The latter is a beautiful grass, in the aesthetic sense, esp. when blooming and seeding, but it's not native.

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