crates | May 7, 2012
Central America is the site of contending crustal plates–notably the Cocos Plate in the Pacific Ocean which is being subducted beneath the Caribbean Plate right off the western coast of central america at a rate of 72-81 mm/yr. It’s this area where the Central America Volcanic Arc exists which forms the volcanoes of Guatemala, [...]
crates | April 12, 2010
Central America is the site of contending crustal plates–notably the Cocos Plate in the Pacific Ocean which is being subducted beneath the Caribbean Plate right off the western coast of central america at a rate of 72-81 mm/yr. It’s this area where the Central America Volcanic Arc exists which forms the volcanoes of Guatemala, El Salvador, [...]
crates | September 1, 2009
The Grey Wolf (Canis lupus), almost hunted to near extinction in the lower forty-eight states, once again can be legally killed. This has come about after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service took the wolf off the endangered species list last May and will allow Idaho and Montana to reduce the wolf population down to [...]
crates | April 16, 2009
The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC) I am reading Peter Pouncey’s book, Rules for Old Men Waiting, enjoying the wonderful writing and the images and thoughts that were evoked. I got to thinking about how difficult it is today to [...]
crates | February 19, 2009
When one examines the available literature on overpopulation (or any other environmental problem), it can immediately be seen that there are vociferous advocates both pro and con. One side is predicting dire consequences if world population isn’t checked, and the other sides pooh-poohs such people as wild-eyed extremists, claiming that there IS no problem. Whom [...]
crates | April 29, 2008
I remember in the early seventies talking to my friends about starting a movement to set aside a preserve of some sort in the Amazon River valley to save some of the unique rainforest found in that area. This was out of concern created by the recent completion of the trans-Amazonian highway. With the opening [...]
crates | December 8, 2007
I recently traveled to the nearby town of Puyallup, driving along a road that paralleled the Puyallup River. I noticed that the rich bottomland along the river in the town of Fife, that had once been daffodil, berry or vegetable farms were now covered with apartments, homes and businesses. The homes were built right up [...]
crates | July 5, 2007
For a long time I have been wanting to start some sort of water garden in two half whisky barrels that I have. Unfortunately the water always fills up with mosquito larvae. In fact it’s almost impossible to go outside in the evening at my home for any length of time because of the [...]
crates | June 29, 2007
Not too many years ago, a French company after comparing satellite images said that Washington state had cut relatively more forest than had been cleared in the Amazonian rain forest. This came at a time when alarms were being spread around the world concerning the rate at which the rainforests of that area were disappearing. Weyerhaeuser (“the tree growing company”) responded indignantly by [...]
crates | June 28, 2007
There was an article in the paper a few days ago talking about how the common birds of Washington State are diminishing drastically in numbers. Today they took the American Bald Eagle off the endangered species list, but unfortunately many of these common birds don’t have the glamour nor do they occupy public awareness as does the magnificent [...]