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 | January 23, 2009
It has been unusually cold the past few weeks, staying down in the thirties, with a thick fog veiling the forests and sea. There has been no rain, but I have noticed that beneath the great Douglas Fir trees and the Big Leaf Maples the ground is wet as if a rain has fallen. [...]
crates | July 9, 2008
Most people are familiar with the great manatees or dugongs that frequent both fresh and salt waters of the world. Many in the United States have seen photos of the West Indian Manatee (Trichechus manatus) found in Florida and elsewhere and know these large herbivorous mammals as gentle giants whose numbers and future are [...]
crates | June 17, 2008
“…And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” Can you imagine a world that contained no Siberian Tigers? No cheetahs? No Blue Whales? No elephants? [...]
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 [...]