The fish to be protected by the prescribed burn is the Owens speckled dace. Here’s what it looks like. Kind of grumpy.
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It may seem strange to burn the area around the wetland as a habitat restoration technique, and even more oxymoronic to do so in order to save an aquatic creature in the desert. But for a nearly extinct species of fish in the arid Owens Valley, a prescribed burn is exactly what the doctor ordered.
After years of planning, the Eastern Sierra Land Trust, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and Cal Fire executed a prescribed burn this past December in order to create a sustainable habitat for the Owens speckled dace, a small fish that is listed as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act.
Fish in the desert might sound impossible, but there are several species of desert fish in California. During geographically transformative events that occurred thousand of years ago, these fish found their way to tiny pools and streams that punctuate the dry landscapes during wet periods. As landscapes changed over time, the desert fish have adapted into unique species specialized for their environs. According to Peter Moyle, a biologist at University of California, Davis, genomic testing suggests that the Owen speckled dace’s prehistoric ancestors came from around the Mono Lake basin, where volcanic activity blew out the waters and dropped the common ancestor of the Owens speckled dace and other dace species into surrounding areas.
“These fish have been going their own way for a very long time and adapted to very difficult conditions,” Moyle says. “If we can restore the speckled dace, you’ll have brought back a significant part of the fish fauna in that region. It just belongs there.”
Over the past 80 years, the Owens speckled dace has been in steep decline due to water mismanagement, pressures from agriculture, and encroachment by non-native species. Streams and seasonal ponds in the Owens Valley are expected to decline further with climate change-related temperature increases and less snowpack, and what has not evaporated will continue to be diverted for agricultural use. Thirsty cattle, a linchpin of the valley’s ranching history, are especially hard on area streams. The little water that does remain is often overrun with invasive plants and non-native fish species.
“Sorry but euthanasia is cheaper and doesn’t make everyone a slave to the Government [sic].”
“The ones who are disabled and can’t work…why are we required to keep them?” the Chrisforgov account responded. “Sorry but euthanasia is cheaper and doesn’t make everyone a slave to the Government [sic].”
Defending his now-deleted comments, the account admin mused as to why American taxpayers should “have to keep up people who cannot contribute to society any longer?”
“Obviously, I’m not saying the Government [sic] should put these people down,” the Chrisforgov account wrote, contradicting its earlier statement. “I’m just saying that we shouldn’t keep them up.”
Even if you do not believe the Facebook comments came from him, his own campaign website is bad enough. Given what I read there (I won’t link to it) I’d say it’s plausible he made those posts himself.
This is what a significant percentage of conservatives (and yes, even some “liberals”) believe: that people like me are worthless and should be put down for our own good.
Better dead than a slave to the government, right?
Opponents of the controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which would carry fracked natural gas from West Virginia through Virginia’s Highland Country and into North Carolina, won a reprieve Tuesday when a federal appeals court invalidated a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) review of the pipeline, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported.
The ruling was issued by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based in Richmond, VA and agreed with environmental groups and their lawyers that the incidental take statement made by the FWS, which limits the number of endangered species that can be killed during construction and operation of a project, was not clear enough in the case of the pipeline.
The case was argued by the Southern Environmental Law Center on behalf of the Sierra Club, Defenders of Wildlife and Virginia Wilderness Committee. The pipeline opponents argued that the ruling meant the pipeline had to halt construction.“ This fracked gas project has been proven to be perilous to our health, our communities, and wildlife, and now, thanks to tonight’s ruling, must be stopped,” Sierra Club attorney Nathan Matthews said in a press release.
But Dominion Energy, the company leading pipeline construction, disagreed with that interpretation of the ruling. “[W]e will continue to move forward with construction as scheduled,” Dominion Energy director of communications Jen Kostyniuk said in an email obtained by U.S. News and World Report.
i love jane eyre but honestly imagine being friends with that bitch. like imagine trying to convince her to leave rochester and she’s like idk and you’re like he called u ugly???? he keeps his secret wife locked in the attic???? wake up???? and then you think she finally has it sorted out and she calls you a few months later like “his wife killed herself and burned down the house so it’s cool we’re getting married” like !!!!!!!!!!!! HOW DO YOU GO TO THAT WEDDING!!!!!!
ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN, as well as local news outlets, interrupted regularly scheduled programming to cover the incident, with an estimated 95 million viewers nationwide;[37][38][31][39] only 90 million had watched that year’s Super Bowl.[23] While NBC continued coverage of Game 5 of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and the Houston Rockets at Madison Square Garden, the game appeared in a small box in the corner while Tom Brokaw covered the chase.
A new study on glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup—one of the world’s most widely used weedkillers—is fueling persistent concerns about the pesticide’s impact on sexual development, genotoxicity and intestinal bacteria, even when exposure is limited to a level currently considered “safe” by U.S. regulators.
While the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a branch of the World Health Organization (WHO), and California have classified glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen, U.S. and Europeanregulators have continued to authorize farmers to use it, and Republicans in Congress have even threatened to cut off funding to the WHO over the issue.
Researchers at the Ramazzini Institute in Italy collaborated with experts from the U.S. and Europe to conduct the new crowdfunded pilot study, which will be detailed in three peer-reviewed papers set to be published in the journal Environmental Health later this month. They exposed rats to glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) in drinking water at the “safe” level set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over a three-month period, “starting from prenatal life until 13 weeks after weaning.”
“The results show that GBHs—even at doses deemed safe and over a relatively short exposure time (which in human-equivalent terms correspond from embryo life to 18 years of age)—are able to alter certain important biological parameters, markers chiefly relating to sexual development, genotoxicity, and alteration of the intestinal microbiome … especially in females,” according to the study’s website.
Daniele Mandrioli, associate director of the institute’s cancer research center, explained to the Guardian that this “shouldn’t be happening,” and noted that in humans, “disruption of the microbiome has been associated with a number of negative health outcomes, such as obsesity, diabetes, and immunological problems.”
FOURTEEN!!! Years old!!! And 17years!!! He’s 31 and missed ALL HIS 20s He can NEVER get those back.
And there’s no safety net here to help him reintegrate into society. He probably didn’t have much of an opportunity to take classes or anything while incarcerated. His incarceration alone will probably held against him by potential employers for the rest of his life, regardless of formal exoneration. I’m sure he’s got a host of mental issues now after 17 years behind bars, no one’s gonna help him with that.
What the fuck’s he supposed to do now?
Messing with people’s lives like that is bad enough in any case, but railroading kids is a level of its own.
Mr Bunn, from Brooklyn, was released on parole in 2009 but continued to fight to clear his name.
He was cleared after a retired detective who investigated Neischer’s murder was accused of manipulating evidence, coercing confessions and giving misleading testimony in multiple cases.
Mr Bunn and his friend Rosean Hargrave, then 17, were convicted of killing Neischer on the testimony of lone witness Robert Crosson, another correction officer who survived the shooting.
The teenagers were placed in a photo line-up by detective Louis Scarcella, a disgraced former star detective whose casework has prompted a large-scale review by Brooklyn’s district attorney. Dozens of cases linked to Mr Scarcella are under investigation and several convictions have been overturned…
Mr Hargreave, whose murder conviction was thrown out in 2015, will also not face a retrial.
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