Norman Vaughn passed away over the Christmas weekend. Vaughn did so much in Arctic and Antarctic exploration – back to the Byrd expeditons in the 1920s – it’s hard to believe he is gone at age 100. I mean you have to admire any man who completed six Iditarods after age 70! You can read …
Author: Reid Farmer
Santa Rosa Island and Channel Islands National Park
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the formation of Channel Islands National Park and the Los Angeles and Santa Barbara news media are carrying a number of pieces on issues related to the Park’s history and management. This is a fairly thoughtful article on Santa Rosa Island (see above map). The most discussed and …
No Love for Wolves
This LA Times piece carries a paradoxical message: the reintroduction of the wolf into areas of Idaho, Wyoming, and Oregon has a been a raging success biologically, but this has come in the face of unremitting hostility from locals (see above bumper sticker). The wolf has been one of the success stories of the Endangered …
Happy Holidays
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from all of us here at Querencia blog!
Steve’s Return
Steve writes that he is safely back home from Turkey and in his words, “…ALMOST un- jet lagged.” He warns that blogging will be light for a while due to his continuing computer issues. He says, “Meanwhile 106 Turkish photos of all manner of things– dogs,domestic pigeons, landscape, ibises, flint cores– are in the big …
Now Here’s a Strange One
A trout with two mouths caught in a Nebraska lake. I’ll leave all the bad puns to you guys.
Another Set of Prehistoric Footprints
Archaeologists in Australia have discovered a set of prehistoric footprints that date to the late Pleistocene (19,000 – 23,000 BP) on a lakeshore in New South Wales. There are over 450 footprints, another “frozen moment” in the past. They sound very interesting, ”We see children running between the tracks of their parents; the children running …
Mommie Deepest
Marine biologists have discovered that contrary to their earlier assumptions, some species of squid are actually careful and attentive mothers. Sorry, but I saw “mommie deepest” in the photo caption and had to use it.
The New Madrid Earthquakes and Archaeology
One of the events that has fallen into the “memory hole” of American history is the sequence of earthquakes from December 1811 to March 1812 that occurred in the central Mississippi River valley. These quakes (and the fault that caused them), named after the Missouri town of New Madrid, were the most powerful in continental …
Kangaroo: It’s What’s for Dinner
If you see medallions of australus on the menu, you’ll know that they’re serving ‘roo. Australus is the winner of a contest for a new name for kangaroo meat. Somehow I don’t think the aborigines will care.