tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post4143345964385515411..comments2023-12-23T05:14:34.273-05:00Comments on Wit's End: Baffled and Also HelplessGail Zawackihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-897679231582314462012-05-25T12:15:54.905-04:002012-05-25T12:15:54.905-04:00Time for the wood chip fired, steam driven wood ch...Time for the wood chip fired, steam driven wood chippers to be invented and used to clear the 'fire load' while not adding to the fossil fuel pollution.<br /><br />They just cleared 180 acres of Georgia woods to build a new Caterpillar Tractor plant here. They have machines that can shred the biggest trees into mulch which they are doing as I type. If they were only steam powered fired with wood chips...<br />The mid-sized bulldozers to be manufactured here will help clear the Amazon rain forest. Oh boy, jobs for the brain dead to feed their families of undereducated children!<br /><br />The ash trees in Lafayette, IN are expected to all die in the next five years from the emerald ash borer. Here's one link of many:<br /><br />http://www.indystar.com/article/20120425/NEWS/120425015/Emerald-ash-borer-State-alters-quarantine-destrutive-insect<br /><br />catmanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-90369637402906257552012-05-23T22:46:19.881-04:002012-05-23T22:46:19.881-04:00Good luck tomorrow and be careful. Too many arrest...Good luck tomorrow and be careful. Too many arrests and your blogging rights may be taken away!<br /><br />Re: 5 kids. Paul Gilding has 5, too. His excuse: "I wasn't really thinking about it, you know, when it happened....!"Mossynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-77085549482567282062012-05-23T18:31:11.023-04:002012-05-23T18:31:11.023-04:00I don't object to the controlled burning, much...I don't object to the controlled burning, much. My interest in it is, WHY? Why does the forest service lately think places that hitherto never had a fire are now dangerous? It's the same question I ask of services that maintain a right of way - highways, trains, electric lines. They are cutting trees like crazy, but only a few workers that I've talked to will admit off-the-record it's because the trees are dying off. Officially, the agencies will not comment.Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-13027477918108608592012-05-23T18:24:58.552-04:002012-05-23T18:24:58.552-04:00Haha, I appreciate that Anon! I truly hate being...Haha, I appreciate that Anon! I truly hate being so ignorant about birds, and there are so many, it's hard to identify them. I googled it and I think maybe it's actually an Eastern Towhee. Really exciting, thanks so much!<br />http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/eastern_towhee/idGail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-70133404704348592802012-05-23T18:24:22.828-04:002012-05-23T18:24:22.828-04:00The cooling withing the "warming holes" ...The cooling withing the "warming holes" is indicative that the theory of "rain follows the plow" is correct! That's my story and I am sticking to it. LOL<br /><br />I don't know I am suspicious of one-source theories that tell a "just so" story within dynamic systems. Paraphrasing Taleb, and likely mangling simultaniously, that which you cannot measure, nor predict, is random.<br /><br />I understand your reluctance with the controlled burn, but I am unclear as to what to do. The argument that there has not been a fire there before is not a particularly strong one. To go back to Taleb, its like the Turkey thinking that farmer who comes to feed him every day is great guy. Everything is great until that one special day comes along. In this case we just don't know the day.<br /><br />To my mind burning seems like a waste, but I gather its cheeper than turning it all into wood chips/composte.russell1200https://www.blogger.com/profile/16258915475311426433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-203600036143080582012-05-23T18:10:52.622-04:002012-05-23T18:10:52.622-04:00rufous towhee!rufous towhee!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-3141714636638289582012-05-23T18:09:49.439-04:002012-05-23T18:09:49.439-04:00rufous towhee!rufous towhee!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com