tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29709348780625134492024-03-13T11:52:32.151-04:00Terrapin Procrastinationecological physiology, improvised music, and stuff off the top of my headChas Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12014964778727329625noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970934878062513449.post-32069161244249182402017-03-26T16:30:00.003-04:002017-03-26T16:38:43.935-04:00Response re: article by Kollibri terre Sonnenblume<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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In response to this article: <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/24/marines-to-kill-desert-tortoises/"> http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/24/marines-to-kill-desert-tortoises/</a><br />
and the ensuing discussion here: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/robertlundahlfilms/posts/10155137747773103?comment_id=10155138396468103&reply_comment_id=10155139960343103&ref=notif&notif_t=feed_comment_reply&notif_id=1490506617389353">https://www.facebook.com/robertlundahlfilms/posts/10155137747773103?comment_id=10155138396468103&reply_comment_id=10155139960343103&ref=notif&notif_t=feed_comment_reply&notif_id=1490506617389353</a><br />
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My real name is Chuck Peterson. I started studying desert
tortoises in 1987; my first Desert Tortoise Council meeting was 1985. I earned
a PhD in 1993 from UCLA working with Ken Nagy. My dissertation was on the
ecological physiology of desert tortoises. One of my study sites was the
Ivanpah Valley. I was a consulting reviewer of the first Recovery Plan for
desert tortoises when they were listed in 1990. I then spent 20 years as a
scientist and college professor, studying other species of reptiles to the
east, before quitting the academic grind and returning to the Mojave Desert in 2013.
My publications are listed here: <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5zAtcIEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao">https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5zAtcIEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao</a>
. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I worked on the Silver State South
project and am now working on the MCAGCC translocation. OK? Those are my
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The linked article is political polemic, which is fine. I am
no fan of militarism, industrial solar development, off-highway ‘wreckreation’,
livestock grazing, predator killing, or anything else that despoils the desert
environment and its natural inhabitants, all of which I love wholeheartedly.
But I am also a scientist by inclination and training, and it bothers me—a lot—when
issues I care about are presented in a misleading and/or dishonest way. And
that’s how I would characterize the linked article.</div>
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I will briefly address four problems with it here. First,
and of least importance, is the title, “Marines to Kill Desert Tortoises”. The
problem with it is not that it’s wrong, because some tortoises will die as a
result of the USMC’s activities. The problem is that the translocation project,
which is the focus of the article, is actually designed to minimize such
mortality, not cause it. As correctly stated in the article, Congress has given
most of the public land in Johnson Valley to the USMC as an expansion of their
already gigantic base. What they are going to do with it is to run twice-yearly
combat simulation exercises, each of which will involve 15,000 Marines and 300
tanks converging on a single target area from three staging areas 50 miles
away. These will use every weapon in the USMC’s arsenal, including all manner of
machine guns, live-fire artillery, full air support, etc. Now you may not like
this—I don’t—but that horse is way out of the barn; it’s going to happen.
Tortoises would be killed by these exercises, every year, twice a year, and
that’s undeniable, leaving translocation out of it. How many? No way for anyone
to even tender an accurate estimate. (By the way, Johnson Valley has been “managed”
for many years by the BLM as an open OHV area where any yahoo can drive any
vehicle anywhere at any time. They never gave 2 shits about the tortoises that
live there, and many have been killed, I’ve seen it myself.)</div>
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Second, a gross error of omission is the lack of even a single
mention of the US Fish & Wildlife Service. Do you think it’s the USMC’s
desire and idea to spend millions of dollars moving tortoises? As a Federal
agency proposing a new action in endangered species habitat, the USMC had to
enter Section 7 consultation with USFWS as mandated by the Endangered Species
Act. It was USFWS that mandated the translocation project. Not the Marines’
idea at all, as implied in the article, including the title. Now you may
disagree with USFWS’s reasoning here, but the knowledgeable and experienced
tortoise biologists at the Desert Tortoise Recovery Center made the call that
1) it would be better to try moving tortoises out of the tanks’ way than to
leave them there to be crushed in unknowable numbers, and that 2) translocation
could be used as a proactive measure to repopulate areas that used to support
tortoise populations but which have experienced recent declines (primarily, it
is thought, from episodic disease and/or drought (desert tortoises are not
supremely adapted to current desert conditions; multi-year drought kills them “naturally”
as I showed in a 1994 paper)). So if you want to blame somebody for the
translocation project, USFWS is responsible. I’d guess that left to their own
devices and absent the ESA the USMC would be happy enough to ignore the issue
and just run ‘em over if they could. That might not be fair though.</div>
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Third. It is implied, if not stated outright, that translocation
is a guaranteed death sentence for tortoises. The objective fact is that nobody—not
you, not me, not “biologists involved with the project”, not the Center for
Biological Diversity—can say that with any assurance. USFWS, for one, is hypothesizing
that it’s not true. It is true that results of previous projects have been
mixed. (Not universally disastrous; mixed. A second grader could see the intellectually
dishonest bullshit in a passage like : “Though the rates of survival have
varied from project to project, they are often no better than 50%...This
particular translocation at the Twentynine Palms base will be the
largest so far attempted, of over 1100 animals. So it would not be
surprising if at least 500 deaths resulted, and perhaps far more.” Give me a
fucking break.) Moapa was a travesty of stupid mismanagement. Ivanpah results
are incompletely known; thanks private-corporation “science”. Mistakes have
been made. On the other hand, those industrial solar projects completely
obliterated the habitat (it makes me sick to my stomach) and mortality would
have been guaranteed 100% without moving them. But let’s talk about Ft. Irwin
for a second, because that’s the one that CBD points to as the indicator of
Doom. Yes, 50% mortality occurred in one subset of translocated tortoises. But
what doesn’t get mentioned by polemicists and activist “scientists” is that
mortality was also very high that year—in fact, statistically indistinguishable—in
nearby control populations that were neither moved nor received relocates. It
was bad for tortoises in that area that year, period, moved or not moved. There
were no rabbits or rats and that’s when coyotes turn to tortoises. The timing
was extraordinarily bad, but there is NO EVIDENCE that translocation per se was
responsible for the mortality. USFWS is trying to learn lessons from these
previous attempts and failures. The MCAGCC project is being run as a large,
well-considered and –designed scientific experiment to see if large-scale
translocation can be used in the future as a viable conservation tool (in the
face of seemingly inevitable continued development of habitat). And the FACT is
that no matter what anybody says, nobody knows how it will turn out. I can say
that everybody involved in running the project—I have known most of the principals
for 30 years or more—is sincerely dedicated to doing right by the animals. I won’t
stand for hearing their motives impugned by ignorant blowhards.</div>
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Finally, Laura Cunningham supplies an accurate depiction of
the protocols for 100% tortoise clearance for industrial solar sites. But it’s completely
irrelevant to the MCAGCC project. The habitat at solar projects is going to be
completely bulldozed and graded, and that’s why every effort is made to locate
every single tortoise by digging up burrows, tearing up Yucca clumps, etc. I
did it myself at Silver State South. BUT: it’s not happening at MCAGCC. Burrows
are not being excavated. Habitat of other wildlife is not being damaged (by
biologists; the Marines will sure as hell tear some up though). So all the
concern about other species that use tortoise burrows is misplaced. Instead,
the protocol relies on repeated surveying. Before EVERY Marine exercise, every
square kilometer in which two or more tortoises were found on the previous
survey will be re-surveyed. This is scheduled to continue for 30 (THIRTY)
years. As will follow-up studies of relocated tortoises, “recipient” tortoises
that already live at release sites, and control populations without relocation.
(By the way, contra Ileene Anderson in the article, there is no evidence
whatsoever that tortoises compete among themselves for limited resources. It’s
either a good year with plenty for everyone, an OK year with not much for
anyone, or a crap year with nothing for nobody.) It is an experiment. In
science we don’t prejudge the results of an experiment. It may well turn out to
be a good thing to have done; that’s what USFWS thinks anyway. Anybody who
thinks they know better is deluding themselves.</div>
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But gah I don’t have time for this. I just wish that
well-meaning people who love the desert and its fabulous wildlife would take
the time and effort to get their facts straight before going off half-cocked. It
doesn’t help anything to promulgate bullshit. That’s all I have to say on the
subject.</div>
Chas Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12014964778727329625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970934878062513449.post-51945575329865904852016-02-16T18:26:00.002-05:002016-02-16T18:26:52.069-05:00TS III<br />
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<i>Gopherus evgoodei</i>, FFS<br />
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<a href="http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=6124">http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=6124</a><br />
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Chas Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12014964778727329625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970934878062513449.post-55641112345595530092015-11-07T13:28:00.002-05:002015-11-07T13:38:48.547-05:00Tortoise Splitters IITotally for real this time.<br />
<a href="http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0138779">This here article</a>, facebook'd to me by Chris Clarke, is pretty cool. Marshalling new and old genetic evidence, they show convincingly that the Galapagos island of Santa Cruz (aka Indefatigable) hosts not one but two genetically and geographically distinct populations of tortoises. This means one species (or subspecies, depending purely on opinion) (<i>Chelonoidis porteri</i> is the species version) gets Officially Split, with the newly identified Eastern population dubbed <i>Chelonoidis donfausti </i>(or <i>C. nigra donfausti</i>).<br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelonoidis_donfaustoi">'kipedia link</a><br />
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The coolest part of the article to me, though, was their Fig. 2, showing a phylogenetic tree for all specimens of Galapagos tortoises that have been sequenced to date, including lots of museum specimens:<br />
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Which, ignore the nighbor-joining expercise on the right and check out the beeyootiful tree on the left there. Clades marked in red and orange are the two populaitons from Santa Cruz, and you can see how different they are in context.<br />
As I sez to Chris on Facebook I sez "why no map of the islands with that tree mapped on there?" I sez and then I sez "Now I have to do it myself" I sez and then "also shell shapes oughta be mapped on that tree there too" sez I.<br />
So here's my map [click to N-large]:<br />
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Where the amoebas enclose nested genetic clades according to the tree. Island by island, there have evidently never been tortoises on Genovesa
and Marchena, hence the Xs. Tortoises are extinct on Floreana, Santa Fe,
Pinta, and absent-and-maybe-extinct-but-maybe-never-really-there on
Rabida (small) and Fernandina (new), hence the slashes.<br />
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Here's a simplified version of the big detailed tree, showing populations by island with color coding corresponding to the map [clickable]:<br />
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...where X marks extinct taxa and the circled S, I, and D tags refer to Saddle, Intermediate, and Dome-shaped carapaces, as per the Intro from the article at hand here.<br />
For reference, slightly different lists of recognized species (or subspecies) are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subspecies_of_Gal%C3%A1pagos_tortoise">here ('kipedia text and photos</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_tortoise#Subspecies_2">here (text)</a>, and <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Galapagos_tortoise_distribution_map.svg/772px-Galapagos_tortoise_distribution_map.svg.png">here (map)</a> [differ mainly in recognizing or not the populations on the 4 other volcanoes of Isabela].<br />
<br />
And so but if we naively and foolishly but heuristically take the genetic data at face value, then the tree plus map means that:<br />
1. There are two main groups of GTs; one (1) comprises populations from Santiago and Volcano Wolf, the northernmost volcano of Isabela (where the new pink iguana species was found not long ago...uh... <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conolophus_marthae">link</a>), and the second (2) is everybody else (green lines on map). That split represents a very early dispersal event. The northwestern Wolf/Santiago clade is in relatively new territory, but seem to represent an ancient lineage. (Galapagos tortoises probably evolved on islands that are long gone to the southeast).<br />
2. Clade 2 separates nicely into two clades corresponding to eastern (2E) and western (2W) areas. The convincing thing about the article at hand is that the two populations on Santa Cruz belong to separate branches of this split. The newly named species (or subspecies) is marked with a star.<br />
2A. Dome-shaped carapaces look to have evolved separately in the two Santa Cruz species (or subspecies). That, or saddle shapes evolved at least 6 times independently. Maybe a nice example of eviolutionary convergence. <br />
3. Within the eastern clade 2E, samples referred to Santa Fe are most distinct. That's interesting because Santa Fe's purported population is listed in the references linked above as "disputed" and "of doubtful existence," apparently deriving from but a few bone fragmen ts. But if the DNA is that different, one's doubt dissapates a bit. The green coding of the speciment numbers in Fig. 2 of the article at hand means data from museum specimens that were previously reported; I have not dug back to find where.<br />
4. Pinta island tortoises were most closely related to the once-relict-but-now-a-thriving-conservation-success-story torts from Espanola, way the hell down at the totally other end of the archipelago. [the last Pinta Island tortoise, the well-known Lonesome George, is specimen # abiLG in the tree. I have photos of him alive in 2009 someplace.]<br />
5. Over in the western clade 2W, tortoises from the little island of Pinzon are most distinct. One of the 'kipedia articles linked above sez that there is yet a third distinct tortoise population on Santa Cruz, in the northwest, and that they are closest to Pinzon animals, which would be cool.<br />
6. The disputed population from tiny Rabida looks like a transplanted Isabela tortoise, and the specimens attributed to the various volcano-based species (or subspecies) of Isabela are all pretty well jumbled together in this analysis. Maybe should be lumped back into <i>C. vicina</i> as on the linked map.<br />
7. The "doubtful" population from Fernandina is interesting. It's from a single specimen (1906) and no other evidence of tortoises has ever been found there. Here it looks genetically distinct, but closest to the tortoises from southwest Santa Cruz. Except that the Santa Cruz animals are dome-shaped and the speciment allegedly from Fernandina is said to be saddled. And Santa Cruz is clear over on the other side of Isabela and Pinzon from Fernandina. WTF.<br />
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All in all, some satisfylingly tidy stories of vicariance, and some puzzles too. It's complicated.<br />
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<br />Chas Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12014964778727329625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970934878062513449.post-40343020293378787682014-07-08T00:44:00.001-04:002014-07-08T00:44:55.623-04:00hello world1 tall glass, ice<br />
V-8<br />
Frank's Hot Sauce, too much <br />
shot of Evan Williams bourbon<br />
top off with last 2/3 can of Rolling Rock, now warmish<br />
<br />
Enjoy alone.<br />
<br />
Hello, World. <br />
<br />Chas Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12014964778727329625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970934878062513449.post-85525059122577289192013-03-25T11:35:00.003-04:002013-03-25T11:35:37.112-04:00I'd rather see centipedes<a href="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRhNNziwIEIs97mj-MiOGZzz2dD8TFNfiCxKFYBw5hPUC5yhEp2Nw" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRhNNziwIEIs97mj-MiOGZzz2dD8TFNfiCxKFYBw5hPUC5yhEp2Nw" /> </a><br />
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...than not see whatever they're eating. Chas Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12014964778727329625noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970934878062513449.post-8363990904194216132013-01-27T22:37:00.003-05:002013-01-27T22:37:49.058-05:00Tony Soprano out of contextCunnilingus and psychiatry brought us to this.
season 1 ep 13Chas Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12014964778727329625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970934878062513449.post-76421625480067616792012-08-11T10:41:00.000-04:002012-08-11T10:41:13.262-04:00Ladies and gentlemen, the 2012 Republican presidential ticket<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</a>>Chas Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12014964778727329625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970934878062513449.post-23387017131777288502012-05-09T12:21:00.003-04:002012-05-09T12:21:47.998-04:00I'd sign this letter, too<a href="http://faultline.org/site/item/open_letter_to_the_right_wing/">link</a>Chas Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12014964778727329625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970934878062513449.post-52914313432901734112012-05-01T19:48:00.000-04:002012-05-01T19:48:21.913-04:00cast of Enterprise 2Cdr. Charles "Trip" Tucker III is a chimera-character. I'm prety sure he's designed to combine the homespun Southern charm, best-personal-friend-o-the-cap'n role, and emotional-homunculus-on-the-right-shoulder trope-purpose of McCoy with the more cynically targeted appeal-to-young-women function of Chekov*, wrapped up in Scotty's old crew-slot.<br />
<br />
Unfortunately he comes across to me mostly like a Pensacola frat-boy. Since I already know he gets the <s>girl</s> <s>woman</s> Vulcan<s>ess</s> in the end, that's kind of a drag.<br />
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* even to me, tuning in to the second-season primetime premier the night before my 8th birthday, it was clear that Chekov was a Russian Davy Jones.Chas Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12014964778727329625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970934878062513449.post-76280539297664044002012-04-27T15:47:00.000-04:002012-04-27T15:49:02.314-04:00Heart of CheneyI just learned that Dick Cheney received a heart transplant a few weeks ago.<br />
They say he had suffered "at least five" heart attacks, the first at 37 yoa. Many of us have always suspected, however, that his real cardiac problems were similar to The Grinch's:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3, maybe 4 sizes too small?</td></tr>
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In any case, the guy's heart was so dead that for almost 2 years he was a cyborg, with an implanted pump doing the work that his left ventricle couldn't. No pulse.<br />
here's the device:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I forget where I got this pic; maybe the <i>NY Times</i>.</td></tr>
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Now it's all been pulled out and he walks yet among the living with somebody else's heart. <br />
But it's the end of a beautiful metaphor.Chas Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12014964778727329625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970934878062513449.post-52888938201055750282012-04-27T12:33:00.004-04:002012-04-30T22:33:12.671-04:00On the cast of Enterprise<br />
Hoshi is the nerd's Mary Ann to T'Pol's nerd's Ginger.<br />
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UPDATE 4/30/2012: <a href="http://www.trektoday.com/news/240404_03.shtml">bwa-ha</a>!!! 2004!Chas Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12014964778727329625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970934878062513449.post-77119255364683536792012-04-21T14:20:00.000-04:002012-04-21T14:24:33.826-04:00100 Outstanding US Journalists. and years.<a href="http://journalism.nyu.edu/the-100-outstanding-journalists-in-the-united-states-in-the-last-100-years/">Here's the list</a>.<br />
<br />
All the usual suspects you'd usually suspect, but I smiled to see many of my favorites:<br />
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Steinbeck<br />
HST<br />
John McPhee!<br />
Garry Trudeau<br />
'Hitch'<br />
Rachel Carson<br />
Howard Cosell (yes, I'll stand by that)<br />
Tom Wolfe<br />
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The rest (the Professor + Mary Ann), with nice bios for everybody at the link above.Chas Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12014964778727329625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970934878062513449.post-60612800643785876152012-04-01T21:30:00.000-04:002012-04-01T21:30:12.874-04:00an old poemRing around the rosie,<br />
a pocketful of posie.<br />
<br />
Ashes.<br />
Ashes.<br />
<br />
We all fall down.Chas Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12014964778727329625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970934878062513449.post-67770291958194132662012-03-18T23:49:00.002-04:002012-03-18T23:55:02.638-04:00classic Star Trek dialogAbsoluely critical moment:<br />
Season 2, Ep. 1: <i>Amok Time</i> @ ~20.00:<br />
Kirk [of Spock, to McCoy; and defying direct Starfleet orders]: I owe him my life a dozen times over: Isn't that worth a career?! <br />
He's my friend.Chas Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12014964778727329625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970934878062513449.post-71907779608193745762011-10-31T13:23:00.003-04:002011-10-31T13:26:53.018-04:00I am the 99%<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6vhBDCxtZd0/Tq7ZZO7tC_I/AAAAAAAAAVg/GonzO0r6aQ4/s1600/solarforthe99percentsmall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6vhBDCxtZd0/Tq7ZZO7tC_I/AAAAAAAAAVg/GonzO0r6aQ4/s1600/solarforthe99percentsmall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6vhBDCxtZd0/Tq7ZZO7tC_I/AAAAAAAAAVg/GonzO0r6aQ4/s1600/solarforthe99percentsmall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6vhBDCxtZd0/Tq7ZZO7tC_I/AAAAAAAAAVg/GonzO0r6aQ4/s1600/solarforthe99percentsmall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6vhBDCxtZd0/Tq7ZZO7tC_I/AAAAAAAAAVg/GonzO0r6aQ4/s640/solarforthe99percentsmall.jpg" width="306" /></a></div><br />
via <a href="http://faultline.org/site/item/solar_for_the_99_percent/">Chris Clarke</a>Chas Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12014964778727329625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970934878062513449.post-18173045888965472622011-08-21T11:54:00.001-04:002011-09-27T19:55:21.826-04:00People for the Ethical Treatment of Opisthokonts...or Deuterostomes, or Lophotrochozoans, or whatever.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">[the point being, y'see, the completely arbitrary whim by which "animals" is typically defined]</span>Chas Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12014964778727329625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970934878062513449.post-30706445133766091302011-07-14T14:47:00.000-04:002011-07-14T14:47:19.056-04:00not my chair<iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/skCV2L0c6K0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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yeah, I just saw this for the first time the other day. Sue me.Chas Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12014964778727329625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970934878062513449.post-51578168865440731842011-06-29T08:50:00.000-04:002011-06-29T08:50:14.764-04:00You read it here first...unless you, you know, didn't.<br />
<br />
Idea for a new social media platform: combine Blogger and Twitter.<br />
People can issue 'bleats'.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">as they follow the flock, see...</span>Chas Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12014964778727329625noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970934878062513449.post-55575043995685796772011-06-28T18:41:00.001-04:002011-06-29T09:56:50.451-04:00Tortoise splitters<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-j9gSFQYyaSc/TgpYXtpkbeI/AAAAAAAAAVY/EVNOmjoTUZI/s1600/desert-tortoise.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-j9gSFQYyaSc/TgpYXtpkbeI/AAAAAAAAAVY/EVNOmjoTUZI/s400/desert-tortoise.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
According to <a href="http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/article/1353/the-dazed-and-confused-identity-of-agassiz">Bob Murphy et al.</a> the desert tortoise ought to be split into at least two species, called <i>Gopherus agassizi</i> (California/Nevada/Utah) and <i>G. morafkai</i> (Arizona and, for now, Sonora and Sinaloa).<br />
<br />
OK. <br />
My reaction to most taxonomy papers is basically The Dude's:<br />
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But as opinions go, I guess Bob Murphy's is a good one.<br />
<br />
I am happy they used the opportunity to coin a new North American tortoise name to honor Dave Morafka; he was a good guy.<br />
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Look for serious conservation/political fallout from this one.<br />
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<a href="http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?recordid=82">here's a FAQ</a><br />
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and here's a map:<br />
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<small><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&t=h&hq=&hnear=2607+Sunrise+Hwy,+Bellmore,+New+York+11710&ll=35.852327,-85.295448&spn=0.016696,0.027466&z=15&source=embed" style="color: blue; text-align: left;">View Larger Map</a></small>Chas Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12014964778727329625noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970934878062513449.post-60394988482421520172011-05-17T15:42:00.000-04:002011-05-17T15:42:31.766-04:00Two views of an adult Calvin<a href="http://i.imgur.com/kogcM.jpg">Calvin, Hobbes, and Bacon</a> (sweet)<br />
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<a href="http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2010/09/13/weapon-brown-175/">CAL v.1n</a> (not)Chas Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12014964778727329625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970934878062513449.post-22324928831958099942011-05-06T23:32:00.001-04:002011-05-06T23:32:43.109-04:00nother Herobecause at the moment I am digging <i>Reese and the Smooth Ones</i> (1969), Lester Bowie:<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://bowiezone.com/communities/9/004/008/626/509/images/4541416807.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216" src="http://bowiezone.com/communities/9/004/008/626/509/images/4541416807.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Chas Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12014964778727329625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970934878062513449.post-10513183270045471152011-04-06T10:03:00.001-04:002012-04-21T14:37:43.458-04:00there goes the East MojaveUPDATE: oh dear. Google Earth has updated to the post-landrape landscape.<br />
Well, rest assured that both photos now (4/21/2012) show early stages of the planned <strike>landrape</strike> construction and so pretty soon, I guess, with further updates at G**gle's end, the contrast will go the <i>opposite</i> way.<br />
damn it. <br />
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Ivanpah Valley, north of I-15.<br />
<strike>Then</strike>, via Google Earth:<br />
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<strike>Now</strike>, via <a href="http://www.basinandrangewatch.org/Ivanpah-Aerial-March11.html">Basin and Range Watch</a><br />
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