With all the tax credits, rebates, and other incentives being offered to get folks to insulate their homes, buy energy saving appliances, install solar panels, use CFLs, xeriscape yards, etc., why doesn’t someone pay us to plant trees? Seriously, there are so many reasons to encourage the planting of more trees. Trees provide shade to … Continue reading A rebate I’d love to get
Good things keep happening over at The Owl Box. Molly’s fourth chick just hatched and he’s been named Wesley. That means Molly and her mate McGee now have four owlets — Max, Pattison, Austin, and Wesley. The fifth and last egg is due to hatch in about three days. Continue reading Wesley hatches at The Owl Box
Oops! Next time you see one of those Falling Rock signs along the highway, pay attention. Sometimes the rocks look like this: Monday along I-70 in Glenwood Canyon west of Denver, there was a rock slide, to put it mildly. Some of the errant boulders were bus-sized. They punched holes through two lanes of bridge … Continue reading Danger – Falling Rock
Here’s an interesting example of how a mountain can influence the flow of clouds and weather around it. Longs Peak is just over 14,000 feet high and is the highest peak in the area. Look how it is affecting the clouds and air currents that would otherwise be moving in a relatively straight west-to-east path … Continue reading Clouds part in deference to peak
By now we’ve all heard of “Climategate”: a hacker stole and distributed email and other documents from the Climate Research Unit (East Anglia University, Norwich, England) regarding global warming and climate change. Just for the record, I don’t think the information proves anything except that (1) there’s a hacker out there who may have an … Continue reading Climategate proves nothing
I hate fires. I mean, of course, inappropriate, accidental, out-of-control fires. Cozy crackling fireplaces or outdoor cookfires or campfires have a special ambiance we all love. But uncontrolled fire raging in a forest or grassland or home is a fearsome, terrible beast. The current fires in California brought all this to mind. Thousands have evacuated, … Continue reading Burning hills
