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August and September 2016 High Sierra Backpacker's News: Man and Nature
High Sierra Backpacker News
August and September of 2016
Happenings in Nature and Society affecting the Trail.
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Current Star Chart and Sky Information
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August 5, 2016
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DANGERS & THREATS
WATER THREAT
Widespread blue-green algae threat-warning.
FIRE & SMOKE THREAT
Heading to the Mountains? Watch for Fires & Smoke!
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MOSQUITO THREAT
Sacramento County resident becomes first person in California to die of West Nile virus,
Sacbee, August 5, 2016.
NEWS
Preventing mass extinctions of big mammals will require immediate action,
University of California - Los Angeles, August 5, 2016.
Nature Soothes its Most Savage Beast
Can nature videos help improve prisoner behavior?
American Psychological Association, August 5, 2016.
Is nature or the city the real jungle?
Brains of overweight people 'ten years older' than lean counterparts at middle-age,
University of Cambridge, August 4, 2016.
The Damages We Do
Environmentalists sue, seek to stop oil wells in protected aquifer,
OC Register, August 4, 2016.
It has been common practice of the Dems to sell our health, safety, and environment to their corporate sponsors for decades. The examples of PGE and the Nuke Industry complete this trifecta of industrial death.
The link between vast wealth and politicians must be broken to protect every aspect of life.
No corporation, person, or organization should have any more economic clout in politics than the individual voter. All power in democracy must come from organizing equals, not a criminal elite purchasing politicians.
Not content with injecting this crap into our aguifers, the oil industry has apparently bribed the right Democrats to allow them to irrigate our food crops with tainted waters:
This corrupt behavior in a corrupted system has and is continuing to devastate our environment and our institutions.
TWIN TUNNELS:
Dems steal Water for Big AG-DEVELOPER Bribers
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Why the Southern California smog is so bad this year,
LB Press Telegram, August 4, 2016.
Hilarious. They build a megacity, then blame Nature for its changing in responce to our influences on it.
August 3, 2016
'Above average' wildfire activity is forecast through October,
LAT, August 3, 2016.
Sierra forests turned to brown,
Calmatters, July 29, 2016.
I just drove up the West Flank of the Sierra on Highway 108 to Sonora Pass. Huge swaths of low and high elevation forest were dead. The rust color of the trees below 8000 feet is dramatic. The silver color of the dead forest above 8000 feet of elevation is more subtle, and only partially hides the fact that the percentage of tree death above 8000 feet is dramatic.
Fire and Smoke Information
High Sierra Weather Page
See previous reports "Trees," and especially "Trees-2," about the long-term spreading death is the Sierra's Western Flank Forests and its inevitable consequences.
Wonders of Nature
First evidence of sleep in flight. Birds engage in all types of sleep in flight, but in remarkably small amounts,
MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT, August 3, 2016.
All’s I can say is, “wow!”
Asian giant honeybees may move in synchrony to ventilate nests
Collective 'inhalation'-'exhalation' cycles may keep the interior of honeybee nests cool, PLOS, August 3, 2016.
Health and Fitness
Research shows new neurons created through exercise don't cause you to forget old memories, TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, August 3, 2016.
Exercise results in larger brain size and lowered dementia risk,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - LOS ANGELES HEALTH SCIENCES, August 2, 2016.
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