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-Benjamin Franklin
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Fires by Year and Partial Duration Series
When I listened to the explanations that the California and Oregon fires were worse than ever, and resulted from anthropic climate change, I did what I usually do. I checked for data and found statistics at the National Interagency Fire Center. The table I found lists both number of fires, and acreage burned by year, Read more
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Salmon Snagging
Salmon snagging is not like other forms of fishing. I was introduced to it as an adult, and to me fishing is the art of deception, of all those careful and clever tricks to convince a fish to bite. Fishing is fancy lures, artfully designed to mimic a tasty insect, or endless patience (it’s possible Read more
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Plants: Black Medic
What were those interesting yellow flowers in the lawn? Or, this time of the year, what are those interesting little black clusters of seeds? Black Medic (Medicago lupulina), also known as black clover, yellow trefoil, or hop medic, is an introduced species, related to clover. While it’s found as a weed throughout Montana (the rest Read more
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Trego School Annual Fishing Field Trip
As the first chills of autumn hang in the air, and the salmon run, the older students of Trego School spend the day fishing with their teachers and support staff. While this year’s trip was marked by somewhat fewer salmon and smaller fish, students returned grinning and eager to show off their catch. Photos by Read more
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Firewood Rankings by Species
The change from burning forests to burning wood is coming fast – and while we use a lot of firewood, we rarely look at just how much heat each species produces, or at how much a cord weighs. This chart, from the California Energy Commission, ranks production by species, and shows the weight of a Read more
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America’s First Plagues
I wound up studying epidemics when I was given the task of teaching Indians of North America. The data was limited, but pretty much irrefutable – European diseases, brought by ship to the islands and eastern coast of North America did far more than decimate the native population of the Americas. By the end of Read more
Trego's Mountain Ear 