A few years back, the U.S. Forest Service funded historian Dan Scurlock to prepare an environmental history of the middle Rio Grande basin. It’s a treasure, referred to lovingly by researchers and folks in the climate/water/environmental policy community here. But it’s very hard to come by a copy. I recently discovered that the Forest Service …
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The whole Planet X pole shift calamity turned out to be a bust. Sorry, life and civilization as we know it were not destroyed. But not to worry! 2012 is just around the corner. As prophesied by the Mayan calendrical thingamajigs, we’re all pretty much screwed in just six short years. Not to worry, though, …
There apparently is a picture of me on the InterWeb. Also, I believe taken the same day, Mariachis. (You’ll recall that, in last week’s episode, Mariachis serenaded us along the bike trail. Coming up, the Mariachi Action Team (MAT) rescues Sophie from the SUB.)
If you look at the National Hurricane Center’s latest track for Lane, it looks like the moisture is headed our way here in New Mexico by some time next week. So far, though, the forecasters at the local National Weather Service office don’t think it’ll get here: CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN DRY UNDER A RIDGE OF …
I had to put on the leg and arm warmers for this morning’s bike ride. The cottonwood across the street is starting to show yellow. And it’s still dark when the alarm goes off these days. That can mean only one thing: it’s State Fair time! I love the fair for many reasons, not the …
mariachis Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. I have ridden my bicycle in and around Albuquerque, New Mexico, for many years, and I can confidently say that yesterday was the first time I have ever been serenaded by mariachis as I rode. (Miguel and I were riding past the Alameda Open Space Saturday, where a bunch of …
Over where they pay me, I’ll be doing an on line chat tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. MDT on the science of the monsoon. If needed, I’m fully prepared to defend the ill-defined term.
Just a note to let y’all know that, according to sources close to the Duke City Fix, the web site hasn’t been taken over by Roswell aliens, and is in the process of being (heheh) fixed, and will be back on the air within the next few days.
Fellow New Mexico bloggers: CNM needs your help. Google CNM – the community college formerly known as TVI – and you find the College of Naturopathic Medicine, but no reference on the first page of hits to Central New Mexico Community College. Link to it. Let’s see if we can get CNM’s Google ranking up …
Minnow Intake Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Normally fish live in rivers and the like. It’s a pretty straightforward thing. Here in Albuquerque, we’re building a sort of quasi-river for them instead, on account of the actual river is sort of messed up. This is the new intake structure, down in the south valley, for the …