Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: Quagga Mussel Edition
Beware the quagga mussel.
Archive of posts filed under the New Mexico category.
On Buying Locally In a Desert
Kelsey has some nice thoughts on what it would mean to actually try to buy locally: Globalization seems to favor our desert city sticking to high technology at discount rates, with low land costs and lots of intellectual capital. Farming is mostly done elsewhere already, and the city is supported by the Labs, the Base, …
Warmwatch
Official Albuquerque low today: 40. Two days from the record.
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: Dry Winter Edition
La Niña seems to be cranking it up.
This Morning’s Low: 37
This morning’s low temperature at the National Weather Service’s Albuquerque station was 37. As I wrote in this morning’s newspaper, we’re near the record for the latest first freeze of autumn. It’s been warm here, especially the overnight lows.
Water in the Desert: Japanese Garden Edition
Japanese Garden, Albuquerque botanical gardens Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. No doubt there’s a rich literature out there about the idea of the “park,” a human-created faux natural setting, so I won’t try to reinvent it here. This is the new Japanese Garden at the city of Albuquerque’s beautiful botanical gardens. It just opened, it’s lovely, …
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Me on the Radio
A bit late notice, entirely because I’m lame (I’ve known about this for a week), but I’ll be on the radio this afternoon at 2 p.m. in Albuquerque: 1350 a.m., NMSR Science Watch, talking about climate variability, the Atlanta drought and its implications for New Mexico.
Mom and Dad in the Bosque
Mom and Dad in the Bosque Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Went out to the woods by the river Sunday afternoon with Mom and Dad. The leaves are pretty much at their peak. It was lovely. And I see I wasn’t alone in my blog-flickr-journeying.
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
Atlanta drought in a New Mexico newspaper: The problems New Mexicans face are different than those of Atlanta. We use groundwater for most of our cities’ drinking water, an option Atlanta does not have. In addition, the arid climate of the West is much more variable than in the South. In response, we have built …
Water in the Desert: Cattle Edition
cattle and water Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Here’s one of the simple but classic ways we manipulate water here in the western United States. It’s called a stock pond. You carve out a little hollow in a drainage, pile up the dirt on the downhill side, and presto, you’ve got a water supply for your …