By law national wildlife refuges are closed to all public use activities unless expressly permitted. Boats are not allowd in rivers and creek channels. Boats used for recreational activity must be moved from the refuge daily. Designated areas will be closed to hunting, fishing and hiking. Some areas wil lbe closed to all form of public entry. All refuge access in prohibited after dark unless specifically authorized by the refuge manager.
Pelicans by the thousands - must have been a square mile of them - they fish, they know how to fish, they keep rising just above the water and circulingly around driving the shad into the main flock and then they settle down and another group on the perferiary takes off - slowly moving across the lake. The guy at the liquor store lectured me on how alumunium cans causes altzheimers. It's not like it was when we were young, he say's. You have grey hair, you know, I can tell. The cranes are just arriving. In the fall and spring migrations there may be up to 100,000 birds on the lake
The National Wildlife Refuge System began in 1903 with the 3 acre Pelican Island Bird Reservation in Florida. Today there are 93 million acres in 548 seperate reguges.
Water travels thourgh salt saturated sand and comes to the surface where it evaporates, leaving a crust of salt. This is the only place in th ewotrld where hourglass shaped sand inclusions may be found in most selenite crystals. Everyone reaches for a marketing ploy. Alabaster Caverns proclaims that it is the larges alabaster cavern in the world and the only one with black alabaster the regularrly offer tours.
It is a habitate for approximately 300 species of birds - 32,030 acres divided into nonvegetated salt flats, open water, marsh woods, grasslands and cropland. Many ponds and marshs have been built to encourage the growth of wild millet, alkali bulrush, and smartweed that waqterfowl use for food
40 gardeners, trimmers and cloners of medical marijuana recently joined Local 70 of the Teamsters Union and will now get a pension, paid vacation and health insurance
The day begun in a soft gray way / with elephantine traffic trudging along Fifth / and two packages of Camels in my pocket / I can’t think of one interesting thing Warren / G Harding did, I guess I was passing notes / to Sally and Agnes at the time he came up / in our elephantine history course – Frank O’Hara – The Collected Poems, 1971 p354
What is the basis of the “birthers” belief that President Obama is not a US citizen. Why don’t he release a copy of his birth certificate, they are demanding. But he did, a certified copy was released in 2007 and since substantiated by the State of Hawaii as an authentic copy of his one and only certificate in the archives of the state – born in Honolulu Hawaii on August 4, 1961. Now they claim that it is not a copy of the “original” birth certificate and that the use of the phrase “certificate of live birth” is not equlivant to one’s “birth certificate” To a conspiracy fanatic all evidence is treated as a further attempt of a cover-up. The ‘fact’ that there is a conspiracy is sufficient enough to demonstrate that all counter-evidence is also part of the original plot.
Real isn’t real enough – Thomas De Zengotita – Mediated: How the media shapes the world and the way you live in it, 2006 p102
Skyblue berries juniper
Chockcherries and walnuts
In their husks
Cottonwoods demarcate
The watershed
The insistent wind
Piles up snow
Everything lies low
And waits
The development which converged at the beginning of the twentieth century in Europe changed the meaning of both time and space… For the first time the world, as a totality, ceased to be an abstraction and became ‘realizable’ – John Berger – Selected Essays, 2001 p74
65% of adult cell phone users keep their phones within reach while they sleep – 90% of young adults (ages 18-29) sleep with their phones within reach
If you deal only with digital interlocutors it may take more time but you can do it in your underwear – Thomas De Zengotita – Mediated: How the media shapes the world and the way you live in it, 2006 p175
Education is an agricultural endeavor – consider its metaphors
And then one of them opened the bottle and poured forth the nectar of the gods into our respective glasses, the same ones we’d been drinking from before, which some consider a sign of sloven lives and others the ultimate refinement, since when the glass is, shall we say, glazed with mescal, the tequila is more at ease, like a naked woman in a fur coat. Salud then!, I said. Salud, the said – Roberto Bolańo – The Savage Detective, 1998 p281
In the hinterland
In the wasteland
On the borderland
To withstand the odor of sanctity
Is to suffer the stench of vulgarity
In my allegiance to Nietzsche
I defected from Wagner
Disillusioned with autocratism
I turned by back on it all
Separate
A part
Depart
Embark
Entrain
Deplane
Aloof
Aloft
Atop
I am … a hydrogen bomb to tiny / to make an eye water – Frank O’Hara – The Collected Poems, 1971 p376
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