| Class | Description | Acres | Percent |
| 82 | Cultivated Crops -areas used for the production of annual crops, such as corn, soybeans, vegetables, tobacco, and cotton, and also perennial woody crops such as orchards and vineyards. Crop vegetation accounts for greater than 20% of total vegetation. This class also includes all land being actively tilled. | 3 | 0.0% |
| 52 | Shrub/Scrub- areas dominated by shrubs; less than 5 meters tall with shrub canopy typically greater than 20% of total vegetation. This class includes true shrubs, young trees in an early successional stage or trees stunted from environmental conditions. | 14 | 0.1% |
| 95 | Emergent Herbaceous Wetlands- Areas where perennial herbaceous vegetation accounts for greater than 80% of vegetative cover and the soil or substrate is periodically saturated with or covered with water. | 26 | 0.2% |
| 31 | Barren Land (Rock/Sand/Clay) – areas of bedrock, desert pavement, scarps, talus, slides, volcanic material, glacial debris, sand dunes, strip mines, gravel pits and other accumulations of earthen material. Generally, vegetation accounts for less than 15% of total cover. | 110 | 0.8% |
| 90 | Woody Wetlands- areas where forest or shrubland vegetation accounts for greater than 20% of vegetative cover and the soil or substrate is periodically saturated with or covered with water. | 158 | 1.1% |
| 42 | Evergreen Forest- areas dominated by trees generally greater than 5 meters tall, and greater than 20% of total vegetation cover. More than 75% of the tree species maintain their leaves all year. Canopy is never without green foliage. | 215 | 1.5% |
| 71 | Sedge/Herbaceous- Alaska only areas dominated by sedges and forbs, generally greater than 80% of total vegetation. This type can occur with significant other grasses or other grass like plants, and includes sedge tundra, and sedge tussock tundra. | 267 | 1.9% |
| 11 | Open Water- areas of open water, generally with less than 25% cover of vegetation or soil. | 270 | 1.9% |
| 81 | Pasture/Hay-areas of grasses, legumes, or grass-legume mixtures planted for livestock grazing or the production of seed or hay crops, typically on a perennial cycle. Pasture/hay vegetation accounts for greater than 20% of total vegetation. | 344 | 2.5% |
| 41 | Deciduous Forest- areas dominated by trees generally greater than 5 meters tall, and greater than 20% of total vegetation cover. More than 75% of the tree species shed foliage simultaneously in response to seasonal change. | 628 | 4.5% |
| 43 | Mixed Forest- areas dominated by trees generally greater than 5 meters tall, and greater than 20% of total vegetation cover. Neither deciduous nor evergreen species are greater than 75% of total tree cover. | 1,031 | 7.3% |
| 24 | Developed High Intensity-highly developed areas where people reside or work in high numbers. Examples include apartment complexes, row houses and commercial/industrial. Impervious surfaces account for 80% to 100% of the total cover. | 2,093 | 14.9% |
| 21 | Developed, Open Space- areas with a mixture of some constructed materials, but mostly vegetation in the form of lawn grasses. Impervious surfaces account for less than 20% of total cover. These areas most commonly include large-lot single-family housing units, parks, golf courses, and vegetation planted in developed settings for recreation, erosion control, or aesthetic purposes. | 2,206 | 15.7% |
| 22 | Developed, Low Intensity- areas with a mixture of constructed materials and vegetation. Impervious surfaces account for 20% to 49% percent of total cover. These areas most commonly include single-family housing units. | 3,148 | 22.4% |
| 23 | Developed, Medium Intensity -areas with a mixture of constructed materials and vegetation. Impervious surfaces account for 50% to 79% of the total cover. These areas most commonly include single-family housing units. | 3,522 | 25.1% |
I think it’s absurd to keep closing our eyes about climate change
I think it’s absurd to keep closing our eyes about climate change. It’s here already, and it’s going to get a lot worse. Flooding and air pollution are big concerns locally, the fires and droughts are the story out west. It doesn’t help that people are pretending that we can slap a few solar panels up, and buy greenie products, and say the problem is fixed.
It’s not fixed and it’s not likely to be fixed. And it’s going to be real bad, regardless of what we do.
Average Age of Buildings on Altamont, NY Streets 🏡
One of the ways I’ve been playing with the state tax records database is to experiment with the property tax database to figure out how old various streets are. While certainly people can and do build and rebuild houses on roads well after a street is constructed, looking at the median age of buildings on a street can give you a ballpark estimate on how old a street is and how old the particular neighborhood is. Probably the next step would be to plot this on a map.
Clearly with the median building dates, you can find the newest streets and developments in Altamont — and which neighborhoods and streets are rich in history.
| Street | Median Building Date |
| Helderberg Ave | 1870 |
| Prospect Ter | 1870 |
| Jay St | 1878 |
| Mill St | 1880 |
| Lark St | 1885 |
| Main St | 1885 |
| Maple Ave | 1890 |
| Grand St | 1898 |
| Fairview Ave | 1908 |
| Lincoln Ave | 1913 |
| Severson Ave | 1930 |
| Altamont Blvd | 1932 |
| Western Ave | 1935 |
| Sand St | 1939 |
| Severson Ave Ext | 1939 |
| Brandle Rd | 1949 |
| W Schoharie Plank Rd | 1953 |
| Euclid Ave | 1953 |
| Thatcher Dr | 1960 |
| Sunset Dr | 1961 |
| E Schoharie Plank Rd | 1965 |
| Gun Club Rd | 1966 |
| Park St | 1966 |
| Bozenkill Rd | 1968 |
| Mountain Dale Ct | 1973 |
| Township Rd | 1981 |
| Marian Ct | 1986 |
| Indian Maiden Pass | 1987 |
| Gregg Rd | 1989 |
| Groot Dr | 1990 |
| Knower Ct | 1993 |
| Sanford Pl | 1993 |
| Whipple Way | 1993 |
| Van Evera Dr | 1994 |
| Indian Meadows Path | 1996 |
| Long Grass Ln Pr | 2014 |
Slavery for air conditioning
If you want to keep a 550 watt air conditioner powered full blast for a week by people riding bicycles, you will need to hire 21 people who each will ride the bicycle for 40 hours.
I don’t recommend doing this even with slaves – not cost effective.
The truth is I like thinking more about smoking pot then actually smoking …
Maybe the best part of being high, is thinking about how much fun it is to be high. To read about other’s adventures about getting high and learning about genetics and strains of cannabis. To learn about the health pros and cons to smoking, to read the debate over cannabis and how legal it should be. Often it seems dreaming about doing something is a lot more fun then actually doing.
I think a lot about Climate Change Action, but I often wonder at what cost …
I think this is a point that needs to made and not glossed over. If you want to transition the energy system, that fine, but there is going to be real human and environmental costs to doing that. There is going to be enormous amounts of political power used and abused, community destroyed, serious environmental derogation. Maybe it’s worth it as climate change will be rather bad, but we should proceed with caution.
VANCE PACKARD’s idea to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN 🇺🇸 from SIXTY YEARS AGO.
In Cornucopia City, as I understand it, all the buildings will be made of a special papier-mâché. These houses can be torn down and rebuilt every spring and fall at housecleaning time. The motorcars of Cornucopia will be made of a lightweight plastic that develops fatigue and begins to melt if driven more than four thousand miles. Owners who turn in their old motorcars at the regular turn-in dates—New Year’s, Easter, Independence Day, and Labor Day—will be rewarded with a one-hundred-dollar United States Prosperity-Through-Growth Bond for each motorcar turned in. And a special additional bond will be awarded to those families able to turn in four or more motorcars at each disposal date.
One fourth of the factories of Cornucopia City will be located on the edge of a cliff, and the ends of their assembly lines can be swung to the front or rear doors depending upon the public demand for the product being produced.When demand is slack, the end of the assembly line will be swung to the rear door and the output of refrigerators or other products will drop out of sight and go directly to their graveyard without first overwhelming the consumer market.
Every Monday, the people of Cornucopia City will stage a gala launching of a rocket into outer space at the local Air Force base. This is another of their contributions to national prosperity. Components for the rockets will have been made by eighteen subcontractors and prime contractors in the area. One officially stated objective of the space probing will be to report to the earth people what the back side of Neptune’s moon looks like.
Wednesday will be Navy Day. The Navy will send a surplus warship to the city dock. It will be filled with surplus play-suits, cake mix, vacuum cleaners, and trampolines that have been stockpiled at the local United States Department of Commerce complex of warehouses for surplus products. The ship will go thirty miles out to sea, where the crew will sink it from a safe distance. As we peek in on this Cornucopia City of the future, we learn that the big, heartening news of the week is that the Guild of Appliance Repair Artists has passed a resolution declaring it unpatriotic for any member even to look inside an ailing appliance that is more than two years old.
The heart of Cornucopia City will be occupied by a titanic pushbutton super mart built to simulate a fairyland. This is where all the people spend many happy hours a week strolling and buying to their heart’s content. In this paradise of high-velocity selling, there are no jangling cash registers to disrupt the holiday mood. Instead, the shopping couples—with their five children trailing behind, each pushing his own shopping cart—gaily wave their lifetime electronic credit cards in front of a recording eye. Each child has his own card, which was issued to him at birth.
Conveniently located throughout the mart are receptacles where the people can dispose of the old-fashioned products they bought on a previous shopping trip. In the jewelry section, for example, a playfully designed sign by a receptacle reads: “Throw your old watches here!” Cornucopia City’s marvelous mart is open around the clock, Sundays included. For the Sunday shoppers who had developed a churchgoing habit in earlier years, there is a little chapel available for meditation in one of the side alcoves.
Is Cornucopia City to become not a feverish dream, but, instead, an extreme prototype for the City of Tomorrow?
Read it online: https://www.soilandhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/0303critic/030320wastemakers/wastemakers.pdf
