Yes, he did really say that. There is nothing wrong with enjoying retirement in your older years. I am sure the former VP has had an opportunity to earn a good government pension, and he should spend more time on the beach or in the woods, and maybe let a younger person take a stab at being the President.
Day: February 26, 2020💾
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Spotlight News – Raising $1.2M for Bender Melon Farm is underway
NEW SCOTLAND — The Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy has reached “well beyond the halfway mark” of raising $1.2 million needed to purchase the historic Bender Melon Farm by May and preserve it, according to MHLC Executive Director Mark King.
King said that much of the raised money so far came from a $400,000 state grant through the Regional Economic Development Council in December 2019, which MHLC applied for in the summer. “We track grants all the time and it was there so we were aware of that opportunity for a while,” King said. “It really makes a difference in the project and I’m not sure we could possibly succeed without it. It’s a giant boost.”
An Iceberg Triple The Size Of San Francisco Breaks Off Antarctica’s Most Endangered Glacier | Here & Now
This month, an iceberg nearly the size of Atlanta broke off in Antarctica.
The glacier, known as Pine Island, is considered one of the fastest retreating glaciers in Antarctica, where the climate is changing rapidly. Some parts of the content recently experienced record-high temperatures of nearly 70 degrees Fahrenheit.
The loss of large ice chunks, known as calving, is a routine process that happens to every glacier. In the past, Pine Island would calve every four to six years, glaciologist Alison Banwell says. But now, calving events occur “almost annually” on Pine Island, she says.
America’s War on Invasive Nutria — Furbearer Conservation
While states like Maryland and Delaware are actively looking to abolish their nutria populations, states in the deep south seem to be slightly less agressive. The coypu is highly regarded in regions around the Gulf of Mexico and southern U.S. Delta waterways; ironically, some of the first areas where nutria were introduced. Both Louisiana and Texas actually have regulated hunting and trapping seasons on the rodents. Cajun trappers of the Barataria region regard the nutria as an important staple of tradition and as an important community resource. Food and fur - and while the nutria pelt has its own commercial value, I’m told nutria meat is actually pretty tasty as well; no surprise, as trappers like myself are well accustomed to the table-fare of baked muskrat and beaver stew!
That said, even states with harvest seasons and bag limits recognize the absolute chaos nutria can inflict upon marshlands when not properly managed. The Louisiana Coastwide Nutria Control Program is quoted as stating “The decline in fur trapping activity since the mid-1980s has resulted in over population of nutria.” My personal translation - there aren’t as many trappers as there once was, and without regulated trapping activities taking place on the landscape, “big guns” are called in to heavily cull instead. Unlike civilian trappers, I’m willing to gamble each individual animal’s resources (pelt, hide, meat etc.) aren’t being fully utilized when the need arises for an eradication situation.