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Mailbag: Losing Chief Small is bad for H.B.
Our wonderful Chief of Police Ken Small has announced his retirement ("Police chief to retire, May 16"). It is a sad day for Huntington, as Ken truly cared about the safety of our residents and would often go beyond the call of duty, always answering...Tags: Environmental Issues, Global Change, State Parks, Global Warming, Conservation
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Natural Perspectives: The big bad wolf is back in Yellowstone
The world around us is constantly changing, more so now than ever before in recorded history. Humans are dramatically affecting the natural world. Between global warming and the exploding growth of the human population, which results in the need to...
Tags: National Parks, Environmental Issues, Global Change, Global Warming, Science and Technology
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Natural Perspectives: Three green films at Newport Beach Film Festival
Vic and I attended the Newport Beach Film Festival this past weekend. Naturally, Vic and I focused on environmental documentaries. We saw three films, "A Fierce Green Fire,""Last Call at the Oasis,"and"Bitter Seeds." "A Fierce Green Fire" is based on...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Global Change, Entertainment, Bitter Seeds (movie), Genetic Engineering
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Natural Perspectives: The return of vanished species
When Vic and I were growing up, wolves had been extirpated from the lower 48 states and the California sea otter was thought to be essentially extinct. The last gray wolf in California was killed in Lassen County in 1924. Gray wolves were hunted...Tags: Environmental Issues, Endangered Species, Natural Resources, Conservation, Wildlife
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Natural Perspectives: 'Rapped' up in new teaching endeavor
Vic must have thought that I didn't have enough to do, what with teaching at the Orange County Conservation Corps, writing this column, and attempting to grow 350 pounds of food this year. He asked me to team-teach his bird and natural history courses...Tags: Environmental Issues, Politics, Endangered Species, Book, Indigenous People
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Natural Perspectives: Priority should be preventing extinction
An article in Physorg.com this week reported that a team of scientists from Japan and Russia believe that they may be able to produce a living woolly mammoth within the next five years by a cloning process. Key to their research will be finding an...Tags: Environmental Issues, Endangered Species, State Parks, Animals, Zoology
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Clarence Irwin Haydock
Clarence Irwin Haydock, Ph.D., California ecologist, passed away peacefully the evening of July 30, 2011 in Fountain Valley, CA having been born April 15, 1938 in Bakersfield, CA. As a boy, growing up in northern CA he sculled a duck boat on San...Tags: Stanford University, Wetlands, Entertainment, Conservation, Utah
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Coastal Commission votes down Shea project
The California Coastal Commission on Thursday voted down a housing project near the Bolsa Chica wetlands, putting a new wrinkle in a decade-long battle between the developer and environmentalists. The ruling marks a significant victory for protectors...Tags: Oceans, Bodies of Water, Conservation
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City Lights: Let those with allergies eat cake
Finally, a cake everyone can eat. That was my impression upon hearing about Sensitive Sweets, a new bakery in Fountain Valley that's set to have its grand opening July 13. The tiny shop at 17431 Brookhurst St. offers confections without gluten, nuts,...Tags: Health, Physical Conditions, Human Interest, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Foods and Beverages
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Natural Perspectives: Current situation more like 'global weirding'
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center's "State of the Climate: Global Analysis for Annual 2010" makes for some pretty sobering reading. Vic and I waded through the nine-page document over the hot Fourth...Tags: Environmental Issues, Global Change, Disasters and Accidents, Pakistan, Russia
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Natural Perspectives: Dire consequences if we don't curb emissions
Britain's Guardian newspaper reported recently that the construction of many new fossil fuel-burning power plants may prevent the world from keeping global temperature increases at a safe level. A manageable temperature rise is thought by many scientists...Tags: Natural Disasters, Environmental Issues, Global Change, Politics, International Energy
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Natural Perspectives: Land Trust's composting plan is no good
Editor's note: This removes the paragraph regarding the water tanks, which will be above ground, not in pits that were to be no larger than 8 feet deep.
Vic and I learned early this week that the California Department of Fish and Game has extended the...Tags: Environmental Issues, Politics, Endangered Species, Mountains, Landforms
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