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Lopes stars in win
Timmy Lopes started things for Edison on Tuesday, then polished things off. Lopes, a senior, opened the scoring and took to the mound in the late stages of Edison's CIF Southern Section Division 1 wild-card baseball game against Chaparral, and his book-...
Tags: Sports, American Legion, High School Baseball, Baseball, Forestry and Timber
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High School Baseball: Lopes stars in win
HUNTINGTON BEACH — Timmy Lopes started things for Edison Tuesday, then polished things off. Lopes, a senior, opened the scoring and took to the mound in the late stages of Edison's CIF Southern Section Division 1 wild-card baseball game against...Tags: Sports, Travel, American Legion, High School Baseball, Trips and Vacations
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Natural Perspectives: Our trek to the lek
Vic and I were in the Eastern Sierras a few weeks ago. He was leading an Audubon birding trip, primarily to see greater sage-grouse on their courtship display grounds, which are called leks. The lek is just north of Crowley Lake, a few miles outside...
Tags: Courtship, Conservation, Interior Policy, Politics, Science and Technology
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'We're letting him do his own thing'
When a dolphin swam into Bolsa Chica sometime before noon Friday, the wetlands got a surprise visitor. Now, they may have an unintended mascot. Five days and many media stories later, the dolphin still hadn't left the water near Warner Avenue and Pacific...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Zoology, Science and Technology, National Marine Fisheries Service , National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Natural Perspectives: Make every day at home Earth Day
Earth Day falls on a Sunday this year. The folks at Bolsa Chica celebrated Earth Day on April 14 with tours, live snakes, and even a bounce house for children. The Amigos de Bolsa Chica, the Bolsa Chica Conservancy, the Bolsa Chica Land Trust and the...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Central Park, Conservation, Earth Day, Natural Resource Industry
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Natural Perspectives: Things are just ducky at our house
Vic and I have a sure-fire sign that spring has sprung. A pair of mallards has returned to our front yard. Every year in early March, a pair of mallards has taken up residence for a few weeks. They swim in our front yard pond and scarf up greenery and...Tags: Environmental Issues, Wildlife, Lakes and Ponds
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Poseidon wetlands questions persist
A state commission has reiterated its concern that the site for Poseidon Resources' proposed Huntington Beach desalination plant may contain wetlands. The California Coastal Commission, in a March 20 letter to Poseidon, requested a number of documents it...Tags: Environmental Issues, Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance, Plant Openings, Wetlands
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In The Pipeline: The O'Reilly factor at Bolsa Chica
"It's not a park, it's an ecological reserve!" So intoned my friend Ross Griswold, who tracks bird behavior at the Bolsa Chica Wetlands. We ran into each other the other day on the trail and ended up lamenting the ever-increasing abuses by dog owners...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Cat (animal), Justice System, Dog (animal), Conservation
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Natural Perspectives: Adventures in snowy Albuquerque
Generally, Vic and I try to avoid flying into the midst of a natural disaster. But sometimes it just happens. If you recall, I was caught in a tornado in April in Tennessee, near Knoxville. Golf ball-sized hail totaled my rental car with hundreds of...Tags: Zoology, Arts, Arts and Culture, Snow Storms, Museum of Natural History
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Pickens would give it all up to be young again
If T. Boone Pickens could choose between his current circumstances and being an 18-year-old preparing to enter the job market, he would choose the latter — and he might send his first résumés to energy companies. The oil and gas entrepreneur, who...Tags: White House, Environmental Issues, Elections, Barack Obama, Energy Resources
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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: Mexico, Ecosystems, Zoology, 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: Colleges and Universities, Ecosystems, Colleges and Universities, Education, Book
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