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Isn’t this a fine-looking fellow? He’s Atelopus, a newly discovered species of fluorescent psychedelic frog, found in Suriname. (Suriname, formerly Dutch Guiana, is north of Brazil on the Atlantic coast.) This is one of two dozen new species identified by researchers in that country. Caribbean Net News has the full story (but I got it [...]

Sobrante Ridge Regional Botanic Preserve, on the site of a former cattle ranch, occupies a space more or less surrounded by the suburban East Bay community of El Sobrante. I wonder how many El Sobranteans are aware that this preserve houses a beautiful rare and endangered manzanita, only found in one other location.
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I’ve completed a brief survey of Bay Area plant communities over at Frisco Vista.
The Bay Area topic suits me because I’ve accumulated a bunch of photos from around the bay over the years.
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I don’t have much to say about this, except it’s, well, cool.
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What’s making the sea lions cranky? Frisco Vista, a new site devoted to San Francisco travel (what they’re building is so new they’re still working on the foundation) is asking that question.
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Beautiful, delicious, organic Granny Smith apples from my south-facing hillside. My region isn’t really prime for apples, but for some reason Granny Smiths seem to do really well.
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So the Bushies appointed a guy who doesn’t believe in family planning to be head of the agency in charge of family planning.
Well, what’s new, the outgoing Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (James Inhofe, OK), says we don’t have to worry about global warming, and isn’t that a relief?
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This handsome fellow is an Indian Mongoose (called manakuke in Hawaiian). Seventy-two mongooses were introduced into Hawaii in 1872 in an effort to control rats that had arrived in the islands as a side effect of the sugar cane industry. The rats, like many newcomers to the islands, found Hawaii to their liking, and they [...]