The Widefield Aquifer serves as a cautionary water pollution tale for Southern Colorado and beyond. It supplies drinking water to over 80,000 people in Widefield, Fountain, and Security, or Southern El Paso County. The first documented case of water pollution in the Widefield Aquifer occurred in 1982. Since then, humans have contaminated it incessantly. This […]
The Widefield Aquifer, Pollution, and Remedies Read More »
A few thousand years ago, the Kissimmee River freely trickled south over 11,000 miles of Florida’s land, creating a vast, thin sheet of water that spread over much of the state’s southern half. Over the next couple thousand years, ponds, marshes, and forests developed creating nearly half of Florida’s delicately balanced ecosystem. Four-fifths of that
Florida’s Invasive Serpent: The Burmese Python Read More »
Not long ago, I sat in a local restaurant eating a Key Lime torte and thinking about how Key West owes the Cuban coastline a debt of gratitude for slowing down Hurricane Irma. As unkind as she was to Florida, an unimpeded Irma might have reduced Key West to a denuded stump of coral. Just
Hurricane Irma and the Spirit of Key West Read More »
As is true for most readers of garden lit, Joel Salatin entered my awareness in 2006 via Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma. While I had always been interested in farming and food production, I equated Salatin, a self-described “Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic Farmer” with ranching, and so wasn’t compelled, right off, to read his
Joel Salatin (America’s Libertarian Agrarian Intellectual) Reveals His Writing Secrets Read More »
The Hawaiian Islands are well known all over the world as favorite vacation destinations and for the North Shore’s amazing surf competitions. Dozens of movies and television shows have given viewers a depiction of one part of Hawaiian life or another, but perhaps the most profoundly known piece of Hawaii is Pearl Harbor and what
Pearl Harbor and the Blight of Large Scale Military Expansion Read More »
There isn’t a definitive reason for the water crisis that has recently struck Fountain, Colorado, but there’s plenty of finger pointing from all parties involved, such as health departments, local military, utility companies, and even city officials themselves refuse to take responsibility. Although these officials have taken precautionary measures to mitigate damage to human life,
Fountain’s Pollution Problem Should Not Be Ignored Read More »