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When at the UW, I never studied this particular compound, but did do some work on metals, particularly zinc, leaching from tire "mulch" used in playgrounds. It was very toxic to plants. Some bad news there, but nobody wanted to hear it. I believe Linda Chalker-Scott at WSU did a lot more work on...

I planned a trip for my son's Boy Scout troop and their families in 2006, I think about 150 miles total, with kayaks and canoes, 12 boats, 21 people. Fort Benton to just shy of Fort Peck Lake. We made the trip with the 200th anniversary of Lewis and Clark, and may have camped in areas they did...

Hmmm...I really liked River Horse, enjoyed his writing, including the honesty of his lack of planning, and didn't find WHLM to be the "perfect bore" at all. While we're talking books that include C-Dorys, I'll throw in a recommend for "Arctic Solitaire" by Paul Sounders about his quest for the...

I'm curious about your camper. I have an AllTerain 8 ft popup shell that I built out. Towing this 800 lb camper and the C-Dory with a 1/2 ton Dodge truck works fine as long as I don't overload it. What do you have?

At the U Washington and other places, I had literally millions of dollars worth of items, sometimes small and expensive, including environmental monitors, GPSs, computers, tools, electronics, etc., in the field installations, labs, and vehicles over the decades. During the 1980's it was very...

This seems a very real potential issue, but maybe not at only 30 amps. Alternator heating is why I finally went with a 50 amp DC/DC charger in my truck camper lithium system with 3 100 amp LiPO4 Renogy batteries. When I had heavily used the batteries, the truck alternator could run >100 amps and...

Pamilco and adjacent areas where you live will be a great place for your Tomcat. I grew up on the Chesapeake and fished every coastal area down to Florida for many years. I particularly liked Pamlico fishing and gigging flounder with my uncle from Swansboro. Having a shallow draft boat is key...

Sitting here post-Thanksgiving in front of a fire, sipping my coffee and watching a bald eagle rip apart and eat a gull on the float in front of our south Sound home. Messy! I'm sure the eagle is thankful for the meal, but the gulls bothering the eagle clearly aren't. Marcia and I have a lot to...

Many Americans, this one included, don't want to be considered exceptional. Maybe we want to be "above average", but not "better" than other people. Reminds me of a joke... An American sailor dies and is suddenly standing at St Peter's gates. St Peter says...well, I see you are an American, a...

We're lucky here on the west coast. Where else can you hunt three species of regular deer, whitetail, mule and blacktail, in the same state? Elk are abundant too. Yeah, I do understand that biologists claim blacktail and mulies are the same genetically, but they couldn't be more different...

...or lahars, earthquakes, tsunamis or fires...we that moved here to the PNW from the deep South seem to have traded one set of disaster for another, at least we don't have plague of frogs and locusts. ; >)

I guess most people would call me an expert in forest management, multiple degrees, hundreds of books and papers read and written and classes taught, 32 years as a professor of forestry at UW, and >50 years working in forestry if you count work on my grandfather's WVa farm as a boy. With...

Did this guy survive (Panama City, FL)? Not that I would miss him that much.

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Thoughts and prayers for everyone in LA (lower Alabama), and hope you will be able to return to the sugar sand beaches soon. I spent many a hot, humid day there working for peanuts, literally (Alabama Peanut Producers Association). Wish we could divert some of that rain to the PNW to clean our...

You are completely right. In the 30+ years I taught forestry at U Washington I watched as Federal, and State (at least under Jennifer Belcher) forest land management went from professionals to lawsuits in the courts. Part of the problem is in Washington we elect our land commissioner, most...

IME, the major problem with smell is urine, which is generally collected separately in composting toilets. Most people dump urine, but it is illegal where I boat, so in most cases I need to hold on to it for a while. Breakdown from urea/uric acid/purines to ammonia can be very fast, particularly...

Ah, New York...according to my New York girlfriend the state that has thousands of laws that aren't enforced to solve problems that do not exist.

Watch out for those "professionals", as they can sometimes inflate the job. My son just spent over $5000, which is more than his car is worth, and they wanted about $2000 for more "repairs" after the substantial work they initially did didn't fix the problem. Unfortunately, I was in Arizona and...

The Winchester security system... http://www.c-brats.com/viewtopic.php?t= ... t=security I assumed the three in his mouth were because you can't have a gun that holds more than 10 rounds in California....