Great article about #BigAg...

https://riverraccoon.substack.com/p/seeing-red

"Water from the #RedRiver flows through #LakeWinnipeg on its journey to #HudsonBay. Lake Winnipeg is huge—the world’s 11th largest freshwater lake by surface area (even larger than Lake Ontario and about the same as Lake Erie) and has the world’s largest ‘lakeshed’, i.e. area of land draining to a lake. It supports a large commercial and sport fishery for several fish species including walleye, which are a peculiar green color there due to the mineral content of the water."

"The #water_quality in Lake Winnipeg is tanking because of “rapidly increased #livestock production and use of synthetic #fertilizer in the Red River Valley, with smaller contributions of phosphorus from the city of Winnipeg and other human development in the Red and Winnipeg River basins .” Nutrient-driven #toxic #algae blooms have doubled in size since the 1990s due to increases in Red River phosphorus levels, a common component of livestock manure."

Evaluating Drought Risk Of The Red River Of The North Basin Using Historical And Stochastic Streamflow Upstream From Emerson, Manitoba
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https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/sir20255002 <-- shared link to USGS publication
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https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis <-- USGS National Water Information System (NWIS) database - USGS water open data for the Nation
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #deterministic #waterbalance #stochasticweather #model #modeling #RedRiver #USA #Canada #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #waterresources #streamgage #NorthDakota #Manitoba #streamflow #flood #flooding #watersupply #agriculture #farming #ecology #drought #extremeweather #meteorology #basin #subbasin #risk #hazard #gauge #flow
@USGS

Good morning.

14 December 2024

I recall times many years ago when I would get up to go to work on a winter morning and it would be so cold that I could not stop shivering. I would light the oven to warm up and watch some local country variety show on TV because it was the only channel that I got ... I read a lot more books. That was the norm for me way back when. Now-a-days though it's all about central heat and air. 250+ TV channels, and streaming. Of course, back in the day, we didn't have home computers, internet, cable, satellite TV, or cellphones. Hmmm ... I did have a digital watch and thought it was fancy.

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." - Carl Sagan

Tree is Company

Here is a great egret (Ardea alba) and a couple of turtles on a log that I saw on the Red River flowing through Shreveport, Louisiana. I'm not certain of the turtle species but I think they may be two different species of turtle. Perhaps the turtle at the bottom is a red-eared slider, and the one closest to the egret a pond slider, but I'm mostly guessing. If you happen to be able to identify the turtle species, please share.

My gallery contains more that 700 images that I've chosen to share. Most are there for their visual appeal but there are a few novelty images. You can check out my gallery at:

https://swede1952-photographs.pixels.com

Good morning.

22 September 2024

My wife and I drove up to Shreveport, Louisiana Friday and stayed the night in a hotel on the bank of the Red River. One of our granddaughters drove down from the university where she is attending. It is almost exactly the halfway point. We had a grand time visiting, eating out, and shopping.

Ben and Charlie are boarded with the veterinarian. A minor problem with boarding them there is the vet closes at noon on Saturday and doesn't open up again until Monday morning, so they are stuck in lockup until tomorrow.

"I love my daughter, but there's a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?" - Bernie Mac

Elizabethtown, aka E-Town, was founded in 1866 when gold was found in the area. It was New Mexico's first incorporated town.

Just revisited Howard Hawks' RED RIVER (1948).

Montgomery Clift's low-key naturalism is so refreshing, and I love how John Wayne adjusts accordingly. One of my fav Wayne performances.

They may not have been drinking buddies IRL, but they have legit chemistry on screen.

It's on Tubi and PlutoTV (with ads) and MGM+ (ad-free).

#RedRiver #JohnWayne #MontgomeryClift
Cowboy classic 'Red River's' gay subtext runs even deeper than that homoerotic pistol-comparing scene - Queerty

"Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, with cowboy romance A Strange Way Of Life now streaming on Netflix, we’re revisiting 1948’s queer-coded Western classic, Red River."
https://www.queerty.com/cowboy-classic-red-rivers-gay-subtext-runs-even-deeper-than-that-homoerotic-pistol-comparing-scene-20240413