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BP is a big conglomerate, and they are involved in all stages of production, exploration, drilling, transport, pipelines, mineral rights, refineries, and probably the smallest part, but I am not positive, the local gas pump. If we lose BP, it would not be as simple as just going to a cheaper quick shop for a fix in the supply of fuel. It has been a while since I have had close friends in the petroleum business, but 10 years ago, BP was one of the major players. Like most of the big petroleum companies, they are foreign based, I really don't know who the American Based companies are anymore. The chances of a British Corporation paying US taxes may be pretty slim.

Hatcheries stock trout streams so you will have trout to fish for. Trout in Missouri in most of the streams are stockers, very few are stream bred trout with a few exceptions in a few locations. If MDC does not toss them in, you will not catch them. That requires hatcheries to raise them and staff to move them from the hatchery to the stream. Even if you toss them back, they die eventually and need to be replenished with new ones from the hatchery. Just buy a tag, it is pretty cheap. Arkansas has done the same thing for a long time now on most of its trout streams.

Trout stamp revenue funds the hatchery programs that raise the trout that are stocked in the streams. It is not about put and take, it is about the put. If revenue falls, trout production will drop and trout numbers will be less. If you trout fish, buy a stamp. Many people purchase Federal Duck Stamps to generate revenue to ensure the survival of the waterfowl. Many people buy steel shot to further insure the safe release of ducks back into the wild, much like a barbless hook.

Hey, I did that after I electrified the garden last night to keep the squirrels out of the corn. And I read it while eating lunch at work, so it really did not interfere with my fishing habits.

I read an interesting article from Livescience today and thought I would share it with you. The Earth will still be around after man is long gone. The demise of Earth will be when the Sun starts to burn out and turn into a red giant, consuming earth as it grows. While we may scar it and pollute it, it will continue on. Interesting part about the Natural Nuclear Reactors in Africa, I thought we made nuclear fission, not nature. Can Earth Survive? By Jeremy Hsu, LiveScience Senior Writer posted: 21 June 2010 10:27 am ET The millions upon millions of gallons of oil hemorrhaging into the Gulf of Mexico every day is a crude reminder of the many ways humans are fouling the planet. As forests are cleared, cities and suburbs paved and expanded, as the air and sea warm and become increasingly polluted with cancer-causing chemicals and garbage, and with species dropping like flies, the planet’s health is being challenged in ways that have not occurred in its entire 4.5-billion-year existence. Can Earth survive? The simple answer is a resounding "yes." When humans are gone, as the fossil record suggests will happen eventually, Earth will clean itself up and take on yet another new look,just as it has done many times in the past. In many ways, Earth’s existence has been tested far more dramatically in the past than by anything humans have thrown at it. From its origins as a giant lava ball to an epoch that engulfed the entire planet in ice a mile deep, this planet has seen it all. Our planet was even purple for awhile, scientists say. "As far as the solid Earth, I doubt if it cares much about life on Earth," said Richard Carlson, a geochemist at the CarnegieInstitution of Washington in D.C. "So volcanoes, plate tectonics,earthquakes, etc. likely would go on as before." The Earth may care little, but humans certainly have reason to figure out how to better survive the planet's changes, whether natural or caused by people. Some like it hot Earth is thought to have formed from protoplanetary bodies colliding during the chaotic early days of the solar system. Barely 30 million to 50 million years later, a catastrophic smashup took place between the young planet and a smaller Mars-sized object, reshaping the world dramatically around 4.5 billion years ago. That early violence helped spawn the moon. More giant impacts between 4.1 billion and 3.9 billion years ago may have shaped the continents and possibly even re-melted the solidifying planetary crust, scientists say. More recently, supervolcanoes that dwarf anything seen in recorded history wreaked additional havoc. One series of eruptions around 65 million years ago spewed lava across an area more than twice the size of Texas. But the world has not ended in fire just yet, and it even survived a "snowball Earth" period between 710 million and 640 million years ago that put ordinary ice ages to shame. Geologists have found evidence that sea ice and glaciers reached all the way to the equator during that period. Despite all the upheaval, life managed to not only survive but thrive. A thick organic haze of methane and nitrogen may have helped out by keeping the planet unfrozen early on,scientists suggest. The rise of life on Earth may not have shaken things up in a geological sense, but it did give a makeover to the planet's chemistry. Now humans represent the latest to alter the balance of life and chemistry on the planet during our relatively short existence. Turn and face the strain Species are going extinct at a rate between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than the expected natural extinction rate based on the fossil record, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, which is charged with officially declaring endangered or extinct species. Forests that once covered continents such as Europe now look like shadows of their former selves after hundreds of years of land clearing. Deforestation has begun to slow in the last decade, but an area of forest the size of Vermont and New Hampshire combined is still destroyed each year, said a recent report by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. All major fisheries have collapsed due to overfishing, and rising carbon dioxide levels raise the specter of moremass extinction among marine life due to ocean acidification – not unlike what has happened previously during the Earth's history. Humans have even changed the atmosphere, as in the case of chlorofluorocarbons(CFCs) used as refrigerants. The ozone-destroying chemicals could have created a world where a permanent ozone layer hole yawned above Antarctica and people sunburned within minutes, if not for the Montreal Protocol that banned CFCs in 1989. Such changes may have proved ruinous for humans, but Earth itself would have shrugged them off. "If these [major chemical changes in the atmosphere] were big enough to kill off humanity, the atmosphere likely would recover pretty quickly, at least on geologic time scales," Carlson told LiveScience. Similarly, the Earth has stoically endured climate changefar beyond anything experienced by humans. But history shows that humancivilization remains vulnerable to even minorshifts in climate patterns. For instance, a cooler Pacific Ocean has been connected with drier climate and drought conditions that led to famines in Medieval Europe, and perhaps the disappearance of cliff-dwelling natives of the American West. Now global warming driven by greenhouse gases may lead to even wilder climate fluctuations in different parts of the world. Rates of increasing carbon dioxide areapproximately 100 times greater than most changes previously seen during geologic time, according to researchers on the Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry website. Whether or not humans choose to deal with greenhouse gases, Earth's history shows that they inevitably face a running battle with climate change. Species that couldn't adapt in the past have died, and odds are that humanity's number will be up at some point. The things we leave behind "There will definitely be minute traces of us around, but I suspect most of the stuff that says we were here will be buried by geology," said Alan Weisman, a journalist and author of the book "The World Without Us" (Thomas Dunne Books, 2007). Many of humanity's most visible achievements would vanish quickly. Buildings would crumble and decay within just 10,000 to 15,000 years. A bronze bust could survive for millions of years, Weisman said, even if it toppled and ended up buried, as would be likely. Some more lasting effects on the Earth might come from the chemicals that would leak from their tanks within decades, or nanoparticles being engineered every day inside labs. "We've created some chemical molecules that nothing in nature knows how to break down yet," Weisman pointed out. "Some, nature will figure out. Microbes will figure out how to do plastic." A more deadly legacy for life after humans comes from more than 440 nuclear power plants. Overheating would cause about half to burn and the rest to suffer meltdowns, releasing radioactivity into the air and nearby water. Unattended refineries and chemical plants could also start burning and in turn releasing chemicals. The equivalent of hundreds of Chernobyl disasters "would probably start forcing evolution in pretty dramatic ways," Weisman said. Still, the Earth had already experienced nuclear fission almost 2 billion years ago. Several uranium deposits at Oklo in the Republic of Gabon, a southwestern region of Africa, showed evidence of having operated as natural nuclear reactors for several hundred thousand years. Earth also has experience dealing with oil spills, given along history of natural oil seepage in places such as the Gulf of Mexico. Wild microbes that have evolved to break down oil no doubt found an unusually bountiful feast in recent months because of the Gulf oil gusher from the BP oil rig disaster. That "horrifying" event may register as just a blip on the Earth's radar. But it still seems like a very long-term mess for the humans who have to live with it, Weisman noted. "The oil sucks," Weisman said. "You can quote me on that."

A destination fly shop will have local patterns that you need for the fishery there, probably some that you will not find anywhere else. The staples can be purchased at any major fly catalog or online.

It probably fell out of the poor guy's truck after he caught his limit at Roaring River.... A whole box of San Juan worms on the loose... F.Y.I., the Federal Duck Stamp is still issued in Lick and Stick form as of last year. You will have to sweet talk your local postmaster into ordering them as they are a special request. I always sign mine in erasable ink so you can rub it off after season is over..

Did anybody ever think about what happened to the "Big" problem with the Toyota's? After the reports came out that the runaway Yota and the Granny taking out the wall was hoaxes, seems like the problems fell off the grid. I really wonder if there was ever any real problem or was it Government Motors trying to regain market share?

BP was committed to 20 billion for the Cleanup and the after effects of the cleanup. Who do you think is really gonna foot the bill? Us, the consumer. Gas jumped here 16 cents this weeks and is forecasted to reach 7 dollars a gallon as a result of the spill according to some reports. It breached 4 dollars a gallon a few years back when OPEC decided to make a little profit. We are fortunate to have lost all of our BP stations locally last winter when they pulled out of the local terminal forcing many to rebrand their stations. I had always liked BP gas for its stability and additives that most stations do not put in to the fuel. I am sure they probably own a majority of the refineries along our supply line and will recover their losses with interests at our expense.

But wood gives off smoke that is a bigger pollutant than clean burning natural gas. What is the gain there? And if we all start burning wood again, we would deforest more of the land and cause more problems. Most wood burners need more timber than I have on our 300 acre farm as far as dead timber. I know, for I have fed a wood burner for many years. And we still used gas for cooking, dryer, and water heater. There was no need to keep the furnace burning in the summer just to heat water. A healthy forest does not have that much dead wood unless there is storm damage or a timber cut.

Did you back into the parking spot or pull in straight????

And someone makes a hemostat with the release curve on them too.

Not to mention the increased pressure on the streams due to all of the technology advances and improved accesses. Even catch and release has a mortality rate. Increased numbers on a stream=increased mortality.

But your Tahoe was designed from the start for E85. Older gas consumers are not equipped to handle the ethanol and it eats out the seals of the fuel system. Same goes for boats, lawn equipment, etc. They are actually less fuel efficient using ethanol gas mixtures. In order to switch over to E85, the engine and system has to be designed to use it. We were forced into the ethanol mixture in regular gas by the last governor. Bio diesel is different, I have not heard of many adverse effects with its use.

Alternate energy could power Europe if they cut back on the energy consumption and allow the windmills to catch up.

I have used them for a long time, since they came out in the 90's. They work really well with barbless hooks. I just have the regular sized one on a zinger. They don't mess up a fly like hemostats do.

Got back to the house and recovered from the heat stroke and realized I had switched the lens off auto. I also found some dirty spots on the mirror inside the camera that caused a spot on the left side of all of the shots for the most part. I really was expecting my buddy to bring his Canon and the Ultrasonic lenses. I was stuck with the Pentax istDS and regular zoom lenses. I missed alot when the lens decided to focus on the umbrellas in front of me, the speaker, and toward the end, I think the heat was affecting them.

The other warbirds. And and the Blue Angels support transport plane. Still going thru the aerobatics, the Golden Knight jump team, and other pix.

110 degree heat index. 300mm camera lens malfunctioned during Blue Angels, after about 400 shots and 3 battery changes. Looking up in air all day exposes more of face to sunlight. Shuttle buses suck, no organization on way back. What a great day...

North Fork River or Norfork Tailwaters?

I made a pitstop today by the airport to check in on the festivities that are about to take place this weekend. A nice silver B17 was landing and 2 other old WW2 warbirds were in the pattern to land. I had caught the Blue Angels flying around when I went by after lunch and thought I would see if I could get a closer look. I hit it just right, they were about to do a practice session at 4. I hopped up on the toolbox of the truck and enjoyed the show. The air was really humid and thick, the close turns created a swirl of vapor off the wings that looked really cool. I wish I had my camera to take pics. I will fill up a few memory cards Sat. at the show. Hopefully the air clears out by then, there was alot of haze today.

Its a redear sunfish, they grow pretty big around that lake. It has a red gill flap and usually tiger striped or heavily mottled. It is normally a more stocky sunfish shaped more like a goggle eye. You might still find some in the shallows around the Enough Arm or down by the overflow spillway. Its a nice lake, we fish it several times a year and duck hunt it in the fall. Redear

Its not bad, gonna be hot in July. Put in at the Enough side off 32 and you will not have to pay the daily fees at the main ramp. Lots of trees, you should catch some nice bass in the mornings and evenings. It has a nice shellcracker population, but they will be long off beds. Cruise the swimming beach for some mid day entertainment. It is deep and clear, nice swimming when its hot. Hit some of the local streams for wading for a little side trip. They should be going good by then. Nice trail around the lake, part of the Ozark trail.

OOHWEE, its getting deep on this one. We all know it was Busch and Cheney's fault. The speech last night was nothing new, no solutions. Just a stump campaign to free ourselves from foreign oil dependency.

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