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Los Alamos Sportsmen’s Club Reopens With Guidelines

Alex Byerly is taking practice shots with his 23-caliber rifle at 300 yards in preparation for hunting season with his father, James who is spotting for him Tuesday the Los Alamos Sportsmen’s Club began its reopening on Rendija Road. Precautions are in place to ensure social distancing throughout the range. The facility features a rifle range with shooting benches arraigned to meet social distancing, an Archery range with fixed targets and a 10-15 3-D target course, 5 stand shot gun range, a 5-position pistol range and an indoor range. For more information, visit www.la-sc.org. Photo by John Read More

Young Bucks Lifting Spirits In Los Alamos: Darby & Derby

A pair of young bucks affectionately known as Darby and Derby, English names that roughly translate to ‘a forest rich in deer’ and ‘a deer farm’ respectively. Darby and Derby have been lifting spirits all over Los Alamos and today at this residence at 43 Grand Canyon Dr. in White Rock. Photo by Mandy Fuehrer
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Vertical Cloud Formation Spotted Over White Rock

A vertical cloud formation is spotted in the sky Thursday over White Rock. Clouds with vertical growth grow high up into the atmosphere rather than spreading across the sky. They span all levels of the troposphere and can even rise up into the stratosphere. Clouds with vertical growth develop by warm air rising from the surface. Source www.windows2universe.org. Photo by Dave Lannen
A vertical cloud formation spotted in the sky Thursday over White Rock. Photo by Dave Lannen
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Tips For Growing Tomatoes In Los Alamos County

Tomato plants in Walls-of-Water. Photo by Denise George

It is possible to grow a large Brandywine. Photo by Doris Thielemann

Los Alamos Master Gardeners News:

As it warms, we all get anxious to plant our tomato plants and harvest those luscious fruit. That is especially true this year with COVID-19, when many of us are spending more time in the garden and possibly gardening for the first time.

Our average last freeze day is May 15, so wise people suggest that we wait until after that date to plant.

However, many of us want to push to an earlier date, especially as the days get warmer. Last year in White Read More

Canyon Tree Frogs Lifting Spirits In Los Alamos: Meet Gilly

Gilly is a canyon tree frog who loves lifting spirits around Los Alamos. Gilly is a member of the family of critters living at the Los Alamos Nature Center on Canyon Road. Canyon tree frogs can be hard to spot because their coloring blends in with their habitat. Look for them on rocks in Acid Canyon, around ponds, or in White Rock Canyon. Their call sounds a bit like a bleating sheep. Photo by Ashleigh Lusher

By RACHEL LANDMAN
PEEC Marketing Manager

Though the Los Alamos Nature Center has been closed to the public, the Pajarito Environmental Education Center’s critter team has stayed busy caring

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AWF: BLM Delivers Death Sentence For Wild Horses

AWF News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A surge in funding — $21 million of additional taxpayer dollars for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wild Horse and Burro Management Program — will be used for the removal of 20,000-30,000 wild horses and burros from federal lands this year and each year for many years to come, and the painful mass surgical sterilization of thousands of wild mares, according to a report issued to Congress this week by the BLM.

The funding — and the consequent use of the money for roundups and surgical sterilization rather than humane fertility control such as the PZP vaccine — is the Read More

AGU: New Proof Of Watery Plumes On Jupiter’s Moon Europa

The new study is based on data collected by Galileo during a flyby of Europa in 2000. The image comprises data acquired by the Galileo Solid-State Imaging (SSI) experiment on the spacecraft’s first and fourteenth orbits through the Jupiter system, in 1995 and 1998, respectively, and was recently re-processed in 2014. The image scale is 1.6 km/pixel, and the north pole of the moon is to the right. Courtesy/NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute

AGU News:

Jupiter’s moon Europa is a fascinating world. On its surface, the moon appears to be scratched and scored with reddish-brown scars, which rake across Read More

U.S. Celebrating Endangered Species Day Friday

ESC News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Friday, May 15, thousands of Americans are participating in Endangered Species Day digital events and at-home activities across the country, in recognition of our nation’s commitment to protecting and restoring our disappearing wildlife.

This is the 15th annual international Endangered Species Day, which occurs on the third Friday of May, celebrating our wildlife and wild places.

“Endangered Species Day celebrates our declared national responsibility to our children and their children to save our vanishing wildlife and plants,” stated Leda Huta, executive Read More

NMGF Weekly Report: Fishing For Crawdads

NMGF News:

In this time of change, the Department would like to encourage anglers to stay home, mend equipment and prepare for the upcoming fishing season.

In the weekly fishing report, provided by Dustin Berg of Go Unlimited (supporting disabled anglers) and the Department of Game and Fish, we will be sharing tips and tricks to help you be ready to go on future adventures.

Each week we will feature some different flies, lures, activities or cooking recipes that can be done at home. 

In this week’s report, Dustin will discuss fishing for crawdads, fishing with crawdads and fishing with a Read More

NMED Posts Los Alamos Community Input Online

NMED News:

Earlier this year, the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) solicited feedback from the public and stakeholders on the Compliance Order on Consent (“Consent Order”) signed by NMED and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in 2016 related to clean-up of legacy contamination at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).

NMED also hosted a meeting in January to receive input from the community on the Consent Order.

The feedback NMED received from the Los Alamos community and other stakeholders is now posted online at NMED’s Hazardous Waste Bureau webpage. NMED is synthesizing the Read More

General Atomics Makes Advancement In Physics Understanding … Key Step Toward Practical Fusion Energy

This graphic shows how density peaking increases with decreasing collisionality (blue squares). The largest increase in peaking is directly linked to changes in electron transport (yellow triangles) and not related to changes in direct core fueling (red circles). This highlights that peaked density profiles can be obtained at low collisionality in fusion reactors without core fueling. Courtesy/General Atomics

GA News:

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Scientists at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility have made a significant advancement in physics understanding that represents a key step toward Read More

Daily Postcard: Blue Herons Spotted In Los Alamos

Daily Postcard: A Blue Heron is spotted Tuesday morning at her nest, which a male Blue Heron  is still building 70 to 80 feet up in a ponderosa pine in Los Alamos. Photo by Keith Kihara

A Blue Heron at her nest Tuesday morning 70 to 80 feet up in a ponderosa pine in Los Alamos. Photo by Keith Kihara Read More

New Mexico Counties Awards $236K In Wildfire Grant Funds

NMC News:

SANTA FE — New Mexico Counties has awarded more than $236,000 to 12 grant recipients for community wildfire protection plan updates, fuel reduction treatments, and education efforts through the 2020-2021 Wildfire Risk Reduction Grant Program.

Grant recipients include Ciudad Soil & Water Conservation District, Curry County, Grant County, San Cristobal Neighborhood Association, San Juan County, Socorro County, South Central Mountain RC&D Council, Taos County and Wildfire Network.

New Mexico Counties Executive Director Steve Kopelman stated that “wildfire awareness Read More

Quemazon Nature Trail 20 Years After Cerro Grande Fire

Fallen Trees on Quemazon Nature Trail. Photo by Nina Thayer

By NINA THAYER
Pajarito Rambler

This old rambler hiked up the Quemazon Nature Trail last week and decided to come out of retirement to tell its story 20 years after the Cerro Grande wildfire. Many of us remember the day 20 years ago when the sky turned black with a sickening red-orange glow and we packed children and pets and fled our homes on the hill.

When we returned, we were confronted with burned homes, charred forests and an unnerving sense of insecurity. My first ramble through the Quemazon Trail area one year later was heart rending, Read More

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