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On The Job In Los Alamos: LA Landscaping & More And DIGS Construction Host Company-Wide Meeting In Parking Lot During COVID-19 Pandemic

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On the job in Los Alamos are Los Alamos Landscaping & More, LLC and DIGS Construction, LLC. The two local businesses hosted a bi-weekly company-wide safety meeting while social distancing Monday in the UNM-LA parking lot. Los Alamos Landscaping owners Craig and Rachel Wehner provided breakfast from Secret City Kitchen for the crews during the meeting. The Wehners wanted to share how their companies have continued to work under the restrictive circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic. Their employees practice social distancing and wear face masks made by Office Administrative Assistant Read More

Amateur Naturalist: Springtime Flowers

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A dandelion with newly emerged florets. Photo by Robert Dryja

The seed head of a dandelion with hundreds of seeds ready to be blown away in a breeze. Photo by Robert Dryja

By ROBERT DRYJA
Los Alamos

Two kinds of plants are making their presence clearly visible since spring began six weeks ago.

Hundreds of dandelion plants have emerged in a grassy field. Each plant has up to 10 flowers called florets. The field first turned yellow with florets and then white with their seed heads. Each seed head has about a 100 to 150 seeds that look like little parachutes. The seeds now are drifting away by the thousands Read More

USACE Albuquerque District Lakes Phase Reopenings

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Abiquiu Lake day use recreation areas reopened May 16, including Cerrito Day Use Area; Overlook Day Use Area, including picnic areas; and the downstream Rio Chama Day Use Area. Courtesy/VDP

USACE News:

ALBUQUERQUE — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Albuquerque District have announced that USACE-managed lakes in New Mexico and southeastern Colorado are scheduled to begin the first part of a phased reopening.

The initial reopening date will vary from lake to lake due to local and state conditions. See below for lake-specific information.

In the initial reopening phase, some day use Read More

Juniper Hairstreak Lifting Spirits Around Los Alamos

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It was a lucky day for Selvi Viswanathan who tends the butterfly garden at the Los Alamos Nature Center. Around 1:30 p.m. Friday she went outside on Barranca Mesa to take photos of flowers and suddenly spotted a rarely seen Juniper Hairstreak …‘What a thrill! It lifted my spirits,’ she said, adding that she hoped by sending it to the Los Alamos Daily Post it would lift spirits all over Los Alamos. Photo by Selvi Viswanathan
A rarely seen Juniper Hairstreak spotted Friday afternoon on Barranca Mesa. Photo by Selvi Viswanathan
A rarely seen Juniper Hairstreak spotted Friday afternoon Barranca Mesa.
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Los Alamos Sportsmen’s Club Reopens With Guidelines

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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

Vertical Cloud Formation Spotted Over White Rock

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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

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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

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