dible Pod Radish makes an enlarged, succulent, crunchy pod, in the same fashion as green-beans and snap-peas. The tip of the pod tapers to a fine point, giving it a fanciful resemblance to a rat-tail … a name by which it was formerly found in seed-catalogs etc, but is now not often seen. Seed-pod vegetables …
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JATO units
Jet Assisted Take-Off units became famous on the pages of , in the course of their photo-coverage of Antarctic cargo-plane supply-operations. Are there JATO-units for small aircraft such as the Super Cub? For example to get off a short airstrip with a heavy load?
Cretaceous-Tertiary, Paleogene Confusion
The term Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T), for the boundary or transition between those two geological periods, has been in use for many generations. Then one day it was unilaterally decreed, by an unelected, unaccountable and generally unknown entity or person (a Professor, or group of them), that henceforth everyone should use the term Cretaceous-Paleogene, instead. This is …
Genealogy & Pedigree for Plants curious relations of photosynthetic organisms
enealogy for Plants cannot readily be done with the same software that we use for human families (and which can be used for other animals, though perhaps with difficulties), for two reasons. One, many plants are self-fertile. There are flexible and variable versions of this, such as with apple trees which may require a pollinator-variety, …
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Olympic Mountains Trail Guide National Park and National Forest
This is the book that typical and normal hikers & backpackers will want for the Olympic National Park. I bears every sign of having been a labor of love by author Robert Wood, and has been a fixture of local outdoors & tourist book-racks, since the 1980s.
Mount Seattle, Olympic Nat’l Park
ount Seattle, in , is on the west side of the between the headwaters of the to the north, and the to the south. The trails in these two river valleys, joined at the Low Divide pass, forming the primary north-south route through the Park.
Carrie Basin, Bailey Range, Olympic Nat’l Park
arrie Basin is an informal name for a Shangri La subalpine valley on the main Bailey Range ridge of the , and the in which they’re enclosed. It’s a hanging-valley, jutting out from the ridge, a free-air waterfall launching from cliff-gated slot-canyon mouth, into a 1,000 foot unapproachable cataract-plunge. There is Fairchild Creek, fed from …
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Charles Lindburg
harles Lindburg is known mainly as the aviator who first flew solo across the Atlantic. But Lindburg was also involved in leading-edge scientific research & invention, and he was associated with .
Bear candy of Salmonberry A wild-raspberry vegetable with production-potential
ear candy is the tender spring cane-shoots of a wild relative of the garden-raspberry. In the greater Pacific Northwest of the US, this plant, R. spectabilis, is a ranking – and rank – invasive native weed. Those who work in the brush in this region, in the landscaping trades, or just take care of their …
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Sourdough Mountain, Olympic Nat’l Park comfortable, unofficial, near-in backcountry Olympic Park destination
ourdough Mountain, as the name implies, hosted a mining camp that appears to be a moderately-serious old base-camp or prospect, on a line of recorded claims along a band of mineralization, ca 1930s. It consists of a fairly/partly level little sheltered meadow in the trees, on the ridge-top and tucked in against the west foot …