Didn’t know there were any wolves in California. But it’s so big and rural and fertile so why not.
Where all did she wander?
And a female. Aren’t males usually more likely to roam all far?
And was she a lone wolf or part of some pack? How many loners are out there?
And she’s from Oregon, but was she born wild? What’s the population like there?
I wonder how many other wolves there are in places they aren’t supposed to be?
Ahh so many questions! Wolves are badass.
Re: The Great Outdoors
Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2020 11:20 pm
by TDub
She lost her pack.
There are wayyyyy more wolves in oregon than ODFW likes to claim exist. They keep bumping there numbers up slightly but they are way behind (in the admission, not in the knowledge).
I saw one last weekend, making 3 for me in the last 6 months.
Dont believe the hype.
Important part of the natural ecosystem? Sure. To be celebrated and protected as some golden and perfect animal? No.
Re: The Great Outdoors
Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2020 11:59 pm
by ousdahl
a fishing buddy of mine has a cabin up west of RMNP and swears there's wolves up there. Because of all the human activity up there I hesitate to believe him, except that he also sits on the state DOW bored and knows his shit.
Re: The Great Outdoors
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2020 12:11 am
by jhawks99
Re: The Great Outdoors
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2020 6:10 am
by Deleted User 89
TDub wrote: ↑Sat Feb 08, 2020 11:20 pm
To be celebrated and protected as some golden and perfect animal? No.
During its time on Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover has focused on understanding the planet's potential habitability in its ancient past, drilling into rocks and studying their dust to determine possible conditions for life. The rover has found some intriguing clues, and now, scientists are following up on those puzzle pieces to understand their origin.
In 2018, the rover hit pay dirt when it found organic matter in soil samples of three billion-year-old mudstone in the Gale crater.
Curiosity sampled sites by drilling five centimeters below the surface in the Gale crater, which is where the rover landed in 2012. The 96-mile crater, named for Australian astronomer Walter F. Gale, was probably formed by meteor impact between 3.5 to 3.8 billion years ago. It likely held a lake, and now includes a mountain called Mount Sharp.
The rover was able to heat the samples to between 932 and 1,508 degrees Fahrenheit and study the organic molecules released through gas analysis. The organic molecules and volatiles, comparable to samples of sedimentary rock rich in organics on Earth, included thiophenes, methylthiophenes methanethiol and dimethylsulfide.
They don't exactly roll off the tongue, but researchers believe that these are fragments of larger molecules that were present on Mars billions of years ago. And the high amount of sulfur in the samples is most likely how they've lasted so long, the researchers said.
Now, researchers have followed up on an investigation into the presence of thiophenes -- organic compounds found in coal, crude oil and even white truffles on Earth -- to determine their potential origin.
They probably aren't evidence of white truffles on Mars, but the researchers think that thiophenes are likely consistent with the presence of life on Mars in its ancient past. Thiophenes likely signify a biological process involving bacteria.
The study published in the journal Astrobiology this week.
"We identified several biological pathways for thiophenes that seem more likely than chemical ones, but we still need proof," said Dirk Schulze‑Makuch, study author and Washington State University astrobiologist. "If you find thiophenes on Earth, then you would think they are biological, but on Mars, of course, the bar to prove that has to be quite a bit higher."
On the atomic level, thiophene molecules are arranged in a ring including four carbon atoms and a sulfur atom. These are considered bio-essential elements.
before leaving KU, i was a co-PI on the grant that is generating all the ct scans that they used...it’s really pretty amazing what can be done, even being able to highlight different organ systems and then 3-d print them
The boundaries of today’s wilderness are not easily defined, as spreading civilization devours the environment. Only through understanding the necessity of sharing this earth with all of its inhabitants will man endure. Man cannot survive without animals, whereas animals can survive quite nicely without man.
Re: The Great Outdoors
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2020 4:21 pm
by Deleted User 89
Cataclysmic events in nature have, at various periods of history, greatly diminished certain animals on this planet. The snakes have successfully withstood these events to be confronted with a highly intelligent animal that, through misunderstanding, willfully, and sometimes wantonly, seeks to destroy it. Only through understanding the necessity of sharing this earth with all of its inhabitants, will man endure. The concrete and plastic wilderness we refer to as civilization has already devoured a great portion of the environment, replacing the laws of nature with the laws of man.