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Bill Fulkerson

This is what California needs to do about its fires | MIT Technology Review - 0 views

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    time to reverse a century of fire-management policy. That will require sweeping regulatory reforms, and tons of money.
Steve Bosserman

Invasion of the hedge fund almonds - 0 views

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    It takes a gallon of water to produce one almond. And that's not the most insane fact about the mad dash to plant the thirsty trees in the middle of a catastrophic drought.
Bill Fulkerson

Singing in a silent spring: Birds respond to a half-century soundscape reversion during... - 0 views

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    Actions taken to mitigate the threats of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to human life and welfare have inadvertently resulted in a natural experiment offering unanticipated insight into how human behavior affects animal behavior (1). Worldwide, elective quarantine and stay-at-home orders have reduced use of public spaces and transportation networks, especially in cities. Anecdotal media accounts suggest that restricted movement has elicited rarely observed behaviors in commensal and peri-urban animals (2). Though not all of the reports have proven to be accurate (3), widely publicized observations like coyotes crossing the normally heavily trafficked Golden Gate Bridge in the San Francisco (SF) Bay Area (California, USA) have provoked widespread fascination with the prospect that animals rapidly move back into landscapes recently vacated by humans.
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