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Aerial images of Bradford Research Center in Columbia.
Bradford Research Center has the largest concentration of research plots in crops, soils and related disciplines in Missouri. As a laboratory, faculty and students investigate wastewater management; entomology, pest and weed control; alternative crops; organic transition techniques and the impact of hailstorms. Bradford engages the community through workshops, field days, native plants and pumpkin giveaways, corn mazes and the annual Tomato Festival, held around the first of September. The research center also partners with University organizations, including Campus Dining Services, to improve MU’s sustainability. | © 2013 - Curators of the University of Missouri
On June 8 at 5:00 p.m., 409 yearling domestic goats were off-loaded on the Bozeman Fish Technology Center (BFTC) campus. Thus begins a 3-4 year project of monitored targeted grazing and applications of friendly insects to control noxious weeds and manage brush overgrowth on property of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service BFTC.
Purposes of this effort are to reduce the presence of undesirable vegetation, promote restoration of native plants, and assist with fire protection by reducing burnable plant biomass.
The cooperative venture involves the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Montana Outdoor Science School, Friends of the Bozeman Fish Technology Center, Gallatin Valley Land Trust, U.S. Forest Service, and Prescriptive Livestock Services. Integrated Weed Control is supplying the insects as an in-kind contribution to the project, and has applied insects on the BFTC’s "hot spots" in previous years.
Photo credit: Eli Cureton / USFWS
Sodium chloride at rates up to 150 g/square meter can usually be applied to seashore paspalum at Thailand without causing phytotoxicity. Application of sodium chloride can be used for weed control.
Aerial images of Bradford Research Center in Columbia.
Bradford Research Center has the largest concentration of research plots in crops, soils and related disciplines in Missouri. As a laboratory, faculty and students investigate wastewater management; entomology, pest and weed control; alternative crops; organic transition techniques and the impact of hailstorms. Bradford engages the community through workshops, field days, native plants and pumpkin giveaways, corn mazes and the annual Tomato Festival, held around the first of September. The research center also partners with University organizations, including Campus Dining Services, to improve MU’s sustainability. | © 2013 - Curators of the University of Missouri
SF Bay RR, 21 June 2018
The San Francisco Bay RR operates on the southeast side of San Francisco on and near the port. It uses two Alco S2 switchers that were built for the State Belt RR, later the San Francisco Belt RR, the line that served the piers of the Port of San Francisco for many years.
As shipping companies moved to containerization, the Port of Oakland became the big northern California container terminal and most of the piers of the Port of San Francisco were abandoned or converted to uses other than marine freight, so the SF Belt RR found itself out of a job. After 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the Embarcadero Freeway, which had run over the SF Belt for most of its length, the freeway was removed, opening up San Francisco's waterfront and much of the Belt's trackage as converted for use by the Muni F line, which runs historic streetcars to Fishermen's Wharf, and the Muni lines that now server the Caltrain station.
Meanwhile, Pier 96, near Hunter's Point was converted to a container facility and the railroad's operations survived there. The line was renamed the San Francisco Bay RR and continued to use Alco S2s 23 and 25 to switch its customers.
Today, the railroad's main business is transloading dirty dirt from constructions and clean up sites in the Bay Area from trucks to railcars. It is owned by Waste Solutions Group, which also owns a fleet of hopper cars. The SF Bay and UP interchange on an as needed basis, with UP's South City job running into the SF Bay's yard on Cargo Way with empties and taking away loads.
A couple of railfans, Ryan and Ben, work for the railroad and Ryan invited me to come by for a visit. I had stopped by one afternoon a couple of years ago, and lucked out to see an S2 running around the yard a bit, but the railrroad usually goes on duty betweeen 4 and 5 am, switches cars for a few hours and then is done for the day. So, a visit to the SF Bay from Sacramento entailed a night in a hotel. It took a few tries for me to get time off from work scheduled on the same day the railroad was running.
Eventually, it all lined up and my alarm went off at 0315 at a hotel in Daly City, just south of the SF city limit.
I was at the yard by 4 and met Ben, who went out and started Alco 23. 25 is out of service with a bad bearing on the radiator fan drive shaft. Ryan explained that the SF Belt had done a jerry rigged repair of the shaft at some point and it was never documented, so nobody knew about the bearing until it failed. As a new low emission unit will be delivered in the next few months, there is no reason to repair 25. 25 will be put on display somewhere, perhaps near the Ferry Building, while 23 will be held as backup for the new unit.
But for now, an S2 built in 1944 is doing the job it was built to do. If you think about it, that is as though the Virginia and Truckee had still been using the Reno and Genoa during WW2.
Shorty after I got there, Ben went out and fired up the 23. It has a block heater, so it started easily with a puff of white smoke. He did an inspection of the engine, including checking the journal boxes. We then went back into the office and waited for Ryan, brakeman Johnny, and engineer Nick to arrive. The crew plotted their switching moves for the day. Ryan, who is yard operations manager, suggested that I get some blue hour photos from the ground as empties were switched and then we rode 23 while they switched loads.
Each car has dirt from one particular construction site and the dirt from sites cannot be mixed as different sites will have different contamination. UP ships it to a dump site in Nevada, where it is processed. Ryan explained that sometimes they can use dividers in a car to separate dirt from different projects if there is not that much.
Right now transshipping dirty dirt is the SF Bay's only business, but there a couple of other industries are interested in bringing new business. The line that crosses the Illinois St. bridge has been out of service for a couple of years as there currently no customers north of Islais Creek.
We rode the S2 for a while after the day brightened, then got down and Ryan drove me around in a company car to get some more angles as they switched. He then had other work to do and I shot the end of 23's work day as well as 25, some spare Alco parts and another project of Waste Solutions, goats that are leased out for natural weed control. Ryan said that since Waste Solutions got more cars, they can't use their goats as much for weed control in the yard as most of the yard tracks are occupied.
The crew called it a day for switching about 0800 and then would be doing other work in the yard for the rest of their work day.
All of these photos were taken with permission after signing a release and while wearing required PPE.
I want to than Ryan, Ben, Johnny and Nick for their hospitality. I had a great time.
SF Bay RR, 21 June 2018
The San Francisco Bay RR operates on the southeast side of San Francisco on and near the port. It uses two Alco S2 switchers that were built for the State Belt RR, later the San Francisco Belt RR, the line that served the piers of the Port of San Francisco for many years.
As shipping companies moved to containerization, the Port of Oakland became the big northern California container terminal and most of the piers of the Port of San Francisco were abandoned or converted to uses other than marine freight, so the SF Belt RR found itself out of a job. After 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the Embarcadero Freeway, which had run over the SF Belt for most of its length, the freeway was removed, opening up San Francisco's waterfront and much of the Belt's trackage as converted for use by the Muni F line, which runs historic streetcars to Fishermen's Wharf, and the Muni lines that now server the Caltrain station.
Meanwhile, Pier 96, near Hunter's Point was converted to a container facility and the railroad's operations survived there. The line was renamed the San Francisco Bay RR and continued to use Alco S2s 23 and 25 to switch its customers.
Today, the railroad's main business is transloading dirty dirt from constructions and clean up sites in the Bay Area from trucks to railcars. It is owned by Waste Solutions Group, which also owns a fleet of hopper cars. The SF Bay and UP interchange on an as needed basis, with UP's South City job running into the SF Bay's yard on Cargo Way with empties and taking away loads.
A couple of railfans, Ryan and Ben, work for the railroad and Ryan invited me to come by for a visit. I had stopped by one afternoon a couple of years ago, and lucked out to see an S2 running around the yard a bit, but the railrroad usually goes on duty betweeen 4 and 5 am, switches cars for a few hours and then is done for the day. So, a visit to the SF Bay from Sacramento entailed a night in a hotel. It took a few tries for me to get time off from work scheduled on the same day the railroad was running.
Eventually, it all lined up and my alarm went off at 0315 at a hotel in Daly City, just south of the SF city limit.
I was at the yard by 4 and met Ben, who went out and started Alco 23. 25 is out of service with a bad bearing on the radiator fan drive shaft. Ryan explained that the SF Belt had done a jerry rigged repair of the shaft at some point and it was never documented, so nobody knew about the bearing until it failed. As a new low emission unit will be delivered in the next few months, there is no reason to repair 25. 25 will be put on display somewhere, perhaps near the Ferry Building, while 23 will be held as backup for the new unit.
But for now, an S2 built in 1944 is doing the job it was built to do. If you think about it, that is as though the Virginia and Truckee had still been using the Reno and Genoa during WW2.
Shorty after I got there, Ben went out and fired up the 23. It has a block heater, so it started easily with a puff of white smoke. He did an inspection of the engine, including checking the journal boxes. We then went back into the office and waited for Ryan, brakeman Johnny, and engineer Nick to arrive. The crew plotted their switching moves for the day. Ryan, who is yard operations manager, suggested that I get some blue hour photos from the ground as empties were switched and then we rode 23 while they switched loads.
Each car has dirt from one particular construction site and the dirt from sites cannot be mixed as different sites will have different contamination. UP ships it to a dump site in Nevada, where it is processed. Ryan explained that sometimes they can use dividers in a car to separate dirt from different projects if there is not that much.
Right now transshipping dirty dirt is the SF Bay's only business, but there a couple of other industries are interested in bringing new business. The line that crosses the Illinois St. bridge has been out of service for a couple of years as there currently no customers north of Islais Creek.
We rode the S2 for a while after the day brightened, then got down and Ryan drove me around in a company car to get some more angles as they switched. He then had other work to do and I shot the end of 23's work day as well as 25, some spare Alco parts and another project of Waste Solutions, goats that are leased out for natural weed control. Ryan said that since Waste Solutions got more cars, they can't use their goats as much for weed control in the yard as most of the yard tracks are occupied.
The crew called it a day for switching about 0800 and then would be doing other work in the yard for the rest of their work day.
All of these photos were taken with permission after signing a release and while wearing required PPE.
I want to than Ryan, Ben, Johnny and Nick for their hospitality. I had a great time.
Aerial images of Bradford Research Center in Columbia.
Bradford Research Center has the largest concentration of research plots in crops, soils and related disciplines in Missouri. As a laboratory, faculty and students investigate wastewater management; entomology, pest and weed control; alternative crops; organic transition techniques and the impact of hailstorms. Bradford engages the community through workshops, field days, native plants and pumpkin giveaways, corn mazes and the annual Tomato Festival, held around the first of September. The research center also partners with University organizations, including Campus Dining Services, to improve MU’s sustainability. | © 2013 - Curators of the University of Missouri
On June 8 at 5:00 p.m., 409 yearling domestic goats were off-loaded on the Bozeman Fish Technology Center (BFTC) campus. Thus begins a 3-4 year project of monitored targeted grazing and applications of friendly insects to control noxious weeds and manage brush overgrowth on property of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service BFTC.
Purposes of this effort are to reduce the presence of undesirable vegetation, promote restoration of native plants, and assist with fire protection by reducing burnable plant biomass.
The cooperative venture involves the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Montana Outdoor Science School, Friends of the Bozeman Fish Technology Center, Gallatin Valley Land Trust, U.S. Forest Service, and Prescriptive Livestock Services. Integrated Weed Control is supplying the insects as an in-kind contribution to the project, and has applied insects on the BFTC’s "hot spots" in previous years.
Photo credit: Eli Cureton / USFWS
El productor de café Carlos Orlando Santos Gómez, de 58 años, muestra un cultivo de canavalia asociada a una nueva plantación de café resistente a la roya que tiene en su finca en la Comunidad San Jerónimo, Jesús de Otoro, Intibucá, Honduras. La canavalia tiene fijan el nitrógeno en el suelo con sus raíces, sirve como control de malas hierbas y aporta bio masa cuando es cortada y dejada como mulch para conservar la humedad en el suelo. Estas prácticas agrícolas son promovidas por el programa Cosecha Azul de Catholic Relief Services que trabaja con pequeños productores de café para promover prácticas de conservación del suelo y del agua productiva en ellas para alcanzar mayor productividad y resguardar el medio ambiente.
Coffee producer Carlos Orlando Santos Gómez, 58, shows canavalia cover crop associated with a new coffee plantation of a leaf rust resistant variety that he has in his farm at San Jeronimo Community, Jesús de Otoro municipality, Intibucá, Honduras. Canavalia fixes nitrogen its roots on the ground, it serves as weed control and provides biomass when its cut down and serves as moisture retainer in the soil when used as organic mulch. This practices are promoted by Catholic Relief Services Blue Harvest program that works with small holder coffee producers to promote conservation of soils and productive water in them to boost the productivity of the coffee lands and protect the environment.
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Dear AVAAZ
As requested we can send you photos to put up with our message for the
Obama Wall. Here is
my photo.
Thank you so much, Diana Buckland, Australia
MCS-GLOBAL WEBSITE: www.mcs-global.org
Awareness, Education, Information & Recognition of Chemical Injury,
Chemical Hypersensitivity, Chemical Sensitivity/MCS & other chemically
induced illnesses & diseases affecting civilians & military personnel
Global Chemical Pollution & the disastrous effects on human health &
environmental health
Cancer and the chemical connection
Kallangur, Queensland, Australia
phone 61+7+32853573
Email: dbucklan@bigpond.net.au or diana@mcs-global.org
Dear President Obama:
As citizens across the world, we congratulate you on your election, and
celebrate your campaign commitments to sign a strong new global treaty
on climate change, close Guantanamo prison and end torture, withdraw
carefully from Iraq, and double aid to fight poverty. No one country or
leader can meet the world's most pressing challenges alone, but working
together as one world in a spirit of dialogue and cooperation, yes we
can bring real and lasting change.
Our world is chemically polluted - pesticides, insecticides, herbicides
& fungicides are most widely and massive used poisons - aspartame and
other artificial chemical sweeteners also pollute our foods and drinks,
fluoride poisons our water supplies et al vaccine injury/death is
being ignored also - we have a serious problem with global chemical
pollution and we all have to do something about
it.....
Diana Buckland
Website: www.mcs-global.org
Email: diana (at) mcs-global.org
Please support the campaign by spreading the word and also take
positive action by demanding your authorities, leaders and others
seriously reduce Society's reliance on so many chemicals and seek
chemical-free alternatives wherever and whenever possible and to
help us gain full and formal recognition of MCS.
My only son, James Buckland, was injured by pesticides when he was very
young . . .
I, too, was affected by the pesticides (neurotoxic poisons) in that I
suffered years of major depressive illness from the exposures to those
dangerous chemicals . . .
You can read my story here.
Our dedicated Coordinators and many other Groups globally, are doing
everything we can to gain formal Global Recognition of MCS and also to
bring Awareness, Information & Education to you, the global population,
as to the disastrous effects on human health & environmental health from
global chemical pollution. This, together with Global Warming is very
worrying indeed - we, the occupants and caretakers of Mother Earth, have
polluted ourselves and everything within our precious planet.
It is imperative that we all, as vitally important inhabitants of our
world, do whatever we can to bring about our own education & awareness
programs. We need to promote chemical free living as much as possible.
Support, encourage and promote organic food production. Choose and
promote chemical free means of pest and weed control.
Please approach your Councils/local authorities, Leaders, Members of
Parliament, neighbours, work colleagues, teachers, friends, family,
media et al to stop using chemical pesticides, insecticides, weedicides
(herbicides), fungicides and implement chemical free means of pest and
weed control and give them the important information from this website
so everyone can start making changes.
Unless we drastically reduce global chemical use, our future is very
bleak indeed! Don't wait until it is too late - start making changes
now. We also need to look at changing what we buy - stop buying all the
usual personal care products (which are chemical cocktails) which are
polluting globally and harming health and choose chemical free /organic
personal care products.
Remember, the usual personal care products / perfumed products are a
cocktail of toxic chemicals !!!
For cleaning products, same applies.
If you care about yours or your loved-ones health - PLEASE STOP USING
TOXIC CHEMICALS!
Choose chemical free, organic and/or the safe cleaning mitts which are
available widely.
All purpose steam cleaners are marvelous, you can clean and disinfect
everything in your home as well as kill bed bugs, dust mites, fleas,
flea eggs etc., and also kill weeds etc., all without the use of any
dangerous chemicals whatsoever (of course you have to exercise care and
caution when using steam cleaners; especially near children).
See our Safer Alternatives section.
We all need to care about human health and environmental health, our own
health, the health of our neighbours, family and friends; and the health
of our precious children and all children. And yes, we all need to care
about everyone else also! Act now and reduce this heavy reliance on so
many chemicals in our lives before it is way too late.
We have a global society whose health systems are bursting at the seams
- unable to cope with the huge amounts of sickness and disease globally
and with huge waiting lists.
There are so many illnesses and diseases from chemical exposures and I
would ask each and every one of you to study this website carefully. See
our MCS-Global Information Package and remember to look at the Cancer
links - data that could help you become Aware and Informed about cancers
and the chemical connection.
Remember, every shop, supermarket et al are packed with a huge range of
toxic chemicals; they are only interested in sales. It is up to us to
protect our own health and the health of others by refusing to buy and
choosing chemical-free alternatives. When the demands for these
alternatives is high enough it sends a strong message to the
manufacturers and suppliers; that the people are waking up and want
chemical free alternatives.
Be assured, our health depends on it.
We must all implement chemical-free alternatives as much as possible to
reduce our exposures to such a broad range of chemicals. If we apply the
Precautionary Principle - we have a much greater chance for a healthy
and happy global population.
Every person who takes positive action will make a difference. Please do
this for all life on Planet Earth.
Be part of the SOLUTION and NOT part of the PROBLEM!
This is only a small section of data on these dangerous toxic,
neurotoxic & carcinogenic poisons that are so
widely and extensively used - we have to change this mindset and go for
chemical free alternatives as
much as possible. Home owners and councils spray this around everywhere.
Thanks & kind regards, Di Buckland, 4 Mia St. Kallangur, Qld. 4503
www.chem-tox.com/pesticides/index.htm
www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/2005/pesticide2005.htm
www.mcs-global.org/Documents/PDFs/Pesticides/THE%20WORLD%...
www.mcs-global.org/Pesticides.htm
Diana Buckland
MCS-GLOBAL WEBSITE: www.mcs-global.org
Awareness, Education, Information & Recognition of Chemical Injury,
Chemical Hypersensitivity, Chemical Sensitivity/MCS & other chemically
induced illnesses & diseases affecting civilians & military personnel
Global Chemical Pollution & the disastrous effects on human health &
environmental health
Cancer and the chemical connection
Kallangur, Queensland, Australia
phone 61+7+32853573
Email: dbucklan@bigpond.net.au or diana@mcs-global.org
The "second man" climbs down to work the gates at Kilmakee as 101 "Eagle" heads for Antrim with the weed control train.
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On June 8 at 5:00 p.m., 409 yearling domestic goats were off-loaded on the Bozeman Fish Technology Center (BFTC) campus. Thus begins a 3-4 year project of monitored targeted grazing and applications of friendly insects to control noxious weeds and manage brush overgrowth on property of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service BFTC.
Purposes of this effort are to reduce the presence of undesirable vegetation, promote restoration of native plants, and assist with fire protection by reducing burnable plant biomass.
The cooperative venture involves the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Montana Outdoor Science School, Friends of the Bozeman Fish Technology Center, Gallatin Valley Land Trust, U.S. Forest Service, and Prescriptive Livestock Services. Integrated Weed Control is supplying the insects as an in-kind contribution to the project, and has applied insects on the BFTC’s "hot spots" in previous years.
Photo credit: Eli Cureton / USFWS
SF Bay RR, 21 June 2018
The San Francisco Bay RR operates on the southeast side of San Francisco on and near the port. It uses two Alco S2 switchers that were built for the State Belt RR, later the San Francisco Belt RR, the line that served the piers of the Port of San Francisco for many years.
As shipping companies moved to containerization, the Port of Oakland became the big northern California container terminal and most of the piers of the Port of San Francisco were abandoned or converted to uses other than marine freight, so the SF Belt RR found itself out of a job. After 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the Embarcadero Freeway, which had run over the SF Belt for most of its length, the freeway was removed, opening up San Francisco's waterfront and much of the Belt's trackage as converted for use by the Muni F line, which runs historic streetcars to Fishermen's Wharf, and the Muni lines that now server the Caltrain station.
Meanwhile, Pier 96, near Hunter's Point was converted to a container facility and the railroad's operations survived there. The line was renamed the San Francisco Bay RR and continued to use Alco S2s 23 and 25 to switch its customers.
Today, the railroad's main business is transloading dirty dirt from constructions and clean up sites in the Bay Area from trucks to railcars. It is owned by Waste Solutions Group, which also owns a fleet of hopper cars. The SF Bay and UP interchange on an as needed basis, with UP's South City job running into the SF Bay's yard on Cargo Way with empties and taking away loads.
A couple of railfans, Ryan and Ben, work for the railroad and Ryan invited me to come by for a visit. I had stopped by one afternoon a couple of years ago, and lucked out to see an S2 running around the yard a bit, but the railrroad usually goes on duty betweeen 4 and 5 am, switches cars for a few hours and then is done for the day. So, a visit to the SF Bay from Sacramento entailed a night in a hotel. It took a few tries for me to get time off from work scheduled on the same day the railroad was running.
Eventually, it all lined up and my alarm went off at 0315 at a hotel in Daly City, just south of the SF city limit.
I was at the yard by 4 and met Ben, who went out and started Alco 23. 25 is out of service with a bad bearing on the radiator fan drive shaft. Ryan explained that the SF Belt had done a jerry rigged repair of the shaft at some point and it was never documented, so nobody knew about the bearing until it failed. As a new low emission unit will be delivered in the next few months, there is no reason to repair 25. 25 will be put on display somewhere, perhaps near the Ferry Building, while 23 will be held as backup for the new unit.
But for now, an S2 built in 1944 is doing the job it was built to do. If you think about it, that is as though the Virginia and Truckee had still been using the Reno and Genoa during WW2.
Shorty after I got there, Ben went out and fired up the 23. It has a block heater, so it started easily with a puff of white smoke. He did an inspection of the engine, including checking the journal boxes. We then went back into the office and waited for Ryan, brakeman Johnny, and engineer Nick to arrive. The crew plotted their switching moves for the day. Ryan, who is yard operations manager, suggested that I get some blue hour photos from the ground as empties were switched and then we rode 23 while they switched loads.
Each car has dirt from one particular construction site and the dirt from sites cannot be mixed as different sites will have different contamination. UP ships it to a dump site in Nevada, where it is processed. Ryan explained that sometimes they can use dividers in a car to separate dirt from different projects if there is not that much.
Right now transshipping dirty dirt is the SF Bay's only business, but there a couple of other industries are interested in bringing new business. The line that crosses the Illinois St. bridge has been out of service for a couple of years as there currently no customers north of Islais Creek.
We rode the S2 for a while after the day brightened, then got down and Ryan drove me around in a company car to get some more angles as they switched. He then had other work to do and I shot the end of 23's work day as well as 25, some spare Alco parts and another project of Waste Solutions, goats that are leased out for natural weed control. Ryan said that since Waste Solutions got more cars, they can't use their goats as much for weed control in the yard as most of the yard tracks are occupied.
The crew called it a day for switching about 0800 and then would be doing other work in the yard for the rest of their work day.
All of these photos were taken with permission after signing a release and while wearing required PPE.
I want to than Ryan, Ben, Johnny and Nick for their hospitality. I had a great time.
Aerial images of Bradford Research Center in Columbia.
Bradford Research Center has the largest concentration of research plots in crops, soils and related disciplines in Missouri. As a laboratory, faculty and students investigate wastewater management; entomology, pest and weed control; alternative crops; organic transition techniques and the impact of hailstorms. Bradford engages the community through workshops, field days, native plants and pumpkin giveaways, corn mazes and the annual Tomato Festival, held around the first of September. The research center also partners with University organizations, including Campus Dining Services, to improve MU’s sustainability. | © 2013 - Curators of the University of Missouri
Composição destinada à aplicação de herbicidas, para controle da vegetação ao longo da linha. Ela é liderada pela locomotiva diesel-elétrica nº 7784 da Fepasa - Ferrovia Paulista S.A., LEW modelo DE-I-PA, classe B-B, fabricada na República Federal da Alemanha e importada no ano de 1967. Foto tirada em janeiro de 2001, no pátio da Estação de Itirapina, SP., por Fernando Picarelli Martins.
Lawn Care Tips for Weed Control
Weeds are a common occurrence in many San Antonio gardens, which is a nightmare for anyone who takes pride in their yard. Unfortunately, weeds love to make their home in people’s lawns, so no matter how much work you put into your garden they are almost inevitable. They can grow and spread very fast; you can quickly go from having a few weeds to being overwhelmed by them.
Luckily, there are several weed control methods to prevent weeds from inhabiting your lawn, some you can do yourself while others are best left to the professionals. If you are experiencing particularly bad weed control issues, then call in your local San Antonio lawn care service to help with your yard’s weed problem. We can help you to get rid of the problem quickly and efficiently.
Types of weeds
Not all weeds can be gotten rid of in the same way. Find out what type of weeds you have and what method is best used to get rid of these specific kinds.
Common weeds include:
● Dandelion
● Crabgrass
● Ground ivy
● White clover
● Spotted spurge
● Quackgrass
● Yellow woodsorrel
● Yellow nutsedge
Lawn weeds are split up into different categories; grass-like plants, broadleaf plants, and unwanted grasses. These weeds are then either considered perennials or annuals. Annuals life cycle is only one season, and they then reproduce from seeds. Perennials can live for several years, spread by seed and also underground.
If you aren’t sure how to determine which weeds have attacked your yard, then call in a professional. Professional lawn care services will be able to quickly identify the weeds and either give you advice for getting rid of them or take action and do it for you.
Crowd out the weeds
Weeds will take root wherever they can, then settle to catch some rays of sunshine. If your grass if healthy, then the weeds will find it a lot more challenging to grow. To prevent weeds, make sure you care for your lawn:
Fertilize
You need to find the right balance when fertilizing your lawn. Too much fertilizer can feed the weeds and help them grow. Too little fertilizer could make your lawn sparse and unhealthy, meaning paradise for the weeds. Make sure to read the information on the fertilizer you are using; there should be advice and guidelines to how much fertilizer is needed.
Water your lawn
If you water your lawn frequently and lightly, it can cause shallow roots, which results in unhealthy grass and also the perfect place for certain types of weeds to thrive. Water your lawn occasionally and deeply to prevent shallow roots and weeds.
Mow your lawn
When you mow your lawn too low it can cause the turf to weaken, and it can also let more sunlight reach the soil; this can help different lawn weeds to grow. Mow your lawn higher to prevent this; the highest level for most lawn types is between 2 – 4 inches.
Look out for signs
Weeds can sometimes be an indication that there is a problem in your soil. For example, if the surface of soil remains damp, ground ivy will often be found as this is where it grows best. Try to let more light reach the earth by cutting back trees and other plants that cause a lot of shadow on your lawn.
Hand weeding
If you have a small lawn, hand weeding is still a very effective way of getting rid of weeds. Make sure to pull them while they are young, as this is the best way to prevent the weeds from spreading. For perennial weeds it is essential that you catch them early, if they have matured, they can be a lot harder to remove due to their deep roots. If there are any root pieces remaining in the ground, a new weed will grow, so make sure to remove all of it.
Use tools, for example, a lawn trowel or dandelion digger, to help uproot the weeds. Hand weeding is a lot easier to do when the soil is damp. Use compost to fill in the hole where the weed has been pulled then put down some lawn seed in that area.
Herbicides
If your lawn is overrun with weeds and you have tried everything to get rid of them, using herbicides might be your only answer. Herbicides should only be used as a last resort. Make sure to use them correctly as they can be dangerous to other plants in your garden and also kill the lawn.
You could always call in a professional San Antonio pest control service to do this job as they will have a lot more experience with weeds and know how to use the herbicides safely and correctly.
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On June 8 at 5:00 p.m., 409 yearling domestic goats were off-loaded on the Bozeman Fish Technology Center (BFTC) campus. Thus begins a 3-4 year project of monitored targeted grazing and applications of friendly insects to control noxious weeds and manage brush overgrowth on property of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service BFTC.
Purposes of this effort are to reduce the presence of undesirable vegetation, promote restoration of native plants, and assist with fire protection by reducing burnable plant biomass.
The cooperative venture involves the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Montana Outdoor Science School, Friends of the Bozeman Fish Technology Center, Gallatin Valley Land Trust, U.S. Forest Service, and Prescriptive Livestock Services. Integrated Weed Control is supplying the insects as an in-kind contribution to the project, and has applied insects on the BFTC’s "hot spots" in previous years.
Photo credit: Eli Cureton / USFWS
No sooner had the cement cleared than 101 "Eagle" approached the site of Seagoe cabin with her southbound weed control train - which looks to be spraying!
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Q: What’s your role in addressing this invasive species issue?
A: I work for both Mid-Columbia River and Central Washington National Wildlife Refuge Complexes to help plan, coordinate, and implement invasive species control projects across all of our refuges. We have over 230,000 acres spread across eastern Oregon and Washington and most of our staff, myself included, are hyper-centralized at the headquarters unit in Burbank, WA. I work with staff to help figure out where the infestations are, what we should be focusing on, and how we're going to get it done. As part of my role, I manage our mobile invasive species strike team, which is a crew of four full-time technicians (and hopefully interns next year) who travel to all eight refuges to implement our highest priority projects and support staff on location when they need help with invasives projects.
Q: Who are some key partners?
A: My most important partners right now are actually our internal partners from our Regional Office in Portland, OR. The Branch of Refuge Biology and the Inventory and Monitoring program have been real lifelines for me as I try to build the strike team program here and wrap my brain around the huge challenges of these massive and incredibly weedy complexes. Without their technical, financial, and moral support, I could not do this job. I'm also in regular contact with the various county noxious weed control board personnel where we work to exchange weed sightings and share ideas. I also have a handful of biological control projects going with the folks at USDA-APHIS in Spokane, WA. And I would be remiss if I didn't mention the US Air Force, which is a partnership of a sort. Our team travels to Fairchild and Mountain Home Air Force Bases several times per year to control noxious weeds and the funding we receive for those efforts is how our two refuge complexes can staff a full-time mobile strike team.
Q: How do you stay positive given such a daunting challenge?
A: Now that's a tough question! Honestly, nothing would have prepared me for the scale and severity of the weed issues here in the Columbia Basin. To keep this work up day-to-day, I've found that you really have to focus on the small victories. That can be as minor as a day where operations went as planned without an equipment breakdown. Or it is completing a project where the infestation we targeted was actually the size we planned for (not substantially larger, as is often the case). I quickly learned that I couldn't stake my personal outlook on treatment success at these Refuges because even when we are using the best treatment methods and achieving positive results, when you think about this landscape as a whole, plus the future impacts of climate change to our refuges, it's pretty darn grim.
Q: What’s one success (so far, if warranted) with this effort that makes you particularly optimistic?
A: One success would be with Phragmites removal on the McNary NWR sloughs. This is a project many years in the making, with other staff using heavy equipment to physically re-contour the wetland edges to reduce available habitat for Phragmites. There have also been several years of large-scale spraying efforts, as well as prescribed fire. These measures have been successful and in the last two years, the strike team is able to get into these areas and spot spray the remaining Phragmites from UTVs. Each year it takes a little less time to get it all. Soon we anticipate that these infestations will be removed and we will then transition to follow-up checks and spot treatments, as needed. This is a great example of a long-term, integrated management approach and the role of the strike team on our complexes.
SF Bay RR, 21 June 2018
The San Francisco Bay RR operates on the southeast side of San Francisco on and near the port. It uses two Alco S2 switchers that were built for the State Belt RR, later the San Francisco Belt RR, the line that served the piers of the Port of San Francisco for many years.
As shipping companies moved to containerization, the Port of Oakland became the big northern California container terminal and most of the piers of the Port of San Francisco were abandoned or converted to uses other than marine freight, so the SF Belt RR found itself out of a job. After 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the Embarcadero Freeway, which had run over the SF Belt for most of its length, the freeway was removed, opening up San Francisco's waterfront and much of the Belt's trackage as converted for use by the Muni F line, which runs historic streetcars to Fishermen's Wharf, and the Muni lines that now server the Caltrain station.
Meanwhile, Pier 96, near Hunter's Point was converted to a container facility and the railroad's operations survived there. The line was renamed the San Francisco Bay RR and continued to use Alco S2s 23 and 25 to switch its customers.
Today, the railroad's main business is transloading dirty dirt from constructions and clean up sites in the Bay Area from trucks to railcars. It is owned by Waste Solutions Group, which also owns a fleet of hopper cars. The SF Bay and UP interchange on an as needed basis, with UP's South City job running into the SF Bay's yard on Cargo Way with empties and taking away loads.
A couple of railfans, Ryan and Ben, work for the railroad and Ryan invited me to come by for a visit. I had stopped by one afternoon a couple of years ago, and lucked out to see an S2 running around the yard a bit, but the railrroad usually goes on duty betweeen 4 and 5 am, switches cars for a few hours and then is done for the day. So, a visit to the SF Bay from Sacramento entailed a night in a hotel. It took a few tries for me to get time off from work scheduled on the same day the railroad was running.
Eventually, it all lined up and my alarm went off at 0315 at a hotel in Daly City, just south of the SF city limit.
I was at the yard by 4 and met Ben, who went out and started Alco 23. 25 is out of service with a bad bearing on the radiator fan drive shaft. Ryan explained that the SF Belt had done a jerry rigged repair of the shaft at some point and it was never documented, so nobody knew about the bearing until it failed. As a new low emission unit will be delivered in the next few months, there is no reason to repair 25. 25 will be put on display somewhere, perhaps near the Ferry Building, while 23 will be held as backup for the new unit.
But for now, an S2 built in 1944 is doing the job it was built to do. If you think about it, that is as though the Virginia and Truckee had still been using the Reno and Genoa during WW2.
Shorty after I got there, Ben went out and fired up the 23. It has a block heater, so it started easily with a puff of white smoke. He did an inspection of the engine, including checking the journal boxes. We then went back into the office and waited for Ryan, brakeman Johnny, and engineer Nick to arrive. The crew plotted their switching moves for the day. Ryan, who is yard operations manager, suggested that I get some blue hour photos from the ground as empties were switched and then we rode 23 while they switched loads.
Each car has dirt from one particular construction site and the dirt from sites cannot be mixed as different sites will have different contamination. UP ships it to a dump site in Nevada, where it is processed. Ryan explained that sometimes they can use dividers in a car to separate dirt from different projects if there is not that much.
Right now transshipping dirty dirt is the SF Bay's only business, but there a couple of other industries are interested in bringing new business. The line that crosses the Illinois St. bridge has been out of service for a couple of years as there currently no customers north of Islais Creek.
We rode the S2 for a while after the day brightened, then got down and Ryan drove me around in a company car to get some more angles as they switched. He then had other work to do and I shot the end of 23's work day as well as 25, some spare Alco parts and another project of Waste Solutions, goats that are leased out for natural weed control. Ryan said that since Waste Solutions got more cars, they can't use their goats as much for weed control in the yard as most of the yard tracks are occupied.
The crew called it a day for switching about 0800 and then would be doing other work in the yard for the rest of their work day.
All of these photos were taken with permission after signing a release and while wearing required PPE.
I want to than Ryan, Ben, Johnny and Nick for their hospitality. I had a great time.
Aerial images of Bradford Research Center in Columbia.
Bradford Research Center has the largest concentration of research plots in crops, soils and related disciplines in Missouri. As a laboratory, faculty and students investigate wastewater management; entomology, pest and weed control; alternative crops; organic transition techniques and the impact of hailstorms. Bradford engages the community through workshops, field days, native plants and pumpkin giveaways, corn mazes and the annual Tomato Festival, held around the first of September. The research center also partners with University organizations, including Campus Dining Services, to improve MU’s sustainability. | © 2013 - Curators of the University of Missouri
On June 8 at 5:00 p.m., 409 yearling domestic goats were off-loaded on the Bozeman Fish Technology Center (BFTC) campus. Thus begins a 3-4 year project of monitored targeted grazing and applications of friendly insects to control noxious weeds and manage brush overgrowth on property of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service BFTC.
Purposes of this effort are to reduce the presence of undesirable vegetation, promote restoration of native plants, and assist with fire protection by reducing burnable plant biomass.
The cooperative venture involves the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Montana Outdoor Science School, Friends of the Bozeman Fish Technology Center, Gallatin Valley Land Trust, U.S. Forest Service, and Prescriptive Livestock Services. Integrated Weed Control is supplying the insects as an in-kind contribution to the project, and has applied insects on the BFTC’s "hot spots" in previous years.
Photo credit: Eli Cureton / USFWS
Class 31/1 No.31322 at Warsop (High Marnham branch) on 14th May 1984 with a Chipmans weed control train.New as D5857 on 6th September 1962 at 41A Sheffield Darnall and was withdrawn on 28th July 1989 and scrapped at V.Berry,Leicester in January 1990.
SF Bay RR, 21 June 2018
The San Francisco Bay RR operates on the southeast side of San Francisco on and near the port. It uses two Alco S2 switchers that were built for the State Belt RR, later the San Francisco Belt RR, the line that served the piers of the Port of San Francisco for many years.
As shipping companies moved to containerization, the Port of Oakland became the big northern California container terminal and most of the piers of the Port of San Francisco were abandoned or converted to uses other than marine freight, so the SF Belt RR found itself out of a job. After 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the Embarcadero Freeway, which had run over the SF Belt for most of its length, the freeway was removed, opening up San Francisco's waterfront and much of the Belt's trackage as converted for use by the Muni F line, which runs historic streetcars to Fishermen's Wharf, and the Muni lines that now server the Caltrain station.
Meanwhile, Pier 96, near Hunter's Point was converted to a container facility and the railroad's operations survived there. The line was renamed the San Francisco Bay RR and continued to use Alco S2s 23 and 25 to switch its customers.
Today, the railroad's main business is transloading dirty dirt from constructions and clean up sites in the Bay Area from trucks to railcars. It is owned by Waste Solutions Group, which also owns a fleet of hopper cars. The SF Bay and UP interchange on an as needed basis, with UP's South City job running into the SF Bay's yard on Cargo Way with empties and taking away loads.
A couple of railfans, Ryan and Ben, work for the railroad and Ryan invited me to come by for a visit. I had stopped by one afternoon a couple of years ago, and lucked out to see an S2 running around the yard a bit, but the railrroad usually goes on duty betweeen 4 and 5 am, switches cars for a few hours and then is done for the day. So, a visit to the SF Bay from Sacramento entailed a night in a hotel. It took a few tries for me to get time off from work scheduled on the same day the railroad was running.
Eventually, it all lined up and my alarm went off at 0315 at a hotel in Daly City, just south of the SF city limit.
I was at the yard by 4 and met Ben, who went out and started Alco 23. 25 is out of service with a bad bearing on the radiator fan drive shaft. Ryan explained that the SF Belt had done a jerry rigged repair of the shaft at some point and it was never documented, so nobody knew about the bearing until it failed. As a new low emission unit will be delivered in the next few months, there is no reason to repair 25. 25 will be put on display somewhere, perhaps near the Ferry Building, while 23 will be held as backup for the new unit.
But for now, an S2 built in 1944 is doing the job it was built to do. If you think about it, that is as though the Virginia and Truckee had still been using the Reno and Genoa during WW2.
Shorty after I got there, Ben went out and fired up the 23. It has a block heater, so it started easily with a puff of white smoke. He did an inspection of the engine, including checking the journal boxes. We then went back into the office and waited for Ryan, brakeman Johnny, and engineer Nick to arrive. The crew plotted their switching moves for the day. Ryan, who is yard operations manager, suggested that I get some blue hour photos from the ground as empties were switched and then we rode 23 while they switched loads.
Each car has dirt from one particular construction site and the dirt from sites cannot be mixed as different sites will have different contamination. UP ships it to a dump site in Nevada, where it is processed. Ryan explained that sometimes they can use dividers in a car to separate dirt from different projects if there is not that much.
Right now transshipping dirty dirt is the SF Bay's only business, but there a couple of other industries are interested in bringing new business. The line that crosses the Illinois St. bridge has been out of service for a couple of years as there currently no customers north of Islais Creek.
We rode the S2 for a while after the day brightened, then got down and Ryan drove me around in a company car to get some more angles as they switched. He then had other work to do and I shot the end of 23's work day as well as 25, some spare Alco parts and another project of Waste Solutions, goats that are leased out for natural weed control. Ryan said that since Waste Solutions got more cars, they can't use their goats as much for weed control in the yard as most of the yard tracks are occupied.
The crew called it a day for switching about 0800 and then would be doing other work in the yard for the rest of their work day.
All of these photos were taken with permission after signing a release and while wearing required PPE.
I want to than Ryan, Ben, Johnny and Nick for their hospitality. I had a great time.
Aerial images of Bradford Research Center in Columbia.
Bradford Research Center has the largest concentration of research plots in crops, soils and related disciplines in Missouri. As a laboratory, faculty and students investigate wastewater management; entomology, pest and weed control; alternative crops; organic transition techniques and the impact of hailstorms. Bradford engages the community through workshops, field days, native plants and pumpkin giveaways, corn mazes and the annual Tomato Festival, held around the first of September. The research center also partners with University organizations, including Campus Dining Services, to improve MU’s sustainability. | © 2013 - Curators of the University of Missouri
Dr. Hermann Stuebler, Head of Weed Control Research, presenting at the Weed Resistance Workshop of the Annual Press Conference 2013 in Monheim, Germany.
Tom Jesch, owner of Waterwise Botanicals Nursery, demonstrated cactus planting without wearing protective gloves. These are the steps to pain-free planting:
1. Dig a hole, matching the depth to the soil depth in the pot.
2. Lay cactus plant sideways on the ground with the bottom of the pot right next to the hole.
3. Press on the pot a bit to loosen the root ball and pull the pot off.
4. Using a big ol' stick (or any conventional tool) push the cactus into the hole.
5. Do a bad job backfilling the hole around the root ball. Leave lots of voids and air spaces. The soil will fill in properly on its own with irrigation or rainfall.
6. Although cactus thorns are painfully obvious, Opuntia cactus are noted for also having glochids, tiny barbed hairs that are hard to see but can be irritating and painful in the skin. He recommends using duct tape or Brazilian-type hair wax to remove them.
Tom gave these tips for growing cactus outdoors in Southern California and similar climates:
1. Unless you are planting in heavy clay, soil amendments are not needed or recommended.
2. Cactus like to be fed. Expensive fertilizers are not needed. Use regular turf grass fertilizer. Soil in So Cal is naturally rich in phosphorous, potassium and iron so mainly nitrogen is needed. Don't place the fertilizer too close to the plants; apply in the open spaces between plants. Cactus have fine surface roots that spread widely.
3. Tom thinks mulching is a good idea but not right up against the plants.
4. Overhead sprinkler-head irrigation is much better than drip irrigation, which usually causes rot in succulents. Cactus don't need much irrigation. A few times from spring to early summer is fine. The best way is to irrigate two consecutive days for each watering. The first irrigation opens up the soil surface and the follow-up penetrates deeply.
5. Weeding can be a painful issue around cactus. Tom suggested long BBQ tongs or a really long knife to slice off weed roots. He also recommends weed control with glyphosate (e.g. Roundup). Cactus are fairly resistant to this herbicide and a drop or two won't hurt them.
SF Bay RR, 21 June 2018
The San Francisco Bay RR operates on the southeast side of San Francisco on and near the port. It uses two Alco S2 switchers that were built for the State Belt RR, later the San Francisco Belt RR, the line that served the piers of the Port of San Francisco for many years.
As shipping companies moved to containerization, the Port of Oakland became the big northern California container terminal and most of the piers of the Port of San Francisco were abandoned or converted to uses other than marine freight, so the SF Belt RR found itself out of a job. After 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the Embarcadero Freeway, which had run over the SF Belt for most of its length, the freeway was removed, opening up San Francisco's waterfront and much of the Belt's trackage as converted for use by the Muni F line, which runs historic streetcars to Fishermen's Wharf, and the Muni lines that now server the Caltrain station.
Meanwhile, Pier 96, near Hunter's Point was converted to a container facility and the railroad's operations survived there. The line was renamed the San Francisco Bay RR and continued to use Alco S2s 23 and 25 to switch its customers.
Today, the railroad's main business is transloading dirty dirt from constructions and clean up sites in the Bay Area from trucks to railcars. It is owned by Waste Solutions Group, which also owns a fleet of hopper cars. The SF Bay and UP interchange on an as needed basis, with UP's South City job running into the SF Bay's yard on Cargo Way with empties and taking away loads.
A couple of railfans, Ryan and Ben, work for the railroad and Ryan invited me to come by for a visit. I had stopped by one afternoon a couple of years ago, and lucked out to see an S2 running around the yard a bit, but the railrroad usually goes on duty betweeen 4 and 5 am, switches cars for a few hours and then is done for the day. So, a visit to the SF Bay from Sacramento entailed a night in a hotel. It took a few tries for me to get time off from work scheduled on the same day the railroad was running.
Eventually, it all lined up and my alarm went off at 0315 at a hotel in Daly City, just south of the SF city limit.
I was at the yard by 4 and met Ben, who went out and started Alco 23. 25 is out of service with a bad bearing on the radiator fan drive shaft. Ryan explained that the SF Belt had done a jerry rigged repair of the shaft at some point and it was never documented, so nobody knew about the bearing until it failed. As a new low emission unit will be delivered in the next few months, there is no reason to repair 25. 25 will be put on display somewhere, perhaps near the Ferry Building, while 23 will be held as backup for the new unit.
But for now, an S2 built in 1944 is doing the job it was built to do. If you think about it, that is as though the Virginia and Truckee had still been using the Reno and Genoa during WW2.
Shorty after I got there, Ben went out and fired up the 23. It has a block heater, so it started easily with a puff of white smoke. He did an inspection of the engine, including checking the journal boxes. We then went back into the office and waited for Ryan, brakeman Johnny, and engineer Nick to arrive. The crew plotted their switching moves for the day. Ryan, who is yard operations manager, suggested that I get some blue hour photos from the ground as empties were switched and then we rode 23 while they switched loads.
Each car has dirt from one particular construction site and the dirt from sites cannot be mixed as different sites will have different contamination. UP ships it to a dump site in Nevada, where it is processed. Ryan explained that sometimes they can use dividers in a car to separate dirt from different projects if there is not that much.
Right now transshipping dirty dirt is the SF Bay's only business, but there a couple of other industries are interested in bringing new business. The line that crosses the Illinois St. bridge has been out of service for a couple of years as there currently no customers north of Islais Creek.
We rode the S2 for a while after the day brightened, then got down and Ryan drove me around in a company car to get some more angles as they switched. He then had other work to do and I shot the end of 23's work day as well as 25, some spare Alco parts and another project of Waste Solutions, goats that are leased out for natural weed control. Ryan said that since Waste Solutions got more cars, they can't use their goats as much for weed control in the yard as most of the yard tracks are occupied.
The crew called it a day for switching about 0800 and then would be doing other work in the yard for the rest of their work day.
All of these photos were taken with permission after signing a release and while wearing required PPE.
I want to than Ryan, Ben, Johnny and Nick for their hospitality. I had a great time.
"1962 c L to R: unknown person & Peter van Rijn in rice crop"
Peter van Rijn was a specialist in charge of tropical weed control employed by CSIRO from Holland with his wife Puck. Son Hans was born circa 1962
KHS - Kevin Richards (KRS Entomologist) Family Collection
2. Crops - Richards Categories
KHS Digital Archive Number: KHS-2011-31-052-3.22-P2-D
Digitised and documented by KHS Volunteers, with a grant from the Shire of Wyndham East Kimberley.
Aerial images of Bradford Research Center in Columbia.
Bradford Research Center has the largest concentration of research plots in crops, soils and related disciplines in Missouri. As a laboratory, faculty and students investigate wastewater management; entomology, pest and weed control; alternative crops; organic transition techniques and the impact of hailstorms. Bradford engages the community through workshops, field days, native plants and pumpkin giveaways, corn mazes and the annual Tomato Festival, held around the first of September. The research center also partners with University organizations, including Campus Dining Services, to improve MU’s sustainability. | © 2013 - Curators of the University of Missouri
On June 8 at 5:00 p.m., 409 yearling domestic goats were off-loaded on the Bozeman Fish Technology Center (BFTC) campus. Thus begins a 3-4 year project of monitored targeted grazing and applications of friendly insects to control noxious weeds and manage brush overgrowth on property of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service BFTC.
Purposes of this effort are to reduce the presence of undesirable vegetation, promote restoration of native plants, and assist with fire protection by reducing burnable plant biomass.
The cooperative venture involves the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Montana Outdoor Science School, Friends of the Bozeman Fish Technology Center, Gallatin Valley Land Trust, U.S. Forest Service, and Prescriptive Livestock Services. Integrated Weed Control is supplying the insects as an in-kind contribution to the project, and has applied insects on the BFTC’s "hot spots" in previous years.
Photo credit: Eli Cureton / USFWS
Minnamurra Rainforest Centre
Budderoo National Park
Jamberoo, NSW, Australia.
The Minnamurra Rainforest Area is found in the Budderoo N.P 15km west of Kiama & about 1hr south of Sydney.
It’s a 400 Hectare pocket of tropical & warm temperate rainforest.
The walk to Minnamurra Falls is approx. 4.2km return & the first 500m is wheelchair-friendly.
Allow about 2hrs for the walk to the falls - the top section is quite steep.
Boardwalks & raised platforms have been erected to minimise damage to the environment from the thousands of visitors the area receives every year.
Walkers are required to keep to the boardwalks so it does reduce the range of possible photography locations & compositions.
Photography of the river is difficult as the main vantage points are on swing-bridges & there is movement for a couple of minutes every time someone crosses them.
The Minnamurra Rainforest is beautiful but certainly not a wilderness experience due to the man-made infrastructure & constructions.
The lower section of the rainforest is quite pristine however there is still ongoing weed control & bush regeneration in the upper sections with lantana being an issue.
Minnamurra Falls consists of two levels, the upper falls which are 25m, and the lower falls which are 50m high.
Only the upper falls can be reached as rockslides have washed away the track that led to the lower falls.
The lower falls were originally the main attraction until the 1989 landslide & there is a an area of canyon there.
There is a lookout that gives you a vantage point to view the lower falls and a glimpse of the slot canyon.
Here’s hoping that one day the track is restored to provide access to an impressive & wild part of Minnamurra.
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Dear AVAAZ
As requested we can send you photos to put up with our message for the
Obama Wall. Here is
my photo.
Thank you so much, Diana Buckland, Australia
MCS-GLOBAL WEBSITE: www.mcs-global.org
Awareness, Education, Information & Recognition of Chemical Injury,
Chemical Hypersensitivity, Chemical Sensitivity/MCS & other chemically
induced illnesses & diseases affecting civilians & military personnel
Global Chemical Pollution & the disastrous effects on human health &
environmental health
Cancer and the chemical connection
Kallangur, Queensland, Australia
phone 61+7+32853573
Email: dbucklan@bigpond.net.au or diana@mcs-global.org
Dear President Obama:
As citizens across the world, we congratulate you on your election, and
celebrate your campaign commitments to sign a strong new global treaty
on climate change, close Guantanamo prison and end torture, withdraw
carefully from Iraq, and double aid to fight poverty. No one country or
leader can meet the world's most pressing challenges alone, but working
together as one world in a spirit of dialogue and cooperation, yes we
can bring real and lasting change.
Our world is chemically polluted - pesticides, insecticides, herbicides
& fungicides are most widely and massive used poisons - aspartame and
other artificial chemical sweeteners also pollute our foods and drinks,
fluoride poisons our water supplies et al vaccine injury/death is
being ignored also - we have a serious problem with global chemical
pollution and we all have to do something about
it.....
Diana Buckland
Website: www.mcs-global.org
Email: diana (at) mcs-global.org
Please support the campaign by spreading the word and also take
positive action by demanding your authorities, leaders and others
seriously reduce Society's reliance on so many chemicals and seek
chemical-free alternatives wherever and whenever possible and to
help us gain full and formal recognition of MCS.
My only son, James Buckland, was injured by pesticides when he was very
young . . .
I, too, was affected by the pesticides (neurotoxic poisons) in that I
suffered years of major depressive illness from the exposures to those
dangerous chemicals . . .
You can read my story here.
Our dedicated Coordinators and many other Groups globally, are doing
everything we can to gain formal Global Recognition of MCS and also to
bring Awareness, Information & Education to you, the global population,
as to the disastrous effects on human health & environmental health from
global chemical pollution. This, together with Global Warming is very
worrying indeed - we, the occupants and caretakers of Mother Earth, have
polluted ourselves and everything within our precious planet.
It is imperative that we all, as vitally important inhabitants of our
world, do whatever we can to bring about our own education & awareness
programs. We need to promote chemical free living as much as possible.
Support, encourage and promote organic food production. Choose and
promote chemical free means of pest and weed control.
Please approach your Councils/local authorities, Leaders, Members of
Parliament, neighbours, work colleagues, teachers, friends, family,
media et al to stop using chemical pesticides, insecticides, weedicides
(herbicides), fungicides and implement chemical free means of pest and
weed control and give them the important information from this website
so everyone can start making changes.
Unless we drastically reduce global chemical use, our future is very
bleak indeed! Don't wait until it is too late - start making changes
now. We also need to look at changing what we buy - stop buying all the
usual personal care products (which are chemical cocktails) which are
polluting globally and harming health and choose chemical free /organic
personal care products.
Remember, the usual personal care products / perfumed products are a
cocktail of toxic chemicals !!!
For cleaning products, same applies.
If you care about yours or your loved-ones health - PLEASE STOP USING
TOXIC CHEMICALS!
Choose chemical free, organic and/or the safe cleaning mitts which are
available widely.
All purpose steam cleaners are marvelous, you can clean and disinfect
everything in your home as well as kill bed bugs, dust mites, fleas,
flea eggs etc., and also kill weeds etc., all without the use of any
dangerous chemicals whatsoever (of course you have to exercise care and
caution when using steam cleaners; especially near children).
See our Safer Alternatives section.
We all need to care about human health and environmental health, our own
health, the health of our neighbours, family and friends; and the health
of our precious children and all children. And yes, we all need to care
about everyone else also! Act now and reduce this heavy reliance on so
many chemicals in our lives before it is way too late.
We have a global society whose health systems are bursting at the seams
- unable to cope with the huge amounts of sickness and disease globally
and with huge waiting lists.
There are so many illnesses and diseases from chemical exposures and I
would ask each and every one of you to study this website carefully. See
our MCS-Global Information Package and remember to look at the Cancer
links - data that could help you become Aware and Informed about cancers
and the chemical connection.
Remember, every shop, supermarket et al are packed with a huge range of
toxic chemicals; they are only interested in sales. It is up to us to
protect our own health and the health of others by refusing to buy and
choosing chemical-free alternatives. When the demands for these
alternatives is high enough it sends a strong message to the
manufacturers and suppliers; that the people are waking up and want
chemical free alternatives.
Be assured, our health depends on it.
We must all implement chemical-free alternatives as much as possible to
reduce our exposures to such a broad range of chemicals. If we apply the
Precautionary Principle - we have a much greater chance for a healthy
and happy global population.
Every person who takes positive action will make a difference. Please do
this for all life on Planet Earth.
Be part of the SOLUTION and NOT part of the PROBLEM!
This is only a small section of data on these dangerous toxic,
neurotoxic & carcinogenic poisons that are so
widely and extensively used - we have to change this mindset and go for
chemical free alternatives as
much as possible. Home owners and councils spray this around everywhere.
Thanks & kind regards, Di Buckland, 4 Mia St. Kallangur, Qld. 4503
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Aerial images of Bradford Research Center in Columbia.
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SF Bay RR, 21 June 2018
The San Francisco Bay RR operates on the southeast side of San Francisco on and near the port. It uses two Alco S2 switchers that were built for the State Belt RR, later the San Francisco Belt RR, the line that served the piers of the Port of San Francisco for many years.
As shipping companies moved to containerization, the Port of Oakland became the big northern California container terminal and most of the piers of the Port of San Francisco were abandoned or converted to uses other than marine freight, so the SF Belt RR found itself out of a job. After 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the Embarcadero Freeway, which had run over the SF Belt for most of its length, the freeway was removed, opening up San Francisco's waterfront and much of the Belt's trackage as converted for use by the Muni F line, which runs historic streetcars to Fishermen's Wharf, and the Muni lines that now server the Caltrain station.
Meanwhile, Pier 96, near Hunter's Point was converted to a container facility and the railroad's operations survived there. The line was renamed the San Francisco Bay RR and continued to use Alco S2s 23 and 25 to switch its customers.
Today, the railroad's main business is transloading dirty dirt from constructions and clean up sites in the Bay Area from trucks to railcars. It is owned by Waste Solutions Group, which also owns a fleet of hopper cars. The SF Bay and UP interchange on an as needed basis, with UP's South City job running into the SF Bay's yard on Cargo Way with empties and taking away loads.
A couple of railfans, Ryan and Ben, work for the railroad and Ryan invited me to come by for a visit. I had stopped by one afternoon a couple of years ago, and lucked out to see an S2 running around the yard a bit, but the railrroad usually goes on duty betweeen 4 and 5 am, switches cars for a few hours and then is done for the day. So, a visit to the SF Bay from Sacramento entailed a night in a hotel. It took a few tries for me to get time off from work scheduled on the same day the railroad was running.
Eventually, it all lined up and my alarm went off at 0315 at a hotel in Daly City, just south of the SF city limit.
I was at the yard by 4 and met Ben, who went out and started Alco 23. 25 is out of service with a bad bearing on the radiator fan drive shaft. Ryan explained that the SF Belt had done a jerry rigged repair of the shaft at some point and it was never documented, so nobody knew about the bearing until it failed. As a new low emission unit will be delivered in the next few months, there is no reason to repair 25. 25 will be put on display somewhere, perhaps near the Ferry Building, while 23 will be held as backup for the new unit.
But for now, an S2 built in 1944 is doing the job it was built to do. If you think about it, that is as though the Virginia and Truckee had still been using the Reno and Genoa during WW2.
Shorty after I got there, Ben went out and fired up the 23. It has a block heater, so it started easily with a puff of white smoke. He did an inspection of the engine, including checking the journal boxes. We then went back into the office and waited for Ryan, brakeman Johnny, and engineer Nick to arrive. The crew plotted their switching moves for the day. Ryan, who is yard operations manager, suggested that I get some blue hour photos from the ground as empties were switched and then we rode 23 while they switched loads.
Each car has dirt from one particular construction site and the dirt from sites cannot be mixed as different sites will have different contamination. UP ships it to a dump site in Nevada, where it is processed. Ryan explained that sometimes they can use dividers in a car to separate dirt from different projects if there is not that much.
Right now transshipping dirty dirt is the SF Bay's only business, but there a couple of other industries are interested in bringing new business. The line that crosses the Illinois St. bridge has been out of service for a couple of years as there currently no customers north of Islais Creek.
We rode the S2 for a while after the day brightened, then got down and Ryan drove me around in a company car to get some more angles as they switched. He then had other work to do and I shot the end of 23's work day as well as 25, some spare Alco parts and another project of Waste Solutions, goats that are leased out for natural weed control. Ryan said that since Waste Solutions got more cars, they can't use their goats as much for weed control in the yard as most of the yard tracks are occupied.
The crew called it a day for switching about 0800 and then would be doing other work in the yard for the rest of their work day.
All of these photos were taken with permission after signing a release and while wearing required PPE.
I want to than Ryan, Ben, Johnny and Nick for their hospitality. I had a great time.
SF Bay RR, 21 June 2018
The San Francisco Bay RR operates on the southeast side of San Francisco on and near the port. It uses two Alco S2 switchers that were built for the State Belt RR, later the San Francisco Belt RR, the line that served the piers of the Port of San Francisco for many years.
As shipping companies moved to containerization, the Port of Oakland became the big northern California container terminal and most of the piers of the Port of San Francisco were abandoned or converted to uses other than marine freight, so the SF Belt RR found itself out of a job. After 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the Embarcadero Freeway, which had run over the SF Belt for most of its length, the freeway was removed, opening up San Francisco's waterfront and much of the Belt's trackage as converted for use by the Muni F line, which runs historic streetcars to Fishermen's Wharf, and the Muni lines that now server the Caltrain station.
Meanwhile, Pier 96, near Hunter's Point was converted to a container facility and the railroad's operations survived there. The line was renamed the San Francisco Bay RR and continued to use Alco S2s 23 and 25 to switch its customers.
Today, the railroad's main business is transloading dirty dirt from constructions and clean up sites in the Bay Area from trucks to railcars. It is owned by Waste Solutions Group, which also owns a fleet of hopper cars. The SF Bay and UP interchange on an as needed basis, with UP's South City job running into the SF Bay's yard on Cargo Way with empties and taking away loads.
A couple of railfans, Ryan and Ben, work for the railroad and Ryan invited me to come by for a visit. I had stopped by one afternoon a couple of years ago, and lucked out to see an S2 running around the yard a bit, but the railrroad usually goes on duty betweeen 4 and 5 am, switches cars for a few hours and then is done for the day. So, a visit to the SF Bay from Sacramento entailed a night in a hotel. It took a few tries for me to get time off from work scheduled on the same day the railroad was running.
Eventually, it all lined up and my alarm went off at 0315 at a hotel in Daly City, just south of the SF city limit.
I was at the yard by 4 and met Ben, who went out and started Alco 23. 25 is out of service with a bad bearing on the radiator fan drive shaft. Ryan explained that the SF Belt had done a jerry rigged repair of the shaft at some point and it was never documented, so nobody knew about the bearing until it failed. As a new low emission unit will be delivered in the next few months, there is no reason to repair 25. 25 will be put on display somewhere, perhaps near the Ferry Building, while 23 will be held as backup for the new unit.
But for now, an S2 built in 1944 is doing the job it was built to do. If you think about it, that is as though the Virginia and Truckee had still been using the Reno and Genoa during WW2.
Shorty after I got there, Ben went out and fired up the 23. It has a block heater, so it started easily with a puff of white smoke. He did an inspection of the engine, including checking the journal boxes. We then went back into the office and waited for Ryan, brakeman Johnny, and engineer Nick to arrive. The crew plotted their switching moves for the day. Ryan, who is yard operations manager, suggested that I get some blue hour photos from the ground as empties were switched and then we rode 23 while they switched loads.
Each car has dirt from one particular construction site and the dirt from sites cannot be mixed as different sites will have different contamination. UP ships it to a dump site in Nevada, where it is processed. Ryan explained that sometimes they can use dividers in a car to separate dirt from different projects if there is not that much.
Right now transshipping dirty dirt is the SF Bay's only business, but there a couple of other industries are interested in bringing new business. The line that crosses the Illinois St. bridge has been out of service for a couple of years as there currently no customers north of Islais Creek.
We rode the S2 for a while after the day brightened, then got down and Ryan drove me around in a company car to get some more angles as they switched. He then had other work to do and I shot the end of 23's work day as well as 25, some spare Alco parts and another project of Waste Solutions, goats that are leased out for natural weed control. Ryan said that since Waste Solutions got more cars, they can't use their goats as much for weed control in the yard as most of the yard tracks are occupied.
The crew called it a day for switching about 0800 and then would be doing other work in the yard for the rest of their work day.
All of these photos were taken with permission after signing a release and while wearing required PPE.
I want to than Ryan, Ben, Johnny and Nick for their hospitality. I had a great time.
On June 8 at 5:00 p.m., 409 yearling domestic goats were off-loaded on the Bozeman Fish Technology Center (BFTC) campus. Thus begins a 3-4 year project of monitored targeted grazing and applications of friendly insects to control noxious weeds and manage brush overgrowth on property of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service BFTC.
Purposes of this effort are to reduce the presence of undesirable vegetation, promote restoration of native plants, and assist with fire protection by reducing burnable plant biomass.
The cooperative venture involves the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Montana Outdoor Science School, Friends of the Bozeman Fish Technology Center, Gallatin Valley Land Trust, U.S. Forest Service, and Prescriptive Livestock Services. Integrated Weed Control is supplying the insects as an in-kind contribution to the project, and has applied insects on the BFTC’s "hot spots" in previous years.
Photo credit: Eli Cureton / USFWS
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Department of the Interior (DOI) Insular Affairs Acting Assistant Secretary Lori Faeth (left) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Administrator Kevin Shea (right) present Clallam County Noxious Weed Control Board, WA employee Cathy Lucero (center) a leadership award at the launch of the National Invasive Species Awareness Week 2015 at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015. USDA photo by Tom Witham.
Robert Pallin, son of the late Paddy Pallin, is a member of the Lord Howe Island Board and was talking passionately about preserving bushland and removing weeds.
Here is a link to a recent story about weed eradication on LHI:
wild.com.au/news/lord-howe-island-weed-control/
I went to LHI as part of a fundraising trip for the Climate Council of Australia:
A weed control contractor is applying a watery spray of triazine and bromocil, which inhibit photosynthesis, effectively starving the weeds and grasses to death. The spray is non-toxic; the contractor needs no mask or other special protection; even when still wet, the spray is harmless to people and animals..
Lowland rice weeds / POACEAE (grass family)
Weed name : Paspalurn distichurn L.
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SF Bay RR, 21 June 2018
The San Francisco Bay RR operates on the southeast side of San Francisco on and near the port. It uses two Alco S2 switchers that were built for the State Belt RR, later the San Francisco Belt RR, the line that served the piers of the Port of San Francisco for many years.
As shipping companies moved to containerization, the Port of Oakland became the big northern California container terminal and most of the piers of the Port of San Francisco were abandoned or converted to uses other than marine freight, so the SF Belt RR found itself out of a job. After 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the Embarcadero Freeway, which had run over the SF Belt for most of its length, the freeway was removed, opening up San Francisco's waterfront and much of the Belt's trackage as converted for use by the Muni F line, which runs historic streetcars to Fishermen's Wharf, and the Muni lines that now server the Caltrain station.
Meanwhile, Pier 96, near Hunter's Point was converted to a container facility and the railroad's operations survived there. The line was renamed the San Francisco Bay RR and continued to use Alco S2s 23 and 25 to switch its customers.
Today, the railroad's main business is transloading dirty dirt from constructions and clean up sites in the Bay Area from trucks to railcars. It is owned by Waste Solutions Group, which also owns a fleet of hopper cars. The SF Bay and UP interchange on an as needed basis, with UP's South City job running into the SF Bay's yard on Cargo Way with empties and taking away loads.
A couple of railfans, Ryan and Ben, work for the railroad and Ryan invited me to come by for a visit. I had stopped by one afternoon a couple of years ago, and lucked out to see an S2 running around the yard a bit, but the railrroad usually goes on duty betweeen 4 and 5 am, switches cars for a few hours and then is done for the day. So, a visit to the SF Bay from Sacramento entailed a night in a hotel. It took a few tries for me to get time off from work scheduled on the same day the railroad was running.
Eventually, it all lined up and my alarm went off at 0315 at a hotel in Daly City, just south of the SF city limit.
I was at the yard by 4 and met Ben, who went out and started Alco 23. 25 is out of service with a bad bearing on the radiator fan drive shaft. Ryan explained that the SF Belt had done a jerry rigged repair of the shaft at some point and it was never documented, so nobody knew about the bearing until it failed. As a new low emission unit will be delivered in the next few months, there is no reason to repair 25. 25 will be put on display somewhere, perhaps near the Ferry Building, while 23 will be held as backup for the new unit.
But for now, an S2 built in 1944 is doing the job it was built to do. If you think about it, that is as though the Virginia and Truckee had still been using the Reno and Genoa during WW2.
Shorty after I got there, Ben went out and fired up the 23. It has a block heater, so it started easily with a puff of white smoke. He did an inspection of the engine, including checking the journal boxes. We then went back into the office and waited for Ryan, brakeman Johnny, and engineer Nick to arrive. The crew plotted their switching moves for the day. Ryan, who is yard operations manager, suggested that I get some blue hour photos from the ground as empties were switched and then we rode 23 while they switched loads.
Each car has dirt from one particular construction site and the dirt from sites cannot be mixed as different sites will have different contamination. UP ships it to a dump site in Nevada, where it is processed. Ryan explained that sometimes they can use dividers in a car to separate dirt from different projects if there is not that much.
Right now transshipping dirty dirt is the SF Bay's only business, but there a couple of other industries are interested in bringing new business. The line that crosses the Illinois St. bridge has been out of service for a couple of years as there currently no customers north of Islais Creek.
We rode the S2 for a while after the day brightened, then got down and Ryan drove me around in a company car to get some more angles as they switched. He then had other work to do and I shot the end of 23's work day as well as 25, some spare Alco parts and another project of Waste Solutions, goats that are leased out for natural weed control. Ryan said that since Waste Solutions got more cars, they can't use their goats as much for weed control in the yard as most of the yard tracks are occupied.
The crew called it a day for switching about 0800 and then would be doing other work in the yard for the rest of their work day.
All of these photos were taken with permission after signing a release and while wearing required PPE.
I want to than Ryan, Ben, Johnny and Nick for their hospitality. I had a great time.
Red Hill Nature Reserve - only 2km from the nation's parliament. Local native plants in the photo include: Blakely's Red Gum, Yellow Box, Silver Wattle, Drooping She-Oak, Dianella and Poa grass. This is nationally endangered Yellow Box-Red Gum Grassy Woodland. Invasive weed control by Parkcare volunteers, Parks and Conservation Service Rangers and Contractors, has protected this area for future generations.