balmm currents
Basin
November 24, 2004
NEXT BALMM MEETING: Wednesday,
December 15, 9:30 am – 12:00 pm at the FRONTENAC SPORTSMEN’S CLUB. (Directions:
Turn west off of Highway 61/63 onto County Highway 2, go across the railroad
tracks and take a left on Territorial Road. See map in attachment)
A LOCAL LOOK AT THE
LAKE PEPIN WATERSHED TMDL: A project to
determine how to meet water quality standards in Lake Pepin and the Mississippi
River upstream is getting underway on a large scale to match the size of the
Lake Pepin Watershed, which encompasses half the land area of Minnesota plus a
piece of Wisconsin. A broad-based
Stakeholder Advisory Committee has begun to tackle this major project with a
couple of initial get-togethers. At the same time, some of the participants see
a need to offer stakeholders in the immediate vicinity of
CANNON RIVER
TURBIDITY: The Lower reach of the
LEVERAGING THE FARM
BILL-- OPPORTUNITIES FOR BALMM? Multi-agency
discussions have been underway for months with the goal of developing a
strategy for “Leveraging the Farm Bill in Support of
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE
ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT OF
Southeast Minnesota,
To
register contact Denise
Volk (email) or call 888-241-0724. For session information call Kurt
Hinz at 507-285-7433 or Eli Sagor at 612-624-6948.
The Nuts and Bolts of Timber Sales.
December 2, 2004, Thursday, 6:00-8:30 p.m.
Location: Heintz
Center,
Satisfies Woodland Advisor elective WAE13.
Land
Protection Options
January 11, 2005, Tuesday, 6:00-8:30 p.m.
Location: Heintz
Center,
Satisfies Woodland Advisor elective credit WAC13.
Financial
Aspects of Woodland Ownership
January 25, 2005, Tuesday, 6:00-8:30 p.m.
Location: Holzinger Lodge,
Satisfies Woodland Advisor core credit WAC10.
Urban
Tree Planting and Care
Feb. 8, 2005, Tuesday, 6:00-8:30 p.m.
Location: Heintz
Center,
Satisfies Woodland Advisor elective credit WAC13.
Value-added
Production: Sawmill Tour Part I, Commercial Sawmill
February 24, 2005, Thursday, 1:30 p.m.
Location: Heintz Center,
Satisfies Woodland Advisor elective credit WAE8.
Forest
wildlife & biodiversity: game and non-game
March 17, 2005, Thursday, 6:00-8:30 p.m.
Location: Heintz
Center,
Satisfies Woodland Advisor core credit WAC7.
Insects,
disease, and how trees grow
March 29, 2005, Tuesday, 6:00-8:30 p.m.
Location: Heintz
Center,
Satisfies one Woodland Advisor core credit WAC2.
Measuring
and reading your forest
April 21, 2005, Thursday, 6:00-8:30 p.m.
Location: Holzinger Lodge,
Satisfies one Woodland Advisor core credit WAC9.
THANKS FOR THE WATER: FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/
-- According to Orange County Water District (OCWD), it will take 20,000
gallons of water just to put Thanksgiving dinner on the table, and most people
will not give that water use a moment's thought.
As
should be thankful not only for the food and fellowship, but they should
also give thanks for the water that makes the dinner possible. To grow
the food for this year's typical Thanksgiving dinner for ten people will take
about 20,000 gallons of water.
Add to these
numbers at least 40 gallons of water to cook the meal, along
with another 80 gallons for washing the dishes, and 1,230 gallons for
miscellaneous water use by the group for showering, brushing teeth and other
daily tasks not directly related to Thanksgiving dinner. And don't forget
to add at least one more cup of water for the after-dinner antacid!
"It has
taken some incredible vision and talent by those in the water
industry-past and present-to continue to keep the arid
parts of
supplied with water," says William R. Mills Jr., OCWD's
General Manager.
"We should return to the old term 'water works,' because it takes a lot of
work by a great number of people to provide
reliable water."
Here's a
breakdown of the numbers (based on a dinner for 10 people):
Food Gallons of
water required to produce product*
20-lb. Turkey
13,200
Lettuce Salad 150
Rice 360
Potatoes 210
Cranberry Sauce** 360
Gravy 400
Corn 610
Broccoli 220
Milk 960
Bread Dressing 330
Butter/Margarine 920
Pumpkin pie 620
Cherry pie 750
Soft Drinks 100
Water to drink 1
Coffee 100
Total 19,291
*The water
requirements include the water required to raise the animals or
grow the plants. Figures do not include the additional water used in food
preparation, defrosting, etc.
**Figures drawn
from water industry education booklets and materials. In
some cases, figures also represent approximations based on like foods (for
example, estimate for cranberries based on similar high water use product
like rice.)
Orange County
Water District is a special agency created by the
under northern and central
75% of the water needs to more than 2 million residents in
and
ST
FACTOID OF THE MONTH: -- The Great Thanksgiving
Flush
After Thanksgiving
dinner, approximately 30 million Americans will watch football. At halftime,
American toilets will flush 30 million times and use 108 million gallons of
water - enough water to fill an entire football stadium! Water efficient
toilets would save 62 million gallons of water.
–
BEARS
REPEATING: “Whether by snowshoe in winter or a hike in the spring, with
canoe paddle, fly rod, or shotgun in the fall -- to those who would listen, the
river valley is a magic music box. To those who would observe, the pattern of
color and movement paint a picture that is a masterwork resulting from millions
of years of nature's efforts, yet dynamic and ephemeral. Minnesota is rich with
stream and river resources, that beyond economic utility, make up our living
environment, delight our senses, and indeed, form and mold our culture. --Tom Waters, The Streams
and
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the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of
victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of
triumph Break agonized and clear.
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