Nestle pulls plug on controversial bottling plant Sep 11, 2009
A glass of water drawn from John Fenton's underground well outside his rural log home built against a rocky ridge looks and tastes as clear and refreshing as any bottled water. But Fenton's water contains traces of arsenic, barium, cobalt, copper and other compounds identified in water tests that cannot be seen, smelled or tasted. (Fresno Bee -- State)
Gathering green on the way up Montara Mountain Mar 21, 2009
Las Trampas Regional Wilderness: Rocky Ridge. Mount Diablo State Park: Mitchell Canyon. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Scientist place permanent sensors on sea's bed Mar 21, 2009
The instruments were installed on a rocky ridge in the Monterey Canyon 3,000 feet beneath the surface by scientists and engineers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute at Moss Landing, and data are already being collected. The Berkeley device is a seismometer that sends its signals to the university's seismological laboratory on the university campus, where scientists can determine the magnitude and precise location of quakes that occur west of the San Andreas Fault. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
When aloof bighorns deign to dine Mar 2, 2009
It sits in the opposite direction most people go when they hit the "Y'' in the road at the junction of Highway 410 and U.S. 12.Hobbyist photographer Charles Crendall of Yakima also knew it'd take snow to bring back the bighorns and arrived at the feeding station about dawn on the Wednesday."You have to be here early in the morning to see them jump, I think," says the 50-year-old Crendall, pointing his large camera at three rams running down the hillside.But by midmorning, the scene is low-key.... (Longview Daily News, WA)
