The final Record of Decision (ROD) on livestock operations management at Point Reyes National Seashore was released this week. Unfortunately, and as feared, it not only maintains the ongoing degradation of this national park unit by privately owned domestic livestock, but it expands the opportunities for a handful of ranchers to do even more damage to the public’s landscape with additional lands opened for grazing, as well as the planting of row crops.
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New Bay Area Discovery Museum by Olson Kundig
The Bay Areas unique hub for childhood learning reimagined.
SAUSALITO, CA
.- The Bay Area Discovery Museum unveils its campus-wide renovation and new exhibitions designed by Seattle based design and architecture practice, Olson Kundig and led by Design Principal, Alan Maskin. BADM takes a unique approach to children s programmingresulting in experiential spaces that encompass art, science and education. Now completed, Olson Kundigs master plan and renovation honored the architectural integrity of its historic locationFort Baker in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Centering the museums child-focused mission, Olson Kundigs renovation transformed the guest experience for visitors of all ages.
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by Thomas Rogers
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- For almost 20 years, Werner Kohl has followed the saga of the Humboldt Forum. Like many Germans, he has been watching and listening since 2002, when the government approved a plan for the huge new cultural attraction in Berlin. Thats nearly two decades of debate, protest, overspend and delay. So on Tuesday evening, when he finally stood in the buildings darkened exhibition spaces, he was thrilled, he said. Ive been looking forward to this day from the beginning, Kohl said. Im here to see if it delivers on what it proposed. Kohl, 63, was there to see Terrible Beauty, a temporary exhibition of ivory artifacts ranging across 40,000 years. It was one of six inaugural shows in the Forum, which brings together several museum collections in a reconstructed Baroque palace. Located on the site of the demolished East German Parliament and conceived as Germanys equivalent to the Louvre, the Hu
Was the elegy misguided?
The Xerces status as a distinct species, as opposed to being a sub-population of another non-extinct butterfly, has been questioned by some for decades.
In a new study published in Biology Letters, researchers at the Field Museum were able to put a definitive end to those doubts, confirming that the Xerces blue was indeed a unique species, albeit one now also confirmed as extinct.
“It’s interesting to reaffirm that what people have been thinking for nearly 100 years is true, that this was a species driven to extinction by human activities,” said Felix Grewe, co-director of the Field’s Grainger Bioinformatics Center and the lead author of the Biology Letters paper on the project.