links for 2010-08-13

• Bear steals car in Colorado
  "Colorado teenager learns the hard way never to leave a day-old peanut butter sandwich in his car"
  (tags: bear funny peanutbutter animals weird)
• Identifying poison ivy - Boston.com
  I know this all too well.
  (tags: poisonivy plants science biology)
• The scourges of summer 2010 - Boston.com
  (tags: rabbits sharks fishercats mosquitos poisonivy jellyfish massachusetts summer)
• Watch out, it’s everywhere - The Boston Globe
  "“I get it every year; I’m like a culture medium for the stuff,’’ said Maypole, a Newton resident. “It grows in parks, in yards, along streets. It’s sort of like trying to avoid air.’’"

  A subject I return to frequently, now that I'm back in the US and living in a rural area. I'm careful, but would like to create a poison-ivy-free zone - through competition with other vines, the usual clearing (not herbicides, though), and, if I could, micro-organisms.

  
  
  (tags: poisonivy plants weeds biology)
  
  

Comments

[Ms. Jen]

Wow. Quote of the day, "Now I have something to put on our Christmas news letter."

The bear story would have been better without all the voice over word rhyming and puns.