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  1. el-bagr

    FYI: Northern Pass High Voltage Transmission Project

    For those following the Northern Pass project, the developers announced yesterday that they are moving the transmission lines' start-up date back a year to 2016, to allow them time to find a new route from Groveton north to the Canadian border.
  2. el-bagr

    Allagash question

    While I haven't run that exact trip, I've run multi-day river trips in the area using shuttle services -- either driving to the put-in and paying a local to drive my vehicle to the take-out, or getting a pick-up at trip's end to ride back to the put-in. Advantages of having someone shuttle your...
  3. el-bagr

    Whats the temperature in Bartlett NH?

    Thanks for the pointer -- to me, this is good news. Over the past decade I've seen more stations go offline (usually when funding dried up) than come online. Whether you're an angler or paddler, or are interested in hydroelectricity or hydrology, or just a plain old nerd, these data sets are...
  4. el-bagr

    Skiing the East

    Keep up the good work...
  5. el-bagr

    Skiing the East

    So Ben, how's the skiing going? For what it's worth, I skied nearly exclusively on hiking trails. Especially in the boreal zone, for most of the NH48, there often aren't viable alternatives to hiking trails. Skiing a stone staircase might be ugly, but it beats bushwhacking on skis through...
  6. el-bagr

    FYI: Northern Pass High Voltage Transmission Project

    The Maine Public Broadcasting Network ran an interesting 6-minute story on this project last week, entitled "Northern Pass Project Promises Renewable Power, but at What Cost?" http://www.mpbn.net/Home/tabid/36/ctl/ViewItem/mid/3478/ItemId/14725/Default.aspx The story notes that the Appalachian...
  7. el-bagr

    FYI: Northern Pass High Voltage Transmission Project

    This is an interesting issue. As Google Earth and similar programs become more broadly used, we will see more and more video simulations of what projects might look like. Project developers often generate their own simulations to help convince regulators and the public that their projects'...
  8. el-bagr

    FYI: Northern Pass High Voltage Transmission Project

    For those interested in the Northern Pass project, and its impacts on the White Mountain National Forest, you can find the USFS's page on the project's anticipated application for a special use permit here: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/project_content.php?project=34752 There don't seem to be any...
  9. el-bagr

    more New England mountain lion rumors

    This is a topic of personal interest to me. Big cats are nifty creatures. I enjoy hearing the different perspectives expressed here, including the first-hand accounts that seem surprisingly numerous. Johnranta logically emphasizes the importance of a nearby wild population to "seed" wandering...
  10. el-bagr

    more New England mountain lion rumors

    From Saturday's Bangor Daily News: "Biologist doubts Maine cougar sightings". I find the reader comment section especially interesting: lots of first-hand tales of encounters.
  11. el-bagr

    FYI: Northern Pass High Voltage Transmission Project

    Right, the Champlain Hudson Power Express will be entirely underwater and underground. It's a 300-320 kV DC line, consisting of two 5-inch cables to be buried at a depth of 3 feet. Perhaps the VFTT Paddle Park participants will one day kayak or canoe over it. They provide a PDF route map here...
  12. el-bagr

    FYI: Northern Pass High Voltage Transmission Project

    I'm interested to see this discussion here -- dealing with transmission lines from Canada, and their policy implications, is part of what I do for work. Canadian generators (like Hydro-Quebec and Nalcor) have large amounts of hydropower and other generation north of the border, far in excess of...
  13. el-bagr

    more New England mountain lion rumors

    Tangible evidence of lions in Quebec and New Brunswick: http://www.easterncougarnet.org/QuebecPR-corrections.htm
  14. el-bagr

    Why would someone eat this?

    From the Alaska Public Radio Network, an interesting 4-minute audio piece on this incident. It suggests the French-speaking Canadian hikers had been foraging for wild plants, and had eaten a broad variety of plants including the false hellebore. One victim who ate several bulbs reached...
  15. el-bagr

    Old pictures - Can you identify locations?

    Nh6 -- the mountains just to the left of the central marina channel appear to me to be Whiteface and Passaconaway. I have seen them in a very similar orientation from a dock on the north shore of Moultonborough Neck. How about the view north from this marina near Laconia?
  16. el-bagr

    Why would someone eat this?

    My favorite thing about false hellebores in Veratrum: some species contain cyclopamine and other toxic teratogens. When pregnant mammals eat these plants, their children often become cyclops. No joke!
  17. el-bagr

    paddling the salt, hunting historic tide mills

    I've added another tide mill account to my blog: this time, the tide mills of Arrowsic, Maine.
  18. el-bagr

    paddling the salt, hunting historic tide mills

    Fascinating stuff. AMF, your description sounds a lot like most of the Maine sites I've found. Brambor, good question about fish passage. These mills were built hundreds of years ago (which raises a good question: when was the last new tide mill built in the US?) when it may have even been...
  19. el-bagr

    paddling the salt, hunting historic tide mills

    AMF, is this the location you're talking about? http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=39.58803,-75.45655&z=15&t=T&marker0=39.58763%2C-75.46001%2Ctide%20mill%20road\%2C%20salem\%2C%20nj I don't know that area very well. Do you know if the millworks were on the outlet of that south-draining lagoon? It all...
  20. el-bagr

    paddling the salt, hunting historic tide mills

    Hey all! I've been having fun paddling the coast of Maine looking for history and adventure. One of my pet projects is to visit the sites of tide mills. With today's focus on green renewable energy, it can be easy to forget that there were once hundreds of tide-powered mills and developments...
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