Some of the screenshots I grabbed from today’s livestream of the SRKW’s. Very large group, and hopefully a brand new baby (not pictured here, at least I don’t think it is)
Words from a National Park Ranger in Yosemite regarding the shutdown.
(Name not shared for obvious reasons.)
“Today I worked. We held Yosemite open to 4th of July-level traffic with no support staff whatsoever. We did so with 4 rangers in Wawona/Badger, 4 in Yosemite Valley and (may be slightly off….) 4 in Mather. That is 12 people working while we were seeing 240-270 cars per hour coming into South Entrance. Let that sink in. TWELVE people. In a park the size of Rhode Island. Badger sold almost 1,000 lift tickets today (their limit is 1200).
There are piles if human shit everywhere. Gross, but so seriously true. Every roadside turnout has toilet paper and trash. Garbage cans are overflowing until we can get time to pick it up. People are screaming about paying their taxes and having rights, people are fighting over tickets issued for violating closures when they duck under barricades and walk past signs so they can do what they want.
Keeping parks accessible is reasonable if people can fend for themselves and care for the park themselves, but the large majority can’t. The large majority needs a map because their GPS quits working when cell service drops, and they don’t have one because the Entrance staff wasn’t there to give them one. The large majority has no idea what a cat hole is and would never consider picking up their used toilet paper and sticking in their purse. The large majority doesn’t know what to do if they break an ankle and can’t get 911 on the phone. The large majority cannot use their public lands in a way that allows them to remain unimpaired for their kid’s children. That is why they hire the National Park Service. To provide a service to the vast majority who don’t know how to be a true steward for their land or don’t care to be.
I beg all of you to stay home and not visit your parks until everyone comes back to work. Your experience will be ten thousand times better.”
Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her except it’s 1871 and you’re actually hearing a group of sailors singing it as they return from a voyage to the bustling docks in your seaside irish town
Theoretically, yes, I would think so. As far as I know it is POSSIBLE for all mammals to get rabies. However I doubt it has ever happened simply because the likelihood of exposure is extremely low.
Off the top of my head I would guess pinipeds would be the most vulnerable because they do spend some significant time on land and also because most rabies vectors seem to be in the order Carnivora (with the notable exception of bats).
thank you! now I can rest easy knowing that the likelihood of having to fight a rabid walrus is slim to none
apparently the rabies virus also is not able to survive temperatures above 122F, and can’t survive more than a few hours at room temperature, which is generally between 68 and 77F.
So that might be another factor into why marine mammals (as far as I know) have never been reported to contract/carry rabies
Good exercise before sleep or first thing in the morning
Wrists in a straight line beneath the shoulders. Knees and hips aligned straight.
Exhale drawing the navel inwards and tucking your chin to the chest. Then inhale as your belly moves away from the spine. Repeat the motion 5 to 10 times. If you have back pain try to make gentler movements.
due to this event, it’s more important than ever to support water protectors and pipeline activsts. here is the official website for the unis’tot’en camp so you can educate yourself on the issue. also please donate if you can.
it’s more important than ever to help support indigenous water protectors and anti-pipeline activists. please do what you can - anything helps.
