A GORGEOUS time-lapse of our beautiful state like you’ve probably never seen it. It took four years to put this together; “The average clip took 1-3 hours to film and another 3-10 hours to edit. Several cuts are from clips more than 24 hours long. I shot 423 clips over four years to make this, but the majority of the 67 clips ultimately used were shot in the last 12 months.” – Hal Bergman
Take four minutes and watch this awesome video!
Congratulations on your quasi … quenti … quadralater … err, Happy Quasquicentennial!
Yep, the county I was born in and grew up in is now way old. Way, way old. Here’s a bit of a look back at Orange County, California:
On this date back in 1889 Orange County was officially formed
In celebration of this event, the Orange County Board of Supervisors has approved “OC125” – the official name for the observance.
The territory known as the California Republic officially became the State of California, the 31st state in the United States of America, on September 9, 1850.
The El Portal fire started on the afternoon of Saturday, July 26th in the Old El Portal area of Yosemite National Park. As of 6:00am on Sunday, July 27th, the fire has grown to an estimated 2,100 acres with 5% containment.
Multiple structures are threatened, one structure is reported as lost.
The Old El Portal and Foresta communities, along with the Crane Flat campground, have been evacuated.
Highway 120 (Big Oak Flat Road) is currently closed from the Highway 140 (El Portal Road) junction to Tioga Road at Crane Flat (Tioga Road is open only from Highway 120 in Groveland and Lee Vining.
From the National Park Service:
Bald eagles continue to expand on the California Channel Islands with the discovery of a nesting pair on San Clemente Island for the first time in over 50 years.
This discovery means that bald eagles have reestablished territories now on five of the eight Channel Islands following their disappearance from the islands in the early 1960s due primarily to DDT contaminants in the food chain.
Dr. Peter Sharpe with the Institute for Wildlife Studies who has spent 18 years dedicated to bald eagle recovery efforts said, “This news is very gratifying. I expect to see bald eagles return to all eight of the Channel Islands within a few years which will mark yet another milestone in their successful recovery.”
“This is good news for the continued recovery of the ecosystem of the Channel Islands and the Navy’s ongoing interest in protecting the environment,” said Captain Christopher E. Sund, Commanding Officer of Naval Base Coronado, which balances responsibility for operations and training with wildlife management on San Clemente Island.”It is also emblematic of the Navy’s good stewardship over many years at San Clemente Island,” he said.
You’ll believe a salmon can fly…
It sounds like something from a Monty Python skit or maybe even from a Sunday night Fox cartoon: launching salmon across a room. It’s not. It’s a business.
From Adventure Journal:
Many Pacific Northwest dams, both large and small, lack fish ladders – effectively closing off hundreds of miles of habitat to endangered salmon and steelhead runs.
Now, biologists in central Washington are testing a new technology they hope could eventually transport salmonids to currently unreachable rivers: vacuum-pressurized tubes.
