Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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I walk six miles a day (most days) and like doing it in the mid-afternoon. Fewer people and fewer carts to dodge on the MMP where I walk. I get offered lot of rides and bottles of water (which I always refuse, with thanks). I'm from the north too--just about as far north as you can be in the lower 48. I have absolutely no problem with the heat--actually love it. Beats the cold and the damp from UpNort that you can get even in the summer, and I don't miss having every joint feel like a rusty hinge as was all too often the case in Minnesota. My wife thinks I'm crazy and she's from a tropical country herself. |
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Nebraska in the 60s had large numbers of both whitetail and mule deer populations. it was not unusual to see as many as 20 or 30 pheasants crossing a highway back then. Today that has all changed. At some point, the Soil Bank was eliminated because people began to care less about the environment as factory farming took over and profits were the driving factor. The pheasant population dropped due to less bush cover and possibly the over-fertilization was bad for their eggs. Incidentally, Nebraska has plenty of trees. It and Kansas are not all grasslands. |
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True. We get Email ads from Nebraska tourism touting the fishing and camping. Looks a lot like northern MN. But the reality is that the majority of the land is farmland. As I understand it the dust bowl was really a confluence of events. I had relatives who farmed in a couple of the prairie states affected and recall them talking about it. Very little rain, super-hot temps, etc., but the major cause in the estimation of many was the switch from family to corporate farming, and the then-S.O.P. of the corporations to plow perfectly straight rows, up and over hills, through valleys, etc. over several sections of land at a time. It saved time (and I suppose labor costs) but what it DIDN'T do was impede the wind in any way. It blew straight down those rows, picking up dust as it went, until what happened was--well, the dust bowl. It wasn't until the advent of contour plowing, where the farmers plowed around the contours of the hills and valleys instead of arrow-straight rows that ran sometimes for miles, that things got better. There were other programs as well, as mentioned (soil bank). But it was no one thing that caused it--or ended it. Hopefully we've gotten smarter. |
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......The world's glaciers are melting! |
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You might want take google earth trip across Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, and many more. Only the area they can’t bulldozer has forest. I grew up in NW Missouri. There little timber left except along Missouri River loom hills where they haven’t figure out financially how to flatten plant row crops yet. wait couple more generations and even they will be gone. The only areas along rivers are Boggs or swap where they can’t drain. IMO any tributary that flows water should of had 50 yard path on each bank to prevent erosion and habit for wild life. The program that allows land to go unplowed part of farm subsidies programs. Under farm subsidies they can also get paid planting or not. Some Hugh farms can draw close to million dollars in just subsidies. Couple farms out in western Kansas made news over years for amount of money they got from farm subsidies. But, with any federal government programs there waste and fraud. As kid use to here pheasant and quail all time, now there about as rare as dodo bird IMO in area I grew up in ![]() |
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In simple terms, we see your colors.
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Must have a medical background?
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Ah yes. The good old days.
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No, the poor old days.
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LOL!! ikr, it's SUMMER everyone. it happens every year
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thank you, oh Voice of Reason
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