Recent content by dflett68

i've never been clear on whether some, all, or none of the troutlodge fish at RF are/were triploids. i had assumed so for a long time, but i've seen and caught so many there that have none of the grotesque disproportions and features of most confirmed triploids i've seen. anyway, i landed a...

which stand up comic could make the most/best hay out of this story? the potential!

this thread prompted me to pull a fresh extract - new tigers in the pipeline as of may... generational demographic will now resemble china.

there's a stretch of puget sound beach i spent a lot of time on in recent years that has a ton of western fence lizards, and also many northern alligator lizards, both populating that high tide - driftwood zone. plenty of garters in there too, including some big ones. once in a while, a rubber...

like what? give me just the last 5 days' worth of worse things, to start.

i pull a csv extract from the link below (it's a wdfw dataset but not the wdfw site) and then work with the data in excel. the format in the snips is just a pivot table. the stocking plan is a different dataset, but i'm guessing it can also be pulled in csv. if not, there are tools out there...

is there someone offering odds on the outcome? kalshi? polymarket? sign me up. you'd have to be as silly as the petitioners to bet on something like that passing anywhere in the world, let alone oregon.

assuming the wdfw datasets are accurate, the last adult rainbow stocked in dry falls was in 1998. i don't think any of the triploids planted there were fry. also, stocking levels really have not changed in the last ten years except to discontinue the tigers. if there are any left, they will...

profit margins aren't an obstacle, that's like saying rolling is an obstacle to motor vehicle safety. profit is an incentive, and a good one. and it naturally creates the further incentive to prioritize safety in the best interest of profits - if the the cost of negligence is allowed to be...

it's 2.8% of the population of oregon that signed. granted, "insignificant" does depend on what's being measured, and who is measuring it. our president won the popular vote by about 1.5%, and many are saying that was a landslide.

let them vote. takes 114K signatures to reach the ballot, i think. then what? even if only portland residents voted, it wouldn't amount to a fart. this proposal warrants laughter, not hand-wringing. we can't move toward common sense if we let ourselves get manipulated into a froth over pure...

this thread underlines the great american tragedy that while we "pay attention" to a tiny knot of lunatics who wield zero power in service of an unadulterated cult fantasy - real power is employed day and night to dismantle the real things in the real world that would otherwise perpetuate the...

coluber constrictor mormon, near omak

that's going over my head. maybe you have to be a user to understand?