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Post by jamesp on Jan 1, 2014 1:31:25 GMT -5
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Post by Toad on Jan 1, 2014 6:14:58 GMT -5
Endless variety...
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Post by Tom on Jan 1, 2014 9:00:44 GMT -5
Those are great shots, what a wonderful diversity of fossils you find James!
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Post by jamesp on Jan 1, 2014 10:49:53 GMT -5
Thank you Toad and Tom. I think the red clay helps w/the coloring. Lots of iron salts and lots of fossilized ocean bottom in these parts.
I see that you mentioned 40 below Tom. I can not imagine. The meat freezer at the butcher shop i worked in as a kid was kept at -40. That is another world.
Makes me want to build an earth house and man cave out all winter just thinking about it. Actually sounds fun. Like a forced sub hibernation.
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Post by Tom on Jan 1, 2014 11:17:06 GMT -5
LOL I like my natural gas heat James, sticking with that. I have done enough winter camping when in the military. All I can say is that when winter hit the Russian front the Germans must have suffered terribly from being unprepared!!!!!!
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Post by jamesp on Jan 1, 2014 11:35:48 GMT -5
To lose your life freezing is a bad thought.
The wood stove makes me lazy and gain weight. Ha.
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Post by Fossilman on Jan 1, 2014 11:43:41 GMT -5
Nice critter stones James.......I don't miss that -40 below zero crap at all! Did my 55+ years in northern North Dakota,did 22 years of it in the oilfields...Driving semi in the winters up there was total hell.. Thats why I moved to Oregon and temps are at 50 degrees,not - 30 or 40 below....LOL
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Post by tkvancil on Jan 1, 2014 12:38:29 GMT -5
Wow !! ... That's a homerun for me ... Everything I like ... It's an Agate !! ... It's a Fossil !! ... It's a tumbled gem stone !! ... Top notch photography.
Thanks for the show.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 1, 2014 13:53:54 GMT -5
Thanks tk. Mother earth was good to us. Those have been enhanced by heat, just saying.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 1, 2014 14:01:14 GMT -5
Nice critter stones James.......I don't miss that -40 below zero crap at all! Did my 55+ years in northern North Dakota,did 22 years of it in the oilfields...Driving semi in the winters up there was total hell.. Thats why I moved to Oregon and temps are at 50 degrees,not - 30 or 40 below....LOL I got out of the car in December in North New Mexico with a wind that would blow the door off to fill my car w/gas. I never experienced that fast of a temperature drop in my life. No way i am going to any Dakota. We got trees that block the wind. That open ground is wicked.
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Post by Fossilman on Jan 1, 2014 15:19:15 GMT -5
LOL,James.....South Dakota is way different than North Dakota( most of it anyway)....We called SD the "banana belt"......LoL
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Post by jamesp on Jan 1, 2014 15:26:10 GMT -5
Banana belt cause it was warmer? I had never heard of elk freezing to death like they do up there. What the hey?&!@ That's cold !!!
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Post by Tom on Jan 1, 2014 16:50:23 GMT -5
Elk freezing to death, never heard that. If animals like that are freezing its probably because of a lack of food not the cold. As long as there is fuel for the tank they can live through anything. We have had deer etc die in the winter here in Saskatchewan but it was because there was so much snow in that particular area that they could not eat. Sucks, but its natures way I guess.
You are right though James, wind is the killer. I don't so much mind a really cold day but with a wind its horrid. Balmy -36 right now, gorgeous blue sky from N to S and E to W and no wind. Dogs are laying on the deck sun bathing, I haven't be outside today LOL.
Dogs will be in soon, have a great new year
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Post by jamesp on Jan 1, 2014 17:31:49 GMT -5
It was grayfingers(Bill) telling how they die in Yellowstone. That they are prairie animals and have been pushed into the mountains by private land owners. Bill collects elk sheds(antlers) and has racked up
during cold winters. He gave the percentage kill rate. It is a counted occurrence. Sad.
I can not imagine -36f. Sounds like it could shatter steel. Holy cow.
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Post by pghram on Jan 1, 2014 19:44:46 GMT -5
Wow, those colors, especially the reds, are offf the chart.
Rich
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Post by jamesp on Jan 2, 2014 15:55:06 GMT -5
You gotta go there Rich. That stuff is in a dirt road too. For about a mile. Fill your buckets. A public dirt road.
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Post by pghram on Jan 2, 2014 17:07:57 GMT -5
That would be great, but I don't know the location.
Rich
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Post by quartz on Jan 2, 2014 23:14:17 GMT -5
Colors, pattern, and photography, all impressive. thanks. Road hunting is real close to cheating, too easy, but often quite productive.
Larry
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Post by jamesp on Jan 3, 2014 0:00:49 GMT -5
The road cuts right thru the ancient mines Larry. The material is all altered by heat. The archeologists are pretty sure of it. The black berries will teach you a quick lesson. The area is clear cut and the stickers are in full force. I got that material out before the brush started up.
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Post by grayfingers on Jan 3, 2014 13:55:59 GMT -5
Been away a bit, missed these. Nice colorful aggies! Fossils in agate, hard to beat that.
About the elk, as noted, they do indeed freeze to death. More often than not, malnutrition is a factor. It is natural selection taken to an extreme due to traditional habitat loss. A prime bull defending cows all fall often will not go into winter with enough reserves to last, any animal not in good condition when the snows come will not live to see spring. Aside from disease, malnutrition is indeed a huge factor as well, if an animal expends more calories to find food than they take in, it is a waiting game for spring. Those on the side of the park that migrate to Jackson Hole / National Elk Refuge are the lucky ones, they get fed and are at a much lower elevation than those on the park plateau. I have personally seen an entire herd (around 30 head) of elk dead over a quarter mile stretch of creek bottom. All cows and calves. An extreme cold snap can take 'em all.
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