tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42872763526963767812024-03-21T08:20:13.072-07:00Rick's Forest and Rail BlogRick Sharpehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17212918064119415940noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4287276352696376781.post-21553973275155346282012-09-09T04:56:00.000-07:002012-09-09T06:28:55.753-07:00WV Timber - The Value-added Natural ResourceThe Cabell County Forestry and Rail project to learn about the timber and railroad industry in West Virginia was extended by one more day. This was because there was not enough time on our primary trip to tour all the important facilities in both industries. This was achieved on September 5 and 6, 2012 when teachers visited <a href="http://www.woodbywy.com/floors/f_edgegold_panels.aspx">Weyerhauser OSB Sutton Plant</a> and Appalachian Timer Services in Sutton, WV.<br />
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Both of these plants demonstrate the importance of extracting a natural resource and producing a product that makes the resource more valuable. These jobs add income to our citizens and tax revenue to our state economy. This is in stark contrast to West Virginia's other major natural resource, coal.The coal industry offers few value-added jobs and employment in mining continues to go down as machines perform more mining functions.</div>
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The photographs above show how the process of producing oriented strand board at Weyerhauser's Sutton plant is highly automated. From the crane that unloads logs to the conveyor belts that move the newly cut strands, there is very little human interaction. </div>
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Most human interaction involves solving problems should any machine in the manufacturing process malfunction. The photo above right shows the control room where each step in the OSB production process is carefully monitored by computers and humans. The other area where humans are heavily involved is in the maintenance of the various production machines. The Weyerhauser Sutton Plant is a highly-automated, capital intensive operation.</div>
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The above photo shows workers at Appalachian Timber Services involved in the production of railroad ties. This company produces treated wood products for the mining industry, railroad industry, and railroad bridge components. This is necessarily a labor intensive process that is only partially automated. </div>
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The above photo shows workers producing components for building railroad bridges. Like Weyerhauser, ATS burns scrap and waste wood for energy to drive the machinery of production. Both companies also use the less valuable parts of harvested trees as raw material in their production. This maximizes the value of West Virginia timber by using parts of the trees that were once abandoned. This has been a recurring theme on this trip as time and again the timber industry has demonstrated maximum efficiency, while minimizing the environmental impact of their industry. </div>
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This should be emulated by the coal industry and maximize the use of a valuable natural resource by creating value-added products. Burning coal is the poorest use of a valuable source of complex hydrocarbon compounds that could be used in value-added manufacturing processes with a smaller environmental impact. </div>
Rick Sharpehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17212918064119415940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4287276352696376781.post-80815354180290434142012-07-25T18:52:00.003-07:002012-07-25T19:30:30.609-07:00The American Persimmon Tree<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The American Persimmon tree is native to the eastern United States and produces a yellow-orange tangy fruit, often used in puddings in the midwest. Its taste is said to be a a cross between plums and dates. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Apple Tree is a</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">member of the rose family and is propagated by grafting. The genome of the Apple Tree was decoded in 2010, and it was found to have over 55,000 genes, the highest of any plant so far. The human genome contains only 30,000 genes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Apples are used in a great variety of desserts and drinks as well as eaten raw. There are over 7,500 cultivars of the apple. A cultivar is an apple that has specific </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">characteristics that are propagated through grafting to maintain them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This tree grows to around 90 feet and has been known to live as long as 450 years. The White Oak can sometimes hold its dead leaves through the winter until spring. It likes a moist to dry, well-drained soil that is slightly acidic to alkaline. It is used as a shade tree, in suburban areas because it is intolerant of conditions in urban areas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">White Oak wood is used in the liquor and wine industry as well as in ship-building because of its leak proof nature. It is also used in farm implements and in ornamental woodwork in home interiors. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The acorns from White Oaks are an important food source for deer, squirrels, pheasants, and turkeys. </span><br />
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quercus_albaRick Sharpehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17212918064119415940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4287276352696376781.post-26757958905985298942012-07-24T16:07:00.000-07:002012-07-24T16:07:06.573-07:00American Basswood or American Linden<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The American Basswood tree </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is native to North America and can be found from Manitoba to New Brunswick, and as far south as Florida and Texas. It is also called the American Linden.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The American Basswood is a deciduous tree that prefers moist to dry soil with a high pH, and grows to 130 feet in height. It can live to be over 200 years old. As the photo shows, it is a simple leaf system characterized by the serrated leaf edges. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It is a very soft wood, so it is used in making crates, for food containers, and sometimes for making solid electric guitars.. Its flowers are attractive to honey bees and so they produce a very high quality honey from the nectar. It is also cultivated as a shade tree because of its leaves and long life. </span><br />
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<br />Rick Sharpehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17212918064119415940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4287276352696376781.post-23453117834572988922012-07-23T06:47:00.002-07:002012-07-23T06:47:23.723-07:00Black Walnut<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Black Walnut tree is native to the eastern United States but has since spread to include the midwestern states as well and grows mostly in riparian zones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Black Walnut is a deciduous tree that grows in both woodlands and fields in moderately moist soil. It can grow to 150 feet in height and has a compound leaf system as shown above.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Nuts as food that is high in poly unsaturated fats and protein.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hard shells</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> as abrasives in oil well drilling and cosmetics.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Sweetgum is found from New Jersey to northern Florida, west to Texas and north to Illinois and Indiana. It is also found in California and prefers bottomlands and coastal clkimate zones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This tree lives for more than one hundred years and grows to more than130 feet tall. This hardwood tree is used for lumber to make boxes, crates, and railroad ties. It is alos used for firewood, pulpwood, and plywood. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The resin of the Sweetgum has been used as medicine by Native Americans and was mixed with tobacco and smoked by Mexican emperors. It now has no medicinal use, though it is still used as an ingredient in perfumes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Scarlet Oak prefers dry, sandy, and acidic soils and can grow to eighty feet in height. It gets its name from the deep red color its leaves turn in autumn. It is used as an ornamental tree because its wood is of an inferior quality not apprpriate for furniture. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Catalpa tree is a deciduous tree native to North America, The Caribbean, and East Asia. It is sometimes called a cigar tree because it produces a long slender fruit that resembles a cigar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Catalpa tree prefers full sunlight with moist soil and grows to seventy feet in height. The wood is very soft and the tree is used as shade and bird habitat. It is also grown as food for a caterpillar that is in turn used as bait for sport fishing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Black Locust is a deciduous tree that prefers dry to moist soils, especially limestone soils. It grows best in areas that have been disturbed like roadsides, woodlands, and developments. It grows to around eighty feet in height and lives to around one hundred years of age.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The wood of the Black Locust is resistant to moisture and rot, making it a valuable wood for flooring, paneling, and watercraft. It is especially valuable when used as fence posts and fence rails.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The tree prefers a moderately moist, slightly acidic, well-drained soil and full sunlight. It is among the tallest trees in the forest and can grow to 160 feet. It is used as a shade tree and as lumber to make inexpensive furniture. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Ginkgo Biloba tree was once distributed throughout the world, but then went extinct everywhere except a small area of China. It was thought to have been preserved there by Chinese monks because all of the trees are genetically similar.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Six Ginkgo Biloba trees within two kilometers of ground zero survived the nuclear blast that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The tree has a lifespan of</span> <span style="font-family: Arial;">more than one hundred years.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Ginkgo Biloba tree has been usedf as medicine to enhance memory with some moderate success. An extract of its leaves has been shown to be moderately successful in improving dementia.</span>Rick Sharpehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17212918064119415940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4287276352696376781.post-76945477875705478562012-07-22T05:18:00.000-07:002012-07-22T05:18:13.819-07:00<div align="center">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">.32<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">.96<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Temp<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>24.9<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">25.4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">.19<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4.83<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">TDS<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>87.9<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">80.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">.13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>10.40<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Turbidity <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>125.2<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">61<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">.15<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>9.15<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">pH<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7.3
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">95<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">.21<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">19.95<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Overall<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">45.29<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">91-100<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Excellent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">71-90<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Good<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">51-70<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Medium<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and rail project began with a trip to Gaudineer Forest near Snowshoe Resort <a href="http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2092">http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2092</a> .
This was a small patch of virgin forest that was not logged earlier due to a
surveyor’s mistake. This was a deciduous forest with some red spruce, unlike
Cathedral State Park which is a hemlock forest with some birch trees. </span></div>
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difference in the undergrowth in the two forests. Cathedral State Park <a href="http://www.cathedralstatepark.com/">http://www.cathedralstatepark.com/</a> has only
a few plant species present, primarily ferns and rhododendrons. As the photo above shows, Gaudineer Forest
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pH of the soil in each was around 4.5, but Gaudineer Forest was far wetter.
This is why it is the home of the Cheat Mountain salamander, found only in this small forest and nowhere else. It also allows slime molds to inhabit the area, unlike Cathedral. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The afternoon began with
water quality testing at site number one on the Greenbrier River. The water was
tested again for dissolved oxygen, total dissolved solids, temperature, pH, and
turbidity using the water quality index developed by the National Sanitation
Foundation. <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/m4x5mwyriag1ibf/KHS_eBFvOb/WaterQuality.pdf">https://www.dropbox.com/sh/m4x5mwyriag1ibf/KHS_eBFvOb/WaterQuality.pdf</a>. The results listed below show the water to be in the fair range. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">6.67<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">22.08<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">95<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">19.95<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">44.8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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continued today as we left Elkins after spending three days learning about the
timber industry in West Virginia. The road to Cass Mountain Railroad goes past
the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Greenbank, WV, <a href="https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/gbt/">https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/gbt/</a> so an
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Railroad Station located on the Greenbrier River, each team of teachers
prepared to test the water by calibrating our test sensors. The river was
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">.19<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4.90<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">TDS<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>28.9<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">85<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">.13<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>11.05<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Turbidity<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>44.2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">46<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">.15<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6.90<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">pH<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7.5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">95<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">.21<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">19.95<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Overall<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">44.8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">91-100<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Excellent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">71-90<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">51-70<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Medium<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">26-50<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Fair<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">0-25<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Poor <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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located above and below Site # 2 will be tested tomorrow. Why is dissolved
oxygen weighted more heavily than the other indicators of stream health? </span></div>
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former logging railroad that runs to the summit of Bald Knob some 4,842 feet
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divide, and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Greenbank, WV. The Shay
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elevations that were inaccessible prior to its advent. Only locomotives <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">like the Shay and the
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the last day of the forestry part of our trip, we went to another company that produces a value-added product from from one our natural resources. Colonial Millworks is a company located in Elkins, WV that takes kiln-dried lumber and produces a variety of products for a diverse market. This market runs from retail companies like Lowe's and Home Depot, all the way to special orders from companies like the Disney Company. <a href="http://colonialmillwork.com/">http://colonialmillwork.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The above photos on the left show the first production stages of cabinet doors. The material cut out of the doors becomes shelf and cabinet supports shown in the photo above right, thus increasing efficiency. Colonial Millworks also uses other efficiencies such as capturing all their sawdust and selling it to Hamer Wood Pellets <a href="http://hamerpellet.com/">http://hamerpellet.com/</a>. Their waste wood is also turned to sawdust by the machines shown below, thus taking their waste from a cost to a revenue stream. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is Day 2 of the WV Forestry and Rail project. Because many industries in West Virginia are extraction industries like coal and gas, a diverse economy has been elusive for much of our state. The timber industry, however, is an example of an industry that is based on a natural resource where trees are further processed into products that add employment and additional income to the people of our state. Wilson Lumber Company is a company that takes trees from our forests and processes the logs into lumber that other companies turn into furniture and cabinets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The planers shown above take rough, high quality lumber and plane the surface smooth enough for other companies to turn into furniture and cabinets. Everything the company produces is a special order made to a customer's specifications. Why is a value-added product from an extraction industry important for economic development? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The kilns shown above are examples of taking the waste produced by one step in the process and using it in another step of the process. Why is this both economical and ecological?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trobology is a relatively new science that studies how disposal of a product at the end of its useful life is included as a factor in its initial production. Hamer Wood Pellets is a company that closes the loop by taking waste sawdust and turning it into fuel used to heat homes. This is a value-added product that creates jobs and income while disposing of the waste material of another process. </span><br />
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Huntington, WV was founded by Collis P. Huntington to serve as the western terminus of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. CSX, the railroad that descended from the B & O, still has a very large presence in Huntington. The above photo shows several locomotives lined up in the locomotive repair facility awaiting service. As you drive east on 8th Avenue in Huntington, it is not unusual to see as many as a dozen locomotives lined up end to end as they are routed to their final destinations.<br />
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The city of Huntington is divided by the railroad tracks shown above that run east and west through the city. Huntington is divided into downtown and the south side by the tracks, requiring viaducts under the tracks to allow vehicle traffic unimpeded access back and forth. A large amount of freight still passes through Huntington on its way to the rest of the country. The hopper car pictured below was once manufactured at the former ACF factory in Huntington.<br />
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Since Huntington is located in the coal fields of Appalachia, it is no surprise that coal represents a large part of the freight that passes through the city daily. Hundreds of carloads similar to the rail cars shown below arrive from the coalfields for routing to power plants, barge terminals, steel mills, and other bulk users of coal. </div>
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Along with the relatively safe freight cars of coal, grain and lumber, come other types of freight that are more hazardous. An example of this is the tanker car of chlorine gas shown above. Chlorine gas was used a gas weapon against front line troops in the trenches during World War One. This heavier than air gas would collect in trenches and low spots and remain a threat to troops until the wind dispersed it. Leaks in rail cars of this type have caused evacuations of people living near the railroad. </div>Rick Sharpehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17212918064119415940noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4287276352696376781.post-3664056758594041342012-04-20T06:12:00.001-07:002012-04-20T06:13:08.141-07:00Clematis - The Climbing Buttercup<div><p>The clematis flower is a popular climbing flower in many gardens. It is believed to have originally come from China and Japan and then spread worldwide because of its large colorful flowers. There are at least 250 differerent species of clematis in the buttercup family including varieties with a fragrance and without. Clematis is popular because it blooms continually from early spring to late fall. Clematis is generally planted in the fall to enable the plant to bloom the following spring and summer. Pruning is part of caring for the plant as well as regular washing to prevent the growth of mildew and fungus. Clematis is a woody stem vine that prefers well-drained soil in a sunny spot. It has two common names, Virgin`s Bower and Leatherflower. Finally, it is toxic to horses, cats, and dogs. So if your clematis is gone and your pet is salivating, vomiting, and suffering from diarrhea, call the vet. </p>
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