Posted on 01/25/2006 7:59:14 AM PST by GreenFreeper
The Dust Restoration Team?
I caught that too. The farmers in the Central Valley are being forced to spend Billions and Billions to reduce dust, Oh My...
Maybe they're an important food source for other animals, especially fishes.
Sounds reasonable but I don't know of any fish that live in the extremely saline playa lakes.
You have nailed the Fairy Shrimp bs. In N California, it usually doesn't rain from about May until late Sept or sometime in October, and often not until November.
In the world before the evil man came along, these fairy shrimp died (unless Herons or Egrets ate them as an appetizer) when their little winter/spring seasonal pools dried up.
"Fairy shrimp are totally useless except to some university AH. They only live a few days or weeks in mud puddles after a rain and don't serve as a food source for anything that I know of."
"The only purpose they serve is to provide enviro whackos a means of stopping all development or grading. Those AHs run out and file suit to stop development if they can find any depression in the land that could collect a few gallons of water if it rains."
"especially fishes"
Fish don'e live in temporary mud puddles after a rain.
A little background on some of these very elite and often trust fund liberal winos er vineyard owners. Up to about 3-4 years ago, these people were big funders and supporters of the Sierra Club and other enviral organizations.
They woke up to the reality that the SC would put most of them out of business. They had a green rebellion and took over control of the local Sierra Club. Since then, the local SC under their control for the most part seeks ways to work with local farmers and land ownners.
Hidden in this woodpile of super rich lefties are whackos like Robert Redford and Nancy Pelosi and her husband:
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?fr=ybr_sbc&p=Pelosi%20Winery
It is really hard to find an old family owned vineyard/winery in Napa county unlike the Sonoma county vineyard area, where the same families have owned the land and vineyards for decades and generations. Super rich elites from NY and Follywood have been buying up old family vineyards for the past two decades in Napa county. What they haven't bought, often has been bought by some mega corporation. Then, the VIPs of that organization can fly out here to make sure that everything is a ok.
As noted above, many of these new vineyard/land owners are very elite and wealthy, and they are big and long time liberals. Some come from old trust fund families. Does Procter and Gamble ring any bells. One of the Gamble trust funders is quoted in this article. In fair balance he seems like a nice fellow.
The undiscussed goal of many of these elites is to use our tax exempting system to create ways to protect their estates from taxes. Then, they and their heirs can live on the estates tax free and forever.
In the future we may see the creation of the Napa Valley Rutherford Dust Preservation, Fairy Shrimp Preservation, Red Legged Frog Preservation, Blue Heron Preservation, Napa River Steelhead Preservation combined into one massive reserve.
This reserve will be made up from the so called donation of the vineyards by these 28 landowners. The owners and their heirs will then live tax free forever on the new reserve. They will still grow grapes and produce wine under a special tax free grant for the kind donation of their land and maybe 10% of the profits going back to the county and various so called green organizations. This was called fascism in Germany and Italy from the 1930's until WWII was over.
The good news is the local Sierra Club has been castrated and made into a nice lap kitty instead of the feral mountain lion, it used to be.
I just did some more research. It turns out that ducks and other waterfowl are the main predators of fairy shrimp, but are also responsible for propagating their eggs. They're also an important food source for the tadpoles of spadefoot toads, who wait until after the rainfall to mate and lay eggs.
The ducks don't need them and if all the tadpols and toads eat was fairies they would have all died out centuries ago.
If a species is endangered, kill it and it won't be endangered any more.
also caddis fly larvae, dytiscid larvae, other insects prey upon Fairy Shrimp. Most predators seem to be opportunistic- they are by no means a main food source. Makes sense since their presence is so variable as it is dependent upon environmental conditions.
Respected sir,
i am Angayarkanni doing my M.phil in bharathiar university in the field of aquaculture.Now my project work is with "FAIRY SHRIMP".So i have to know the details about fairy shrimp and what r all the recent works going on.I am very much interested in this animal.Here the availability of animal is also very less so i have to know where i can get it.Please sir help me by giving the details.
thanking you,
yours faithfully,
V.Angayarkanni
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