{"id":37758,"date":"2011-05-01T16:16:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T21:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=37758"},"modified":"2011-05-03T08:32:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T13:32:44","slug":"trees-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/trees-listening\/","title":{"rendered":"Trees, listening"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Silver Bay on Lake George, photographed from Penfield Cottage. Pic by Eric.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Reply to development question at “read more”<\/p>\n

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Satellite image of Lake George near Silver Bay from Google Earth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lake George is miraculously under-developed, particularly the east shore. I am not sure the reasons why the eastern shore is not so built up; there are plenty of little motels along the southeastern shore, but they are all modest. Lake George Village has lots of tourism, but by most standards it’s pretty darned quaint. It’s like Miami Beach in 1950. One reason the east shore has no development is steep slopes and no roads. The whole place may be inside some kind of conservation easement. Penfield Cottage, where I am not staying but which was someplace I visited friends of the family ca. 1979-83, has been in the family for generations. It looks just like it did 30 years ago. <\/p>\n

The biggest development is the Silver Bay Association, a YMCA conference center that has existed for many years, and is a mellow operation — worth getting to, by the way.<\/p>\n

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Close up satellite image, near Silver Bay, NY. Photo from Google Earth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here is a closeup satellite photo of approximately where the picture above was taken. The little point toward the bottom right of the photo is the same point you see depicted in my photo. <\/p>\n

Lake George is something of a miracle. In all sincerity it is a national treasure.<\/p>\n

There is little pollution (no heavy industry, except maybe the Ticonderoga Pencil Co. factory at the north end of the lake, which I doubt still exists). Most of the pollution is road runoff, and there is that Asian clam issue, an invasive species that self-fertilizes and each clam can have 100,000 babies. So this is a problem. I’m curious to see how they plan to remedy it; they would likely have to introduce some kind of other critter that eats baby clams, but that could be risky too.<\/p>\n

I haven’t been back in this area for a while (except to have lunch in 2009). I am grateful to see that it’s holding its own, and that the property owners along the east shore are either balancing nature with economy, or restrained by environmental ordinances. <\/p>\n

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From book about DDT. Sorry, I lost the bookmark.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The lake is still damaged by DDT spraying that took place in 1955-1958 in an effort to contain the gypsy moth. The spraying killed all the baby trout in the lake and, so far as I understand it, disrupted the entire ecosystem in that “silent spring<\/a>” kind of way. While the lake is not (again, to my knowledge) still contaminated with DDT half a century later, once an ecosystem is knocked out of whack like that it’s a long time coming back. The lake is healthier than any inland body of water that I can think of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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