Steven Spielberg's "War Horse"??? How about "The Cyclist" Canadian Corps Cyclist Battalion's Nelson A. Zettergreen?

The Cyclist

Nelson A. Zettergreen

 Canadian Corps Cyclist Battalion

Date of Birth: June 17, 1897

 Age at enlistment: 18

Age at Death: 21

 April 7, 1919

Vancouver's Mountain View Cemetery

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Federal Minister Clifford Sifton, who coined the phrase of "Stalwart Peasant" to bring European immigrants to northern farm lands, was also responsible for creating the Brutinel Brigade:

Brigadier-General Raymond Brutinel In 1918 Brutinel's force consisted of 1st and 2nd Canadian Motor MG Brigades (each of 5x8 gun batteries), Canadian Cyclist battalion, one section of medium trench-mortars mounted on lorries (plus an assumed wireless and medical support). This totalled 80 machine guns and about 300 cyclist infantry.

Canadian Corps Cyclist Battalion was part of a force during the "Last 100 Days" called "The Independant Force" , also known as "Brutinel's Brigade". Under the command of Brig.Gen. R. Brutinel this group was comprised of the 1st & 2nd Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigades , Trench Motors , Cavalry and the Cyclists.

Google Search Criteria: Condensed History of the Canadian Corps Cyclist Battalion

cefresearch.ca/
  Dedicated to the Study of the Canadian Expeditionary Force The Great War of 1914 - 1919

Cyclist Summary

Page 2 of 5

 Moran, John E. (Secretary) Canadian Corps Cyclist Battalion Association 1914 – 1918. Handbook, Toronto, Ontario, November, 1941

Author of Cyclist Summary Document:  Wendy Kimmel

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S. Midland Divisional Cyclist Company

Mounted Troops

Recruiting poster for the 48th (South Midland) Division Cyclist Company

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The movie, "The Cyclist" should be made here in Hollywood North, Metro Vancouver where there's plenty of Moonbeam cyclists available as extras.

Caligraphy "Letter F" for "Farmers, in general, are more familiar with horses than other classes of farm live stock."

This may sound like a lead up to "Animal Farm"or "Oklahoma", but why oh why are BC Government Reports so plain jane, spun off from a computer, when there's the Real Thing, hand crafted from the early 1900s.

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Horse Raising

ARMERS in general are more familiar with horses than with any other class of farm live stock.  They are kept on almost every farm either to perform work, to breed from, or both.  They furnish the motive power that operates the various farm implements and machinery.  It is impossible to farm successfully under present conditions without them.  There have been men in recent years who have endeavoured to eliminate the horse entirely from farming operations, and to perform all their work by machinery.  These men have failed to accomplish what they set out to do.  The power outfits are good in their place, but they have not as yet supplanted, and are not likely to supplant, the horse for general farm work.

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F is for "Farmers, as a whole..."

".............and in some case enabling them to market their produce."

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D is for "During the Summer of 1920 ... "

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What would 1979 Nobel Peace recipient Mother Teresa say to Quebec Premier Pauline Marois' Values Charter?

There is no Value to the Values Charter.

Quote one of her many Quotes?

Will Quebec's Values Charter bar religious orders (and especially symbols, the veils) from working in publicly funded hospitals?

Will the Nunnery become None? 

Mother Teresa 1979 Nobel Peace recipient

Chicken Feathers!!!!! You say? Superheated chicken feathers? ... to hold vast amounts of Hydrogen?

The Source who gave us the idea for the Nelson "Galvania"  Iron Fertilizer Post, says we should start counting our chickens, REAL chickens, because there's more money to be made out of using discarded Chicken Feathers than the BC Liberal Government's LNG plan of creating a Trillion Dollars worth of Royalties in Fifty years, and wiping out our provincial debt in Fifteen years.

The BC Liberals are after the Black Gold of Coal, Natural Gas, and Tar Sands.

We say"    Chicken Feathers!!!

Chicken feathers may help cars use hydrogen fuel in the future. The feathers would not be the fuel, but they could help store it, new research reveals.

Richard Wool, director of the Affordable Composites from Renewable Resources program at the University of Delaware in Newark has this to say:

.... Wool and his colleagues say that super heated chicken feather fibers could hold vast amounts of hydrogen. They first looked at chicken feathers because they are extraordinarily cheap — the United States alone generates some 6 billion pounds of the feathers per year.

"It actually costs the poultry industry money to get rid of these feathers, so they're basically for free," Wool told LiveScience.

Chicken feather fibers are mostly composed of keratin, the same protein found in nails, scales, claws and beaks. When carefully heated for precise times to specific temperatures, the carbon-rich surfaces that result on the fibers attract hydrogen, somewhat like how activated charcoal filters can pull out impurities from liquids or gases. The heating process can also form hollow tubes between the fibers, strengthening their structure, and make them become more porous, boosting their surface area and thus their capacity to store gas. One can then pump gas into the fibers and store it at high pressure, and to release the gas, one just depressurizes it or raises the temperature.

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Wool estimated that when using carbonized chicken feather fibers to store hydrogen, it would take a 75-gallon tank to go 300 miles in a car. His team is working to improve that range.

In addition to hydrogen storage, Wool and his colleagues are working on ways to transform chicken feather fibers into a number of other products, including hurricane-resistant roofing, lightweight car parts and bio-based computer circuit boards. Indeed, other researchers have suggested that chicken feathers could become common in clothing in the future.

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USE OF FEATHERS

H. Maxwell, ENGLAND

1933

Some feathers, no doubt, are dried and stuffed haphazardly into odd cushions and pillows and so prove not entirely unprofitable, but the majority seldom get farther than the rubbish bin or fire. Yet, properly treated, all kinds of feathers are as money-making, in proportion, as good laying hens.

Some idea of the earning possibilities of feathers can be gathered from the fact that from 1920 - 1925 nearly £600,000 was spent on importing them. To-day that figure is probably half as much again for a shorter period.

It is perhaps not generally realized the diversity of purposes for which feathers are used, and this may in part account for lack of consideration of their moneymaking possibilities. The millinery trade still demands large stocks, whilst the fancy-goods merchants use tremendous quantities of all kinds of feathers. Manufacturers of artists' brushes, fishing-tackle, pipe-cleaners, are among those who depend upon the poultry-farm for their raw material in the shape of feathers. In preparing feathers for selling, each class of poultry should be kept apart. Duck and geese feathers fetch the best prices. Fowls and turkeys come next. White feathers fetch more than coloured ones, and the best time for marketing is during the summer and early autumn. In spring and at Christmas prices are lower. SNIPPED, PLUCKED

Page 2,
 Closing paragraphs to "Use of Feathers":

Most women consider that quilts of any kind demand " down," and few would attempt to make such items from the more easily obtained coarser feathers. This is a pity, because quite good quilts can be made out of stripped body-feathers alone. An extremely simple method of making quilts is to do them in the form of small bags, afterwards covering them and sewing them together.

Cut some length of  "down" proof sateen or cambric 2 inches long and 6 inches wide, seam and fill with feathers, afterwards sewing them up cushionwise. The size is a matter of convenience and taste, but the above is suggested as it holds the feathers from one hen and is therefore a guide.  For a quilt suitable for baby cot or buggy, six such bags are necessary. The great advantage about such quilts is that they can be added to indefinitely with very little trouble or time. 

For making a full-sized quilt, forty-five bags would be necessary and 7 yards of material would be required.

"DilBit": A Petroleum Industry Code for Dill Pickle appetizers or Diluted Bitumen

Dill Pickle Appetizers

Google Search Criteria:  Diluted Bitumen 

If a Phyllis Fox were to place railway companies in Canada involving the transportation of  DilBits under her "microscope", then perhaps the Lac-Megantic's disaster would have been prevented.

Wikipedia:  Dissecting the Lac-Megantic's remains after a "visit" from MM&A train wrecking crew, this Link  includes the starting point of the tankers, and the final destination refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick.

The oil, shipped by World Fuel Services subsidiary Dakota Plains Holdings Incorporated from New Town, North Dakota, originated from the Bakken formation.  The destination was the Irving Oil Refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick.  Shipment of the oil was contracted to Canadian Pacific Railway (reporting mark CPR), which transported the oil on CPR tracks from North Dakota to the CPR yard in Côte Saint-Luc, a suburb of Montreal.  CPR sub-contracted MMA to transport the oil from the CPR yard in Côte Saint-Luc to the MMA yard in Brownville Junction. CPR also sub-contracted New Brunswick Southern Railway (reporting mark NBSR) to transport the oil from the MMA yard in Brownville Junction to the final destination at the refinery in Saint John.  - Wikipedia

Finding a Phyllis Fox Report on the use of railway tankers to haul DilBits to a Valero Refinery, north of San Francisco, was NOT on our agenda, when we started our search in late August.   DilBits was neither on our short list nor the long lists.  It was an unknown entity.

We started out with a Google search for other sources on the intensity of the rail tankers fire: 
HydroCracking chemicals railway tankers CPR
 
HydroCracking rather than Hydraulic Fracking, because it's not as well known by the Public

CPR because it's the main player in the shipment of Bakken Crude oil.

The Google Search came up with Golden Nugget of data.  Second page of Ten Google hits, Second Hit:

Reports - Switchboard, from NRDC - nrdc.org The pollutants in the diluent blended with these DilBit crudes and in the light sweet shale crudes include significant amounts of hazardous air pollutants, such as.

http://www.co.contra-costa.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/28439

 INTRODUCTION

The Valero Benicia Refinery (Refinery) is proposing to import certain unidentified "North American sourced crude oils" to the Refinery by railroad (Project).  The City of Benicia has issued a draft Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration (IS/MND) 1 for this Project.

I (Phyllis Fox)(Ph.D, PE, BCEE, QEP, REA II Environmental Management) was asked to review the IS/MND and prepare comments on the impact of the imported crude on air emissions from the Refinery.  My analyses , presented below, indicate the subject "North American sourced crudes " that would be imported by rail are likely to include Canadian tar sand crudes blended with diluent or "DilBits". These have the potential to increase emissions compared to the current crude slate, which would result in potentially significant impacts not disclosed in the IS/MND.

The "North American sourced crudes "may also include light sweet shale oil crudes, such as Bakken, which also have the  potential to increase emissions, and result in significant environmental impacts, compared  to the current crude slate. The pollutants in the diluent blended with these  DilBit crudes and in the light sweet shale crudes include significant  amounts of hazardous air pollutant such as benzene, a potent carcinogen. These would be emitted at many fugitive component impacts not disclosed at the Refinery, including compressors, pumps, valves, fittings, and tanks, in greater amounts than from other crudes that are currently being refined or have otherwise been proposed.  SNIPPED

  Valero Benicia Refinery

IS/MND   Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration


Valero Improvement Project (VIP)

 Crude by Rail Project

Environmental Impact Report (EIR)

Phyllis Fox, Ph.D, PE, BCEE, QEP, REA II  Environment Management
30 page CV (curriculum vitae) aka Bio

C. What Crude Will Be Imported By Rail?

Refining generates emissions. The type and amount of emissions depend upon the chemical characteristics of the specific crudes included in the slate. The central question that must be answered to determine environmental impacts of the Crude by Rail Project is what crude(s) will be imported by rail, and what crude(s) will replace them, for the life of the Project. This is not disclosed in the IS/MND, presenting a mystery for reviewers.

In fact, the IS/MND goes to great lengths to not identify the crudes that would be imported, quoting only ranges in two parameters -- sulfur content and API gravity -- which are irrelevant to potential impacts. The IS/MND claims nothing would change except the mode of transportation, from ship to rail. It ignores all impacts related to the crude itself. Thus, the IS/MND is asserting a claim that is inconsistent with the massive refinery upgrade and expansion currently underway. The VIP heavy sour crude expansion would not be built if Valero was really planning to sweeten and lighten up its crude slate. Further, the IS/MND claims as confidential all information that one could potentially use to identify these crudes, including crude quality data, process flow diagrams, and critical support for the emission calculations. ATC, Appx. A, B.  SNIPPED

As to the quality of metal work in the Valero Refinery, and quite possibly Irving's, there's this on Page 37

 III.

ACCIDENTAL RELEASES WILL INCREASE

The Benicia Refinery was built before current American Petroleum Institute (API) standards were developed to control corrosion and before piping manufacturers began producing carbon steel in compliance with current metallurgical codes. While some of Benicia's metallurgy was updated as part of the VIP, metallurgy used throughout much of the Refinery is likely not adequate to handle the unique chemical composition of tar sands crudes without significant upgrades. There is no assurance that required metallurgical upgrades would occur as they are very expensive and not required by any regulatory framework. Experience with changes in crude slate at the nearby Chevron Refinery in Richmond suggest required metallurgical upgrades are ignored, leading to catastrophic accidents.  The IS/MND is silent on corrosion issues and metallurgical conditions of the Refinery.

Tankers hauling the DilBit should be a cause of concern, a "pickle", that the Petroleum industry, and Governments, now find themselves in.

In British Columbia alone, when it comes to Refineries, and keeping in mind Black and his Backers for a new Refinery in Kitimat:

1976                                                Convert m³/d to bbl/d
Page 5 of 29 Commissioning
Gulf Oil                   Port Moody    232.09 bbl/d (36.9 m³/d)

Imperial Oil             Ioco  1914      218.89 bbl/d  (34.8 m³/d)

Shell Oil                  Burnaby        130.20 bbl/d (20.7m³/d)

Chevron Oil            Burnaby           35.5m³/d

Gulf Oil                  Kamloops         7.9m³/d

Pacific Petroleum   Taylor              15.0m³/d

Union Oil               Prince George   7.6m³/d



 Current:

Commissioned in 1935
Burnaby Refinery, Burnaby, (Chevron Corporation), 52,000 bbl/d (8,300 m³/d)


Commissioned in 1967
Prince George Refinery, Prince George, (Husky Energy), 12,000 bbl/d (1,900 m³

What is this

Built-in Upper  Corner Cabinet   20" X 30"

Red Cedar cabinet

Red Cedar Frame

Red Cedar Door Frame

Black Walnut Panel (loose) in Door frame

UPDATE  September 13, 2013

With the assistance of three Artists:  Tom Carter, Joe Cash and Guy Moonan Woods, the latter thinks the corner cabinet is an Eastern Canadian piece for the late 18th or 19th century.  The folk Chip Carving was likely done some time later as a winter project.

The Artists have only seen the same photos that are posted here.   To be clear, the Chip Carving panel was inserted into the door frame dado and then the hand cut Mortise and Tenon joints were glued together (horse glue).

"Dots", various size of dots, are gouged out from the surface of the Black Walnut Panel

"Four-some" clock-wise or counter clock-wise Scratch marks on Red Cedar Door Frame, no two lines are the same

Petals are like Snowflakes, no two are the same

1910 or earlier

Vancouver BC

MacKenzie Heights

White dots, which have now been removed, are spider droppings

Fair Incendiary Comment? Don't Mix three items: 1) Conservative/BC Liberals Jobs; 2) $8 Billion Shipbuilding; 3) Sulphur/Coal/Chlorine/Wood Chips

UPDATE July 11, 2014 at bottom:

Transportation Act Provincial Public Undertakings Regulation on Bridges, Tunnels, Highways

 Explosives, flammables and corrosives

UPDATE September 20, 2013,  at bottom:  WOOD CHIPS
UPDATE September 22, 2013, right here:
      Table of Initial Isolation and Protective Action Distances
                First Isolate in all directions   
                Then Protect Persons Downwind During Large Spills Day/Night
Google Search Criteria for more info

UPDATE September 25, 2013 Wikimapia of CNR Thornton Tunnel

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Photo Source 2010

In 2010, West Vancouver Fire Department utilized 16 of 89 of their Firefighters from three Fire Halls to put out a Sulphur fire.  Evacuations alerts to nearby businesses and homes were performed with the use of PAs (Public Address loud hailers).  They even considered implementing a Canada Amber Alert.   The Amber alert would be displayed on overhead signs for the benefit of Motorists.

Where to go, where would they go, to escape.

Currently, Open hopper sulphur cars are stored between Fell to MacKay and east of the Lions Gate Bridge, North Van

Shipyard Left - Kinder Morgan Vancouver Wharves ahead  SULX 1389

"The sulphur in there was smouldering and causing a moderate amount of smoke.  It wasn't free flaming.  We went in and put it out.  The Squamish Nation and Norgate were put on evacuation warning.  Police went througn with their PA systems and asked residents to shelter in place." Assistant Fire Chief Martin Ernst of  West Vancouver Fire and Rescue played many roles today: media relations manager, firefighter, and coordinator, as sixteen fire fighters worked to extinguish smouldering sulphur in an open box car on the Capilano Reserve.

"We were mobilizing the Can Alert system because the smoke was starting to drift and increase."..... and we also brought in NSEMO.

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About 500 homes are on the reserve. As the West Vancouver Fire Department got the situation in hand, Mason said,  the phone campaign to alert residents stopped.

The area of concern covered an 800 meter radius around the spill. Indian and Northern Affairs and the Provincial Emergency Program were kept up to date on the fire. There were no  transportation impacts.

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"But what if it had been chlorine?" Shaw asked. (Chris Shaw, a neuroscientist and professor at UBC)

"Had it been a rail accident with chlorine, they'd be evacuating everyone within a couple of kilometers.  Potentially thousands of people.  Let's be happy that's not what happened today.  But it calls into question the transport of dangerous materials through residential areas." - VancouverObserver - Aug 10th, 2010

It's that last sentence, three years ago, that speaks volumes, prophetically:

 "But it calls into question the transport of dangerous materials through residential areas."
 

Lac-Megantic disaster
Dilbit EpicCentre

45°34'39.47"N 70°53'2.77"W

Red Lined 800 Meter Radius

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Port of Vancouver

 Has BC Disaster Response personnel got it covered, because right now, the highways are out of bound as evacuation routes.  Those highways are the means by which First Responders have jurisdiction.  

North Vancouver Evacuation Radius coloured by stockpiled resource.

Green Ship - Chlorine manufacturer Canexus
Green Line - Chlorine Two Kilometre evacuation Radius

Blue Ship   -  $8 Billion Shipbuilding location

Yellow Bar -  Sulphur open hopper cars
Red Line    -  Sulphur 800 Metre evacuation Radius

Black Ship  -  Coal

Maroon Vent A- 49°16'46.42"N 123° 1'6.12"W
                          CNR Thornton Tunnel Vents into residential area
Thornton Tunnel adits:
South: from Second Narrows Rail Bridge.
North: from one and half blocks West of Willingdon, one and half block south of Lougheed Highway

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Or another way of looking, with an interactive map

Wikimapia Thornton Tunnel, North Leg, highlighted with hovering mouse

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North Vancouver's Neptune Terminal keep their piled-high-Coal-at-bay by pressure washing the road between CNR rail lines .... but we own the Right-of-Way (BC Rail Deal) and the Administration building's parking lot.  They also have high towers watering the coal, where one is visible in this image from Google Earth.    49°18'24.48"N 123° 3'6.00"W

As to the $8 billion, 30 year possible contract of building Coast Guard and Naval vessels on the North Shore of Burrard Inlet, has anyone, government officials at the Federal and Provincial levels done their homework on Sulphur being a stone's throw away from the $200 million upgrade to the Washington Group's SeaSpan Vancouver Shipyard?

Has Municipal governments been involved?

Has Transport Canada's Rail Investigators been involved?  Or, are they still busy working on the:

Lac-Megantic disaster

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Wayback Machine to FOLC Additional Info

Additional information: Sulphur handling related incidents/evacuations

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Conveyor Belt from Three piles of Wood Chips to waiting ship.
  $8 billion worth of shipbuilding to the Right

Piles of Sulphur to the left, Wood Chips (FIRE) side by side to $8 billion investment in Vancouver Shipyards at the foot of Pemberton.

There's a Win/Win situation here.  Ask Wood Chips company Fibreco, directly west of Vancouver Shipyards, to shift their Vancouver Port business to Robert's Bank and Fibreco would benefit, Canada too.   Shorter distance for Overseas Bulk Carriers to a Fibreco Dock, less time for Truckers hauling chips from the Interior of British Columbia thereby avoiding the congestion on Metro Vancouver Highways, and the overloaded traffic on the Second Narrow Bridge.


The Canadian Government owns the Japanese built Panamax Floating Dry Dock, not Burrard Dry Dock, not Versatile Pacific, and not Seaspan. Write your MP asking that Seaspan's Vancouver Dry Dock needs to shift on over to the foot of Pemberton, West side (Currently Fibreco).  The floating Panamax Dry Dock Repair business would then be side by side to Vancouver Shipyard's $8 Billion New ship building Contract, for 30 Years.   There's a lot of benefits for Seaspan, their workforce wouldn't be split in Two, therefore greater control, with less management involvement.  One warehouse too.

This photo isn't quite clear as to the size of the Vancouver Dry Dock but it's one third of the original facility.   One third!

Seaspan Vancouver Dry Dock Photo

Preferably, for the Residents and Visitors to the North Shore, more open space to the waterfront would be better than having a fully operational shipyard right next to Condos.  The Black highlighted upside down "U" is Vancouver Dry Dock property.  The area to the Right, the white topped building, is a temporary structure that was built solely to house the Three Fast Cat Ferries under the flag of Catamaran Ferries International.

City of North Vancouver  Waterfront Project

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Transportation Act Provincial Public Undertakings Regulation

 Explosives, flammables and corrosives

6 (1)  In this section, "contaminated vehicle" means a vehicle that

(a) is transporting any of the following:

(i)  gasoline, distillate or kerosene in tanks, drums, barrels or cans;

(ii)  oxygen, acetylene or butane;

(iii)  fuel oil, road oil, hot roadmix, lubricating oil or grease or solid or liquid asphaltum;

(iv)  explosives or corrosive liquids, or

(b) is transporting empty tanks if those tanks

(i)  had contained gasoline, distillate or kerosene, and

(ii)  have not been thoroughly cleaned with steam or filled with water.

(2)  A person must not operate a contaminated vehicle on or within any of the Agassiz-Rosedale Bridge, the William R. Bennett Bridge, the Nelson Bridge, the Pattullo Bridge, the First Narrows Bridge, the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Bridge, the Oak Street Bridge, the Knight Street Bridge, the Queensborough Bridge or the Port Mann Bridge other than during the time or times specified for that operation on signs posted by the minister on the approaches to the structure.

[am. B.C. Reg. 81/2008.]

Is Reading (including Monopoly's railway) Brands on a "Critter" similar to deciphering Tattoo Branding?

 There's a record of George Washington, the first president of the United States, having branded his cattle using the brand G W on either the shoulder or the hip of cattle.

 And here we thought G W was a Brand for a Jean manufacturer.

Branding Critters (1972)

 

BC Government Database search Criteria:  Why Brand

File Name:  captm120-05 (Marking Procedures)

Branding

Hot branding has been used in a number of instances to imprint identification numbers on the horns and skin of wild mammals. This method produces third-degree burns which lead to the production of visible scar tissue. Because of the pain associated with this procedure, this method is not commonly recommended.
Freeze branding (cyro-branding) appears to be more acceptable than hot branding for marking wildlife because it is less painful and the possibility of infection is minimized. This technique, which was originally developed for the identification of livestock, has been used with varying results in several wildlife species.

Tattooing

Tattooing is a common method of identification and has been used successfully in many species. Tattoos have been applied to the inside of the lip, the ear, and the thinly-haired area of the groin. The location and proper application of the tattoo will influence its future readability. In most cases, the animal must be recaptured or examined after death in order to read this type of mark.

Toe, Ear and Tail Clipping

Techniques that involve the removal or damage of tissue, such as toe, tail, or ear clipping are forms of mutilation. These procedures may have adverse effects on the behaviour and survival of wild animals and their use in marking free ranging wild species cannot generally be condoned. It is strongly recommended that alternative marking techniques be used in field research. However, in those few instances where removal of tissue is not judged to impair the normal activities and survivability of the marked animal and does not cause bone damage, pain or severe blood loss (e.g. ear notchings of small rodents), these marking techniques can be utilized. When toe or tail clipping are felt to be the only methods that can meet the requirements of a particular study, their use should be appropriately reviewed and approved by a review or animal care committee before implementation.
The removal of toes must never be performed on animals that use them for activities such as burrowing (ground squirrels) or climbing (red squirrels), or on animals where important bone structures have to be removed. When toe clipping is used is used as a marking technique, no more than one toe per foot should be removed.

Chisel, Chisel, Chiselers of the high standards of Canada's National Parks via portable fossil saws and helicopters

In the Globe and Mail newspaper this morning (August 9, 2013) is an article written by Carrie Tait on the findings of a NEW fossil bed found in Kootenay National Park, at the foot of Stanley Glacier:

Fossil hunters Jean-Bernard Caron and Robert Gaines walk through the wreckage of a forest fire, cross a creek by balancing on logs, hike up loose mountain rocks and lateral moraines above the treeline – all to reach the bottom of an ocean.

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Sounds like they are pretty prudent, respectful, of their surroundings, eh?

They chisel, chisel, chisel the length of the middle of a rock until they see a fracture. Then they do the same at the fracture until the grey rock splits in two. The researchers inspect the face of the split rock, and if nothing excites them, they toss it aside and repeat the process. The repetition can be dull until they find new shapes – forms of life last spotted half a billion years ago.

“Usually there is a swear word and everyone turns around,” Prof. Caron says.

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 Profs. Caron and Gaines are even more keen on another new fossil find. This new discovery, however, makes them cagey. They won’t reveal its location, save for hinting it is near the Stanley Glacier site. The newest Burgess Shale-like discovery further increases diversity in this neighbourhood of the animal kingdom, they say, and the quality of the preservation makes them giddy.

Even at the Stanley Glacier site there is plenty more work to do. A German adventurer found the first fossil here in 1996 and reported it to authorities. Preliminary scientific legwork followed in 2007, and the first expedition, led by Prof. Caron, started chiseling away here in August, 2008.

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Profs. Caron and Gaines believe that expedition only scratched the surface. They did not have permission to camp near the site, so they had to trek to the fossil find, about two hours each way. The daily hike meant they returned home with fewer fossils, and fewer inches around their waists – they dubbed it the Burgess Shale Workout.

Next time they are allowed back to the field – they need Parks Canada’s permission to search for and remove fossils – the scientists would love to trade their chisels for jackhammers to get further inside the mountains. Prof. Gaines, who conducted his PhD research in western Utah, puts the potential in perspective.

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UNESCO World Heritage Centre

World List UNESCO long list

Canadian Rocky Mountains UNESCO short list



Now here's the rub, with the Globe and Mail story, because of an earlier story on the same "Chisels", in 2010.  In the report above, the scene is set whereby the scientists are using hard labour to get to and from the site AND not leaving anything behind at their campsite .... that might damage the environment.... nothing foreign to taint the high standards expected from a UNESCO billing... 

Pomona College

New Fossil Bed Discovery by Royal Ontario Museum/Pomona College Team Challenges Assumptions

About Famous Fossil Site  By Cynthia Peters 4:09 pm September 2, 2010 Research, Faculty

Robert Gaines, professor of geology at Pomona College, is part of an exploration team that discovered a new fossil deposit whose existence challenges long-held assumptions about the Burgess Shale, which is famous for its exceptional preservation of soft-bodied fossils of the Cambrian-era, during the dawn of animal life.

The discovery, “A new Burgess Shale-type assemblage from the ‘thin’ Stephen Formation of the southern Canadian Rockies,” was reported in the September 2010 issue of Geology. (Abstract)

“The classic Burgess Shale deposits,” explains Gaines, “are found at the base of a large underwater cliff. What is preserved there is extraordinary: We find eyes, antennae, guts and other soft body parts that normally stand no chance of fossilization. The cliff was thought to be important in producing mudslides that transported the organisms from their living environment to a habitat that was hostile but great for preservation. The new locality challenges that assumption.”

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Chisel, Chisel, Chisel

Fossil hunters Jean-Bernard Caron and Robert Gaines walk through the wreckage of a forest fire.....

If you've clicked on the link to "Pomona", the article is all fine and dandy.... for Kootenay National Park... but the two bottom images included with that article and copied here...above..... are from Yoho National Park!  Beyond and below the helicopter, the valley bottom, is the Kicking Horse River, that flows out of Wapta Lake, which is hemmed in to the east, by the Continental Divide.  The "loop", down below, to the left of the helicopter, on the other side of the river, is the road for the overflow camping area of Kicking Horse Campground.



Now contrast all of the above to what we observed on a trip into Lake O'Hara this past month: No transportation (no bikes either) except for two shuttle Private buses managed by Yoho National Park staff, on a Private road owned by a Private Lodge in a Public park, with a Jasper National Park like quota system on visitors, 42 day timers not including overnighters (campers/lodge and bungalow guests).

Once a week scientists billeted in Canmore, take the bus up to Lake O'Hara, with all their gear.... then backpack all of their computer equipment, cables, inflatable 2 person zodiac, oars too, up to Lake Oesa, take their readings from the depths, and then cart all of their equipment back down again.  one way = 3.2 Kilometers (2 Miles); 240 Metres (787 feet) .... A helicopter carting the fossil spoils would be fine... but.... this isn't Kootenay National Park.


The scientists are NOT permitted to leave any of the equipment on site.  They're not even permitted to STAY in the Park because of the Quota system.... which is great... for the environment.

Helicopters are a No go.  Outboard engines..... are a No go.

The apparent difference between Yoho/Kootenay Park's fossil beds and Yoho's Lake O'Hara is that the Lodge owner has it in writing that their pristine surroundings remain out of bounds for airborne  equipment, ......  a no-fly-zone.

Google Search Criteria:  Jean-Bernard Caron and Robert Gaines

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Heaps of Fossils From Evolutionary ‘Big Bang’ Discovered

souggy,  Aug 31, 2010 16:09 EDT (2 years ago)  on  AllDeaf.com  (Original Article) 

---Quote--- By Alexandra Witze, Science News August 30, 2010 | 5:28 pm | Categories: Biology, Earth Science Image: http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2010/08/4885667304_776be41489_b1-660x493.jpg 

One of paleontology’s most revered fossil sites now has a baby brother. Scientists have discovered a group of astonishing fossils high in the Canadian Rockies, just 40 kilometers from the famous Burgess Shale location. A paper describing the find appears in the September issue of Geology. Since its discovery in 1909, the Burgess Shale has yielded many thousands of fossils dating to 505 million years ago — a period often called “evolution’s big bang,” when animals were exploding in diverse body plans. 

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....the creatures unearthed also include eight taxa previously unknown to science. They include an unnamed worm; Stanleycaris hirpex, a segmented shrimp-like critter known as an anomalocarid; and an arthropod with big eyes dangling on stalks from its head shield. Until now, paleontologists had thought one reason the Burgess fossils were so well preserved was because they settled in thick deposits at the bottom of an ancient ocean protected by a submarine cliff. But the Stanley Glacier fossils weren’'t formed in the presence of such a cliff, suggesting that creatures can be fossilized in amazing detail in other environments. 

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In May, after studying new Burgess fossils from one of the original sites, Caron and colleagues reported new details on a creature that may be one of the earliest known relatives of octopuses, squid and other cephalopods. 

Image: Looking towards Stanley Glacier, site of the new fossil deposit. Flickr/judemat. Read More Heaps of Fossils From Evolutionary ‘Big Bang’ Discovered | Wired Science | Wired.com ---End Quote--- Burgress Shale is on one of my destination lists. :hmm: Maybe this one as well.

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Quincunx System: "Planting Plans and Distances" 1924 M.S. Middleton B.S.A.

Commercial orchards are staked out and planted according to one of our systems. Square, Quincunx, Rectangular or Hexagonal

 Ever wonder how, orchards, gardens, were laid out, in Kelowna and the rest of the Okanagan Valley?

Planting Plans and Distances

Quincunx ??????? ... images .... Google

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Link Updated 2017-07-19

 Cawston (BC) Bench Reclamation Project 1945

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Quincunx .....  ferrebeekeeper    examples of Quincunx  ... a roll of a die.... five dots or a coat of arms decoration:

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M.S. Middleton (Morrice Middleton), the author of the above Bulletin. .... piqued our interest.... what else has he left for us.

Mr. Middleton... no relation to "Our Kate"?

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(Lady) Tweedsmuir History of Oyama BC

compiled by Kalamalka Women's Institute 1951

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Janet Middleton, Water Colours and Silk Screen prints, Instructor at the Banff School of fine Arts

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Old Indian Settlement .... Map Page 18 of 38

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The late Morrice MIddleton, District Horticulturist for the Okanagan Valley, fathered the standardization of commercial varieties of apples.

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Art and Treasury Gallery at Jadebay: local pottery, weaving, silvercraft and paintings displayed and sold