Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 56. Sunrise is 6:41 AM and sunset 4:35 PM for 9h 53m 52s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 39.4% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Pedestrian and Bicycle Advisory Committee meets at 5 PM, the Community Development Authority meets at…
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Daily Bread for 10.24.21: The Otters of Singapore Offer a Lesson for Whitewater, Wisconsin
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Bad Ideas, City, Daily Bread, Environment, Nature, Open Government, Press, Water
Daily Bread for 10.22.21: Reporting About Artificial Herbicides in Whitewater, Wisconsin
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Beauty, Daily Bread, Justice, Nature, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 10.21.21: If Beauty Assured Justice, All Wisconsin Would Be Fair
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Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 54. Sunrise is 7:16 AM and sunset 6:01 PM for 10h 44m 58s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 99.3% of its visible disk illuminated. The Whitewater School District’s Policy Review Committee meets at 9 AM, Whitewater’s Community Involvement &…
Cats, Nature, Science/Nature
Friday Catblogging: Tabbies
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James Gorman reports How the Cat Gets Its Stripes: A team of geneticists reported Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications that it had identified a gene in domestic cats that plays a key role in creating the traditional tabby stripe pattern, and that the pattern is evident in embryonic tissue even before hair follicles start…
Conservation, Daily Bread, Nature, State Government
Daily Bread for 9.2.21: Wolf Quotas by ‘Amateur Auction’
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Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 79. Sunrise is 6:21 AM and sunset 7:26 PM, for 13h 04m 28s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 21.2% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets at 6 PM. On this day in 1945, the Japanese Instrument of Surrender…
Cats, Nature
Friday Cat Blogging: Arizona Bobcat Notices She’s Being Watched
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Film, Nature
Film: Treeline
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Cats, Nature
Friday Catblogging: Jaguars Could Make Make a Southwestern Comeback
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Embed from Getty Images Coral Murphy Marcos reports Jaguars could be reintroduced in US south-west, study says: Jaguars could be reintroduced in the south-western US, where hunting and habitat loss led to the big cats’ extinction, a new study says. Scientists and other environmentalists make the case for bringing back the third-largest big cat, after tigers…
Animals, Cats, Nature
Friday Catblogging: Cat-cus
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“Catcus?” You may be cool, but you’ll never be bobcat sitting in a cactus cool. Perched on a saguaro, this bobcat finds itself in a sticky situation @OrganPipeNPS. Perhaps it’s scanning the landscape for dinner or just enjoys lookin’ sharp? #NationalParkWeek pic.twitter.com/HLXXC4II74 — National Park Service (@NatlParkService) April 22, 2021 See also Bobcat in a…