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Jul 12
2010
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Fog and RedwoodsPosted by Bruce Robinson in weather , water , trees , Science , research , parks , history , environment , education , coast , climate change , California |
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A new analysis finds there are fewer foggy days along the Northern California coast than there were 100 years ago. That’s bad news for the venerable coast redwoods.

In addition to charting a reduction in the number of foggy days over the past century, U.C. Berkeley researcher Todd E. Dawson says their study also found fewer hours of foggy conditions on the days when the mist was present.
In their analysis, Dawson and his colleague, James Johnstone, found there was a relationship between drought years and fog conditions, but it’s not what one might expect.
Read the abstract of their published paper on this research here.
Even though we may have seen and crossed the Golden Gate Bridge many times, it’s hard not to be impressed each time by its distinctive color and historic profile. The story behind it is equally impressive.






The large and unexpected projects envisioned and executed by Christo and Jeanne-Claude may not fit some conventional definitions of art, says documentary filmmaker Wolfram Hissen, but they certainly strike a chord with a huge number of people.
After the Running Fence was taken down, each landowner got to keep the materials that had been part of it. Some used the poles and hardware in other construction projects, while the thousands of yards of while canvass was generally harder to reuse. One exception ot that was this jacket, made by Amelia Bruhn, and shown at
