A day like all days, filled with the events that alter and illuminate 
our times - Walter Cronkite; but with full data!

Harry


On 4/23/2020 11:46 AM, Fred Schueler wrote:
> On 4/13/2020 2:41 PM, Fred Schueler wrote:
>> On 4/13/2020 12:02 PM, John Jacobs wrote:
>>
>>> Earth Day this year is Wednesday April 22^nd .  Usually, there are 
>>> all kinds of events surrounding this day, but COVID-19 has put a 
>>> damper on that.  However, here’s something you all can do on that 
>>> day:  When you go for a walk around your neighborhood, take a trash 
>>> bag with you, wear gloves, and help to clean up the trash left 
>>> behind by inconsiderate creatures.  We don’t always take a bag with 
>>> us when we walk in the morning, but we’re trying to do that more often.
>
>> ...and, based on the brands and products recovered, publish a 
>> psychological profile of the litterbugs in your local newspaper!
>
> * here's the promised Earth Day psychological assessment of 
> litter-bugging. I was only able to do the 49 m of our land along Buker 
> Road, but it's a start on this literary genre. No snail shells were 
> seen. The results are more like the remains of an old gotten-away bag 
> of kitchen garbage than real roadside littering.
>
> 22 April 2020 - Canada: Ontario: Grenville County: Buker Road Field, 
> 142 m SSW Bishops Mills intersection. (49m between waypoints), 
> 44.87128°N 75.70164°W TIME: 1754-1802. AIR TEMP: 3.5°C, sunny, 
> Beaufort moderate breeze. HABITAT: roadside of grassy/brushy 
> shallow-soil oldfield on limestone plain. OBSERVER: Frederick W. 
> Schueler. 2020/086/e, anthropogenic junk (event). litter, captured. 
> scrappy litter scattered along and back from the road.
>
> - 2 old torn boxes from Yoplait tubes - "Add a taste of sunshine to 
> your day with our fresh and feel-good dairy products. We put a lot of 
> love into every Yoplait product, bringing families across Canada 
> together so they can connect, share and savour every delicious moment 
> along the way."
>
> - 53 x 139 mm wrapper for Dare foods Ltd - "Bear Paws Chocolate Chip 
> bar - Made with real chocolate chips, these moist and chewy Bear Paws 
> taste just like home-baked cookies!" from "a peanut free facility."
>
> - full-size Cheerios box bleached white on upper side - "A Heart 
> Healthy Breakfast Made With Whole Grain Oats. An Essential Part Of 
> Every Morning. No Artificial Flavours."
>
> - torn scrap of blue tee-shirt-like cloth in a Rhamnus cathartica 
> (Common Buckthorn) bush.
>
> - a piece of glitter-spotted tissue paper.
>
> - 19 x 19 x 8 cm black plastic open-top take-out food container
>
> - 355 ml Mug root beer can with "no caffeine."
>
> - cardboard roll from paper towels
>
> - wrapper of Nestle DRUMS mocha cookie crunch - "An indulgent 
> combination of coffee frozen dessert, cookie crunch coating, and a 
> fudge centre. Each cone contains real, bold roast coffee."
>
> - a coffee filter paper.
>
> - rusty 15 cm angled piece of steel.
>
> - old decomposing plastic grocery bag.
>
> . . . so the psychological profile is "dispersed kitchen garbage from 
> a household modestly engaged with processed sweets," at 0.26 items per 
> metre.
>
> The bounds of the survey were:
>
> Buker Road Field, 118 m SSW Bishops Mills intersection. (20m 
> waypoint), 44.87148N 75.70152W TIME: 1754:52. HABITAT: roadside of 
> grassy/brushy shallow-soil oldfield on limestone plain. 2020/086/ea, 
> visit (event). natural history, walk. WAYPT/Y115, collecting for 
> roadside litter assessment. The NNE corner of our land and end of the 
> village pavement here. There's a swoop of sand off the shoulder where 
> the village pavement sweeping ended. Lythrum salicaria (Purple 
> Loosestrife) and Rhamnus frangula (Shining Buckthorn) are the 
> invasives along the roadside - Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine) and 
> Agrilus planipennis (Emerald Ash Borer) -afflicted Fraxinus (Ash) back 
> from the road.
>
> moved 49m SSW - Buker Road Field, 167 m SSW Bishops Mills 
> intersection. (20m waypoint), 44.87107N 75.70176W TIME: 1755:45. 
> HABITAT: roadside of grassy/brushy shallow-soil oldfield on limestone 
> plain. 2020/086/eb, visit (event). natural history, walk. WAYPT/Y116, 
> collecting for roadside litter assessment. The SSW corner of our land 
> here. Rhamnus cathartica (Common Buckthorn) and Rhamnus frangula 
> (Shining Buckthorn) are the invasives along the roadside here - most 
> cut down at least once, but relentlessly sprouting.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>          Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad
>          Fragile Inheritance Natural History

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