 ( "Max" was a nom de plume for Kevin O'Kendley/ toon was originally copyrighted in the 90s by Kevin O'Kendley)
Prevailing winds from the Rust Belt in the U.S. and Canada provide L.A.-like air quality conditions in some areas of Maine in the summer. Acid Rain. Smog. Respiratory harm to life. New England-area warming has impacted the dog and deer tick life-cycle from a normally dormant winter life to an active winter life. I pull ticks off of dogs in January now. Just a few years ago I pulled the last ticks of summer in October-November, years before that September-October. The moose and deer population of Maine have suffered dramatically even in winter, causing underweight, malnourished moose to suffer and die as a result. As the water temperature rises in Vermont the most active and reliable trout hatcheries are in Maine. Watching the trout population in a brook (I lived by for years) survive in healthy and supportive conditions -- as immediate temperatures rise and life changes in the most forested state in the nation -- I wonder how much longer the brook trout will still be there… 9/26: "Each of the first six months of 2016 set a record as the warmest respective month globally in the modern temperature record, which dates to 1880, according to the scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York." - Google "Twenty-two of the 54 (people) killed in a devastating (terrorist) bomb attack that struck a Kurdish wedding celebration in (Gaziantep) Turkey were under 14, a Turkish official said Monday." It is possible that the suicide bomber was between 12 and 14. - CNN In response to this awful tragedy, please give to: The Turkish Red Crescent Society: Atac Sokak 1 No. 32/ Yenishir/ Ankara, Turkey/ (90) (312) 430-23-00/ international@kizilay.org.tr
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