PEEC Brings New Film To Planetarium
PEEC News:Geology Outing With Patrick Rowe To Windmill Fossil Site And Shark’s Tooth Ridge Oct. 14
A Pebble Pup and parent show off what they found while exploring the windmill site with Patrick Rowe last fall. Pebble Pups is a geology club for youth ages 6 to 10. Courtesy/PEECBPU, Council Weigh Finance Options For Replacing White Rock Wastewater Treatment Plant
At left, DPU Deputy Manager Jack Richardson and DPU Manager Tim Glasco present finance options available for replacement of the White Rock Wastewater Treatment Plant at the Sept. 21 BPU and Council joint meeting in Council Chambers. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
BY KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com
The wastewater treatment plant in White Rock needs to be replaced and a discussion on how to finance the project was held during the Los Alamos County Council and Board of Public Utilities (BPU) joint work session Read More
Cuba Ranger District Plans Prescribed Burns This Fall
SFNF News:- Diego treatment area, 386 acres north of the community of Gilman and east of the Rancho del Chaparral Girl Scout Camp;
- La Jara treatment area, 338 acres northeast of the community of La Jara;
ESB Tables Roll Cart Ordinance To Seek More Input
A local resident speaking during public comment at the Environmental Sustianability Board meeting Sept. 21 holds up motion detected lights that she uses to dissuade bears from visiting her home. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Members of the community turned out for the Environmental Sustainability Board meeting Sept. 21. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com
The proposed amendments to the Los Alamos County ordinance for preventing wildlife getting into trash cans ignited Read More
Daily Postcard: Ashley Pond Fountain
Daily Postcard: Ashley Pond Fountain in downtown Los Alamos. Photo by Nicholas Seet Read More
ESB And Eco Station Staff Conduct Walk Through Recyle Audit Of Roll Carts In White Rock Neighborhoods Friday
COUNTY News:
Members of the Environmental Sustainability Board and staff from the Los Alamos County Eco Station will conduct a walk through of neighborhoods in White Rock Friday, Sept. 29 to survey recycle roll carts at the curb.
They are checking the carts for the volume of recycling placed in them, in order to assist them in evaluating options for route pick up and frequency of the future brush roll carts that will be added to the system and distributed next year.
NNSA: No Risk Of An Inadvertent Criticality At LANL From Aug. 18 Event
By MAIRE O’NEILLReaction has been widespread to a memorandum issued Sept. 1 by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board regarding what it calls a criticality safety event that occurred Aug. 18 at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Plutonium Facility.
National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) officials are now saying that the amount of material involved was well within parameters known to be safe and that there was no risk of an inadvertent criticality at any time.
The DNFSB memorandum indicates that the event occurred in the casting Read More
PEEC Organizes Natural Arch Hike Oct. 8
Natural Arch. Photo by Chris SwansonPrescribed Burn Set To Start In Gallinas Watershed
SFNF News:Chick Keller To Lead Final Wildflower Walk Of 2017
Wildflower expert Chick Keller leads the last wildflower walk of the season Oct. 2. Photo by Thomas Graves PhotographySFNF: Why It Makes Sense To Manage Wildfires Now
SFNF News:Outdoor Nature Loom Project And Workshop Oct. 4
A Nature Loom created from sticks and leaves that caught the artist’s interest. Photo by Liz MartineauAn eight-foot tall Nature Loom will be added Oct. 4 to the Los Alamos Nature Center’s outdoor nature play area.
NNSA Collaborates With South African Firm On Groundbreaking Conversion To Low-Enriched Uranium-Based Molybdenum-99 Production
NNSA News:Daily Postcard: Looking Down Rendija Canyon
Daily Postcard: Spectacular view Sunday from Rendija Canyon. Photo by Josh Smith Read More
DOE Extends Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract
EM-LA News:
The U.S. Department of Energy today extended the Environmental Management – Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Bridge Contract by a period of six months.
The period of extension is valued at approximately $65 million. With the extension, the contract will expire March 31, 2018.
The contract was originally set to expire Sept. 30, 2017. The Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Bridge Contract is a Cost-Plus-Award Fee (CPAF) contract that is for the purpose of providing environmental remediation services at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
The cleanup work Read More
Researchers Find New Way To Manipulate Magnetism
Schematic shows how different energies of argon (Ar) ions bombarding a thin film of cobalt (Co) sandwiched between platinum (Pt) layers can twist or rotate the spin of electrons in a particular direction, by controlling an effect known as the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). Credit: NISTPEEC: Los Luceros Birding Trip Oct. 7
The Rio Grande at Los Luceros. Courtesy/PEEC
PEEC News:
The Pajarito Environmental Education Center is offering a special opportunity Saturday, Oct. 7 to go birding at New Mexico Historic Site Los Luceros.
The trip will be led by expert birder Joe Fitzgibbon, and is $10 per person for PEEC members and $12 per person for all others. This birding trip is limited to 12 participants, and expected to fill quickly.
Los Luceros is a local gem of the New Mexico Historic Sites, and was once nominated as an Audubon Important Bird Area (IBA). More than 150 bird species have been seen at Los Luceros, though it Read More
Prescribed Fire Training Planned In October On Bureau Of Land Management And State Trust Lands
BLM News:Secretary Zinke Declares October National Hunting And Fishing Month
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke
