Weekly Fishing Report: April 5, 2022
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports And Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
One of the most popular fishing holes for Los Alamos anglers opened just in time for the 2022-2023 fishing season. Fenton Lake was opened for fishing March 30 after being closed most of the winter due to unsafe ice conditions. It was just in time for the April 1 start of the 2022-2023 season.
Fenton Lake is heavily-stocked with rainbow trout. It also has some big, wild brown trout. Rio Grande cutthroat trout are occasionally stocked from Seven Springs Fish Hatchery where cutthroat trout are raised. Anglers need to remember that only two cutthroat Read More
Spencer: If You Shoot, Don’t Toke. If You Toke, Don’t Shoot
BY KHAL SPENCER
Los Alamos
Note: I am not a lawyer, and the following is not legal advice from an attorney. The closest I get to the bar in New Mexico is Beer Creek Brewing Company.
Much is in the news regarding the legalization of cannabis products for recreational as well as medicinal consumption in New Mexico, even on the Governor’s official web site. What is curiously missing in all of this hoopla are the legal issues of which there are several important ones for folks in New Mexico, including issues concerning your employment and your Second Amendment rights.
First, your employer may still prohibit Read More
Fuselier: Fear And Hope
By BOB FUSELIER
Los Alamos
Like almost everyone across this world, I’ve been watching the news from Ukraine with a mixture of emotions, ranging from the worry of an authoritarian leader bringing war to western Europe (and devastating the world economy along with it) to the hope of victory and peace for a defiant people willing to risk their lives to protect their families, freedom, and homeland.
Worry has its roots in fear, whether it is an empathetic fear for the people of Ukraine or one for how this war will affect us here in the US, both personally and societally. Fear is a natural and important emotion. Read More
Posts From The Road: Roy’s Café In Amboy, Calif.
Golden Hour: We arrived at Roy’s Motel and Café at the last light of the day in Amboy, Calif. Shown are the gas pumps that stand in front of the convenience store, which also stocks a nice supply of Route 66 souvenirs and an assortment of Route 66 sodas. We were at Roy’s in March 2021, and I cringed at the high gas prices at Roy’s. One year later in March 2022, we are paying more than these prices for gas and diesel in Denver, Colo.! Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
By GARY WARREN
Photographer
Formerly of Los Alamos
As you travel across the Mojave Desert on old Route 66 in Southern California, you really Read More
Fr. Glenn: Stopping Stoning
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
Looking back at the week, what was the big headline? Was it the war in Ukraine? Increasing violence and mayhem in the cities? A precarious economic situation facing the world? A world teetering ever closer to nuclear war? No, the ultimate headliner this week was (gasp!):
Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars!
Well … okie dokie.
Thus was the cause célèbre for the week, resulting in speculations, accusations, threats of action, resignations. And, of course, many reveling in shaming Will Smith for his “horrendous” action. Well, violent acts are rarely called for (and certainly Read More
Wallace: Atacama Desert – An Ecosystem On The Edge
A marshy area near a series of geysers. Courtesy/T. Wallace
An Atacama fox. Courtesy/T. Wallace
By TERRY WALLACE
Los Alamos
The Atacama Desert: an ecosystem on the edge. The Atacama Desert – usually just referred to as the Atacama – is a narrow strip of land between the high Andes in the east and the Pacific Ocean in the west, the Chile-Peru border in the north and the Chilean Matorral in the south.
The north-south length of the Atacama is about 1500 km and it is 70-120 km wide (east-west), and is often called the driest desert in the world (I am not really sure that is the case, but it is very dry!). The average Read More
Emerson: Setting The Record Straight On Dandelions
There is far more to dandelions than what meets the eye! Courtesy photo
By JESSIE EMERSON
Los Alamos
I really know it’s Spring now because I am seeing one perky little plant popping up its cheery little head everywhere. What a welcome sight, spots of bright yellow among the dull grasses of winter.
Doesn’t everyone have childhood memories of blowing on the dandelion seed puff and making a wish as its silky parachutes catch a ride on the wind? If you don’t, make your own childhood memory now, and blow those wishes away. What mother’s heart hasn’t been touched with joy and love when her toddler hands her Read More
