When you enter the exhibition of “Frogs: A Chorus of Colors”, which is open to the public until September 8 at the American Natural History Museum in New York, the first thing you will see is a pair of chubby Mexican frogs, an arboreal species (Pachymedusa Dacnicolor) endemic to Mexico. With luck you can see […]
Month: July 2007
Testimony before House Subcommittee on Fisheries
Testimony of Richard (Dick) Russell HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE ON FISHERIES, WILDLIFE AND OCEANS On The NATIONAL OFFSHORE AQUACULTURE ACT OF 2007 (H.R. 2010) July 12, 2007, Washington, D.C. My name is Dick Russell, and I appreciate the opportunity to testify before you this morning concerning the National Offshore Aquaculture Act of 2007. I am the author […]
Testimony for NMFS Hearing / Navy Sonar
Testimony of Richard (Dick) Russell HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE ON FISHERIES, WILDLIFE AND OCEANS On The NATIONAL OFFSHORE AQUACULTURE ACT OF 2007 (H.R. 2010) July 12, 2007, Washington, D.C. My name is Dick Russell, and I appreciate the opportunity to testify before you this morning concerning the National Offshore Aquaculture Act of 2007. I am the author […]
A giant of the sea finds slimmer pickings
Gray whales are skinnier and scientists suspect Arctic warming is the reason why SAN SIMEON, CALIF. — A female gray whale labored up the coast, the bony ridge of a shoulder blade protruding from what should be the smooth, plump roundness of healthy blubber. “That female looks a little skinny,” said federal biologist Wayne Perryman, […]