It was the Bay Area's very first bridge. Now it's abandoned in plain sight.

https://www.sfgate.com/obscuresf/article/The-Dumbarton-Rail-Bridge-was-the-Bay-Area-s-first-16613681.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight

Seaweed and Cow Farts

 https://www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news/can-seaweed-cut-methane-emissions-on-dairy-farms

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/12/seaweed-could-help-cow-farts-contribute-less-to-climate-change.html

Re: RMS Titanic Getting the LEGO Treatment

Although at $0.0693 per brick, it's one of the more economic lego sets

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Oh yeah, I saw this earlier. Lincoln would love it but he would want to turn it into an aircraft carrier

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https://gcaptain.com/rms-titanic-getting-the-lego-treatment/

Re: RMS Titanic Getting the LEGO Treatment

Oh yeah, I saw this earlier. Lincoln would love it but he would want to turn it into an aircraft carrier

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https://gcaptain.com/rms-titanic-getting-the-lego-treatment/

RMS Titanic Getting the LEGO Treatment

https://gcaptain.com/rms-titanic-getting-the-lego-treatment/

Forecasters See No Supply Chain Recovery Before End of Next Year

https://gcaptain.com/forecasters-see-no-supply-chain-recovery-before-end-of-next-year/

Consultant in NCRA Rail Takeover Bid Says Project Has Been Misrepresented, But Document Reveals Coal Connections and Wiyot Tribe Involvement | Lost Coast Outpost | Humboldt County News

https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2021/sep/28/consultant-shadowy-rail-takeover-effort-says-proje/ 

Military Transition: Clarity through Constraints

Useful considerations,  even if not all equally applicable. 

https://seanheritage.com/blog/military-transition-clarity-through-constraints/

USCG Advises Mariners Regarding Caldor Fire

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDHSCG/bulletins/2efa3f8

https://gcaptain.com/marad-designates-new-marine-highway-projects-2/

Mendocino is running out of water. The solution might involve a very old train

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/California-s-most-picturesque-town-is-running-16343175.php

Senators Introduce Resolution to Commend the Service of Hamilton-Class Coast Gua...

https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2021/7/senators-introduce-resolution-to-commend-the-service-of-hamilton-class-coast-guard-cutters

Paradigm shift: Tribe is now an owner of the power grid | Indian Country Today

https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/tribe-is-now-an-owner-of-the-power-grid

CA habitat restoration used beavers to restore Placer | The Sacramento Bee

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article252187473.html

Will a Native-led initiative spur an agricultural revolution in rural Alaska?

https://www.hcn.org/issues/53.6/indigenous-affairs-agriculture-will-a-native-led-initiative-spur-an-agricultural-revolution-in-rural-alaska

Fish or Farms?

https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article251167759.html

Preparing for Disaster: Establishing an Ag Pass Program in Your Community

https://anrcatalog.ucanr.edu/Details.aspx?itemNo=8685

It Takes a Lot of Thought and Planning to Paint a Train

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/amtrak-paint-designs

Rising Sea Level Threatens Stinson Beach Neighborhoods

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/04/22/eye-earth-stinson-beach-flooding-climate-sea-level/ 

When an old dam in Santa Cruz Mountains comes down, coho will be free to swim home again

https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/climate/article/When-an-old-dam-in-Santa-Cruz-Mountains-comes-16134384.php

The Washington Post: Study finds Lyme-carrying ticks next to beaches and ‘pretty much wherever we looked’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/04/25/ticks-lyme-beaches/

Big Basin Redwoods: Slow progress on rebuilding after wildfire

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/04/23/big-basin-redwoods-slow-progress-on-rebuilding-after-wildfire-a-massive-job

Five Hapag-Lloyd container ships to be converted to US registry at Port Canavaral – Maritime

https://maritimemag.com/en/five-hapag-lloyd-container-ships-to-be-converted-to-us-registry-at-port-canavaral/

Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Holds Piece of Wright Brothers History | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-holds-piece-wright-brothers-history-180977381/

'This has never happened': California's only wildfire research center makes scary discovery

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/fuel-moisture-content-California-wildfire-16087019.php 

This Connecticut Inn Has Hosted Sea Chantey Singalongs for Half a Century

I can attest to this. Sea shanty nights the Griswold Inn is pretty cool.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sea-shanty-new-england

Mitch McConnell tends his legacy 8,000 miles away

https://ground.news/article/rss_1594_1618216397342_2

What Happened to Suez Canal Ship? How a Desert Wind Blew Global Trade Off Course - Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-27/how-a-desert-wind-in-suez-canal-blew-global-trade-off-course

California's Climate Idea For Coastal Homes: Buy, Rent, Retreat : NPR

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/21/978416929/california-has-a-new-idea-for-homes-at-risk-from-rising-seas-buy-rent-retreat

When Disasters Hit California, Sikh Temples Provide Meals and Refuge - Gastro Obscura

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/california-disaster-relief

Canadian Pacific, Kansas City Southern Will Merge into “The First USMCA Railroad,” CPKC - Railway Age

https://www.railwayage.com/freight/class-i/canadian-pacific-kansas-city-southern-will-merge-into-the-first-usmca-railroad-cpkc/

Google News - An ode to the Oakland Coliseum

https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEGjUx2SZtMigU2D12KWiDjEqGQgEKhAIACoHCAowu8mbCzD_07MDMJf77wY?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen 

The Year Of Choosing Dangerously

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-year-of-choosing-dangerously/

The Washington Post: After 2020, we need to talk about how we talk about catastrophe

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/12/30/crisis-catastrophe-communications-action/