News and Notes

(CNSnews.com) – The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $384,949 grant to Yale University for a study on “Sexual Conflict, Social Behavior and the Evolution of Waterfowl Genitalia”, according to the recovery.gov website.

The grant description says,“The project examines how reproductive morphology covaries with season, age, and social environment in a diverse sample of duck species that differ in ecology, territoriality and breeding system.”

We got the new decking finished and completed another annual “Camp Clean Up” day.

I was reading an article on aging that was written by Philip Yaffe and it got me to thinking ….. “Why now, do the years seem to fly by so much faster?”

It seems that the older you get, the faster time seems to slip by. I’m in my 60’s now and it only seems like a short time ago that we were all agonizing over 2YK, fearing civilization as we know it would end. They say life is like a roll of toilet paper, the closer to the end, the faster it spins. It is a widely accepted adage that, “The older you get, the faster time seems to go.” But why should aging have this effect? After all, there is the parallel adage that, “Time flies when you are having fun.” But as we age, time flies whether we are having fun or not.

So what’s going on?

We are reworking our floating bridges. We are presently in the process of replacing all of that old heavy wood decking with lighter weight, and hopefully less maintenance, wire decking.

The following photos were posted to the Lake Bistineau Facts FaceBook Page by J.C. Calhoun. The comments are well worth the time to read them.  To view larger photos go to our photo page by clicking here.

Winter Draw Downs – Lake Bistineau

Not to argue the merits of a lake draw down. Simply put, drawing down Lake Bistineau is something that is here to stay. But taking exception to what has been done in the last few years of drawing the lake down from mid-summer or early fall until the end of November is a plan that isn’t working.