City politicians last night recommended killing deer – proceeding with a cull – in the Sifton Bog, this fall to protect that environmentally sensitive land which is surrounded by a subdivision.
Tag: environment
Welcome to Spudtopia
Spudtopia, an offshoot of this genus of giant potato, Tuber Gigantus Butleriana, was founded around the turn of the century. After discovering that giant potatoes could be grown, there was much hope for solving the problems of hunger and homelessness – after all, now, not only could everyone afford, they could simply grow their own sustenance and housing! Anyone who came to this community was given spoons and yearly, granted a huge potato from the annual crop, thus they not only ate well, but carved their own dwellings while so doing! Alas, in The Great Bake of 1912, when fire spread so disastrously throughout it, the promise of this grand utopian community ended.
Smokin’ future world
Absentreeism
London’s tree cover has dropped to 10%, well behind other municipalities and below the recommended level of 30%. Suspected statistical anomolies put London’s civic workers absenteeism rate at 19 days, above the average of 8.