Archive for December, 2008

Bubble Trouble

The latest installment from Tim Matson on winter pond etiquette and our wild animal friends. Tim is the author of the bestselling Earth Ponds series:

For many pond owners a time will come to improve water quality. A growing number of people meet this challenge with aeration. Aeration can be especially useful when you’re raising fish, particularly in the wintertime north where oxygen levels under the ice can be fatally low without that extra dose of air bubbles, otherwise known as dissolved oxygen. But there’s a downside to winter aeration you don’t hear about much: animals falling through the ice.
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Author Book Event

This Friday, Sharon Niederman will be signing her new book New Mexico: An Explorer’s Guide at the University of New Mexico Bookstore in Albuquerque. The event runs from 12pm-2pm and the store is located on campus near Central and Cornell. For more details, visit their website.