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Oysters 101August 5, 2015 | Posted by lbourg in Science, Seafood, Wildlife
By Shannon Hood, Environmental Defense Fund
Today is National Oyster Day, and we're celebrating the holiday with a post about these useful and tasty bivalves and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's (UMCES) Horn Point Laboratory, which is growing them by the billions.
Previous posts have discussed the ecological and economic importance of oysters, so we won't spend time on this today. In preparation for a series of other posts on the (r)evolutionary oyster industry, this post will explain their life history and introduce some of the research being conducted to ensure their continued success.
Oysters grow in large colonies that make up reefs. Mature oysters begin to spawn when the water temperature reaches 74-86 degrees Fahrenheit. When the first male or female spawns, others sense it as they filter the water, thus triggering more to spawn.
The sperm and eggs join in the water column. The newly formed larvae will swim and feed for approximately two weeks until they reach what's known as the pediveliger stage and are ready to attach to a substrate, a process known as "setting." When an oyster sets, it secretes a glue-like substance and will not move from this location for the duration of its life. At this point, the oyster is known as a spat.
In the lab, this process is much the same as in the wild, however, it takes place in a controlled environment. In this environment, staff are able to control variables such as temperature, salinity and food availability – variables which have tremendous effects on oyster spawning and survival rates.
Aside from their work in growing oysters, the UMCES Horn Point Hatchery is a hotspot for research on all things oyster, including numerous graduate student researchers looking into how salinity affects setting and growth throughout oysters' lives. Having a good understanding of optimal salinities and answering these questions, we remove yet another unknown in this industry, allowing greater understanding for how to ensure oysters are able to thrive now and into the future.
Oyster populations and harvests are on the rise in the Chesapeake Bay for the first time in decades. In 2004, just 26,000 bushels were harvested from Maryland's waters. In 2014, Chesapeake Bay harvesters reported their best year in three decades, bringing in 900,000 bushels from traditional on-bottom leases.
What's the cause of this rebounding industry? It's no miracle cure, but rather a host of federal and state management practices, a booming aquaculture industry, successful hatcheries that provide a reliable source of larvae and new science that is allowing these bivalves to thrive once again.
What does this mean for Louisiana? Our coastal waters boast some of the best conditions for oyster growth in the nation. Using funds from the Natural Resources Damages Assessment (NRDA) Early Restoration Program, LSU Sea Grant is operating a new, state of the art hatchery on Grand Isle, a hatchery capable of producing up to one billion oyster larvae per year. This increased capacity can add significantly to the production potential of the state's public and private oyster grounds. Additionally, off-bottom aquaculture and remote setting are looking more and more like realistic options to increase the industry's success. Stay tuned for future posts about each of these new tools in the oyster industry's toolbox.
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Afternoon on the Bayou, Seeing Restoration FirsthandJune 26, 2015 | Posted by lbourg in Wildlife
By Matthew Phillips, Outreach Assistant, Mississippi River Delta Restoration Coalition, National Wildlife Federation
Last Thursday, the Mississippi River Delta Restoration Coalition team traveled south to Plaquemines Parish to tour some of Louisiana's disappearing wetlands. Andy Buchsbaum, National Wildlife Federation's Vice President of Conservation Action, was in town to see our work firsthand. We packed the cars and drove to Buras, La to meet Ryan Lambert, owner of Cajun Fishing Adventures. We piled into two bay boats and set off through the marshes of Fort St. Philip. He explained how this natural opening on the east side of the Mississippi River was loading sediment into the marshes, building ground for plants to grow on. He has seen how rich and diverse the vegetation has become, and how wildlife has returned in droves in the last few years.
At the end of the day the team gathered at Woodland Plantation for happy hour and an amazing meal. Everyone agreed that seeing the coast we are fighting to restore is a crucial part of our work. Our supporters in Plaquemines Parish, ground zero for Louisiana Coastal Restoration, are some of the most fervent advocates of restoration. Having passionate people explaining what the coast means to them while immersed in the environment they love was invigorating. We returned to New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Washington, D.C., with a renewed sense of commitment to the Louisiana coast.
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Audubon Louisiana training volunteers for Coastal Stewardship ProgramJune 10, 2015 | Posted by lbourg in Birds, Wildlife
By Ashley Peters, Communications Associate, National Audubon Society
In May, a group of more than 30 volunteers gathered at the Grand Isle Community Center to learn about issues facing Louisiana's beach-nesting birds and how people can help. Cute, fuzzy chicks of birds such as Least Terns and Wilson's Plovers need our help during each spring and summer to protect them from human disturbance and other threats.
"There are many ways birds and people can share the beach, it's just a matter of awareness," says Erik Johnson, Audubon Louisiana's Director of Bird Conservation. "We need help informing beach-goers about what beach-nesting birds need to successfully raise their little ones. These threatened birds need safe, open, sandy areas and we hope folks will respect the birds by keeping their distance."
The volunteer training included information on how to identify shorebirds, how to interpret bird behavior, and ways to help beach-nesting birds succeed. The training was followed by a crawfish boil celebration to show appreciation for new and current volunteers, as well as program partners.
Least Tern and Wilson's Plover chicks are camouflaged to avoid predation and nests are also hard to see because the birds lay their eggs in shallow depressions, or "scrapes," in the sand. Audubon Louisiana marks sensitive beach areas with signs and symbolic fencing to prevent people from accidentally entering nesting sites. This reduces the chances of eggs and chicks being inadvertently trampled, run over, or harmed in other ways if parent birds are flushed (or chased away) from nests.
In addition to ensuring there is suitable habitat for birds through the implementation of Louisiana's Coastal Master Plan and other initiatives, Audubon organizes the Coastal Bird Stewardship Program as well as the Coastal Bird Survey to monitor and encourage birds to successfully live and breed on beaches.
Next time you're on the beach, remember the following:
- Keep your distance: Sensitive nesting areas are posted with signs. When an adult bird is flushed or chased away, chicks and eggs are vulnerable to predators and overheating.
- Keep pets leashed: Nesting birds are very sensitive – even good pets are perceived as predators and will disturb nesting activities.
- Take your trash with you and dispose of fishing line properly: Birds can become easily entangled in loose line, plastic bags, and other unsightly garbage.
- Please do not feed the wildlife: This will attract predators, like gulls, crows, and other animals that will eat bird eggs and chicks.
- Get involved: Volunteer stewards help teach beachgoers how to help protect these vulnerable birds. Join our mailing list to receive updates, news, and notifications about volunteer opportunities.
To learn more about how you can help birds, visit La.Audubon.org/coastalstewardship or email firstname.lastname@example.com. To learn more about Audubon's Coastal Stewardship Programs, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-7O2vfEIG8No Comments
5 Years After BP Oil Spill, Audubon Stewards the GulfApril 16, 2015 | Posted by lbourg in 5 Years Later, Birds, BP Oil Disaster, Wildlife
In the wake of the worst marine oil spill in U.S. history, Audubon is working to protect bird populations and restore critical habitat across all five Gulf states.
By Chris Canfield, Vice President, National Audubon Society, Gulf Coast and Mississippi Flyway
This post has been cross-posted from an article originally published on the National Audubon Society's website.
This Monday marks five years since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, claiming 11 lives and unleashing the worst marine oil spill in U.S. history. In that time, the National Audubon Society has built on its 100-year legacy of protecting bird populations throughout the Gulf Coast and has extended its footprint of stewardship across all five states.
The Gulf Coast is an important breeding ground and migratory rest stop for many coastal birds, including Brown Pelicans, Least Terns, Wilson's Plovers, Sanderlings and other vulnerable species. BP oil reached the coastal habitats – on which these birds rely during shorebird migration – at the height of nesting season for breeding waterbirds, resulting in the death of an estimated 1 million birds.
In the immediate aftermath of the spill, Audubon staff and hundreds of volunteers were on the ground, facilitating transport of oiled birds for cleaning and care, protecting critical habitat and nesting grounds and being the voice for birds throughout the disaster. In the years that followed, Audubon engaged its network of volunteers to help pass the historic RESTORE Act—ensuring that a majority of funds from the Clean Water Act fines BP pays will be allocated towards restoration efforts. In order to understand the immediate and long-term effects on birds, Audubon scientists also developed the Audubon Coastal Bird Survey, a citizen-scientist effort to monitor the health of coastal populations and to provide a better accounting of these populations going forward. The program has been expanded to all five Gulf states.
Five years have come and gone since the oil spill, and as the ongoing effects continue to be felt, the National Audubon Society is focused on ramping up its important stewardship for birds at more than 200 sites across the Gulf Coast. We empower citizens and communities to protect terns and skimmers in nesting colonies, protect the access of plover chicks to their feeding grounds, and oversee critical waterbird colonies from Florida to Texas. We still await assessment of full fines to BP and others involved with the catastrophic spill, but we have been successful putting available funds to work on expanded coastal bird protections.
To all of our volunteers, supporters and friends who have been there for the Gulf and its bird populations, thank you for helping us make significant progress in confronting this terrible disaster. We have a long way to go before meaningful restoration is achieved, so please stay engaged and stay committed. In the meantime, I encourage you to share this video to inform others about the important work Audubon is doing throughout the Gulf Coast and sign this petition asking BP to stop its campaign of misinformation and pay for the damage done.No Comments
BP's Sleight of HandApril 8, 2015 | Posted by lbourg in 5 Years Later, Birds, BP Oil Disaster, Reports, Science, Wildlife
This post has been cross-posted from an article originally published on the National Audubon Society's website
By: Melanie Driscoll, Director of Bird Conservation, Gulf Coast Conservation/Mississippi Flyway, Erik Johnson, Director of Bird Conservation, Audubon Louisiana
A BP-authored report claiming that the Gulf has recovered is inaccurate and insulting—here's why.
Nearly five years after the largest accidental marine oil spill in U.S. history, BP is doing its best to convince the public that the 4.9[1] million barrels of oil that leaked into the Gulf of Mexico have done no lasting damage. That's the message found in The Gulf of Mexico Environmental Recovery and Restoration report the company released three weeks ago.
Based on what the report does present, it's obvious that BP chose to ignore recent research that shows the ongoing impact of the oil spill, particularly on birds (pp 15-17 of report). That BP ignores peer-reviewed science is nothing new—they have been denying culpability and the validity of peer-reviewed, published research since the spill itself. Meanwhile, their own conclusions lack peer-review and they have not released their methodology. Because of this lack of transparency, BP has made claims that are impossible to refute or verify.
One of the government agencies responsible for monitoring the Gulf health following the oil spill—the NOAA Damage Assessment, Remediation, and Restoration Program—is expected to hold itself to a high standard of independent scientific peer-review as it completes its Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA). While we await the NRDA studies to be completed and released, BP has flaunted such professional standards in its allusions to NRDA findings that cannot be verified at this stage. The trustees of NRDA themselves called BP's recent report "inappropriate as well as premature."
Along with others in the scientific community, the National Audubon Society rejects BP's claims. While their report leaves much to criticize, here are its five main flaws:
- Their conclusions are not credible given lack of peer-review, questionable methodology and premature conclusions.
They claim "search teams likely found 97 percent of large birds and 78 percent of small birds." These numbers are inconceivable to any researcher or birder who has looked for birds on a beach. It stands to reason that a detection rate of 97 percent as claimed by BP is unlikely, even for living and mobile birds; their estimate seems grossly optimistic compared to detection rates published widely in the scientific literature. In addition, BP compared their estimate of searcher efficiency for carcasses placed on beaches to the searcher efficiency across sandy beach, rocky beach, and marsh habitats. Detection rates are known to vary widely based on factors such as carcass coloration and habitat, and the actual searches in the Deepwater Horizon disaster occurred across marsh, mangrove, rocky beach, and sandy beach habitats. Attacking a single parameter from a complex study, and doing so using an apples-to-oranges comparison, is disingenuous and misleading.
- The Gulf of Mexico ecosystem has not returned to a pre-oil spill "baseline condition".
First of all, the oil is not gone. Significant deposits (up to 230,000 barrels) of oil have been discovered in the sediment on the Gulf floor. This oil regularly washes ashore during storms, re-oiling marshes and beaches. In October 2014, researchers discovered a 1,250-square-mile "bathtub ring" of oil on the Gulf floor–equivalent to the size of Rhode Island. Indeed, as the BP report was released a 22,000-pound tar mat was being removed from East Grand Terre Island in Barataria Bay, LA.
BP's conclusions are incredibly premature. With lagged effects, trophic cascades, food web effects, and repeated re-oiling of the coast, we could be seeing surprises and environmental effects for years to come on birds and on the entire ecosystem.
Erosion is forever. Land and crucial habitats have disappeared. It's impossible to return to a "baseline" when the land that composed that baseline and is crucial to coastal bird populations has disappeared. Studies show that marsh that was heavily oiled was undercut and eroded back, creating ragged marsh edges that were unoiled or lightly oiled. The scientists have then seen a wave of erosion of these unoiled or lightly oiled marsh, as waves reshape the ragged marsh edge to create a new, smoother edge. Not only has much of the heavily oiled marsh eroded, but marsh that was less damaged has followed.
- Damage to birds from the BP oil spill is evident and has been well documented, contrary to what BP reports.
In the 95 days following the oil spill, conservative estimates are that hundreds of thousands to more than a million birds died.
This acute damage does not take into account the molecular, cellular, reproductive, and developmental damage that may accumulate in birds for years to come. That is significant, it is long-term, and it matters.
Birds exposed to oil during their early development may accumulate damage that causes failed reproduction. Additionally, many long-lived species like pelicans, terns, and egrets do not breed until their second, third, or fourth year of life, meaning the young exposed to oil early in their lives hadn't started breeding in 2011, making BP's conclusions based on 2011 information premature.
- More studies are needed to understand the ongoing and long-term effects on bird populations.
In other species, lagged and trophic level effects have resulted in increasing effects from oil being detected over time since the disaster. Very few studies on bird productivity have been published that looked beyond the 2010-2011 nesting season. More studies are needed to draw broad conclusions.
Scientifically, the most reliable way to study productivity is to compare productivity of birds exposed to oil and not exposed to oil within the same season. The only study of which we are aware that has used this reliable methodology is a study of the Seaside Sparrow, which showed reduced nest success for sparrows on oiled sites in 2012 and 2013.
- BP's use of Audubon's Christmas Bird Count (CBC) data is flawed and their summaries of other data are incomplete and misleading.
BP misused CBC data to obscure potential impacts. It's likely they used data from well outside the impacted areas. Particularly, Sandwich Terns and Northern Gannets are not counted by CBC participants 10-100 times more than Piping Plovers in the impacted areas. The numbers they used for Red Knots appear to include the entire rufa subspecies, which mainly winters in the Tierra del Fuego region in southern Argentina and the Maranhão region of northeastern Brazil. It is difficult to tell how CBC data were used, but it is clear from the relative abundance of some species that data from outside the Gulf were included in analyses. Using broader data from other regions could mask any local and regional changes in populations due to the oil spill. Without describing their methods, it is apparent that BP's report represents a misuse of Audubon's publicly available data.
BP reported oiling rates from long after the oil well was capped, resulting in oiling rates that appear to be very low: In its report, BP cites data saying "researchers saw no visible oil in 99 percent of the roughly 500,000 live bird observations from May 2010 to March 2011." A study following the Deepwater Horizon spill showed that 8.6 percent of captured shorebirds showed evidence of oiling, indicating that BP's observational evidence may have underestimated exposure by as much as an order of magnitude.
BP selected a study that appeared to show no effects on birds to highlight a success that is likely just a lack of use of the oiled region: In BP's reference to the Northern Gannet publication, researchers in this paper used light-level geolocators to determine wintering locations of Northern Gannets. Digging into the details of the paper, it is clear that only a small sample of the researcher's birds wintered in the Gulf of Mexico (8 birds in their study) and that the Gulf birds foraged in areas primarily >100 miles away from the spill site, i.e., well outside of area of the most devastating impacts. Thus it may be no surprise that these few birds did not show elevated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (harmful chemicals from oil) levels as they were not in the spill zone. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's published account of bird deaths following the spill paints a different picture—Northern Gannets were one of the most frequently encountered dead bird after the spill.
BP incorrectly concluded from a published study that researchers did not find evidence that variations in age classes of Brown Pelicans on Louisiana barrier islands were related to the oil spill. However, the paper specifically states "…additional research is required to evaluate potential long-term population trends." Also, "Care should be taken in interpretation of our result as a lack of effect [of oil] on demography because there are combinations of spill-related reductions in fecundity and age-specific mortality that could result in no changes in age structure." One scenario that's easy to imagine is that all age classes were reduced similarly. In short, like the authors state, there are many possible scenarios that could influence their findings.
Despite BP's claims, we may not know the full impact of the oil spill for decades to come. Even more, we will not achieve lasting, meaningful restoration in the Gulf Coast until BP quits stalling, quits the legal and publicity campaign and actually funds full restoration.
Sign this petition telling BP to stop their delay tactics and fully fund Gulf restoration.No Comments
Five Years Later: Gulf Oil Disaster's Impacts to Habitat and Wildlife Still EvidentMarch 31, 2015 | Posted by Elizabeth Van Cleve in Birds, BP Oil Disaster, Clean Water Act, Media Resources, RESTORE Act, Science, Wildlife
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Leading Conservation Groups Highlight BP Spill's Ongoing Effects, Continued Need for Restoration
(New Orleans, LA—March 31, 2015) Five years after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, killing 11 men and spewing at least 3.19 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, leading national and local conservation organizations working on Mississippi River Delta and Gulf Coast restoration – Environmental Defense Fund, National Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation and Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation – released the following statement:
"Despite BP's claims that the Gulf oil disaster and its ecological impacts are over, ongoing research and present-day observations in areas that were heavily oiled tell a different story.
"New independent scientific studies provide evidence that the full consequences of the spill to wildlife and habitats are still unfolding. From dolphins to sea turtles to birds, we still are seeing the real and lasting environmental impacts of one of the worst oil spills in our nation's history.
"BP claims the nearly 134 million gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf has not negatively affected the ecosystem. But continued surveillance of areas like Barataria Bay, where thick oil coated vital wildlife habitat, including marshes and barrier islands, reveals lasting effects of the spill. Cat Island, a mangrove island that was heavily oiled, was once a lush, thriving rookery for brown pelicans and other birds, but today it is gray, lifeless and has nearly disappeared. Other coastal areas damaged by the spill are also still in need of repair.
"To this day, oil is still being found, most recently in the form of a 25,000-pound tar mat located on a Louisiana barrier island, near where 40,000 pounds of BP-oiled material was unearthed two years ago. It's time for BP to put the publicity campaign aside, stop shirking responsibility and finally 'make it right' for the people, wildlife and habitats of the Gulf Coast.
"The oil disaster wreaked incomparable damage to an already-stressed Gulf Coast ecosystem. In Louisiana, the oil spill dealt another blow to an area ravaged by land loss – since the 1930s, Louisiana has lost nearly 1,900 square miles of land, or an area the size of Delaware. Nowhere is restoration more needed than the Mississippi River Delta, which is the cornerstone of a healthy Gulf ecosystem.
"Restoration solutions are within reach and plans are in place, but implementation of restoration plans cannot fully begin until BP accepts responsibility and pays its fines. Thanks to vehicles like Louisiana's Coastal Master Plan and the historic RESTORE Act of 2012, which ensures that the Clean Water Act fines BP pays will be used for restoration, the Gulf Coast can make headway on real restoration projects that can make a difference. We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to restore the health of our wetlands, revive Gulf Coast economies that depend on them, and make the Gulf Coast better than it was before the spill, but we must begin restoration now. The Gulf Coast – and the people, wildlife and jobs that depend on it – cannot wait any longer."
Since the BP oil disaster five years ago, ongoing findings deliver truths omitted by BP's ads: the oil disaster's negative effects are increasingly clear, present and far from resolved.
A new infographic depicts ongoing impacts of the Gulf oil disaster five years later. And over the past year alone, new scientific research has surfaced:
- A 2014 study found evidence of a 1,250-square-mile area of oil contamination on the ocean floor around the Macondo wellhead in deep Gulf sediments.
- A new NOAA study found a large number of dead dolphins in heavily oiled places, including Barataria Bay, La.
- Recent studies estimate 800,000 birds died as a result of being exposed to BP oil.
- Modeling for a recent stock assessment projected that between 20,000 and 60,000 Kemp's ridley sea turtles died in 2010 as a result of the spill.
- A 2014 study found concentrations of PAH (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon) – which can cause harmful effects in many birds, fish and wildlife – in Barataria and Terrebonne marshes, which may persist for decades.
- A 2012 study found that oiled marshes in Barataria Bay eroded at double the rate of non-oiled marshes.
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Scientists look to food webs for better understanding of oil spill effectsMarch 23, 2015 | Posted by lbourg in BP Oil Disaster, Science, Wildlife
By Matthew Phillips, National Wildlife Federation
When trying to understand how ecosystems function, scientists often look at food webs–the complex relationships between animals, insects, plants, and bacteria that govern who eats whom.
Food webs in the Gulf of Mexico are as complex as they come. The different habitat types, from forests to wetlands to ocean, mean a diverse array of species. The Gulf food web would be nearly impossible to understand in its entirety, but we can simplify it into a chain to help us think about it. Plants form the base of this chain, as they convert sunlight into the energy that fuels the entire system. Plants are eaten by herbivores, who are then eaten by larger organisms. Scientists can learn a lot about how an ecosystem functions by studying the ends of the chain–the plants at the bottom and the animals that occupy the top. However, it's the species in the middle that provide crucial linkages.
One recent study, "Disturbance and recovery of salt marsh arthropod communities following BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill" assessed how arthropods living in the Gulf wetlands responded to the BP oil spill. Arthropods are an enormous group of organisms, including insects, spiders, crabs, crustaceans, and just about anything else with a hard outer shell that lacks a vertebral column. The authors looked at the heart of the food chain: the huge number of arthropod species that provide links between fish, birds, and other animals. If the oil spill affected these populations, they reasoned, the effects would ripple through the rest of ecosystem, causing unpredictable damage.
They measured the density of arthropod populations in patches of Spartina alterniflora, a grass that dominates Gulf coast marshes, while oil was washing up on marsh shoreline in 2010 and again one year later. For comparison, they visited 12 marshes with oil and 10 with no oil. They ensured the vegetation and soil were similar in each location to negate any differences between habitat types.
Their results were both striking and hopeful. During 2010, they found half as many arthropods in the marshes that had oil as in those with no oil. Because birds, fish, and even plants depend on these organisms, losing half the population could potentially devastate the ecosystem. But by 2011 arthropods in the oiled marshes were back at the same densities as in the unoiled marshes. It seemed that arthropods were primarily susceptible to the direct effects of oil. Oil may remain in wetlands for decades after a spill, but it usually seeps into the soils under the marsh grass. The arthropods in this study lived in the grasses above the marsh surface. Once the oil disappeared into the soil, their populations returned to normal.
This study presents a more important conclusion than simply the resilience of arthropods to oil. Ecosystems are intricate webs of interactions between the living and non-living environment, and looking at one organism, relationship, or phenomenon may not reveal any significant truth about the ecosystem as a whole. Except for a thin sheen of oil, the marshes in this study appeared healthy. But, in fact, oil had wiped out half the arthropods. We should treat ecosystems as the fragile, profoundly complex systems they are. Protecting them should be the top priority. Any disturbance can have widespread and unpredictable consequences.
To learn more about our coalition and the plans to restore our marshes and wetlands, click here. More information about the ongoing effects of the BP oil spill can be found here: "Understanding effects of chemical dispersants on marine wildlife is critical to whale population" and "Five years later, scientists gather to assess ongoing impact of BP oil spill."No Comments
Five Years After the Oil Spill, Dead Dolphins and 25,000-Pound Tar Mat FoundMarch 18, 2015 | Posted by lbourg in Birds, BP Oil Disaster, Science, Wildlife
This was originally posted on the National Wildlife Federation's Wildlife Promise blog.
By Emily Guidry Schatzel, National Wildlife Federation
One day after BP released a report saying the Gulf is on the road to recovery, we took a trip to one of the most impacted areas from the BP oil spill—Barataria Bay, Louisiana. From a dead baby dolphin to devastation at a bird rookery to active clean-up crews removing tons of oil from barrier islands, we found a very different picture from what BP painted in its report.
We started the day off at Cat Island. Once a vibrant barrier island covered in brown pelicans, roseate spoonbills, terns and gulls, it was hit hard by the oil during the spill. Today, the island is unrecognizable. The thick mangrove forests are all dead and the island is essentially a small spit of mud with the skeletal remains of vegetation, hosting just a handful of birds. Coastal Louisiana is already losing a football field of land every hour, and studies show that the oil accelerated this erosion.
Next we went to East Grand Terre, a nearby barrier island. Roughly 20 workers were out there cleaning up oil. BP confirmed this latest clean-up was part of a process to remove a 25,000-pound tar mat found in late February 2015. Finding oil here is not a huge surprise–two years ago, a 40,000 pound tar mat was found in the same area.
Even worse, in that same area, we also saw a mother dolphin attempting to resuscitate her dead infant. She was surrounded by a group of dolphins–all of them visibly in distress. Such a tragic sight was difficult to witness.
On the same day, The Lens reported that two dead adult bottlenose dolphins washed up on nearby Queen Bess Island.
We don't know why these particular dolphins died. But we do know that NOAA has determined bottlenose dolphins in this area of Barataria Bay are sick—very sick. They have symptoms of oil exposure—unusual lung masses, adrenal gland problems, even teeth that are falling out. Based on the study, NOAA concluded that "the health effects seen in the Barataria Bay dolphins are significant and likely will lead to reduced survival and ability to reproduce."
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10 Things BP's New Report Doesn't Tell YouMarch 17, 2015 | Posted by lbourg in BP Oil Disaster, Reports, Science, Wildlife
This was originally posted on the National Wildlife Federation's Wildlife Promise blog.
By Ryan Fikes, National Wildlife Federation
BP has just released a new report on the state of the Gulf, called Gulf of Mexico: Environmental Recovery and Restoration. The glossy report is filled with footnotes and citations, but leaves key pieces of science out.
Here are ten important things BP's latest report strategically didn't mention:
- Dolphins died before the spill – from freshwater
The report says: "An "unusual mortality event" (UME) involving an abnormally high number of dolphin deaths in the Gulf of Mexico began in February 2010, months before the Deepwater Horizon accident."
What it leaves out: The deaths of a cluster of dolphins during the months before the Deepwater Horizon exploded were likely caused by extended exposure to fresh water and unusually cold weather. (Source: NOAA)
- Gulf dolphins are now very susceptible to an old disease
The report says: "NOAA has said that brucella, a bacterium that can infect animals, is "a common thread" in a number of the animals examined. Nearly one-third of the dolphins tested as of Nov. 25, 2014 were positive for brucella."
What it leaves out: In 2011, Teri Rowles, the coordinator of NOAA's National Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program said, "Severe environmental stress, including from exposure to oil, could have reduced the animals' ability to fight infection."(Source: NOAA)
And in 2013, NOAA released a study showing that dolphins in heavily-oiled Barataria Bay had adrenal gland problems consistent with oil exposure that would in fact harm their ability to fight infections.(Source: Environmental Science & Technology)
- For the Kemp's ridley, anything less than an increase is a decrease
The report says: "For Kemp's ridley sea turtles, nesting numbers the two years after the accident were above historical averages."
What it leaves out: Up until 2009, Kemp's ridley nests were increasing exponentially (15-19%) every year. In 2011 and 2012, the number of Kemp's ridley nests—while essentially the same as the
numbers seen in 2009—were still below expectations. Even more troubling are the significant decreases in nests seen in 2010, 2013, and 2014. (Source: Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission)
- Sperm whales in the Gulf have high levels of toxic metals
The report says: "While data analysis is ongoing, BP has not seen any evidence indicating that oil or dispersant compounds from the Deepwater Horizon accident have impacted the health of whales in the Gulf."
What it leaves out: Researchers have found higher levels of DNA-damaging metals such as chromium and nickel in sperm whales in the Gulf of Mexico compared to sperm whales elsewhere in the world. (Source: Environmental Science & Technology)
And a recent study found that the two dispersants used in the Deepwater Horizon spill—Corexit 9500 and 9527—were both found to be damaging to sperm whale cells and DNA. (Source: Aquatic Toxicology)
- Oil exposure damages fish development – in many species
The report says: "A study by university and government researchers examined the overlap between spawning habitat and oiled waters and concluded that the spawning area for bluefin tuna extended much farther west than previously known and that "the proportion of spawning habitat impacted by oil was generally predicted to be small (<10%)."
What it leaves out: Estimates vary on how many larval bluefin tuna may have been exposed. One NOAA study estimated that the figure could be as high as 20 percent. (Source: NOAA)
And a recent comprehensive laboratory study found that a chemical in Deepwater Horizon oil can cause irregular heartbeats in bluefin and yellowfin tuna that can lead to heart attacks, or even death. The resulting heartbeat changes significantly altered the development of other organs. The researchers suggest that many other vertebrate species in the Gulf could have been similarly affected. (Source: Science)
- Right after the spill, red snapper and other fish had unusual lesions
The report says: "Researchers from the University of South Alabama and Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama took samples of reef fish from the Alabama and western Florida Panhandle coasts from January 2010 to June 2011. They found no significant evidence of diseased fish in those populations."
What it leaves out: In the aftermath of the spill, a number of fish caught in the Gulf between eastern Louisiana and western Florida had unusual lesions or rotting fins. Lesions were most common in bottom-dwelling species, including red snapper, and were particularly common north of the wellhead. (Source: Transactions of the American Fisheries Society)
- An unusual lack of young red snapper
The report says: "In an Auburn University study published in 2014, researchers found no evidence that the spill affected young red snapper populations on reefs off the Alabama coast."
What it leaves out: Both 2010 and 2011 had the lowest numbers of juvenile red snapper seen in the eastern Gulf fishery since 1994. (Source: NOAA SEDAR)
- Seaside sparrows on oiled sites less likely to fledge
The report says: "Data from studies that BP conducted independently indicate that in 2011, the spill did not adversely impact bird productivity – how successful birds are at producing offspring. Brown pelicans, laughing gulls, great egrets, black skimmers, bald eagles and ospreys were studied.
What it leaves out: Preliminary data from 2012 and 2013 indicate that seaside sparrows from nests on unoiled sites were significantly more likely to fledge than those on oiled sites.. (Source: BioScience)
- Oil is still washing up on beaches
The report says: "Since some of the heavily oiled areas were last surveyed a year or two earlier, NRDA teams resurveyed the areas in 2014 and determined that a total of just one mile remained heavily oiled."
What it leaves out: Recent studies of beach shoreline in Alabama suggest that tar balls are likely to continue washing up for years to come on Gulf Coast beaches, and could pose a risk to organisms living on or near those beaches. (Source: Science of the Total Environment)
- Oil remains in Louisiana's coastal marshes
The report says: "A 2012 University of Florida study that measured the rate of marsh erosion in a limited geographic area in Louisiana showed that erosion rates returned to normal 18 months after the spill and that its impact was generally limited to the edge of the marshes."
What it leaves out: In May 2013, three years after the spill, more than 80 miles of marsh shoreline in Louisiana remained visibly oiled. The long-term effects of the oiling of Gulf marshes are still unclear and may take decades to unfold. (Source: International Oil Spill Conference)
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8 hours ago | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
There's nothing like a family comedy movie to get you into the holiday spirit!
CBS Films has released a new poster for director Jessie Nelson's Love The Coopers.
Starring Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Ed Helms, Diane Keaton, Jake Lacy, Anthony Mackie, Amanda Seyfried, June Squibb, Marisa Tomei and Olivia Wilde, check out the latest trailer now.
The film follows the Cooper clan as four generations of extended family come together for their annual Christmas Eve celebration.
As the evening unfolds, a series of unexpected visitors and unlikely events turn the night upside down, leading them all toward a surprising rediscovery of family bonds and the spirit of the holiday.
Love The Coopers opens this holiday season on November 13.
Visit the film's official site: lovethecoopers.com
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- Melissa Thompson
10 hours ago | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
It looks like one key actor from the original "Twin Peaks" series will not be returning for the follow-up in Showtime.
TV Line reports that Michael Ontkean has opted not to reprise his beloved role of Sheriff Harry S. Truman in the limited-run revival. A source close to the actor says: "Michael is fully retired from show business, and has been for many years."
On top of that, the site also says that veteran actor Robert Forster has stepped in to replace Ontkean as the town's sheriff, though it's unclear if he'll play Truman or a new character. Rumor was Lynch originally eyed Forster for the role of Sheriff Truman during the show's inaugral run.
Forester joins other newcomers to the franchise with Peter Sarsgaard, Robert Knepper, Balthazar Getty and Amanda Seyfried also expected to join the project which will sport over a dozen episodes all helmed by Lynch himself. »
- Garth Franklin
10 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Warner Bros.' "Pan" is heading into its opening weekend with just $650,000 from the Thursday night previews, paving its way towards a low $20 million domestic debut. "Pan," starring Hugh Jackman, Rooney Mara, Levi Miller,Garrett Hedlund, Amanda Seyfried and Cara Delevingne, had a production budget of $150 million and is opening in 3,515 locations this Friday. Reviews haven't been kind to the sixth wide release about Peter Pan to hit the big screen. It has a 26 percent "rotten" score on critic aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Also Read: Will Hugh Jackman's 'Pan' Be Any Match for Matt Damon's 'The Martian'? »
- Beatrice Verhoeven
11 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Here are the films opening theatrically in the U.S. the week of Friday, October 9. All synopses provided by distributor unless listed otherwise. Wide Pan Director: Joe Wright Cast: Rooney Mara, Hugh Jackman, Amanda Seyfried, Garrett Hedlund, Nonso Anozie, Kathy Burke, Levi Miller, Cara Delevingne, Paul Kaye, Emerald Fennell Synopsis: "The story of an orphan who is spirited away to the magical Neverland. There, he finds both fun and dangers, and ultimately discovers his destiny -- to become the hero who will be forever known as Peter Pan." Limited Big Stone Gap Director: Adriana Trigiani Cast: Patrick Wilson, Jane Krakowski, Ashley Judd, Whoopi Goldberg, Jenna Elfman, Dagmara Dominczyk, Jasmine Guy, Chris Sarandon, Anthony Lapaglia, John Benjamin Hickey, Judith Ivey, James Hampton, Mary Pat Gleason, Bridget Gabbe, Joe Inscoe, Angelina Fiordellisi, Mary Testa Synopsis: "Ave Maria Mulligan has lived her whole life in tiny Big Stone Gap, a picturesque »
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12 hours ago | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Everyone knows the story of Peter Pan, but how exactly did the boy who refused to become a man end up in Neverland in the first place? Pan, in theaters today, answers that very question. In the Warner Bros. Pictures movie (rated PG), director Joe Wright introduces audiences to 12-year-old orphan Peter (Levi Miller), who is determined to find his mother Mary (Amanda Seyfried) in the mysterious land. He befriends James Hook (Garrett Hedlund) and Tiger Lily (Rooney Mara), and together, they must save Neverland from the ruthless pirate Blackbeard (Hugh Jackman). Along the way, Peter must fulfill his destiny to become the hero forever known as Peter Pan. Pan also stars Adeel Akhtar as Mr. Smee, Jack Charles as Chief Great »
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Audiences might expect the Peter Pan prequel Pan to be a big screen adaptation of humorist Dave Barry's and writer Ridley Pearson's bestselling "Peter and the Starcatchers," a funny, clever, imaginative prequel to J.M. Barrie's beloved classic "Peter Pan," or perhaps an adaption of the smart, funny, creative Broadway musical they wrote, "Peter and the Starcatcher," a Tony Award-winning production that delighted grown-ups as well as kids.
Sadly, Pan is neither.
Pan is a kind of prequel to Peter Pan, but the cleverness, charm and humor of "Peter and the Starcatcher" are entirely missing in this disappointing big-budget extravaganza. Instead, "Pan" features a line-up of Hollywood stars, lavish costumes and sets with dazzling visual effects but a script cobbled together from tired, overly familiar kid's adventure movie tropes, a movie that brings to mind 2013's "The Lone Ranger." It seems like the filmmakers »
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8 October 2015 11:58 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
In news that is sure to disappoint a lot of longtime Twin Peaks fans, it is being reported today that one of the actors behind a major character has declined to reprise his role for this Showtime revival. When Twin Peaks returns in summer 2017, there will be a new Sheriff in town. But it sounds like his replacement might not be too shabby.
According to TVLine, Michael Ontkean has decided to sit this latest incarnation of the cult series out completely. In the original Twin Peaks, which ran for only two seasons on ABC between April, 1990 and June, 1991, the actor appeared in the beloved role of Sheriff Harry S. Truman. The character might not get retired, though.
Rumor has it that iconic cult actor Robert Forster is being courted to step into the very large shoes of Sheriff Truman. Though, there is some speculation that he may actually be playing »
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8 October 2015 10:21 AM, PDT | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
This is a damn fine disappointment.
When Twin Peaks resurfaces on Showtime in Summer 2017, there will be a new sheriff in town.
TVLine has learned exclusively that Michael Ontkean has opted not to reprise his beloved role of Sheriff Harry S. Truman in the upcoming limited-run revival. Rumor has it that veteran actor Robert Forster (Heroes, Karen Sisco) has stepped in to replace Ontkean as the town's top lawman, although it's unclear if he will be playing Truman or a new sheriff.
RelatedTwin Peaks Revival Back On for 'More Than' 9 Episodes as David Lynch, Showtime Resolve Stalemate »
7 October 2015 2:22 PM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Matt Damon's "The Martian" looks like it won't lose fuel this weekend after the Twentieth Century Fox epic's stellar opening last weekend, when it grossed $54.3 million. In fact, it's set to beat newcomer "Pan," which is projected to gross in the low $20 million range. "The Martian" is looking to add another $32 million to $34 million to its already whopping take, enough to easily win its second consecutive weekend in a row. "Pan," starring Hugh Jackman, Rooney Mara, Levi Miller, Garrett Hedlund, Amanda Seyfried and Cara Delevingne, had a production budget of $150 million and is opening in 3,515 locations this Friday. »
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7 October 2015 1:31 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
We've two bits of Twin Peaks news today – a short teaser trailer and the addition of Peter Sarsgaard in a mystery role…
It looks like Showtime's Twin Peaks revival – with David Lynch and Mark Frost at the helm – is starting to come together. Following the news that Amanda Seyfried has nabbed a role in the show, we've now heard of another new addition to the cast - Peter Sarsgaard has signed up for a part.
TV Line broke the news, reporting that Sarsgaard has been cast in 'an unspecified recurring role.' That, um, doesn't give us much to go on, speculation-wise.
Mr Sarsgaard, of course, has an extensive body of work behind him. A few highlights include Jarhead, Dead Man Walking and An Education. Soon he'll be seen in Black Mass with Johnny Depp and in Antoine Fuqua's The Magnificent Seven.
Showtime has started »
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6 October 2015 12:26 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
While David Lynch and co-creator Mark Frost have tried to keep details of their Twin Peaks revival more under wraps than the location of the Black Lodge, little snippets of casting info keep leaking. TV Line reports that Peter Sarsgaard has taken a recurring role in the show. Exactly what that shape the new series' ensemble is taking (and how Sarsgaard will fit into it) is still largely a mystery, but we do know that Kyle MacLachlan is confirmed as returning as Agent Dale Cooper, while Ray Wise, Sheryl Lee and Sherilyn Fenn are all apparently returning and Amanda Seyfried, Robert Knepper and Balthazar Getty are among the new additions. Lynch and co-creator Mark Frost are shooting the series now in Washington state, with 18 episodes planned for the Showtime cable network at some point in 2017. And to keep everyone intrigued, the channel has put out a tiny teaser, featuring footage »
6 October 2015 10:44 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
The Martian fell just shy of breaking Gravity's box office record for highest October opening of $55.7 million, by taking in $55 million in its first weekend. That record will likely be in no danger of falling this weekend either, with only one new movie arriving in wide release, Warner Bros.' Pan, and TriStar's The Walk expanding. With Pan's less than stellar critical reception so far, the projections at BoxOffice.com indicate that Pan likely won't have a shot at the top spot, with The Martian set to win for a second time in a row.
The Martian opened in 3,750 theaters, a count that isn't expected to change too much going into its second weekend at the box office. Ridley Scott's sci-fi drama following the quest to save an astronaut stranded on Mars has been called the best movie of the year by a number of critics. We still »
- MovieWeb
6 October 2015 10:33 AM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
Peter Sarsgaard is one of the new cast members joining Showtime's Twin Peaks, TV Line reports. At least Sarsgaard won't be alone in this regard: He joins Amanda Seyfried, Prison Break's Robert Knepper, and Brothers & Sisters' Balthazar Getty in new roles on the show. As expected, Showtime has been mysterious about the whole affair, and declined to confirm Sarsgaard's participation or what role he might play. Thus far, while many from the original cast are expected to return, the network has only officially confirmed the participation of its protagonist Kyle MacLachlan, who is reprising his role as Agent Dale Cooper. Co-creators David Lynch and Mark Frost are currently shooting Twin Peaks in Washington with an airdate for sometime in 2017, and we'll finally figure out what's going on in the Red Room. (Kidding! Probably not.) »
- E. Alex Jung
6 October 2015 9:15 AM, PDT | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »
Peter Sarsgaard is ordering himself a damn fine cup of coffee and joining Showtime's upcoming Twin Peaks revival in a recurring role. The casting news was first reported Tuesday morning by TVLine. No other details are known regarding Sargaard's role except that it will be recurring. In fact, Showtime has declined on the casting report. However, Showtime has yet to confirm any member of the Twin Peaks revival cast except for Kyle MacLachlan, who is set to reprise his role as Agent Dale Cooper. Other notable names that are reported to be starring in the series include Amanda Seyfried (Big Love), Balthazar Getty (Brothers and Sisters), and Robert Knepper (Prison Break). While Sarsgaard is most well-known for his work in films, including the Johnny Depp-led Black Mass, which just hit theaters last month, he has appeared in multiple TV series in recent years. Earlier this year, he »
- Chris King
6 October 2015 5:44 AM, PDT | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
That's some damn good casting.
Showtime's forthcoming Twin Peaks revival has added Peter Sarsgaard (The Killing, The Slap) in an unspecified recurring role, TVLine has learned exclusively.
A Showtime rep declined to comment.
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During the season premiere of Homeland last night, Showtime released a brief teaser trailer for their highly-anticipated Twin Peaks revival series. The video doesn't feature any new footage, but does offer a glimpse at footage from the original series, featuring Michael J. Anderson as The Man From Another Place, who is seen dancing in The Black Lodge. The actor hasn't been confirmed to return for the new Twin Peaks series yet, but the actor himself recently has said that he isn't coming back.
Welcome to Twin Peaks notes that the actor previously revealed on his official Facebook page in late August that he is not returning for the new Twin Peaks. When a fan saw that he is listed on the show's IMDb page, updated last week, the actor replied that his purported involvement is, "news to me." It's possible that the actor is just playing coy, or that he »
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Oh high school. It was a rough time for a lot of us. Maybe more memorable for some. While we're passed those adolescent days now, we're deep in Back to School days and getting more than a little nostalgic. That's due in part to all the high school teen movies that still rattle around in our pop culture consciousness. Many of the characters in the movies shared the same embarrassments we did, the same first crushes, the same droning teachers, and we all wish we had a friend like Ferris Bueller.
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Randy Meeks and I have much in common. We are both massive horror movie fans who worked in a video store, studied film and had a hopeless crush on our best friend. »
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Happy Mean Girls Day!
October 3 has become a day of celebration for fans of the classic high school movie, in homage to the moment when Aaron Samuels (Jonathan Bennett) asks Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) what day it is, and she she answers: "It's October 3rd."
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Lohan honoured the movie by posting an image from that scene on her Instagram.
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John Travolta, Bruce Dern and Keegan-Michael Key have been set for tributes at the Napa Valley Film Festival, which runs Nov. 11-15.
The festival, now in its fifth year, will launch with the world premiere of "Somm: Into the Bottle" and include a Nov. 12 gala for "Spotlight" and screenings of awards season contenders "Carol" and "Youth."
Travolta has been selected for a Career Achievement Tribute and is expected to attend the Nov. 14 world premiere of his electrician drama "Life on the Line," which also stars Kate Bosworth.
Dern will receive the Legendary Actor Tribute, while Lydia Hearst, Evan Peters and Finn Wittrock will be awarded the Rising Star Tribute. Key will receive a Trailblazer Tribute.
The lineup includes a screening of "Landfill Harmonic," followed by a performance by 24 members of the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, a Paraguayan musical youth group whose members play instruments made out of recycled products from »
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Ahead of its Us release next week, a new international trailer has debuted for Joe Wright's Peter Pan live-action origin story Pan which stars Hugh Jackman, Levi Miller, Rooney Mara and Garrett Hedlund. Check it out below…
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Peter (Levi Miller) is a mischievous 12-year-old boy with an irrepressible rebellious streak, but in the bleak London orphanage where he has lived his whole life those qualities do not exactly fly. Then one incredible night, Peter is whisked away from the orphanage and spirited off to a fantastical world of pirates, warriors and fairies called Neverland. There, he finds amazing adventures and fights life-or-death battles while trying to uncover the secret of his mother, who left him at the orphanage so long ago, and his rightful place in this magical land. Teamed with the warrior Tiger Lily (Rooney Mara) and a new friend named »
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We are pleased to announce Alissa Haslam as Win/Win's new Executive Director! Alissa comes to us from Progress Alliance of Washington, where she has served as the Program and Development Director. She plans to start in early August and will take over from Dana Laurent, who has helped to grow the organization's accomplishments and national Read more


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The good news about Jeffco's housing market keeps coming, despite a recent increase in delinquent mortgage payments in the county.
If the county's current foreclosure rate remains steady for the rest of the year, Jeffco will see 55 percent fewer home foreclosures started than in 2012. Through the first three quarters of 2013, Jeffco has begun 1,087 foreclosures.
If that pace holds up, the county will see about 1,449 foreclosures. In 2012, the county had 2,650 homes go into foreclosure.
The foreclosure rate in Jeffco has decreased 35 percent overall since 2009.
The county is also seeing the number of deeds released increase 15 percent over last year. While there has been an increase in home sales in the county, much of this is due to people taking advantage of continuing low interest rates, Margaret Chapman, Jeffco's public trustee, said during a briefing with county commissioners on Oct. 15.
Home prices in the Denver area continued to see improvements, posting the 19th straight month of increases.
Yet Chapman did say there were two troubling signs in the housing market Jeffco should monitor.
In the second quarter of this year, Jeffco saw the rate of new 30-day delinquencies on mortgage payments increase to the highest rate in more than a year. Chapman said this trend should be watched moving forward.
Another potential trouble spot is that, while the federal government was shut down for 16 days this month, lenders were unable to check homebuyers' financial statements against IRS income statements.
"Some lenders are just processing loans and writing them without checks. We all know what happened several years ago when we had that happen," Chapman said. "This could lead to loans that aren't financially sound."
The decline in foreclosures has lessened the work of the public trustee's office, which in turn has led to a reduction in the staff from nine to seven. The public trustee's office is funded solely by foreclosure fees and fees for other services.
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Over the last several years operating this site, I have been incredibly lucky to meet many talented photographers from all over the world. Some I met face to face (whether in my workshops or other gatherings / conferences), while others I met and interacted with online. One interesting pattern that I noticed in the majority of photographers, and I am talking about the ones that understand light, composition and proper technique, is that they often lack the key component of completing the image and making it successful – post-processing skills. It turns out that most of us spend our time learning our gear and how to take good pictures, but we fail to take that beautifully captured photograph to the next level and make it look amazing by enhancing it further in post-processing. Yes, camera technique, light and composition are all extremely important and those are certainly key ingredients that each of us needs to learn and eventually master, but we need to understand that a captured photograph is just the beginning of making the image. What happens to the photograph after it is taken, is as important as the process of capturing it. I have seen many photos that would have looked breathtaking, had the person put some extra effort into making it work. Even worse, I have seen so many examples of great photos that get slaughtered by very poor post-processing techniques and ugly presets.
Library Module Overview: Image Review and Toolbar
With Library Module holding such a large collection of tools, tabs and panels, there is no other way to write a proper, thorough overview article but to split it into several parts. In the first article, I did my best to talk about the left-side panel (or the Navigation Panel, if you like) and all its capabilities in detail. In this article, we will focus on the center section of the Library Module – mainly the Image Grid/Loupe View, and the Toolbar.
Lightroom Loupe View Options
In the previous Mastering Lightroom series article, "Lightroom Grid View Options", we learned how to set-up Cells in Grid View so that they display the information of your choice. Grid View options are only available in Library Module, but that is not the only view mode available in Lightroom. In this article for beginners we are going to learn how to set-up Loupe View, which is available in Library Module and is also the default and only view mode in Develop Module.
Lightroom Grid View Options
In Lightroom, image information, such as Metadata, can be overlaid on a photograph in some Modules. It helps you find out information you might need at a glance, such as aperture and shutter speed at which that particular photograph was taken. Such information can be overlaid in Grid and Loupe View modes in Library Module, and Loupe View mode in Develop Module. In this article, I will discuss the Grid View options, which are available in Library Module only. Loupe View mode, which is available in Library and Develop Modules, will be discussed in detail in a follow-up article.
Lightroom Interface Customization Tips
I remember describing Photoshop's versatility and sophistication as both a strength and a weakness. On one hand, it is a very powerful piece of software with so many different and versatile tools, its capability is only limited by the user's skill. On the other hand, such complexity can also be overwhelming and detract one's attention, slow down simple tasks. This trait, to an extent, is also shared by Photoshop's little sibling, photography-centered Lightroom. Although it is that much more specialized, there's still a plethora of tools, panels and tabs which can, at times, make the post-processing experience somewhat… messy.
How to Email Photographs in Lightroom
As I've said time and time again, Lightroom is all about speed. And that's the beauty of it. You can do so many things without actually needing to save the images as JPEG files on your computer, you hardly ever need to Export them at all. In this article, I will show you how to use Lightroom's Email Photo function so that you can send any image in your Library by email without ever leaving Lightroom environment. It is quick, simple and very easy to set up, so if you've never used the feature but tend to send image files by email frequently, you should definitely try it out.
Lightroom Library Module Overview: the Navigation Panel
On our way to mastering Lightroom, we have already learned how to successfully Import images into your Catalog, work with Filename Template Editor and even understand how Lens Corrections work, among other things. Yet someone new to Lightroom will notice that we've missed several vital steps in our attempts to explain the software from start to finish, and so it is time to get back to those steps. In this article we will talk about one of the two most used Modules in Lightroom – Library. More specifically, we will overview the functionality of the left-side panel, the rest of the Module will be covered in two upcoming articles shortly afterwards.
Adobe Lightroom 5 Flash Sale at B&H
A boxed version of Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom 5, which we already reviewed, has just received a limited time discount. You can get a boxed copy for both Mac OS and Windows for just $89! The offer runs out in a couple of hours at 4:00 PM EST (that's about two and a half hours from now), so you better make up your mind quick whether you want it or not. Suffice to say, at that price, it is quite a bargain.
How to Fix Panorama Merging Errors
This is a follow-up article to the tutorial I published a few days ago on how to create a panorama image in Lightroom. In the article, I used a very simple and straightforward panorama image which could be merged without any errors virtually on first try. The image did not have a main object of interest and only a few points that needed critical precision during stitching process. I chose this image for the sake of convenience – I didn't want it to cause any apparent problems while I tried to explain how to seamlessly include Photoshop or any other panorama merging software in your Lightroom workflow. However, we all understand that, more often than not and especially with Brenizer method panoramas that I love so much, the stitching process is far from being perfectly accurate every time. More complex panoramas require several tries before the stitching is done properly, or manual correction. But how do you manually correct a panorama that you are trying to merge through Lightroom? It is actually easier than you may think and is unlikely to upset your workflow in any way.
How to Get Accurate Canon Colors in Lightroom
Our readers often ask us if it is possible to get Lightroom to provide the same colors as one would see from camera-rendered JPEG files when shooting in RAW format. Unfortunately, as you might have noticed when importing files, Lightroom changes the colors immediately after import, when the embedded JPEG files are re-rendered using Adobe's standard color profiles. As a result, images might appear dull, lack contrast and have completely different colors. I have heard plenty of complaints on this issue for a while now, so I decided to post series of articles for each major manufacturer on how to obtain more accurate colors in Lightroom that resemble the image preview seen on the camera LCD when an image is captured. In this article, I will talk about getting accurate colors from a Canon DSLR in Lightroom.


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One interesting thing about Pakistani food is that it gives a whole new taste in all different parts of the country. Karachi is known for its Biryani, Lahore for Paey, Multan for Halwa, Islamabad for its Karhai and Peshawar for its Kabab, every part has its own specialty. To promote this more at mainstream level, 7up Pakistan has brought up 'The Asal Foodie Show," which will feature a Foodie with celebrities and they will spend their whole day together to enjoy their food.
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yNotes is a tiny software utility which was built specifically to aid people in creating multiple sticky notes with thoughts and reminders, and making them visible on the desktop.
Surprise-free installation and clean interface
You are required to go through a pretty seamless and quick setup process, as it does not offer to download products that are not actually necessary for the program to fully work. In case you are interested in bypassing this process, you should know that a portable counterpart is available, called yNotes Portable.
The interface you come by maintains a pretty plain and simple appearance, as it only encompasses a menu bar, a pane in which to list all your notes and of course all the windows you create. It becomes quite clear that both beginners and highly experienced people can find their way around it without facing difficulties.
Method of use and available options
It is possible to create a large number of custom notes, along with a user-input title. They can be edited and deleted at any point, while it is also possible to move them to another location on the screen with just a click of the button.
The tool can also be hidden in the system tray with ease, so that you can render is non-obtrusive when needed. A list of all created notes is enclosed in the main window, while you can view recorded logs in a Notepad window.
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To sum up, yNotes is a pretty efficient piece of software when it comes to creating sticky notes, without burdening the computer's performance. The interface is intuitive, the response time is good and our tests did not reveal any kind of hangs, errors or bugs. Nonetheless, it lacks many options that other similar products enclose, such as import and export capabilities.
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Fur'Ever Homes Needed: Zeus – a strong name for a strong dog
FORT PIERCE - Zeus, like most German Shepherds, is a gorgeous dog. At 3 years old, he's still young with a long life ahead of him. But when he arrived at the Humane Society of St. Lucie County's Fort Pierce shelter in May, brought in by a resident who found him wandering the streets, he came with a broken leg and was very underweight.
Zeus' leg was so severely injured, the shelter's veterinarian staff decided to amputate it to give him a chance at the best life possible. He came through the surgery like a trooper, and now awaits adoption in kennel B-03.
Still a little wobbly on three legs, Zeus nonetheless stands up and moves close to the kennel door when visitors walk by, giving what appears to be a big grin. Affectionate and smart, he is a healthy dog, deserving of a permanent home with a person or family who will be patient with him as he continues to learn to stand sturdy and tall.
We'll never know how Zeus came to have a broken leg. What we do know is this beautiful creature needs a responsible owner who will help him gain weight and confidence.
There is a pretty special fur'ever friend waiting in kennel B-03. Please don't let him wait much longer.
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Bill Beckwith's Memory Minute: Don't stress out over getting dementia
Stress is a pervasive condition that affects our mental and physical functioning. The term covers both situations considered "stressful," such as being told we have cancer or Alzheimer's disease, or caregiving for someone with dementia. Stress can be "negative," as in being sued, having a car accident or getting divorced; or "positive," as in taking a vacation, getting married or wining the lottery.
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