Re: [GSAS-Member] Pan Intercorp tour?

["Betty Goetz" <haika@drizzle.com>]

River otters and mink are actually quite common in our area and they will
move up any stream/creek contiguous with a larger river/lake/Puget Sound.
Otters are easier to see as they can be quite vocal and often move in
groups of up to 20 animals (usually < 10) whereas mink are much more
solitary and secretive. I've personally seen groups of around 6-8 otters
in the Olympic Peninsula coastal areas but have not yet seen a wild mink
in habitat. My Siberians killed a mink at my old place on 39th in Bothell
and the carcass went to the Burke Museum (only cuz I have connections to
the mammalogy scene and they said they wanted the specimen). The closest
stream is at least a mile away. This from someone whose 'thing' in grad
school was mammalogy with emphasis on cetaceans and carnivores. In fact,
one of the grad students I taught Mammalogy with was doing his thesis on
mustelid locomotion so we talked 'weasels' a LOT!

I guess everyone has a different perspective and different interests, but
I certainly didn't exhaust my personal interest in Pan Intercorp with the
one stop and it was great to have comments/information from Jordan as we
walked around. Shango is right that once they restock the ponds it'll be a
much more interesting place to tour. But that's just my opinion. I'm
interested in how they are filtering their ponds, configuration of the
holding ponds, measurement of heron control fencing (grin), and about
100-200 other things most of which I'm not good at figuring out myself
(wink). Besides they are SOOOOO close to where I live (grin).

Auction in the spring? What does that mean?

Betty Goetz

> Wow, so Joel has a problem with otters? We have otters in the area? He
> isn't
> that close to the lake. There really isn't much to tour. It's basically
> about 8 greenhouses, and your free to go to most of them on weekends.
>
> A fun time to go is the auction in the spring.
>
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Shango Los <shango@shangolos.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> > Thanks for the time reminder. Maybe spring does make more sense. Did
>> > Jordan mention a month or target time?
>>
>> Nope. Just "Spring"
>>
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