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Begga Dinn
My to-do list for January only has one thing left on it - finish up the website I started months ago! however for some reason any and all changes I make to it won't save!! Has anyone else had this problem, any suggestions on what to do??
Thanks ladies!!
Ashley
Simply put, this means if there is a belay or rappel device attached to a rope there is no physical way to remove the device from the rope without unlocking and opening the belay carabiner. If you have 50 feet of rope on the ground with no knot I could essentially stand next to you and pull the rope through your belay device until the end of the rope passed through the device. This leaves the belayer (or rappeller) not attached to the rope.
In this case the best practice would be for the belayer to simply tie in to the other end of the rope. This closes the system and speeds the transition when the leader is back on the ground for the belayer to get their turn climbing. A knot check should still be conducted before the belayer ascends.
Among flocks of shorebirds, the red knot is fairly average looking. In fact, only the most practiced bird watchers may be able to distinguish this medium-sized, plump peep from the thousands of other shorebirds playing tag with the waves. Yet, somehow the red knot has caught the attention of people around the world.
There are millions of shorebirds in the world. Why all the clamor over the red knot? How could this small bird stir up so much controversy and inspire such extraordinary efforts on its behalf? To begin to answer these difficult questions we must first become familiar with the red knot.
Researchers tag red knots in Crash: A Tale of Two Species.Nature, it seems, has really stacked the deck against this creature. During its migration, the red knot concentrates in huge, densely-packed flocks. These enormous gatherings make the knots vulnerable to habitat destruction and, in South America, hunting pressure. Sadly, it is not just their eating preferences but their social patterns that put them at odds with human activities.
Studies conducted outside of the U.S. do not paint a brighter picture. Counts of knot populations wintering in South America dropped over 50% from the mid-1980s to 2003. Researchers have suggested that the continued hunting of knots in South America might be partly to blame.
For more information on red knot conservation efforts, visit , where Larry Niles (featured in Crash: A Tale of Two Species) and an international team of scientists blog about the most recent news on the red knot.
So, what can you do to help save Red Knots and the horseshoe crabs they depend on? If you go to the beach and see a horseshoe crab flipped upside down, simply flip it over. This simple act can save its life. Avoid disturbing feeding and resting shorebirds, and encourage your friends and family to do the same. The time they spend feeding and resting during their short stopover during migration is essential to their survival and successful nesting during the short Arctic breeding season. Please remember to only bring your pets to beaches were they are permitted, and when you do, always keep them on a leash and away from birds.
This year the coming of the red knot will herald another important event: the reintroduction of the Delaware River Basin Conservation Act (DRBCA). The DRBCA, reintroduced on Tuesday in the Congressman John Carney of Delaware in the House of Representatives and Senator Tom Carper of Delaware in the Senate creates a $5 million grant program that will help protect and restore the Delaware River Watershed and create a comprehensive planning framework that would increase cooperation among groups in the basin. All of that adds up to a better chance for the red knot.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized a recovery plan for the rufa red knot, a subspecies listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The recovery plan, which was made available for public comment in May 2021, provides a road map for helping the bird flourish to the point that it no longer needs federal protection.
The recovery plan is a non-regulatory guidance document that identifies, organizes and prioritizes site-specific recovery actions, sets measurable recovery objectives, and includes time and cost estimates for removing the rufa red knot from the federal list of endangered and threatened species. The Service is also finishing an accompanying Recovery Implementation Strategy that steps down actions from the recovery plan into detailed activities.
The rufa red knot was listed as threatened in 2015 due to population declines linked to multiple threats and stressors that have impacted habitat and food supply across its vast range. One of the longest-distance migrants in the animal kingdom, rufa red knots travel as far as 18,000 miles each year between their breeding grounds on the central Canadian arctic tundra and four wintering regions, ranging from North Carolina to Chile.
Actions to benefit the rufa red knot support other species that share their habitats, including piping plovers, loggerhead sea turtles, northeastern beach tiger beetles, seabeach amaranth and aboriginal prickly apples. Intact, coastal habitats are also more resilient to climate change, and can help buffer nearby communities from associated impacts.
Communities and countries all over the world are dealing with a crisis of extinction. With climate change and habitat loss pushing more and more species to the brink, now is the time to be proactive, collaborative, and innovative in our efforts to save America's wildlife and plant species.
Along the Atlantic Coast, and across the Delaware River Watershed, Audubon and partners have been involved in efforts to protect horseshoe crabs, calling for a more sustainable harvest, working with local governments and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commissions, and calling for action from biomedical companies to commit to using synthetic lysate to eliminate the harvest and bleeding of horseshoe crabs. In addition, volunteers have been trained to monitor crabs and flip over any upside-down crabs to save their lives. A number of groups along the Atlantic, including the Delaware Audubon Society, have come together as part of the Horseshoe Crab Recovery Coalition, to raise awareness, push for these actions, and focus on ensuring the future of the American horseshoe crab. In turn, these efforts are helping to conserve Red Knots and other shorebirds.
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While precise, these locators are expensive, and fewer than a dozen are affixed to red knots each year. So when the first knot to come out of the net was bearing one, these scientists knew they had hit the jackpot.
Hope, however, may finally be on the horizon for the imperiled bird. In July, FWS announced the decision to speed up the process to add the red knot to the list of threatened and endangered species. The news could be a game-changer for the birds. A listing would begin the development of a species recovery plan and require federal agencies whose actions affect red knots to consult with FWS. It would also mandate the designation of critical habitat, adding a layer of protections to the places where red knots gather.
A: The trek from the Canadian Arctic to as far as the tip of South America is by no means an easy one, and natural events like tropical storms or red tides always pose a threat to highly migratory birds like red knots. But whereas a healthy population would be able to recover from such events, the dramatic decline in red knots caused by a lack of horseshoe crab eggs magnifies the impact of these smaller losses, making them grave dangers to survival of the species.
The Knotty Tiger is a powerful little knot-buster designed to fit perfectly into the palm of the hand. Provides deep penetrating muscle relief and is great for working out knots in the neck, shoulders, arms, IT band, pec muscles, and other areas.
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