Monday, June 15, 2009

It's a pity we didn't bring my frog to Death Valley

The Devil's Hole Pupfish is holding up all sorts of solar and wind power projects.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124510519321116631.html#articleTabs%3Darticle

Jas and I tried to visit the pupfish when we drove around the Southwest a few years back; but we never got to see the little fellow because the National Park Service has his hole fenced off like a maximum security prison and you can only get a glimpse of the water is way down in the crack in the rock.

If my frog had been with us he would have leaped right through that chain link fence. Then he would have done an octuple somersault with fifteen or twenty twists on the way down to the water for lunch. Survival of the fittest would have taken care of the rest. By now there wouldn't be any need for the environmentalists to worry about the cute little pupfish and his relatives.

1 comment:

Your son said...

I found a video on youtube i figured you'd like. You have to watch it to the end, at first it just seems like an incredibly stupid video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkXCVNJRpkU&feature=channel_page