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kmason-phtg · 12 years ago
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A furlong is also 660 feet!
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Farm-derived units of measurement:
The rod is a historical unit of length equal to 5½ yards. It may have originated from the typical length of a mediaeval ox-goad.
The furlong (meaning furrow length) was the distance a team of oxen could plough without resting. This was standardised to be exactly 40 rods.
An acre was the amount of land tillable by one man behind one ox in one day. Traditional acres were long and narrow due to the difficulty in turning the plough.
An oxgang was the amount of land tillable by one ox in a ploughing season. This could vary from village to village, but was typically around 15 acres.
A virgate was the amount of land tillable by two oxen in a ploughing season.
A carucate was the amount of land tillable by a team of eight oxen in a ploughing season. This was equal to 8 oxgangs or 4 virgates.
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kmason-phtg · 12 years ago
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Gold/Platinum Tellurides in chalcedonic quartz hosted in graphitic schist.
found in southern vancouver island, bc, canada. 
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kmason-phtg · 12 years ago
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Lower San Juan Gold
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kmason-phtg · 12 years ago
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kmason-phtg · 12 years ago
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Beach
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Butterflies on Gravel Bar
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kmason-phtg · 12 years ago
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Another leak has been detected along Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline which crosses southern British Columbia carrying petroleum products from Alberta.
Kinder Morgan spokesman Andy Galarnyk confirms the line has been shut down as a precaution after a company crew noticed a problem in the Hope area, about 150 kilometres east of Vancouver.
Galarnyk says regulatory agencies and local authorities have been notified and the company is following the same procedures used on June 12 when a small leak occurred near Merritt, about 120 kilometres north of Hope.
There’s no word, yet, on the extent of the latest leak, but it comes on the same day as Kinder Morgan plans to hold an open house in suburban Vancouver on the planned expansion of the pipeline.
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kmason-phtg · 12 years ago
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Deering Bridge Inlet
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kmason-phtg · 12 years ago
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Ancient Bigleaf Maple
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kmason-phtg · 12 years ago
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Wildflowers on the Pacific
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kmason-phtg · 12 years ago
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Roosevelt Elk
Of the approximately 3200 Roosevelt elk residing in British Columbia, over 3000 live exclusively on Vancouver Island. Once widespread throughout southern BC, human activity and expansion slowly extinguished the elk on the mainland, leaving only Vancouver Island to support this species in Canada
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kmason-phtg · 12 years ago
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San Juan Spruce, Largest Spruce in canada
(Friends N, and J, shown appreciating the magnitude!) 
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kmason-phtg · 12 years ago
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Sunset and High Tension Wires 
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kmason-phtg · 12 years ago
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Ambient Noise Beats
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