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Showing posts with label California state rock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label California state rock. Show all posts
Thursday, August 12, 2010

California Serpentine: To Assembly Member Lieu - A Question of Openness and Fairness

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Senate Bill 624 in the California legislature calls for serpentine to be removed as the state rock of California. The bill is in the Assembl...
Monday, August 9, 2010

A Call for Education About Serpentine

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As the California legislature prepares to vote on Senate Bill 624, it is important that our senators and assembly members know that issue i...
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Monday, August 2, 2010

The Power of Words: The Debate over Serpentine in California

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Oh, the power of words. What do you think of when you hear words like lobbyist , deadly, carcinogen, asbestos, toxic , no safe level of expo...
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Sunday, August 1, 2010

Serpentine: An Update on the State Rock Debate in California

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( Update : I've removed the original first paragraph of this post. I wrote it in response to a post elsewhere that has since been remove...
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Sunday, July 25, 2010

Fighting For California's State Rock: What's Right With Serpentine?

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California's state flower, the Golden Poppy, grows on serpentine soils at Hells Hollow on Highway 49 in California's Mother Lode. F...
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Garry Hayes
I am a teacher of geology at Modesto Junior College and former president of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, Far Western Section. I have led field trips all over the western United States, and a few excursions overseas, but my homebase is the Sierra Nevada, the Great Valley, and the Coast Ranges of California.
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