Mapping High Nature Value farmland in Ireland. There are a number of interesting events coming up in the next few months that may be of interest to folks. The IDEAL-HNV project will be running four farmer workshops across the country in late July and early August. The IDEAL-HNV team will be attending. The Burren Winterage Festival is also on that week and we will be announcing further details on events in conjunction with that in the coming months.

Ireland Land Cover and Land Use. Developing solutions for monitoring land cover, land use and land use change in Ireland. Forest Cover Estimation in Ireland. Tender for Irish national ecosystem map. Feedback wanted on new Online Maps of the Irish Uplands. Teagasc Agriculural Land Use Workshop, RDS Dublin, 19th May.

As Elected Officials Still Disagree on Climate Change, The Number of Americans Supporting Battling Climate Change Increases. Hope To Reverse Violence in Mexico. Bill Strickland discusses urban renewal.

Saturday, July 11, 2015. Elusive Quality Amazonite at Lake George. Large Smoky fragment with more up the hill. Pocket starting to show itself at the base of a dead tree. I lost my scratcher the last time out so I had borrowed one from my digging partner Bob prior to setting out.

Rockhounding, Minerals, Geology, Rocks, and Gems. Saturday, July 18, 2015. Fish fossil, Jalama Beach, California. Fossilization is a topic that is often poorly understood among the rockhounding community. At nearly every club meeting or field trip, there is always somebody picking up a random rock with quartz veins running through it, and insisting it is a fossilized animal of some sort. Or finding concretions and wondering if they are petrified dinosaur eggs. What is a fossil, exactly? These occur when .