Mountain along Kinzua Point
Momentum Plastics from the Old Waterford Landfill
A walk at Point Au Roche on a cloudy November day 🌥️
The taste of silage on the air.
The mountains and the lake.
Cloudy and cool lake breeze.
Dreams of living out in the country.
But I miss seeing all the burn barrels on the farms and homesteads in Beekmantown.
My old truck creeks and grones over the bumpy old road.
It’s fine I tell myself it’s been doing that for years.
The lake levels are so low.
I forgot how beautiful it was up here.
I wish I could live in a place like this not in the dumpy city but far enough out to have land but still commute to the stores.
But for now, just some time walking the shores of Champlain.
Change in Grasslands – Pasture in Albany County from 2001 to 2019
Multiple, often contradictory things can happen to land cover over two decades, as you can see with this map.
Suburban sprawl in the area around the city reduced the amount of grasslands over the 18 year period, while in more outlaying areas the decline of dairy meant less silage and corn was planted but more grass was grown/grazed for beef.
Here is the R code: https://github.com/AndyArthur/r_maps_and_graphs/blob/main/Albany County NLCD Decline in Grasslands.R
