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March 16, 2026

The post preceding this one is the second part of a white paper I wrote about recessive Romneys.  The first part was published on line in the Dec 2024 Ramblings, but sad to say, Ramblings has since gone dormant. The article is in the middle of the on-line Ramblings.                [...]

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Recessive Romneys part 2

September 9, 2025

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Breeding sheep for resistance to worms

January 1, 2025

                                       Trish and Gordon Levet with Stephen,  Anchorage Farm 1999  photo E. Shafer                                                                         Writing and video by or about Gordon Levet Breeding Sheep that have a high immunity [...]

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Greenhouse Gas Balance Sheet for Anchorage Farm

October 20, 2023

                                                                      Greenhouse Gas Balance Sheet for Anchorage Farm A greenhouse gas (GHG) balance sheet for a farm with livestock has three main entry categories – carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O).  CO2 is the GHG that by any credible calculation accounts for the lion’s share of the recent rise in global average [...]

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Ecosystem Services at Anchorage Farm

October 6, 2023

                                                                                               Ecosystem Services at Anchorage Farm The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), a major UN-sponsored effort to analyze the impact of human actions on ecosystems and human well-being, identified four major categories of ecosystem services: provisioning, regulating, cultural and supporting services. 1. Provisioning Services When people are asked to identify a service provided by nature, most [...]

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Book review: Apocalypse Never

March 16, 2021

 Review by Stephen Shafer of  Apocalypse never:  why environmental alarmism hurts us all by Michael Shellenberger   New York, Harper 2020      Michael Shellenberger can’t be dismissed as a standard-issue climate change denier.  He acknowledges scientific evidence that average global surface air temperature is going up.    He recognizes that fossil fuels under human control have had, [...]

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