Erode / Erosion

Subject Matter for LIBRARY BOOK CLUB

discussion -- April 8, 2025 from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Niles District Library, Niles, Michigan 49120

further details at

nileslibrary.com/single-event/subject-matter-book-club-5-2-2/2025-04-08

Erode

Is Walden Pond a tourist attraction?

BOSTON Globe online article July 2024

Park statistics show that nearly 600,000 people visit

the National Historic Landmark every year since 1962.

Torrential rains that hit in spring and early summer in 

2023 and 2024 submerged the beach right up to the

pond's stone retaining wall.  Between Memorial Day and

Labor Day, Walden's beach is typically teeming, Coney

Island-style, with visitors.

Walden and the nearby Minute Man National Historical

Site are on the National Trust for Historical Preservation's

list of 11 most endangered sites.  It is threatened by an

expansion of Hanscom Field Airport, which could

significantly increase the private jet traffic, leading to

increased noise, vehicular traffic, along with negative 

environmental and climate impacts.  Walden Pond is a

462 - acre park established in 1970s is more forested in

2024 than it was in 1854.  Its famously crystalline waters

are stocked with trout and contain trophy bass. . .

Erosion has become such a problem, wire fencing now

keeps hikers from straying off the main road leading to

around the pond.

Walden's great depth - 102 feet is keeping it keep at bay

the 2 centuries' worth of nutrient-rich sediment now locked

on its bottom . . . Climate change is going to complicate

everything that's happening there; the pond is at risk.

bostonglobe.com/2024/07/22/magazine/at-walden-pond-tensions-can-overtake-tranquility

Rural high-speed internet extension : Program frozen

Trump-Vance planners and tech expanders

plan to freeze the already Rural Internet

expansion as StarLink (Elon Musk-owned)

and other ongoing next-step technologies

are being offered for the entire 50 states.

Washingtonpost online (2 April 2025)

Members of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine

 April 2025

Over 1,900 researchers describe the efforts of

the Trump 2.0 - Vance administration to fire

and shut down the funding of research and

continued employment of scientists, engineers,

medical experts as an "assault on science."

If our country's research and technology

sectors are shut down, we will lose our

scientific edge. . .

abcnews.go.com/Health/2000-scientists-call-

Trump-administration-stop-assault-on-science

Who are the 15 per cent of countries targeted by Trump - Bessent measures / Tariffs reciprocal (April 2)?

The Trump-Vance administration will as the

Executive Branch target what it calls the Dirty 15

who account for the bulk trade imbalance and

who impose Tariffs or other rules to put U.S.

business firms at a disadvantage:

Argentina

Australia

Brazil

Canada

China

European Union

India

Indonesia

Japan

s. Korea

Malaysia

Mexico

Russia

Saudi Arabia

South Africa

Switzerland

Taiwan

Thailand

Turkey

United Kingdom (Britain,N. Ireland

Wales, Scotland)

Vietnam

Druse Militias

Dateline = Sweida SW of Damascus

In southwest Syria -- an area bordering Jordan.

Druse Militias refuse to join Syria's new army

following the toppling of the Bashar al-Assad

regime that despotically ruled Syria over 50 years.

They are part of the "Mountain Brigade."

nytimes (4/1/2025 article)

world/middleeast/Syria-Israel-border.html

Susan Crawford, justice for Wisconsin

On the first Tuesday of a new month,

a Dane County (Wisconsin) judge in

a statewide race that set records for a

State Supreme Court race between

judge-candidates; high voter turnout.

Susan Crawford was elected

newest associate justice of the 9-member

Supreme Court of Wisconsin,

giving the liberal party a 5 to

4 majority over the GOP - MAGA.

Election results are still being 

counted overnight April 1-2, 2025.

Her website was

CrawfordForWI.com