Task 18 Tiny URL and Zamar

Task 18 Tiny URL and Zamar

Since we are approaching Thanksgiving, I went to Google and did a search for "how to cook a turkey". After I found a site, I converted the long URL to Tiny URL. My results follow:

TinyURL was created!

The following URL:

http:www.gloucestertimes.com/pulife/local_story_321225141.ht
ml?...

has a length of 66 characters and resulted in the following TinyURL which has a length of 26 characters:

http://tinyurl.com/ye7sfhq
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Or, give your recipients confidence with a preview TinyURL:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/ye7sfhq
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I went to Zamar browsed from my my file, which was a document written by Cliff. I entered my email and converted the file. I copied and pasted it below.


Cliff’s Column
Tamarisk, what is it and what about
it?
Tamarisk, Tamarix ramosissima, or
Salt cedar, as it is commonly known,
is a shrub or small tree 5 -20 feet tall.
Leaves are small and scale like on
highly branched slender stems.
Flowers are small and pink to white.
Salt cedar was introduced from
Eurasia in the 1800’s as a possible
erosion control plant, and is now wide
spread thought the United States.
Today it occupies more than a million
acres of land in the Southwest. They
have become naturalized along stream
banks, canals and reservoirs. The
entire Rio Grande River corridor
through New Mexico is so thick with
Salt cedar that little else grows in
riparian areas. The Grand Junction
area and Colorado are no exceptions.
Stands form monocultures which
severely limit wild life habitat and
plant diversity. This condition can be
seen along much of our Colorado
River from Dotsero to the state line
and beyond. Large plants can transpire
at least 200 gallons of water per day!
Recently it has been gaining public
attention, due to funding efforts by
Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell,
And Representative Scott McInnis.
The drought conditions have also
given impetus to ideas to save water.
A recent letter to the Editor in The
Daily Sentinel Expressed concern that
we are spending money to control
Tamarisk and my not have studies to
tell us how to wisely use the money.
Well, while the public has not been
aware of the problem and this may be
new territory for them, land managers
have been fussing with the Tamarisk
problem for a long time. Chemical
and mechanical and cultural methods
of treatment are well established and
new biological agents are being tested
in the field as I write. Two insects
appear to be very effective and host
specific. They have been released near
Pueblo, Colorado within the last year.
The consensus is that they could be
too effective too fast. Rehabilitating
the sites is the main concern. Studies
conducted by the Bureau of
Reclamation are on going. The rehab
problem is compounded by the fact
that Salt cedar draws salt from the
water and soils and deposits it in the
surface soil eventually causing the soil
to be too salty for other plants to
tolerate. Finding plants to recondition
the soil so native willows and
cottonwoods can reestablish is the
challenge. Within the last 3-4 years a
group of agency folks and local
governments have gotten together to
form a Tamarisk Coalition. This
group has been organizing efforts,
raising funds and awareness to tackle
the problem locally. They have
worked closely with Senator
Campbell and Representative
McInnis. They hope to encompass the
West slope portion of the Colorado
River drainage.
My own efforts with the Bureau of
Land Management (BLM) have
focused on the upper most part of the
invasion from State Bridge to Dotsero.
Over a three year period and $15,000,
BLM has treated approximately 23
miles of Salt cedar along that portion
of the Colorado River and its’ side
drainages. The Grand Valley Anglers
and the Ferdinand Hayden chapters of
Trout Unlimited have helped in this
effort as volunteers, cutting and
treating the cut stump with herbicide.
Currently we are planning another
work day on this project in late
September or early October. I’ll keep
you posted.
Fish on ! Cliff

Where has this been all my life? What a great tool! Hopefully, I won't have to turn another patron, or at least as many patrons away disappointed that we couldn't get their file up no matter what we tried.

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