Kirby Adams


Biography

I'm an amateur ecologist, amateur writer, amateur photographer, amateur everything ad infinitum. I'm only 35, so I'll figure out what I want to be when I grown up. Plenty of time, yet. I suppose you could call me a professional coral farmer. Yes, I spend most of my days propagating coral for sale to the aquarium trade. There are probably very few people who handle as many live Cnidarians as I do, especially surprising given that I live in Michigan.

Working on a website for "armchair ecologists." Those would be people who like to study ecology as a hobby, not people who study the microbial communities on chair arms.



Kirby's Most Recent Comments (view all)
  • 8/28/2008 3:42 pm - **** Viewing National Parks Traveler on Firefox 3.0**** : You've made the juice too accessible by the backdoor! I usually follow a link directly to an article from my Yahoo module. While that article is up, the Visitor Center and Recent Comments appear on the right. That's all I need. Now, if you hide those frames, I'll be forced ...
  • 8/28/2008 12:58 pm - Flooding Nurtures Life in Congaree National Park : I might add that the Harry Hampton Visitor Center is among the best in the NPS. Everything from it's setting (almost invisible from 100 feet away!) to the educational dioramas and mounts to the most energetic rangers I've ever met made that VC a memorable one for me. Badlands may ...
  • 8/28/2008 12:40 pm - **** Viewing National Parks Traveler on Firefox 3.0**** : I'm guessing it's this: On the front page, under the Photo of the Week, there is a Latest News headline. It's all blank space under that until the bottom where the latest news actually shows up. Not really a big deal. I never go to the front page, so I ...
  • 8/28/2008 7:06 am - Flooding Nurtures Life in Congaree National Park : Yeah, you were within shouting distance as you came down 127. You're just teasing me now. I really want to see Congaree in flood, or at least damp. We were there in April of last year and it was pretty dry. We had to portage a few spots on Cedar ...
  • 8/28/2008 6:14 am - Flooding Nurtures Life in Congaree National Park : Stop it, Bob! You're making me want to look for plane tickets to Columbia. My wife will wonder where I went when she gets home from school. -Kirby.....Lansing, MI
  • 8/27/2008 6:25 am - The Economist Warns that America’s National Park System is in Deep, Deep Trouble : To me, this isn't about whether Frank can get to his solitude now, but whether his children or grandchildren will have that option. It's a fact that a majority (vast majority, in many cases) of the land in each park is wild, kidless, and free of anthropocentric sound. Take Ted's ...
  • 8/26/2008 11:05 am - The Economist Warns that America’s National Park System is in Deep, Deep Trouble : Allow me to lighten the mood with a "dumb foreigner" story.... My wife and I passed through Yellowstone while driving from Washington back to Michigan this month. It was a Saturday in August and I knew it would be hell on the loop roads, but my wife had never seen ...
  • 8/26/2008 10:52 am - The Economist Warns that America’s National Park System is in Deep, Deep Trouble : Anon said: [quote]in my experience, anything labeled a national park on a map is something that receives heavy visitation anyway, so you wilderness folks can get over yourselves when dismissing the crowds who really need to visit them.[/quote] You might notice that large portions of many of the national parks ...
  • 8/24/2008 11:46 pm - Another Look at Those GPS Rangers in the National Parks : I have trouble seeing anything negative about this. I just got back from an extended trip through Olympic, Theodroe Roosevelt, Badlands, and Yellowstone National Parks. I saw a lot of the old-school interpretation you speak of, Kurt. And I hate to say this, but old school isn't always the best ...
  • 8/24/2008 11:17 pm - The Economist Warns that America’s National Park System is in Deep, Deep Trouble : Ted, I can empathize with your frustration with the environmentalist movement. I cringe at the public actions of environmental groups that only serve as fodder for the "environmentalist wackos" commentaries on Rush Limbaugh's show. No one's going to make an environmentalist of Limbaugh, but a lot of mainstream America is ...