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Feeding

Horsfield tortoises are generally very good feeders, and eat almost anything you could Apple in front of it. Many keepers will place a variety of foods into a shallow bowl and place it in the same spot every day. Try to stay away from this Mens Boots it is important to stimulate the tortoise and make it work for its food. Spread the food out across the enclosure and offer different feeding methods. For instance, put a cabbage Body Piercing higher up on the wall of the enclosure. This will force the tortoise to stretch its head upwards and pull chunks Feed the leaf.

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Cord Blood and Its Uses

Cord blood is the blood left in the umbilical cord and placenta after the birth of the child and is collected after the cord has been cut off. The umbilical cord is routinely discarded with the placenta after a child is born. It is also called placental blood. Cord blood has lots of blood producing stem cells which can be frozen and later used for transplants. Cord blood is genetically unique to the child and the family. Now researchers have found that it can be used to treat many diseases.

Cord blood is now used as an alternative to bone marrow transplant when in future if the child or his family is diagnosed with cancers such as leukemia, lymphoma and other disorders of the blood-making system, such as sickle-cell anemia; severe immune-system disorders; and genetic defects affecting the blood-making system. Researchers are further studying the use of cord blood for the treatment of different types of diseases like arthritis, spinal cord damage, stroke diabetes and Alzheimers disease, Purkinje cell degeneration, Duchenne's muscular dystrophy, heart disease, and vision and hearing loss, Parkinsons disease, burns osteoarthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis.

All stem cellsregardless of their sourcehave three general properties: they are capable of dividing and renewing themselves for long periods; they are unspecialized; and they can give rise to specialized cell types. The cord blood contains blood-producing hematopoietic stem cells as well as mesenchymal stem cells. Hematopoietic stem cells have the ability to generate: three major types of brain cells (neurons, oligodendrocytes, and astrocytes); skeletal muscle cells; cardiac muscle cells; and liver cells. Mesenchymal stem cells can create various tissues in the body such as cartilage, bone, muscle, tendon, ligament and fat.

Cord blood transplants have become a strong alternative to bone marrow transplants. Cord blood is easier to collect than traditional bone marrow donation and it is not painful to extract, doesnt require invasive surgery. It is extremely difficult to find a suitable donor for a marrow transplant because six HLAs, or human lymphocyte antigens, a group of proteins in bone marrow cells that can provoke an immune response, need to match or a perfect match is required. In cord blood transplant only three HLAs loci need to match. So in cord blood there is more opportunity for transplant to siblings, parents and grandparents. Cord blood has 10 times more blood-making cells concentrated in it than bone marrow.

Worldwide thousands of successful cord blood stem cell transplants have been performed in the past decade.

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Igneous Rocks

Igneous...ignite! And that's just what happens when igneous rocks form. Fiercely hot molten rock from deep inside the earth pushes its way out and lights everything in its path on fire. As the firey liquid cools, it forms igneous rocks.

Rock types are organized, or classified, according to how the rock formed. It's a pretty simple system and there are only three types: igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic. Their names give clues about how the rocks were formed.

Earth's Mantle

Under the crust is the fiery hot mantle. Saying that the mantle is fiery hot does it injustice. The coolest outer part of the mantle is about 1000 degrees Celsius (1800 degrees Fahrenheit). Here the rock is molten liquid, white hot.

All Magma is made up of a fairly uniform mixture of elements. Some of the major elements present are silica, iron, sodium, potassium, aluminum, magnesium, and gasses including water vapor, oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen and sulfur dioxide. These elements form chemical combinations that crystallize in patterns to form eight basic rock forming minerals. These eight minerals form most rock. They are olivine, pyroxene, amphibole, orthoclase, plagioclase, muscovite, biotite, and quartz.

Igneous Rock Formation

Igneous rocks are formed from this molten magma. These rocks form when the magma cools and crystallizes. This can happen above ground as with volcanoes it is then called extrusive.

There are many kinds of volcanoes around the world. The materials that come from a volcano are different as well. We tend to lump them all under the term lava but rocks ranging from the very dense basalt to the very light pumice are just a part of what can come from a volcano. There is also ash, volcanic glass or obsidian, and the gem stone peridot to name a few.

The molten magma can also crystalize below the surface. When the molten rock rises in the crust but cools before it reaches the surface it is plutonic igneous rock and is categorized as intrusive.

Cool Enough

When the magma reaches the surface it cools quickly, a matter of days or weeks.
When the magma forms pockets underground it cools much more slowly. This could take thousands or even millions of years.

The rate at which the magma cools determines the kind of rocks that are formed. Faster cooling surface lava creates rock that is fine grained or aphanitic. The rapid cooling doesn't allow large crystals to form. I addition most of the gasses are driven off into the atmosphere.

The slower cooling that takes place underground allows larger crystal formation. Granite is an example of this type of rock formation.

Other igneous rocks are pumice, scoria, gabbro, basalt, ryolite, dacite, andesite and obsidian.

Rocks are, after all, the history books of the earth's extremely long life. The conditions during the formation of the earth left marks that one can learn to read, thereby discovering what happened to make a particular kind of rock in a particular place at a particular time.

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CVWMA - Creston Valley Wildlife Manangement Area

The CVWMA (Creston Valley Wildlife Management Area) is located along Hwy 3, just north of the US border in the heart the Creston Valley. Situated on a critical migratory flyway, it is an internationally recognized wetland conservation area. It is also a mecca for bird watchers, wildlife enthusiasts, hikers and bikers and from all over the world.

There are 4 main named areas comprising of one lake and 17 marsh segments in this high profile, environmentally sensitive area. Running from north to south are; Duck Lake, Six Mile Slough, Leach Lake Marshes, and Corn Creek Wetlands, encompassing over 17000 acres(7000 ha) of habitat. CVWMA - Area Maps

Hike or Bike the Dyke

You can access the wetland in a number of ways. The endless trails of boardwalks, natural trails and dykes that contain the wetland cells will take you to every corner of the wetland. Many of the trails can be accessed from near or around the CVWMA Interpretation Center located just south of Hwy #3 on the west side of the valley.

Two other popular accesses, particularly for Duck Lake, are located off of highways 3A, north of Creston. Duck Lake Dyke trails are accessed at the north endby parking on the side of the road near Sirdar and walking across the tracks. The south end of the dyke trails and access to other dykes and trails can be made via Lower Wynndel Rd, just north of Wynndel.

If you wish to get into the middle of everything, bring along your canoe (or rent one). Explore the inner marshes while you quietly cruise the expanses of water, cattail and bullrush in search of resident birds, amphibians, reptiles and mammals.

What Will You See?

There are a number of resident species of birds and animals. Of course depending on the time of year, wildlife tend to keep their own schedule so be prepared to see what is in season.

The Creston Valley is on a major migration route for waterfowl, so many of the waterfowl are available to be seen in the spring and/or the fall. The Creston Valley is also a critical breeding ground for a number of migratory bird species. DU Canada contribution's have been the area's intricate dyke and water level management strategy that provides the superior habitat which has resulted in additional specie diversity and increased numbers.

Critical Birds: Osprey, Forster's tern, Black Tern, Great Blue Heron, Rough Winged Swallow, Wood Duck and Western Grebe.

Waterfowl: most Pacific Flyway duck species including mallard, golden eye, bufflehead, pintail, wood duck, widgeon, shovelers, teal, canvasbacks, redheads, ruddy, scaup, scooter and coots.

- Geese and Swans including canada goose, snow goose, tundra and trumpeter swans - Sandhill cranes, Great Blue Herons, mergansers and loons

Raptors: the highest population density of Osprey in Canada; bald eagles, owls, hawks.

Other Birds: terns, swallows, song birds, woodpeckers, various black birds.

Mammals: elk, moose, deer, coyote, black bear, beaver, muskrat and river otter

Fish: The area is famous for it's Sport Fishing opportunities. Kootenay Lake supports world class sized Rainbow Trout to +20lbs. Kootenay Lake and surrounding spawning streams are home to the kokanee, a land-locked sockeye salmon unique to BC and the western US states. Duck Lake and Leach Lake are shallow warmer bodies of water that sustain one of best large-mouth and small-mouth bass fisheries in BC.

Reptiles and Amphibians: frogs, tree frogs, alligator lizards, endangered Coeur d'Alene salamaders, long-toed salamander, garter snake, rubber boa and painted turtle.

A more complete wildlife list can be downloaded from the following page.

http://www.crestonwildlife.ca/pdf/CVWMAchecklist.pdf

For more information about the centre contact the Creston Valley Wildlife Area Interpretation Centre

http://www.crestonwildlife.ca/index.html

Dave Ouellette was an Engineering Tech for Ducks Unlimited Canada for 11 years. While constructing over 200 wetland segement in the Southern Interior of BC, Dave managed to fish almost as many lakes and streams in his travels. As an avid flyfisherman, Dave spends most of his ice free seasons devoting intense research and development days to the rainbow trout lakes in the southern interior of British Columbia. See more Ducks Unlimited Canada Special Projects in BC at http://www.best-in-british-columbia.com/ducks-unlimited-special-projects.html