CheckmateApostates

CheckmateApostates t1_j131ii2 wrote

No, I was agreeing with your reply. A lot of these "solar noon is 12 pm" people don't seem to understand that, though. It's just weird how if I go to Missoula and gain an hour on the clock but only like 15 minutes of real time with respect to sunset, I'm not suddenly at risk of my heart exploding or any of those other nonsense things that anti-DST people argue.

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CheckmateApostates t1_j12fdnb wrote

Right, solar noon fluctuates throughout the year and is only at 12 pm close to the eastern edge of a time zone. We have solar noon at noon in Spokane during half the year, whereas everyone else comes later.

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CheckmateApostates t1_iwql0ig wrote

Eastern Washington is very green north of Spokane. The Selkirk Mountains in the northeast corner are part of the inland temperate rainforest. The brown wasteland that we see during most of the year in central and eastern Washington are farms and rangeland that used to be prairie, semi-arid steppe, ponderosa pine shrub steppe, and forests.

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CheckmateApostates t1_iwobo5o wrote

Places like Pullman celebrate that while giving lip service to conserving the (very much endangered) natural prairie that only exists in small pockets scattered across the Palouse. Throughout the spring, while the wheatfields are still rolling waves of dirt, Turnbull NWR's little patch of prairie blooms with a succession of wildflowers. It's really beautiful and a sad reminder of what we've lost.

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