On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 12:14:06PM -0400, Mark Freeze wrote: > When you zoom out of this link it is amazing to see the remoteness of > this area. The government sure picked a good spot for the base. > > What are the green circles to the north of the lake on the other side > of the mountain?
Mark, Unless I'm badly mistaken ( which, if I'm not mistaken, has happened once in my life. ;-) ) those are irrigated fields. They have a pivot point in the middle of each circle, actually a big pipe, and a long boom, the length of the radius of the circle, which has sprayers on it, fed by the water provided from the pivot. Brian
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