Little minds focus on smallest details

A small article caught TPP's attention. The WH via the Dept of the Interior has rescinded an Obama era ban on plastic water bottle in National Parks.  The Phactors were looking to buy a bottle of water for a hike, an over sight for certain, but none were for sale, although very nice souvenir aluminium bottles were available as was a filling station, so we were good, and mildly impressed that our National Parks were so forward thinking.  And not a single discarded water bottle was seen on any of the many trails we walked.  But now that rule has been rescinded.  It takes really small minds to focus on the smallest details.  How petty can you get?  Any bottled water CEOs involved?  No question this will help make our country great again.  Thanks, to the WaPo and Treehugger. Sounds like time to write the Secretary of the Interior.  
 

Field Guide iPhone app - neat idea, free, but...

Here's a great freebe iPhone app for you via eNature; field guides to USA's national parks. The whole idea of having a digital field guide does have some appeal, although carrying field guides in your pack does demonstrate a certain gravitas as a devoted naturalist. And as mentioned previously, the ability to ID plants via pictures is coming of age, but here's the catch. What will work in Central Park won't work in Yellowstone. What you get to download is merely the access package, the goods, so to speak, are on a server somewhere so it requires internet access. Looks like my old field guides are not quite as out-dated as they sound unless you're carrying a satellite iPhone. Do they make those?