- Phecda (stars.astro.illinois.edu)
PHECDA (Gamma Ursae Majoris). Few figures in the sky move us more than the Big Dipper, its seven bright stars laid out in a long bent row that the British call the Plough. All but one of its stars are second magnitude, though Phecda, the third one in from the end of the bowl, and southernmost of the bowl stars, is just on the edge of third (2.44).
Washington Trails Association
- Bobs Lakes (wta.org)
Lakes in the Potholes region come and go as the water table rises and falls. “Bobs Lakes” refers to a string of shallow ponds aligned in one of the channels of the Channeled Scabland region of Eastern Washington. Most of these ponds are now dry, but that doesn’t detract from the area’s natural beauty.
- Bureau of Land Management (Wikipedia)
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior responsible for administering U.S. federal lands. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the BLM oversees more than 247.3 million acres (1,001,000 km2) of land, or one-eighth of the United States’s total landmass.[
