On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 04:11 PM, Jill Taylor Bussiere wrote {re:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=421166 }

And this, the same week that the Bush administration deleted the [Global Warming] part from the EPA report!!!!  Reality is thwarting the Republican lies.

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At 06:46 PM 2003-07-03 -0400, Jim Lindstrom wrote, also to LessIsMore:

Along this same line, I'm wondering how many of you folks know that the USDA has redrawn the hardiness zone map? You know, the map that tell gardeners what can be grown where? 

http://www.ahs.org/publications/usda_hardiness_zone_map.htm [leading to:
http://www.ahs.org/pdfs/USDA_Map_3.03.pdf ]

I used to be on the cusp between zones 5 & 6. Now I'm solidly in zone 6. Maybe this is the Bushie's gift to American agriculture. After all, in a couple of decades we should be able to grow bananas in Pennsylvania.

Jim Lindstrom
Oak Forest, PA
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· I have put my selection of that map (at 200%), the North-Central and Northern-Atlantic US states (though with only the southern tip of Maine) at:

http://www.geocities.com/davdd.geo/-/NE-USplantHardinessMicroClimates.gif
http://www.geocities.com/davdd.geo/-/NE-USplantHardinessMicroClim-table.gif
 (the odd greenish one on the main map is the solid "apple"#5, on the table)

· I have also put them on my European site (where I have 50MB of room), at:

http://members.lycos.co.uk/davd/-/NE-USplantHardinessMicroClimates.gif
http://members.lycos.co.uk/davd/-/NE-USplantHardinessMicroClim-table.gif

· Please tell me
- if either the geocities.com or the lyccos.co.uk version doesn't work, and
- if you would like some other part of tthe map.
 The original PDF map: http://www.ahs.org/pdfs/USDA_Map_3.03.pdf is huge (5.56 MB) so you may not want (or be able) to download it. That PDF has the major advantage that you can magnify the part you want, to 800% or 1600%.

David.