Guano (Spanish from Quechua: wanu) is the accumulated excrement of seabirds or bats. Guano is a highly effective fertilizer due to the high content of nitrogen, phosphate, and potassium, all key nutrients essential for plant growth. Guano was also, to a lesser extent, sought for the production of gunpowder and other explosive materials.

James Larkin White (July 11, 1882– April 26, 1946) was a cowboy, guano miner, cave explorer, and park ranger for the National Park Service. He is best remembered as the discoverer, early promoter and explorer of what is known today as Carlsbad Caverns in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico.

Coccothrinax crinita (guano barbudo, guano petate, [2] old man palm, palma petate) [3] is a palm which is endemic to Cuba. Like other members of the genus Coccothrinax, C. barbadensis is a fan palm (i.e. it has fan-shaped palmate leaves).

Common names: The Old Man Palm is also known as Thatch Palm, Guano Barbudo, Guano Petate, Palma Petate. Family: Arecaceae. Origin: Coccothrinax crinita is native to Cuba. Appearance: Trunk is slim, only 8 inches in diameter, but appears bigger because of …

Feb 17, 2016 · Midway Atoll, a strategic key to America's defeat of Japan in the Second World War, is among them. A guano trade existed prior to the California gold rush, but war between Spain and her former...

Nov 1, 2020 · Coccothrinax crinita is also known as Cuban Old Man Palm, Thatch Palm, Guano Barbudo, Guano Petate, and Palma Petate. This is a very slow growing palm from Tropical Cuba that matures to a canopy about 7’ wide and a trunk to …

William Vogt's best-selling and influential neo-Malthusian text Road to Survival articulated the conservation sensibility of his day and was literally read around the world.

Feb 27, 2020 · The dry coastal climate meant that the bird’s poop - known as guano - piled up on the shore, together with the empty eggshells and bones of dead birds, hardening into impressive craggy islands rather than being washed away.

Fairfield Osborn's 'Our Plundered Planet' and William Vogt's 'Road to Survival' in Retrospect. This paper traces the “intellectual roots” of The Population Bomb by discussing two now largely …

May 7, 2024 · Decade upon decade, the pitfalls of fertilization tormented growers—until 1802, when German explorer and scientist Alexander von Humboldt strolled down a waterfront in Peru and felt his nose hairs curl in ammonia rebellion at an odor emanating from barge loads of yellow-brown, caked guano.