>Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 10:47:51 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Steven Coles <scoles at linknet.kitsap.lib.wa.us>
>To: dpaulson at ups.edu
>Subject: buzz
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>Electrical currents flow through the ground around power stations &
>high-tension lines. (Some induced, some through ground rods.) These
>currents must produce electroysis, changing the chemistry of the soil.
>Increases in currents lasting a few minutes can drive night crawlers (&
>who knows what else?) up to the soil surface. Does this happen often
>around power towers? I don't know. Would night hawks change behavior?
>I don't know.
>
>steven coles

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