Environment Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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whale n. “Whale” season is in full swing up in Colorado’s high country, as the state’s ski resorts pump thousands of gallons of water through snowmaking equipment to create autumn’s signature-shaped piles of artificial snow.…“We’ve been blowing it into whales in the shady parts of the mountain, especially on top where it doesn’t warm up too much.”…Taking advantage of the colder overnight temperatures in the preseason, resorts direct snowmaking guns to shoot whale-shaped piles of snow in shady areas, then use Snowcat grooming equipment to distribute the snow across the trails. [English Environment Slang] [full cite] (Jan. 23, 2007)

whale n. I don;t think they had snowmaking pipes on them, but I remember sometimes they’d blow big whales of snow with a Hedco at the top and push it down with a cat. [English Environment Slang] [full cite] (Jan. 23, 2007)

whale n. We jumped off the lift and found a trail with great big whales of snow—20 feet high—of course we did jump turns off them…. Back to the six pack, back to the whales. [English Environment Slang] [full cite] (Jan. 23, 2007)

whale n. Already, giant “whales” of snow have appeared below snow guns. [English Environment Slang] [full cite] (Jan. 23, 2007)

white pollution n. Like other countries, China is also suffering from “white pollution,” a term coined to describe the unsightly tumbleweed of plastic bags blowing around on our streets. [English Environment] [full cite] (May. 31, 2005)

white rose n. “Uh-oh,” Brook said as she came across a couple of wads of toilet paper—or “white roses” as the stewards call them. “I’m not too impressed.” Brook and Haskell tidied up one of the campsites, took down a makeshift clothesline and spoke briefly with another camper on the island about responsible island use. [English Environment Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 30, 2007)

windlip n. “In Fairbanks there wasn’t any parks or jumps, so you just learned to hit whatever you had—natural hits, lips, windlips.”…Bell and Hebert link the tricks they first learned on hay-built jumps in Fairbanks with the natural terrain of big mountain riding, airing and spinning off windlips and cliffs and rarely stopping for even a second.…Bell’s most impressive move was a 720-degree spin off of a natural windlip. [English Environment] [full cite] (Apr. 17, 2008)

woolsack weathering n. I now know that South Africa is, in part, one of the planet’s oldest continental fragments. I also have a name for the ageing process of those jumbled Karoo koppies—it’s called “woolsack weathering,” which is pretty obvious when you think about it. [English Environment] [full cite] (Oct. 8, 2007)

wreckreation n. The NRA didn’t explain to Harden and Eilperin what they meant by “access,” but I guessing it means motorized access, which means roads, which means the NRA still supports the biggest threat to wildlife and hunting, at least on public land in the West, poorly managed motorized use or as it’s often called, “wreckreation.” [English Environment Slang] [full cite] (Feb. 16, 2007)

Y2Y n. The long-range agenda behind the environmentalist’s effort to move grizzlies into the Selway-Bitterroot ecosystem is a part of a movement to develop a corridor that could link populations of bears all the way from Alaska to the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem. The idea has been coined Y2Y (Yukon to Yellowstone.) The Y2Y movement is 140 environmental groups who propose a series of wildlife corridors to link populations of bear, wolves, and other large predators all the way from Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming to Canada’s Yukon Territory on the border of Alaska. The entire area encompasses almost 500,000 square miles. Using dedicated, animals-only overpasses and underpasses. [English Environment Abbreviation] [full cite] (Oct. 10, 2006)

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