Showing posts with label endagered species. Show all posts
Showing posts with label endagered species. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Gorring's Raccoons

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A repost from January 2006 The Monterey Herald reports on Germany's "Unwanted Raccoon Harvest": California has had its...
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Sunday, June 05, 2016

Warbler Politics: How Birds Made Two Presidents

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Prothonotary warbler.  This post is mostly recycled from 2007. The latest news out of Texas this campaign season (June 2016) is that ...
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Friday, November 13, 2015

The Real Threat to Hunting

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A repost from this blog, July 2004. For hunters, fluttering orange tape and popsicle-colored sticks mean only one thing: Doom . This ...
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Friday, July 02, 2010

Where the Buffalo Roam -- Again

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A repost from this blog, circa December 2004. Thanks to Teddy Roosevelt, Aldo Leopold, Gifford Pinchot, the American environmental movement...
Monday, September 28, 2009

Protecting Box Turtle Memories

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A repost from July 2005 Very rarely the dogs and I will come across a box turtle as we hunt along hedgerow and field. When I was...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Coffee and Provocation

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Dogs More Like Us Than Chimps? Are dogs more like us than chimps? Maybe. Jozsef Topal of the Institute for Psychology at the Hungarian Acad...
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Friday, September 05, 2008

Bald Is Beautiful

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A friend sent me some pretty terrific bald eagle pictures taken in Canada, which got me to thinking about these magnificent birds. When ...
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008

A Time for Shad

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A seasonal repost from this blog. In my mind, the first week in April is always the start of the local shad run in the Potomac River just b...
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Monday, March 03, 2008

Thriving in America

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European naturalists occassionally come over to the U.S. just to see animals that once existed on their side of the Atlantic, but are now e...
Friday, February 22, 2008

Mass Wolf Kills on the Agenda in Idaho

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In 1900 there were only 800 bison left in all of the U.S. Today, however, captive bison are so numerous they are sold as supermarket food, ...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Bald Eagle on Way to Work

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My house is back a couple of blocks and on top of a cliff above the Potomac River. I go down a short run along a creek, and then along a 50...
Wednesday, November 14, 2007

David Sibley on Ivory-bills, Science and Priorities

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Hawaiian birds, left to right: Kauai O'O (extinct); Kauai Akialoa (extinct); Kauai O'u (extinct) ; Kauai Nukupu'u (extinct); Pu...
Thursday, June 28, 2007

Delisting the Bald Eagle a Sign of ESA Success

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It looks like the Bald Eagle is going to be delisted today as an endangered species . Have no fear; the bird will still be protected . Delis...
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Buy Land, God Ain't Making Any More of That

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Will Rogers advised folks to "Buy land because God ain't making any more of that," and some of the richest folks in America ar...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

The Fish Stinks From the Head Down

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Reading The Washington Post this morning , I was reminded of an Italian saying, "The fish stinks from the head down." The thing t...
Sunday, June 24, 2007

Balancing Hawks & Doves in Wildlife Management

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A couple of years ago , the legislative director for a large national bird conservation group stopped by my office, a bit apoplectic at the ...
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

The Upside of Disaster and Decline

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Walter H. sent me an article from The Wichita Eagle on waste land in eastern Kansas that is being snapped up by folks converting it to h...
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