Showing posts with label forest fragmentation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label forest fragmentation. Show all posts
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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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Coffee, Birds & the World Bank

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American Redstart It is pathetic, but true, that there are 391 Starbuck's coffee houses within an hour's drive from my house ...
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Friday, January 20, 2012

Nature's Viet Cong

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In Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature , author David Quammen writes about one of the world's most despised insects : ...
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Friday, December 23, 2011

The Missing Birds of Rock Creek Park

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OvenBird This was written in 2003 for a major environmental organization. The decline of neotropical migrant song birds in the U.S. was f...
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Bird Species Decline in the U.S

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In large parts of the U.S., over half of our songbird species are in decline. Scientists say habitat destruction is largely to blame. ...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Court Upholds Roadless Rules

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The roadless forest protection act rule has been upheld by the courts, which is news to my ears as I spent several years working full time...
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Saturday, October 01, 2011

Willie Nelson's Guitar

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Willie Nelson knows two things about great music: it isn't about the label on the guitar, and it doesn't require killing off end...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

My Old Man and the Forest

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My father, who grew up dirt poor in the poorest town in Kentucky, and who never cut a corner in his life, had the uncommon good sense to m...
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Group Sex and Porn

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A repost from this blog from May 2007. In mid-June horseshoe crabs start to roll up on to the beaches in the mid-Atlantic states. They c...
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Friday, September 03, 2010

Darwin Turned a Barren Island into Paradise

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Old Darwin is pictured , because he looks cooler than young Darwin . It seems Charles Darwin was the first person to " terra form ...
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Thursday, April 22, 2010

When Population Growth Comes Homes to Roost

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. Today is Earthday , and it also happens to be that time of year when more than 250 species of neotropical migratory birds are now flying n...
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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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Sunday, December 21, 2008

Some Old Logging Photos from Around the Nation

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Spruce, Del Norte County, California, 1959 Oregon, 1896 Washington State, 1919 Mononghalela National Forest, West VA, 1939 Idaho, 1911 Massa...
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Monday, October 27, 2008

Ted Stevens Found Guilty!

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This is God's plan for Alaska. What a wonderful thing to happen on Teddy Roosevelt's 150th birthday! You see, it was Teddy Roosevelt...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

A Forest of Lies

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George Steinmetz is beyond words , as only the very best nature photographers can be. So I will say no more other than to say check it out ....
Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Coffee and Provocation

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Ellen DeGeneres' Problems Explained: The news this morning is that TV host-comedienne Ellen DeGeneres adopted a dog from some crazy cani...
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