Showing posts with label trees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trees. Show all posts
Saturday, August 25, 2018

The American Enclosure Movement

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Female bluebird on barbed wire. The Enclosure Movement in the U.K. had a profound impact on the land, farms, and people in that coun...
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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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Monday, October 19, 2015

Monarchs & Mexico

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A repost from this blog, 2009. "I understand more and more how population is the problem. I was asking almost every peasant I me...
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Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Red Fox as Weapons of Mouse Destruction

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If you use the slightest bit of common sense, the chance of getting rabies from a raccoon, fox, possum, skunk or groundhog is very low, ...
Thursday, December 29, 2011

Signs of Mammoth in Central Park

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This is pretty good little lecture about nature, seen and unseen, in Central Park.  The bit about the Kentucky Coffeetree is reminisce...
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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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Let Us Give Thanks for Wild Turkey and Uncle Sam

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Wild Turkey Feathers. This is a repost from Nov. 2008 Let us give thanks to the Wild Turkey, America's largest ground-nesting bird. ...
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Monday, November 02, 2009

The Forest Ozymandias

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Recycled from August 2006 Scouting new land on Sunday, Sailor and I came across an old stone farmhouse falling over in ruin. The stones wer...
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Monday, June 01, 2009

Machete Types, Use and Sharpening

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A repost from this blog, circa 2005 One of the tools I use at almost every dig is a machete. In hedgerows, nothing works faster to cut away...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Winged Weapons of Mouse Destruction

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A young Falco sparverius . The American Kestrel or Sparrow Hawk, sometimes called a "spar", is actually a small falcon. Humans lik...
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Sunday, February 24, 2008

The Geography of American Working Terriers

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. This is a repost. Originally from August 2004. The map, above , is fairly illuminating , as it graphically represents where working judge...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

America Wastes a Second Chance

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We have a great deal of wildlife in America today -- a situation far different from 100 years ago when our Eastern forests were all but go...
Saturday, July 22, 2006

A Pileated Woodpecker Was Here

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Digging on the dogs today, I came across this dead tree that had been worked over pretty well by a local pileated woodpecker. A pileated wi...
Monday, April 10, 2006

Knock, Knock, Knocking on Heaven's Door

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On Sunday the dogs bottled a groundhog up under the root ball of an American holly tree. While the dogs were underground baying, a pileated...
Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Ted Williams on "Global Releaf" Projects

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__________________________________ Trees Can Be Just Another Sacred Cow by Ted Williams from High Country News _________________________...