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15 Years: Things Will Never Be The Same

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It wasn’t a particularly eventful year in and of itself, but for those who weren’t around, a lot has changed since then. Not only is it a very impressive citizen science project that manages to marshal the legions of birders around Canada and the U.S., This post is meant to serve as a flashback to 1998, 15 years ago.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

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My friend Vickie Henderson , who has some serious long-range vision, looked at the science behind Tennessee’s crane hunting proposal and found it badly wanting. Here’s the petition. She drew this petition up to ask the USFWS to reconsider the clause in its management plan that calls for hunting Eastern sandhill cranes. .&#

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