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Recent Events Involving Our Public Lands Are Alarming

10,000 Birds

Just as the National Park Service marks 2016 as its centennial year and celebrates 100 years of stewardship for American public lands, many of our wild public places are being attacked by a small group of extremists as well as key members of the House of Representatives and the U.S.

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Have There Been Any Positive Aspects of the Malheur NWR Occupation?

10,000 Birds

Incidents like this one, led by far-right militant, anti-government extremists, should be a concern of all Americans, especially birders, hunters, environmentalists, conservationists, and anyone else concerned with keeping public lands public. This concern of losing our public lands is actually something birders and hunters have in common.

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The True Costs of the Rhetoric of Terror Continue to Mount – Part 1

Animal Ethics

It is chilling in its narrowness, because it targets a single group of political activists, namely, animal rights activists. The word ‘extremist’ runs a close second. Extremist’ connotes a fanatical whacko incapable of being reasoned with. Their concerns can’t be legitimate if they are “fanatical extremist terrorist whackos.”