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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

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June 9, 2015 – It’s deja vu all over again. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced as part of Great Outdoors Month the agency is proposing to expand fishing and hunting opportunities on 21 refuges throughout the National Wildlife Refuge System. Fishing is permitted on 271 wildlife refuges.

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Snowy Owl Ethics

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He is currently a Fish and Wildlife Technician with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Research Foundation for SUNY. Snowy Owls are at risk of getting killed via collisions, incidental poisoning from rodenticides, and even illegal hunting (Stone et al.

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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Two maps of the northwest Bronx and adjacent Yonkers, one from 1891 and one from 2015, pp. And, though I think you can argue that the Bronx Zoo, with its numerous buildings and landscaped wildlife areas is not purely ‘natural space,’ I have wonderful memories of traipsing through its wooded areas when I was a girl. (I

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Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Book Review

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.* So, it’s a good thing that Ediciones Nuevos Mundo, the publishing arm of The Friendship Association, published Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Comprehensive Guide by Nils Navarro, Cuban wildlife artist and naturalist , earlier this year. Ediciones Nuevos Mundos, 2015. and Cuba.). We still can’t just buy a plane ticket and go.

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