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Greater Sage-grouse v. Wind Turbines in Oregon

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BLM issued a draft EIS, provided the public with an opportunity to comment, and then issued the final EIS , a comprehensive document that runs 1253 pages. The many BLM documents relating to the project can be found here.). The plan included a number of sage-grouse mitigation measures. Thus, the court reversed BLM’s lower court victory.

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

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The recommendations will sound familiar to any birder or naturalist who wants to protect and improve her local patch: Immediately shut down cat feeding stations. Remove Phragmites and replace it with cattails. Norse was a Wall Street broker; John Kieran was a sports reporter and radio panelist.

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Feral Cats in American Cities

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… The ordinance would allow Minneapolis residents to establish cat “colonies” where abandoned and wild cats can be fed but also vaccinated, neutered and identified in an effort to humanely cut their population and control disease. Mole hills! New Jersey is Undecided. New Jersey has an interesting approach, at the sate level.

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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

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Complementing Dunn’s exquisite descriptions are his photographs of 27 species plus the mysterious Nazca hummingbird geoglyph, an abandoned Juan Fernández Firecrown nest, and the aforementioned photo of Sr. This is what the female birds saw when he displayed to them, these arresting blazes of blue and purple. (p. Jonas D’Abronzo.