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Conserving the Future: Bold Bird Ideas

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The results will inform a vision document to be adopted in July 2011 at a national conference to guide the NWR system for wildlife protection into the next decade and beyond. I’m extremely grateful to Paul for taking the initiative in raising awareness of this NWR campaign.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Giving a few hundred hunters something else to shoot, in my opinion, cannot be worth the blowback from tens of thousands of people who are willing to travel and spend just to watch the birds fly over. 18 Responses to “Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?!

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The Famous Grouse: Smoky Black Blended Scotch Whisky

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The Famous Grouse brand was founded in 1896 in Perth and adopted its now-legendary grouse logo sometime in the early twentieth century, an image first drawn by Phillippa Gloag, the daughter of the company owner. After all, it’s the famous grouse, leaving no room in this lek for any pretenders to the throne.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

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I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. This almost certainly can be argued to be true just on the basis of logic, because feral Cats are proficient hunters and are entirely out of ecological place. Be prepared to take one (or several) in and work towards removal and adoption. But they don’t live in North America.

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The Passenger Pigeon & A Message From Martha: One Pigeon, Two Book Reviews

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” (I love that term, and may adopt it for future use.) In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. Everyone knows Audubon’s famous illustration, but how many know that it has been harshly criticized for not being realistic? It is the vision that counts!(To

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Administrative Procedure for Birders: Duck Stamp Rulemaking

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Because many non-hunters purchase Duck Stamps to conserve waterfowl and other wildlife, there was substantial opposition to this proposal , even as many acknowledged the tremendous contributions that hunters have made to waterfowl conservation.

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