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Teaching Ornithology in High Schools

10,000 Birds

Although the class focused “on birds, students also pick up some botany, geology, hydrology, forestry, fisheries, meteorology, and wildlife management,” students also learned “the names, habits, and importance of local animals and plants.” No publisher wants to publish a book that can’t be sold.

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The Wildlife Conservation Stamp: An Additional Income Stream for Our National Wildlife Refuges

10,000 Birds

As a result, animals like the Florida panther and diminishing habitats like the prairie grasslands stand a fighting chance. Additional benefits: A Wildlife Conservation Stamp could fund species and habitat projects that are sometimes short-changed in favor of game animal priorities.

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On "Food Inc."

Animal Person

.: One message is that there's nothing wrong with eating animals, and in fact it's fantastic and thrilling and a win-win-win (people-planet-profits) when you eat animals that were "produced" by Polyface Farms. We eat animals, and the CAFO system is an evil, filthy, cruel one, but it doesn't have to be that way.

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

10,000 Birds

For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. Her writing is based on keen observation of animal and human behavior, and she likes to interweave solid natural history information with larger philosophical themes to challenge and inspire the reader.

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Always Question a Scientist

Critter News

It's a book about societal collapses resulting from poor decisions about the environment, resource-use, etc. This is one of the reasons why we are still on the losing end of the battle with animal researchers. And those scientists are humans with the same motivations and agendas as any other human. Are those hands good or evil?

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