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Teaching Ornithology in High Schools

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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.” And many become birders. But his class was only one of two in the U.S.,

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On Teaching Children

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For me, the focus on culture and tradition is basically an excuse for "anything goes" when it comes to animals. I wonder how much they learn about the animals other cultures eat. (In Any other factories on the agenda? Perhaps they are taught that other cultures eat animals other than cows, chickens, fish and pigs, I don't know.

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

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As a result, animals like the Florida panther and diminishing habitats like the prairie grasslands stand a fighting chance. Fish and Wildlife Service 6 counted 71.1 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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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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of Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Jon Gassett has indicated that if enough people write in protest, the proposed hunting season–due to start this December– will be reconsidered. Hunters and fish and wildlife departments having a stake in Sandhills is a great thing. We can fight them back in Kentucky, too. Kentucky Dept.

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