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Teaching Ornithology in High Schools

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I have worked with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology K-12 Education to do something like that. One way to break this roadblock is to create an online curriculum which is much cheaper to produce and distribute and could, in fact, be free. As good as it is, it still does not fill the bill for a year of curriculum.

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How Close Is “Too Close” To An Owl?

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I worked with education owls for over ten years, from Great Horned Owls to Saw-whet Owls (above bird). It’s a small education Northern White-faced Owl that completely changes shape as zoo keepers bring by other types of owls that would be a predator for that species. They don’t know that’s not on your agenda.

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

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Hunters and groups like the NRA consistently leverage the power of Duck Stamp funding to promote hunter-friendly agendas (such as expansion of hunting rights on refuges) sometimes overriding the voices of non-hunters whose wildlife considerations are often different yet equally valid.

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On Teaching Children

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Any other factories on the agenda? I wonder how long it would take parents to complain if the Creative Cooks Culinary Center filled in the blanks for the kids and educated them about the lives of the animals they eat that some might not even realize were ever even animals? I don't think of that as a restriction.

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On Letting Your Emotions Rule the Day

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But his real agenda comes out later in the graph: "However it is imperative that we allow the most up-to-date scientific data on animal agriculture practices to drive the policy decisions we make, and extract emotion from the equation as much as possible.

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