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Guide to birding the Forgotten Road in the Djerdap National Park, Serbia

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And in order to evaluate its potential, my agenda was to spend whole two days in the park and to produce the best possible evaluation based on that visit. It sounded birdy and I was game. That first field trip to Djerdap Gorge National Park, eight years ago, was made as a part of an ecotourism potential evaluation project.

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

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Historically, National Wildlife Refuges viewed the “Duck Factory” (game bird conservation) as a high priority, while relegating non-game issues to a lower rung. 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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Crows, Contest Killing, and Communication

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Defenders of the gun club accused me of lying, of distorting facts, of being anti-hunting, of being an animal rights activist, of being allied with the dreaded Friends of Animals, of hiding my true agenda (gun control), and of being unconcerned that animal lovers were supposedly threatening members of the gun club with death.

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Wildlife and Life Celebrations

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Name-calling and charges of agenda-promoting ensued. Bring your kids to the mud pit/water fight/pie throw, and let them get as filthy as they like (and join them, if you’re game). It’s over; the balloons all went up between 4:15 and 4:30 on a Monday. No one knows how many. No balloons.

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

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Sandhill Hunt: They’re Voting Now Sandhill Cranes: Game Birds? This slow reproduction rate is unlike any other avian game species currently hunted. Why should “the biologist&# be able to unilaterally bestow game bird status on a crane? Or These Blasts From The Past What’s In A Name?

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On Letting Your Emotions Rule the Day

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Let the games begin. 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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