10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2021
There is a mushroom hunting expedition in Anna Karenina, Tolstoy’s use of a popular Russian pastime. Peterson Field Guide to Mushrooms of North America, Second Edition by Karl B. McKnight is not totally new, it’s a revision of A Field Guide to Mushrooms: North America (Peterson Field Guides) b y Kent H. Conclusion.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 12, 2021
Simply put, wilderness areas are the most protected public lands in America. The bulk of wilderness is in Alaska (more than 57 million acres), most of it designated by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) in 1980. Roads, vehicles, structures, and commercial activities are prohibited. Dingell Jr.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2015
Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation by Paul J. The growth of community bird feeding programs in the 1920’s, for example, is shown to be rooted in post-World War I America prosperity–more spending money, more time, and (this is the part I like) the availability of cheap grain. And conservation.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 1, 2011
Bald Eagle image is by Francois Portmann and is used with permission You know, I’ve been thinking about this whole dustup over hunting cranes in Tennessee and now Kentucky. I think it’s time to hunt Sandhill Cranes. We’ve always hunted Bald Eagles. There was a lot of hunting for Bald Eagles—it is traditionally a game species.
10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2019
Done properly, a young hawk is curtailed in a growing compulsion to fly greater distances and hunt for herself by a process sometimes called “manning.” “I’d witnessed Peregrines and Gyrfalcons in the fall of 1949 while I was doing undergraduate work at the University of Alaska. Tom Cade and Gyr by Kate Davis.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
Not only were they a common bird, they were a common bird nearshore; indigenous peoples hunted them up and down the coast. Alaska’s long-lining fleet now must have bird-deterrent measures in place, which means a lot more Laysan, Black-footed and Short-tailed Albatross are not being injured or drowned in fishing gear.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
If this was America, we might not be concerned because starlings are an invasive species, at least in North America. But in Iraq, and more exactly, Kurdistan and Iraqi Kurdistan, they are supposed to be there (and are regularly hunted and eaten) and the fighting is not supposed to be there. BBC has the story as a video.
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