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Montezuma Winery: Red Wing

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From the earliest days of European colonization in the Americas, attempts to make wine with native grapes proved unsuccessful; compared to the imported Vitis vinifera used for thousands of years of Old World winemaking, native grapes were fairly tart but lacking in sugars.

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Comebackers

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In the mid 1700s, fur-traders began introducing foxes up and down the Aleutian chain, in order to generate some more raw material work with. The foxes wreaked havoc on nesting birds, and island by island the geese disappeared, until it seemed that they were gone for good. Santa Cruz Island, CA. Somebody won a Nobel Prize.

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Flight to Freedom

4 The Love Of Animals

ADI, which has previously rescued and relocated animals in Europe, South America and Africa have described it as one of the most complex logistical operation they have ever undertaken but say it will be worth all of the effort when the animals walk free. ADI also rescues animals in distress worldwide.

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Birdersploitation?

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There has not been a dime of money spent by Fox, the studio releasing The Big Year , on promoting the movie in the birding world. What’s worse than Fox’s stinginess with the birding world? 10 — in a push to attract the 48 million birders in America, as estimated by the U.S. There is only one thing wrong.

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