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The Gas Station Bird

10,000 Birds

He is simply waiting for someone to move him from the filthy plastic bucket where he is tethered next to a gas pump. It’s under the jurisdiction of the Exotic Species Division of the Department of Environmental Protection, which is a division of US Fish and Wildlife. You can own a gorilla in Indiana, but not a bear in Michigan.

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Black Bear

Animal Person

  Black Bear. I mistakenly believed that geography would solve any problems I had: that once positioned where all of nature is respected, and people are working toward the common goal of protecting the environment, I would be in that elusive place we spend our lives searching for—home. How could I have been so wrong?

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