10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced as part of Great Outdoors Month the agency is proposing to expand fishing and hunting opportunities on 21 refuges throughout the National Wildlife Refuge System. National wildlife refuges provide premier outdoor recreational opportunities across the Nation.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 144

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2012

I’ve spent a lot of time in, and done a lot of writing about, the Rocky Mountains, their beauty, their climate moods, and the wildlife that lives here. But eastern Montana contains the equally though differently stunning high plains, a world unto itself with very different wildlife meeting very different challenges.

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Wildlife Ferrets Montana Prairie Dogs 189

Critter News

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Proposition 8 passed in Missouri. This proposition would have given the legislature exclusive authority over wildlife issues. Tags: legislation elections Missouri arizona politics. Two victories. It stops puppy mill abuses by establishing responsible standards for the proper care of dogs. Also, Proposition 109 failed in Arizona.

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Puppy Mills Missouri Legislature For Animals 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2012

We’ve had a lot of discussion recently on the pros and cons of interfering with ‘nature’ on behalf of an individual animal. Not having a smart phone, I called a friend in New York and had him Google up some wildlife rehabilitators’ numbers, but they were all out of service. Animal Control was on the way.

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Bats Wildlife Rehabilitation Missouri Montana 137

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

They are not working for people or wildlife. But birds and all animals need proper habitat. The ways we have developed since the end of WWII are not working. The human world is on the move to where the money is. Central and South Americans are coming here, Syrians and millions of others are flocking to Europe’s stable nations.

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Chickens Illinois Campaign Nebraska 213

Animal Person

MAY 12, 2009

Reading Deb's post about the goslings at Poplar and getting Jenny 's request to sign a petition to save the Canada geese of Ballwin, Missouri from mass extermination reminded me how much I miss the wildlife at the neighborhood we lived in from 2002-early 2005. Not to be confused with Little Girl, of course.

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Geese Ducks Feral Cats Vermont 100