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AVMA News
MARCH 22, 2023
The Arkansas state legislature recently adopted a law that will expand veterinary technician specialists’ (VTS) scope of practice. Another bill still under consideration would dilute the educational background required for veterinary technicians to qualify for licensure.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 18, 2009
Arkansas becomes the 46th state to make cruelty to animals a felony, according to the Humane Society of the United States. Tags: animal cruelty legislation Arkansas us. It's not perfect, but it's progress in one of the more animal welfare-challenged parts of the US.
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Critter News
FEBRUARY 12, 2010
They were illegally bringing in deer from Arkansas. Tags: wildlife trafficking Arkansas Texas deer. Texas restricts deer importing.) Plus a little matter with stolen property.
Critter News
JANUARY 8, 2009
They are one of only 5 states that doesn't have a felony animal cruelty law. A task force is now looking into changing that.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2021
The Collective added six new states in the past three years, but none have eclipsed the century mark: Wisconsin ( 74 ), Utah (55), Hawaii (38), Oklahoma (18), Rhode Island (9), and Connecticut (5).
Critter News
DECEMBER 26, 2008
And the worst: Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arkansas, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, South Dakota, Wyoming You can check out the whole report on their web site. Among the best: California, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Oregon.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 21, 2009
A stray cat rescued by the Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, Socks lived in the governor’s mansion in Arkansas and later moved with the family to the White House. Former First Cat Socks, one of the world’s most famous felines, died Friday at the age of 20 after battling throat cancer since November.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2013
near Little Rock, Arkansas, an oil spill has polluted a lake. For starters, for some reason, hundreds of dead waterfowl have turned up in a Chinese river. Insert your Peking Duck jokes here.) And here in the U.S., Some ducks have succumbed to the oil, while others have been rushed to rehab facilities.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2012
Remember the whole Cornell Ivory-billed Woodpecker search and how you literally had to apply for a volunteer position to pay your own way down to Arkansas for 2 weeks to try and look for that bird? Count me as one of the many who signed up for that.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 21, 2011
The main wintering area for Ross’s Goose ( Chen rossii ) is presently in the Central Valley of California, though increasing numbers winter in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Texas, and the north-central highlands of Mexico 1. Map courtesy of Terry Sohl at South Dakota Birds and Birding.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 4, 2013
At Varner Unit, home of Arkansas’s death row for men, we see a typical sight – a stark shot of a chain link fence. It’s the third shot that intrigues me most, though. But in one of the gaps of the fence, a House Sparrow perches, stretching briefly.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 10, 2018
Other states, such as North Dakota and Arkansas, were also gray, but those seemed less troublesome, since I have never visited either state. But I had spent years in Ann Arbor attending law school at the University of Michigan, albeit before I started birding. But displaying information with a map does not treat all states the same.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Even some states that technically have checklists barely qualify: the great state of Illinois has just a single checklist with two species (from an airport). Despite the absence of species, many of these are excellent birding states and/or have birding festivals ( e.g., the Biggest Week in American Birding in Ohio).
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 11, 2019
By my reckoning, 500 miles up the Mississippi River as the steamboat goes only gets you as far as the Mississippi-Louisiana-Arkansas tripoint. But as the crow flies, Kentucky’s southern border with Tennessee is just about within reach.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 10, 2013
Just look at the recent spill in Arkansas. Then there is, as history shows, the certainty that there will be oil spills from the Keystone XL Pipeline across sensitive areas of the United States.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 16, 2011
Winter Hits New York City Desert Finch in Arkansas (!?!?!) • Explore These Related Posts March by Goethe Stalking a Kiwi Icon Polygynandry and the Alpine Accentor Duck Migration Finally Saw-Whet.Or These Blasts From The Past First Robin of Spring Yard Birds in Saugerties Handling Birds: Yea or Nay?
10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2018
The Southeastern guide goes a bit more west, to eastern Oklahoma and Texas, so its northern borders lie at the north boundaries of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Organization and Content. The guides are organized taxonomically and laid out in the traditional Peterson manner—illustrations on the right, text of the left.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2012
The specific geographic area covered is “east of the western boundaries of Ontario, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana”; the eastern United States and Canada is known for its diversity of odonates. Although designed as a field guide, it is a hefty book, 376 pages long, covering 336 species.
10,000 Birds
JULY 9, 2019
They are: Senators John Boozman (R-Arkansas) and Martin Heinrich (D-New Mexico); and Representatives Rob Wittman , (R-Virginia) and Mike Thompson (D-California). Membership of the MBCC is set by law: the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Administrator of the EPA, two U.S. Senators, and two U.S. Representatives.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 29, 2006
However, 12 states, namely, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming and Wisconsin [Imagine, The Dairy State doesn't protect a woman's right to nurse!]
10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2018
The collaborative profile has been boosted by 2 new American states, adding Tennessee and Arkansas to the coloured patches across the map of the USA. They came from 8 countries and the year list has reached 1750. The life list, now into its 3rd year stands at 3424. Alphabetic Taxonomic. Common Ostrich – Struthio camelus. 23 May 2018.
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