10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2014
This past weekend I was disconnected from the internet, stuck in the woods without electricity, reduced to sleeping in a shelter made of fabric, and cooked meals over an open fire. We spent our evenings cooking, playing cards, enjoying adult beverages, and listening to Barred Owls duets. In other words, it is an awesome place.
Critter News
JANUARY 26, 2009
First wolves, then polar bears, now beluga whales. At issue is the population of {the Cook Inlet beluga) whales, which were put under the protections of the Marine Mammal Protection Act eight years ago, which scientists argue hasn't sped their recovery: Palin begs to differ.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2011
Unlike what you may have read, real rivers bear us ceaselessly into the future. At that stop, and the subsequent stop for a quick lunch cooked on a portable grill, we saw the casings of molted stoneflies and a few salmonflies. There were two of them, moving across the river from snag to snag with their crow-like wingbeats.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2019
Wooden poles were first used to suspend electric telegraph wires along the tracks of Britain’s Great Western Railway in 1843, using a system patented by William Forthergill Cooke. that he had several miles already buried dug up and the entire system strung overhead on poles.
Animal Ethics
JUNE 17, 2008
Human ingenuity is great, and undoubtedly a skilful vegetarian cook can come up with quite a panoply of delicious dishes. How do we know but what, once we got used to a vegetarian diet, we would find that our pleasure is scarcely diminished at all?
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 3, 2018
Down near the original cook shack was a bush that held one Townsend’s Warbler. You know, the Bison, Elk, Bears and Wolves. You know, the Bison, Elk, Bears and Wolves. We did not ever see a Grizzly Bear, but we did see a Black Bear , although it was way too far away for a picture.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 20, 2007
They can’t lend me money, heal me when I’m injured or sick, console me with words, cook my meals, or defend me from critics. It’s more accurate to say that it’s an imposition—one that we willingly and happily bear for the sake of our companions. My children can do all these things and more.
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