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California Audubon Names Burrowing Owl Bird of the Year

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After all, California Audubon’s site states that “This is a conservation award. These Burrowing Owl photos were taken at a rare breeding site in Vacaville California. This is what a group looks like when you arrive in their territory and they are at their burrow entrance. How does that sound for a headline?

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Gullmania in Costa Rica

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Oh yes, straight from California and very much twitchable, a first year Heerman’s was found in early March hanging out at the cruise ship dock. I suspect that, in keeping with the ways of its classic, parking lot scavenging brethren, the bird spends a fair amount of time getting easy eats at inaccessible fish factories.

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A Great Day Out West – Bobcats, Birds and Boardwalks

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“Out West” to most Floridians might mean California or Arizona or might even refer to the Gulf Coast of Florida. And the magic factories are two neighbors, Green Cay Wetlands and Wakodahatchee Wetlands. I’m out guiding a lovely couple from California. We exit the car and enter magic factory number two.

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Update on National Meat Association vs. Brown

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Brown, a case in which the meat industry is attempting to invalidate a California law designed to reduce animal suffering and protect public safety. The industry sued California, arguing that Section 599f is preempted by the Federal Meat Inspection Act.

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Beef Farm's Trucks Burned by Activists

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And, this happened in Fresno County which is in the San Joaquin Valley of California. The statement purports to describe how the fire, which heavily damaged 14 tractors and several cattle-hauling trailers, was set and says the attack was aimed at "the horrors of factory farming." I grew up there. Full story here at the Fresno Bee.

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Update on Proposition 2 in CA

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Again, thanks to Farmed Animal Net for this update on California's proposition 2. California’s Proposition 2 is not solely about the California egg business but is also about the egg industry’s national survival, warned Gene Gregory at the annual legislative meeting of United Egg Producers (UEP).

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Prop 2 Opponents Accused of Laundering Money

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on Prop 2 charges that the United Egg Producers (UEP), the No on 2 campaign, and its donors are concealing out-of-state contributions to the political campaign against Prop 2 , in clear violation of California campaign finance laws. Tags: eggs california factory farm agribusiness.

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