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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. I’m out guiding a lovely couple from California. But to us locals from the El Dub (Lake Worth, FL) it refers to anywhere east of the Everglades and west of Congress Avenue. If not THE best.

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Are Thai Temple Tigers Drugged?

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accuses} the temple of illegally trafficking and mistreating the tigers, allegations that the temple emphatically denies. Robyn Shelby, a law student from California, has been volunteering at the temple for seven months and told ABC News, "I haven't seen anything that I don't agree with, and I am very big on animal rights.

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Lake Tahoe Bear Poached for Gall Bladder

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The Times' Jia-Rui Chong reports: The animal was found with its groin area shaved and gallbladder missing early Tuesday, less than 10 hours after a motorist reported striking the bear and California Highway Patrol officers moved it off the roadway. A surgical glove was discovered next to the bear's mutilated carcass. "It

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Witherspoon in Trouble for Python Purse

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And it's illegal for her to have it at least in the State of California. For some bizarre reason (hopefully just ignorance), Reese Witherspoon has pissed off animal rights activists by purchasing and carrying around a purse made out of python skin. Python skinning is horrible, brutal and repulsive. And she paid $4,000 for it.

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

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The essays range widely in place, bird, and voice, though the emphasis is on the North American.