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Montezuma Winery: Red Wing

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One of the earliest varieties was a grape named the Catawba, thought to be a cross of the European cultivar known as Semillon and the wild American “fox grape” ( Vitis labrusca ), and apparently named after a native people from what is now the Carolinas.

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Comebackers

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Fish and Wildlife Service. On the short list of wins for wildlife during the Bush II era, Short-tailed Albatross were officially listed as Endangered in 2000. In the mid 1700s, fur-traders began introducing foxes up and down the Aleutian chain, in order to generate some more raw material work with. Somebody won a Nobel Prize.

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Birdersploitation?

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There has not been a dime of money spent by Fox, the studio releasing The Big Year , on promoting the movie in the birding world. What’s worse than Fox’s stinginess with the birding world? Fish and Wildlife Service. emphasis mine] Of course Fox finds Audubon’s efforts very gratifying! How cool is that?”

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