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Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review

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Wind turbines have been proposed several times for areas close to the BSBO – one of the great bird flyways on the continent — and the Kaufmans ( and their colleagues ) have spent a great deal of time and energy campaigning against them. Kaufman knows that duck hunters can be ardent, loving conservationists, too.

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

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Female Imperial Woodpecker in flight, Mexico, a still from recently found film made by William Rhein, p. Fuller’s astonishment at locating this “grail of extinct-bird photograph hunters” is contagious. And, in a strange way, it’s a book about hope. It’s almost as good as finding the bird itself!

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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If you wrote to Tennessee in the 10,000 Birds campaign this winter, you can cut and paste your letter, changing “Tennessee&# to “Kentucky.&# Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count. Further, the crane take in Mexico is a free-for-all: neither regulated nor recorded.

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