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You Gotta Fight When You Think it’s the Right Thing to Do

10,000 Birds

You can probably understand the disappointment of a herpetologist friend of mine when he discovered that his very research transect was now paved. Cover photo : White Hunter Black Heart, 1990. Paving of the road across the Reva Pond started and was abandoned several months later: only the sidewalk was paved.

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

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Their populations, plus those of other species that ‘wore’ the coveted long, colorful feathers used for women’s fashionable hats, were being dangerously depleted by hunters intent on feeding the millinery industry. Ironically, only the women of one of these campaigns, the suffragette movement, have been recognized and honored.

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Push Land-Grant Universities Out of the Meat Industry

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In addition to heaps of information at www.RPAforAll.org about RPA's 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign to get our universities out of the meat industry, there is now a current list of all 50 governors with address and their state's LGU. RPA launched its 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign to get our universities out of the meat industry in 2003.

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

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And so, Fuller embarked on a new initiative—locating and researching photographs of lost birds and, expanding his scope, of mammals. Fuller’s astonishment at locating this “grail of extinct-bird photograph hunters” is contagious. more than there really was to see!” (p. And remembered.

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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.&# For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1.

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Thought To Be Extinct For 100 Years

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Some remained stored for decades before a researcher would pick them up and inquired about these poorly documented specimens. These conditions offered easy access to hunters in a habitat where a bird as large as a Guan would have little chances to hide or scape. This is a very small number of birds in a small area.

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Sarah Palin Secretary of Energy or the Interior?

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Hamm, an Oklahoma billionaire who has been a friend of Trump’s for years, has been the leading influence on Trump’s energy policy during the campaign. Geological Survey, a massive scientific research agency which studies America’s natural resources and anything that threatens them, like climate change.

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