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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

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Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced as part of Great Outdoors Month the agency is proposing to expand fishing and hunting opportunities on 21 refuges throughout the National Wildlife Refuge System. National wildlife refuges provide premier outdoor recreational opportunities across the Nation.

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A Brant With Bling

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I quickly learned, thanks to the great number of educated and kind people on the Facebook page, that the bird had what looked like a light-level geolocator, a device that measures the amount of light hitting the device each day. It was banded in Monmouth County, New Jersey, on 8 March of this year.

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The Nature of the Meadowlands: A Book Review

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I think every naturalist in the United States knows the outlines of this urban tale: The pristine marshes of New Jersey are poisoned by pollution, toxic waste, pig farms, and probably every single way in which human beings can destroy the environment. This is the fable of the New Jersey Meadowlands and it is all true.

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Winging It In Tulsa

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I recently traveled to Oklahoma to help spread the word of wildlife, finding all kinds of adventure along the way. Since wildlife rehabilitators are in short supply wherever you go, we tend to forge internet friendships; then the fact that our closest compatriots may live thousands of miles away isn’t such a problem. No matter.

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Feral Cats in American Cities

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The problem of free-roaming cats — and their predation on birds and other wildlife — is hotly contested in communities across the country, and it triggered a lively exchange in the hearing room. The ordinance requires caretakers to “educate” people in their neighborhoods. New Jersey is Undecided. Mole hills!

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The Joy of Bird Feeding: A Book Review by a Birder who Loves Her Feeder Birds

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New York City apartments don’t allow feeders to be hung from fire escapes (though I know certain birders that skirt that rule), and it wasn’t until I had already been birding for four-and-a-half years that I obtained a small yard in central New Jersey in which I could place a feeder or two or three.

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The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl–A Book Review

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I am a city girl and until I became a birder my contact with hunting was limited to occasionally seeing dead deer on the tops of cars in upstate New York. We also discussed the overall educational goals of the guide, how the Crossley ID Guide series differs from traditional field guides, and how British birding differs from U.S.

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