10,000 Birds
MAY 11, 2012
Somewhere around the Platte River one of the Audubon boys received a black-footed hide from a fur trader. It was a humiliation for scientific know-how and the technocratic fix in the face of environmental catastrophe, a disaster that would inform the controversy over later captive breeding efforts for other endangered species.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
Aleutian Cackling Geese are another bird very familiar with the Pacific; they are the only species of goose that nest on Alaska’s remote Aleutian Islands. 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. And get angry and take action.
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