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Endangered Species Act: Delisting the Black-capped Vireo?

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Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is considering changing the status of the endangered Black-capped Vireo : it has proposed delisting it entirely. and it breeds in the scrublands of Texas, Oklahoma, and northern Mexico. The Black-capped Vireo is the smallest vireo in the U.S. It winters on the Pacific coast of Mexico.

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Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

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Last but not least, I will leave you with a VERY disturbing video of Sandhill Crane hunting in western Oklahoma. If you want to argue the financial side of conservation, I refer you to my December 2014 post titled “ The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It.”

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