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The Wonderfulness of Local Field Guides: Reviews of ABA Field Guide to Birds of Maine & Birding Guide to the Greater Pasadena Area

10,000 Birds

The hotspot chapters close with “How To Get There” by car, public transportation, and bicycle, and “Amenities/Fees”–hours, bathrooms, picnic tables, required passes, fees. I’ve missed this information, especially when I travel to Los Angeles to visit my daughter and her family.

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NYT Equine Thought Experiment

Animal Person

As humans tend to do, early ones looked around them and saw everything and everyone as resources for their use. Perhaps if we never used nonhumans and instead relied on our own ingenuity we would have created modes of transportation better than those we have today. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language.