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Ground Zero Hero

4 The Love Of Animals

Sarah Atlas is a search-and-rescue dog handler, one of many civilian volunteers who serve with New Jersey Task Force 1. They were to be deployed to Ground Zero with 200 other members of New Jersey Task Force 1, including structural engineers and medical workers, as well as other search-and-rescue people. Lautenberg.

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Feral Cats in American Cities

10,000 Birds

So I put together a “carnival” (of sorts) of Feral Cat Ordinances and Issues that samples current events across the US. …a City Council committee voted 5-0 to recommend a new law that in essence licenses the care and feeding of free-roaming cats as part of a larger effort to reduce their numbers. Does it solve it?

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Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA

10,000 Birds

There were birders from a wide cross-section of the United States: Colorado, Ohio, Idaho, Iowa, Wyoming, Washington State, Pennsylvania, New York State, New Jersey, California, Texas, Florida. And so, I went on the American Birding Association Safari to South Africa.

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

10,000 Birds

That’s right, the overwhelming benefits to the environment and the economy are generated by non-consumptive uses of the refuges like wildlife photography, environmental education, wildlife observation and interpretation, not hunting and fishing. New Jersey/New York. Established in 1964, the William L.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

10,000 Birds

Photograph of a Wild Turkey at Flatrock Brook Nature Center, in Englewood, New Jersey, by Corey. In any event, there is the distinct possibility that Wild Turkeys in North America today form a kind of squished up ring species, with an entirely anthropogenic European arm. Which would be weird.

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Double Dipping the Coney Island Gray-hooded Gull

10,000 Birds

To make matters worse a portion of the beach had been cleared so fireworks could be set up and a pretty big thunderstorm was rolling in, both events that would make finding the bird nearly impossible. European Starlings , however, looked nice on the boardwalk silhouetted in the light.

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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 7th Edition: A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

I grab my binoculars, camera, and field guide and drive 2-and-a-half hours to southern New Jersey. To be fair, I could and should have also grabbed The Shorebird Guide for the Greenshank and Collin’s Bird Guide, 2nd edition for both birds, but the Nat Geo was right there next to me, where your favorite field guides should be.).