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Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus

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Listed as a Species of Special Concern in New York and as threatened or endangered in Connecticut, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, Poocetes gramineus is in trouble in the northeastern United States and, considering the decline shown in Ontario’s second breeding bird atlas, in eastern Canada as well.* What has caused the decline?

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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?

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In " 'Animal Rights:' Pernicious Nonsense for Both Law & Public Policy ," Massachusetts attorney and "sportsman" Richard Latimer is on the mark with some concepts, and way off with others.

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From Today's New York Times

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To the Editor: Re “ A Farm Boy Reflects ” (column, July 31): Hats off to Nicholas D. While this legislation would be an important step in transforming inhumane animal production, we must also call for change on the federal level, where the farm bill subsidizes this sector to the tune of billions of dollars.

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

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Harper, a farm boy, had never heard of feeding stations and had also, apparently, never before taken a good hard look at birds. Charles Harper’s Birds & Word s is the signature book of this bird and nature artist’s career. In 1954, art editor Arthur Lougee asked Harper to illustrate an E.B.

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Hermit Thrush Brewery: Po Tweet

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Po Tweet is a sour pale ale brewed year-round with local hops from Four Star Farms, just over the border in Northfield, Massachusetts. This week’s beer is the second we’ve seen from the Hermit Thrush Brewery of Brattleboro, Vermont, a state with its own share of boreal habitat for nesting Hermit Thrushes.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

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He thinks that the treatment of animals in factory farms is morally unjustifiable, and yet, he continues to support those practices financially by purchasing and eating meat and animal products. It goes something like this: Yes, I agree that factory farming is morally unjustifiable and ought to be abolished. Running time: 12 Minutes.

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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

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He has consulted unpublished interviews and diaries, government documents, local newspapers, archival collections, and hundreds of books and magazines, mostly on history politics but also on other areas that impacted McLean’s life, like livestock farming.