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For Wildlife Emergencies, Contact Animal Help Now

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There are sections on transport, wildlife career info, and domestic animal issues; there are links to other wildlife organizations, wildlife and law enforcement agencies in several states, and contacts for marine mammal and sea turtle strandings. .

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

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The visitors along the boardwalk at Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Florida were taking photos nonstop, we only had a few minutes before the wetlands closed, oohing and aaahing. Treaties trump state laws. I thought about those plumes and about how fortunate we were to be seeing this egret in all its glory.

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Parks and Public Lands Win at the Polls

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Florida Amendment 9, Ban Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling. The measure did not affect the transportation of oil and natural gas products that were produced outside the state’s waters.”. Photo by © Jamie Hargis. Amendment 74 has potentially far-reaching and costly consequences for taxpayers and governments.

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Avian Expansion in Two Acts

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The most famous of these is Cattle Egret , but Masked Duck looked like it might make things interesting for a while and Antillean Nighthawk has more or less staked out a little niche for itself in extreme southern Florida. Since time and transportation was a problem, I’d given up on it. Nonsense, said Jeff.

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