10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2011

Hunters frequently refer to them as “Rib-eye in the Sky” due to the excellent taste. ” photo by Cyndi Routledge Dr. Gassett, 30,000 people come to one wildlife area in Indiana ( Jasper-Pulaski Wildlife Area) each year just to watch these big gray birds. Rather, he said it was entirely about giving hunters the chance to hunt cranes.

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Kentucky Hunting Tennessee Indiana 258

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 3, 2010

She has a new book out (which I am reading right now) called One Good Dog. My second favorite rescue story is that of Hunter, a beagle-ish dog that my daughter and son-in-law adopted from a shelter in Massachusetts. He’d come from Indiana, seemed nice and quiet, very well behaved. It already has me drawn in!

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Pit Bulls Rescue Massachusetts Feral Cats 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

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. Note in this 2010 video, birders, birdwatching and kayakers are mentioned, not hunters.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 145

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

No, not a reality show, the history of paleontology in the United States is apparently livelier than the Indiana Jones movies.) “Feathery forearms would have allowed these emu-sized dinosaurs to shade their eggs from the head of the midday sun 80 million years ago” (right, Dinoguy2/Wikimedia). No collarbones! No feathers!

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Mongolia Science Reptiles Indiana 190