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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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Developed in the post-frontier era, the NAMWC helped put a stop to wanton wildlife destruction in an era where many species were being hunted and trapped ruthlessly to the brink of extinction. George Wuerthner, an ecologist and former hunting guide with a degree in wildlife biology, takes the debate a step further. Smith and Donald A.

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Far From Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds–A Book Review

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An array of tools ranging from geolocators to satellite trackers to depth measurers to miniature cameras have been employed by ornithologists and biologists over the past twenty years, yielding scads of information. Far From Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds is a book about seabird research by a passionate seabird researcher.

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Why Do Penguins Wear Tuxedos?

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However, we now know that human ancestors became upright first, and were bipedal for millions of years before they started to use tools extensively, and then another million years went by before their brains started to evolve a significantly larger size. One part of this question can be answered with some very interesting recent research.

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The Wildlife Conservation Stamp: An Additional Income Stream for Our National Wildlife Refuges

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Proposal: Creation of a Federal Wildlife Conservation Stamp A birder, wildlife watcher, photographer and non-hunter version of the Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp (aka Federal Duck Stamp). She says, “there’s just a cultural bias against anything related to hunting.”

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Vultures, Human Evolution, Global Warming, and Windmills

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The first was Lewis Binford, who noted, correctly, that if you look at actual animal bones from actual archaeological sites, you could not objectively see clear evidence that would distinguish hunting from scavenging, and if you compared these “food remains” to hyena food remains, they looked roughly the same.

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Peterson Field Guide to Mushrooms of North America, Second Edition: A Field Guide Review

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There is a mushroom hunting expedition in Anna Karenina, Tolstoy’s use of a popular Russian pastime. Originally organized by structure and ecology, they have been reclassified according to relationships discovered by DNA research. Hey, it’s not just us!). copyright © 2021 Karl B.

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The New Stokes Field Guides to Birds, Eastern Region & Western Region: A Review of Two Books

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Vagrants and accidentals need to be researched in the parent volume. Beginning and intermediate birders will find the abundance of clear, well-printed photographs of male and female birds, juvenile and adult, perched and flying, extremely helpful in the field, and the emphasis on shape a good teaching tool.

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