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

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Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced as part of Great Outdoors Month the agency is proposing to expand fishing and hunting opportunities on 21 refuges throughout the National Wildlife Refuge System. The Service is committed to strengthening and expanding hunting and fishing opportunities,” said Ashe. “The

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Outdoor/Feral Cat Problem? Call the SWAT Team

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What do you do when you – a citizen whose rights are protected by the U.S. This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats. Human rights, property rights, and wildlife rights – all in one steel container. You call the SWAT team.

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Novartis CEO Has Lodge Burned Down by Animal Rights Activists

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ALF activists burned the hunting lodge of Novartis CEO Daniel Vasella. If you think it's fun killing animals in your own forest in Austria and bring them to your hunting estate, we will destroy it. Understand this: This will continue until you sever all ties with Huntingdon Life Sciences. Have you got any more hobbies Daniel?

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What to Do at High Island When the Winds are South

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It stops those thousands of migrating birds flying across the Gulf of Mexico and directs them right onto the trees, fields, sanctuaries, beaches along the Bolivar Peninsula, where they hopefully find food and fresh water. I imagined walking right up to them. High Island in April requires Weather, so I was told. American Avocets.

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On SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer

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Old-speciesists have a rights view of at least some humans but a utilitarian view of nonhumans (18). In some sense, of course, many (perhaps most) humans don't know right from wrong. Most believe that it's wrong to hunt animals for sport, but sport hunting is legal. Poison the water, soil, and air on which they rely?

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Birding and Butterflying North Carolina Gamelands

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Suddenly, a golden warbler with black streaks hopped to the top of a leafed out bush right in front of me! I had a clear mental snapshot, but I fumbled with the camera and before I knew it the bird had dived back beneath the safety and shelter of the bush. Prairie Warbler. Bring on the rest of migration season!

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Covenham Reservoir

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You can see right across the water and down into the fields below and across to the hills. The only shelter is at the Sailing Club and there are also picnic tables there too. There is ample parking and the only challenging part of the whole walk around the reservoir is the assent to the perimeter of the reservoir. kilometres/2.25

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