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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. National wildlife refuges provide premier outdoor recreational opportunities across the Nation.

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Introducing the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge

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I’ve spent a lot of time in, and done a lot of writing about, the Rocky Mountains, their beauty, their climate moods, and the wildlife that lives here. But eastern Montana contains the equally though differently stunning high plains, a world unto itself with very different wildlife meeting very different challenges.

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Audubon’s Footsteps

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Birds, mammals and other wildlife, humans and landscapes are all rendered magnificently. But the main attraction of the book, it must be said, is not Clavreul’s prose but his artistry in watercolor. Maybe that’s so because he worked entirely from life and not photographs, he says.

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10,000 Birds goes eBirding – Part II

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For example, my list of the Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for birding includes an excellent location in Minnesota ( Minnesota Valley NWR ). (Inexplicably, eBird does not consider Puerto Rico part of the United States, but if it were properly included , it would do well, with 107 species.).

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Election Victories for Animals

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Proposition 8 passed in Missouri. This proposition would have given the legislature exclusive authority over wildlife issues. Tags: legislation elections Missouri arizona politics. Two victories. It stops puppy mill abuses by establishing responsible standards for the proper care of dogs. Also, Proposition 109 failed in Arizona.

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Who Wants To See a Greater Prairie Chicken?

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They are not working for people or wildlife. This is a moment when birders will need to begin to pay attention to our choices if we want to have certain birds to watch. This moment is about beginning to see in a new way. The ways we have developed since the end of WWII are not working. The human world is on the move to where the money is.

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Requiem for a Bat: Mysterious Bat Deaths in the Rockies

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Not having a smart phone, I called a friend in New York and had him Google up some wildlife rehabilitators’ numbers, but they were all out of service. But that is supposedly still well east of us, having only been detected in Missouri this spring. Leaving it there did not seem like a good option. Animal Control was on the way.

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