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It’s On: The Rusty Blackbird Migration Blitz!

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Researchers have a good understanding of Rusties’ summer and winter locations, but don’t know much about where they stop along the way, in what numbers, and for how long. Fish & Wildlife Service, the Vermont Center for Ecostudies, and others). From March 1 through mid-June, birders in the Rusty’s range (38 U.S.

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During a brief moment of insanity after the death of my pet kitty Brady in 1991 (at the age of 17), I attended Vermont Law School to study Environmental Law. South Royalton, Vermont is a picturesque New England town that in 1991 didn’t even have a stoplight. I'll get back up to speed for next week, but without further ado. 

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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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Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge was established to conserve and enhance populations of wildlife and their habitats, to protect and enhance water quality, and to provide opportunities for wildlife-dependent recreation and research. The refuge is already open to sport fishing.

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From Today's New York Times

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billion a year between 1997 and 2005, totaling nearly $35 billion, according to researchers at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. In the past decade, for instance, we have doled out more than $3 billion in direct subsidies to large-scale livestock producers.

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

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Researchers have also learned that the cancer-causing chemicals that form in beef as it cooks also tend to form in chicken. As this Newsweek article and this Washington Post article report, when Gillette boarded a flight from Burlington, Vermont to New York on Oct.

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