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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

While Alaska is increasingly devastated by global warming—melting glaciers, permafrost and sea ice, as well as the severe impacts on wildlife, ecosystems and people—she seems to be working not to protect the polar bear or ultimately the citizens of her state, but to make sure nothing gets in the way of energy company plans for expansion.

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Birding Protection Island, Washington

10,000 Birds

The first obstacle was getting to the general range of the species, which is the west coast from northern California to Alaska and across to Russia.* Read on, dear reader, and you will be sure to find out! The second obstacle was to find a specific location where Fratercula cirrhata is regularly seen. But how to get there?