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Category Archives: science
Delisting the Wolf – Your Help is Needed!
Originally posted on Mungai and the Goa Constrictor:
Image: Lynn M. Stone / Nature Picture Library The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is in its comment period on their proposal to remove the wolf from the Endangered Species Act in…
Posted in blogging, Department of the Interior, Nature, politics, science, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, wilderness, wolves, Yellowstone
Tagged animals, Defenders of Wildlife, Endangered Species Act, Idaho Department of Fish and Game, Montana Department of Fish Wildlife and Parks, nature, politics, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, wilderness, wildlife, wolf hunting, wolves, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Yellowstone
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Witch Hunt/Religious Crusade: The Wolf Hunt Intensifies
The United States federal government proposes to remove remaining protections for wolves throughout the country. Read more in this Defenders of Wildlife press release. Defenders is asking those interested to sign a petition to Sally Jewell, newly appointed Secretary of … Continue reading
Posted in Department of the Interior, national parks, politics, science, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, wilderness, wolves, Yellowstone
Tagged Defenders of Wildlife, Endangered Species Act, hunting, Idaho Department of Fish and Game, Montana Department of Fish Wildlife and Parks, national parks, NRDC, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, wilderness, wolf hunting, wolves, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Yellowstone
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Telling the Truth/Wolves in the U.S.
Here’s a link to an interesting article in The American Prospect about wolves and wolf management in the Western U.S. Everything I know indicates it’s accurate, fair, and thorough . Wolves to the Slaughter, by Christopher Ketcham Carter Niemeyer’s book … Continue reading
Posted in national parks, Nature, politics, science, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, wilderness, wolves, Yellowstone
Tagged animals, Defenders of Wildlife, Endangered Species Act, hunting, Idaho Department of Fish and Game, Montana Department of Fish Wildlife and Parks, national parks, NRDC, politics, science, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, wilderness, wildlife, wolves, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Yellowstone
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Who Are We?
Who Are We? Americans, including me, think of themselves as decent people. Certainly we have made mistakes as a nation – big mistakes. But we learn from them, grow, and improve. Our social structure encourages this. But now I wonder. … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, politics, science, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, wilderness, wolves
Tagged Alaska, animal rights, animals, Defenders of Wildlife, Endangered Species Act, hunting, Idaho Department of Fish and Game, legal system, Montana Department of Fish Wildlife and Parks, nature, NRDC, politics, science, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, wildlife, wolves, Wyoming Game and Fish Department
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Can We Talk?
Dear Friends, Here is a letter e-mailed to Dan Ashe, Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Mr. Ashe is considering plans to permit wolf hunting in Wyoming. I post this letter in the continuing hope that words have … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Poems, politics, science, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, wilderness, wolves, Yellowstone
Tagged animal rights, Defenders of Wildlife, Endangered Species Act, fish and game, hunting, Idaho Department of Fish and Game, Montana Department of Fish Wildlife and Parks, national parks, nature, poems, poetry, politics, U.S. Department of the Interior, wilderness, wildlife, wolves, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Yellowstone
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Weapons of War
Weapons of War The mighty rage ready their weapons steel their hearts polish their hate Their adversaries, having nothing to polish, avoid the fray armed only with craft, skill and a survivor’s will
Posted in national parks, Nature, Poems, politics, science, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, wilderness, wolves, Yellowstone
Tagged Defenders of Wildlife, Endangered Species Act, hunting, national parks, poems, poetry, politics, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, wilderness, wildlife, wolves, Yellowstone
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Earth Eon
Wings of Butterflies Into the bodies of birds into the wings of butterflies into amphibian membranes into water that should be life-sustaining leaches our chemical legacy fruit of our need for perfection for the manicured landscape fruit of our impatience … Continue reading
René Who?
DESCARTES’ DOG
Pity the dog
of René Descartes.
Spoke no French
and thus had no heart.
No thoughts, feelings
or wants had he,
mechanistic brain in poor body.
DESCARTES
Descartes
was the world’s
least observant
dog owner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_rights#1641:_Descartes
http://science.jrank.org/pages/7246/Vivisection-An-ancient-history.html

