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Don’t Kill Urban Coyotes
By Chris Clarke on 2009 04 07 at 10:20:05 am | 5 comments
Of course, not all of them have bad enough judgment to eat at Quizno’s. Chicago Sun-Times photoVia Tee Poole, a coyote petition:
… (continues)You’ve seen the headlines: Coyotes are attacking humans with more and more frequency. One wandered into a Chicago
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Five years ago this week
By Chris Clarke on 2009 03 25 at 10:23:09 pm | 3 commentsAn excerpt from Walking with Zeke:
March 23, 2004
We’ve named the rabbit Thistle. Or he named himself: that was the one name he responded to at all. Smart bunny: the second-runner-up name was “Stu.”Thistle was running around in the back yard
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Protect Gold Butte
By Chris Clarke on 2009 03 04 at 2:21:18 pm | 1 commentMost of you have never heard of it, but northeast of Las Vegas, in one of the least-visited parts of the continental United States, a desert treasure in Nevada needs your support.
I visited Gold Butte for the first time in 1997. I was just
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Coyote-killing “tournament” in Idaho
By Chris Clarke on 2009 02 18 at 5:48:58 pm | 22 commentsFrom our friends at Project Coyote, this upsetting press release.
… (continues)Wildlife advocates are condemning an upcoming coyote killing “tournament”, scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 21, and sponsored by the Bent Rod Outdoors, a Challis business.
“This event
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Best field guide ever
By Chris Clarke on 2009 02 10 at 6:15:29 pm | 19 commentsI don’t do paid reviews of books nor other products, and I think bloggers who do are unethical — whether they disclose that the review is paid or not. I say this because I’m about to rant about how amazingly cool iBird Explorer Plus is, to the
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Tortoise alert: letters needed
By Chris Clarke on 2009 02 10 at 4:04:40 pm | 0 commentsFrom the Center for Biological Diversity:
… (continues)Last year, the Army moved more than 750 tortoises off of pristine desert lands in order to expand its Fort Irwin army base in California’s Mojave desert. Not all tortoises were monitored, but of those that
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A moment for Oolie
By Chris Clarke on 2009 02 06 at 11:32:15 am | 1 commentOur pal Sherwood has lost a good friend.
Based on what Sherwood’s shared of Oolie’s spirit over the years, I suspect this is how he’d want to be remembered.
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Nosy Parker
By Chris Clarke on 2009 01 26 at 9:26:32 pm | 17 commentsI have an anniversary coming up next week, as many of you know, and it’s been on my mind as one might expect. Still tough, you know?
This year, though, I have a little bit of emotional support, and so the prospect of remembrance doesn’t seem
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Obama administration reprieves wolf protection
By Chris Clarke on 2009 01 21 at 6:50:58 pm | 5 commentsA bit of promising news from the Obama administration after its first full workday:
… (continues)With a new administration in charge, federal regulators Wednesday promised a second look at a recent decision to drop gray wolves in the Great Lakes and Northern
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Spermophilus
By Chris Clarke on 2009 01 21 at 12:29:05 am | 0 commentsHere is a fine, very well-fed individual of the species Spermophilus variegatus, also known as the rock squirrel. This one happened to be working the crowd outside the El Tovar on the south rim of the Grand Canyon, but the species ranges throughout
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Mexican Wolf
By Chris Clarke on 2009 01 16 at 1:01:24 pm | 2 commentsOne of the last wild Mexican wolves, filmed only a short time before the species went extinct in the wild. Details by the videographer are below the … (continues)
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Thylacine
By Chris Clarke on 2009 01 16 at 1:07:05 am | 2 commentsIn addition to a brief, wishful-thinking introductory clip of an alleged recent sighting, this video contains all known footage of Thylacinus cynocephalus, the largest predatory marsupial of modern times. The Thylacine, also known as the
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“The fish are missing. They are gone.”
By Chris Clarke on 2009 01 09 at 11:27:04 pm | 4 commentsThe coho run in Lagunitas Creek has crashed. From the San Francisco Chronicle:
… (continues)The lack of rain this winter has contributed to what fisheries biologists say is, so far, the worst return of coho salmon in the recorded history of Marin County’s
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By A Nail
By Chris Clarke on 2009 01 05 at 6:25:51 pm | 9 comments
A running coyote, painting by Carl Dennis BuellThe ancestor of all dogs climbed trees like a cat.
Or so the experts hypothesize. The raccoon-sized, foxy omnivore Prohesperocyon is as likely a candidate for the ancestor of all dogs, wolves and
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Technically, the Arctic is a desert
By Chris Clarke on 2008 12 22 at 8:47:41 pm | 1 commentThis is very, very hard to watch.
Do it anyway.
Go to http://www.SaveThePolarBear.org. Sign the petition. Spread the … (continues)
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Serendipity Doo Dah
By Chris Clarke on 2008 12 21 at 10:20:55 pm | 5 commentsVia Tee Poole, an astronomer’s sky cam in New Mexico catches something … (continues)
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