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The idiots who don’t believe global warming, or climate change, or any other...
My friend conservation columnist Ted Williams offers this insightful look at the deniers. Whatta crew.
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Idaho hunters kill 96 wolves
At last count, that is. And Idaho Fish and Game officials in Boise get to tally up the hunting and trapping license revenue, cause that’s how the agency’s budget gets its m0ney (mostly). Meantime, the...
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The folly of building on a barrier island (and taxpayers foot the bill!)
This feature-length look at Dauphin Island, the barrier strip off the Gulf coast of Alabama take a nice hard look at what is surely the folly of building on a place that nature wants to move – all the...
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Private property: Oliver’s War, Brandon Park and paddling rights
Did Adirondack Explorer editor Phil Brown trespass by paddling his watercraft on public water through privately owned land? A nice featurette of the ongoing case is right here.
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Quote of the week
World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General Michel Jarraud said the 350 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere since 1750 “will remain there for centuries, causing our...
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2 cougar sightings confirmed in Illinois
A motion-sensitive camera caught the action. See this article.
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Dangerous sport in lawmaking
Legislation pending in the U.S. Senate would undo all kinds of positive conservation programs, like not allowing lead to be used in waterfowl hunting. And, ludicrously, raising the price of the federal...
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UN report warns of widening climate gap
Sure, today’s a holiday. And that means the bulldozers of “progress” are mostly stilled for the day. But they will be back, leveling more forests, more individual trees and fragmenting migration routes...
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‘Future of Hunting’ conference set in Bismarck, N.D.
Often forgotten in confabs like this one is this: There will be no hunting if all the habitat is lost to sprawl, paving, roads, pollution, climate change, and more. There is no grand secret, but lost...
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Shooting of endangered Red Wolves halts N.C.’s coyote hunt
And with damn good reason. Controlling coyote populations, like controlling the population size of white-tailed deer herds, has little to do hunting and hunting ethics and the Endangered Species Act....
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Thumbing-your-nose-at-nature sprawl development
I found this roadside billboard in the sprawl-happy former sagebrush-dominated desert south and west of Boise, Idaho, a few months ago. It reminds me of the bumper-sticker slogan, “Cut down all the...
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Experts: Adirondacks should prep adaptation strategies for climate change
The experts include Paul Smith’s College professor Curt Stager. This piece from North Country Public Radio is straightforward. Oh, and there is no “debate” on whether climate change is occurring. It...
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Gulg spill harmed small fish, studies indicate
The bad results of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continue to unravel, as this article notes.
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What warming climate will flood
Folks who go gaw gaw at the prospect of a summer weekend at, say, Rehoboth Beach or Assateague Island, or any one of hundreds of other coastal spots will be out of luck before not too long. But their...
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Global warming shutting down mid-Atlantic’s dranberry farms
I have fond memories of picking wild cranberries in three counties of northeastern Pennsylvania. These wild places of sphagnum moss, fringed orchids, cranberry plants and sundews are endangered by...
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Pending ‘outdoors’ legislation angers conservationists
There is little wonder why. Where does one start in listing the bad features of the legislation now pending in the Senate? The Washington Post offers this look.
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Forest-killing beetle now on the march toward Nevada
Foresters are on the watch for a potential invasion of an insect that has decimated millions of acres of forest across the West and in Canada, with continued evidence showing the mountain pine bark...
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GOP blocks passage of ‘outdoors’ legislation
The matter came down to money. No surprise. Here’s a brief look at what happened.
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How will NYC keep out a rising sea? Dikes, huge seawall, oyster beds?
It’s a sad but realistic illustration with this article I just found. Read it here and ask yourself the question.
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Walk like Thoreau
There is nothing in life like a good, stiff walk. Doing so has all sorts of positives: Burning calories, not a fossil fuel; being outside where one can watch (and listen) to the world (like the Vermont...
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