Ted Williams - 2006

2006-01-31

BUSH'S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS TO BE SIMULCAST IN ENGLISH

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2006-01-31

What You Can See on Jan. 31.

From Audubon's Earth Almanac by Ted Williams and compiled in “Wild Moments,” edited by Connie Isbell, Illustrations by John Burgoyne, Storey Publishing, 174 pages. Jumping Jimmies They are smaller than chocolate sprinkles, smaller even than coffee grounds. Under a warm January sun or rain they stretch on the snow’s sagging surface, especially at the base of trees, as if some mad grocer had slashed pepper bags and danced over woods and meadow. Watch closely, and you will see them leap. They are wingless, harmless snow fleas. Not real fleas, but a species of springtail -- an order so successful as not to have changed visibly in 300 million years. The name springtail derives from the appendage under the abdomen, which, when released, can catapult the...

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2006-01-31

Good Piece on Coyotes

The stupidity of sportsmen never ceases to amaze me. Not exactly sure why they’re stupider in Vermont. They sure do make the antis’ work easier for them. Click Here

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2006-01-31

NASA Scolded for Science Attack

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2006-01-30

Welfare Ranching

Sam Hurst, 1-29: Public lands ranchers hooked on welfare By Sam Hurst, Journal columnist There is a promontory on my ranch from which I can look five miles up the Cheyenne River, and eight miles up Big Corral Draw, deep into the Badlands. I am not the first person to sit on this narrow little perch and contemplate the majesty of nature. A few feet away, someone - a holy man? ... a lonely wife? ... members of a hunting party? - buried rocks neatly in the ground in the shape of a prairie turtle. I like the idea that I am not the first person to love this place. And I will not be the last. All the land before me, across the river, is public. Sprawling over the steep slopes of juniper and table top mesas and clay domes rubbed smooth by a thousand summer showers, the proposed...

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2006-01-30

Biologists Support ESA

A Letter from Biologists to the United States Senate Concerning Science in the Endangered Species Act January 2006 Dear Senators: Attention Biologists Sign the letter Your support will make a meaningful difference in this important effort. * Tell a Colleague This statement is a joint project of the Union of Concerned Scientists, EarthJustice, and the National Wildlife Foundation. We are writing as biologists with expertise in a variety of scientific disciplines that concern biological diversity and the loss of species. With the Senate considering policies that could have long-lasting impacts on this nation’s species diversity, we ask that you take into account scientific principles that are crucial to species conservation. Biological diversity provides...

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2006-01-30

What You Can See in Winter

From “Wild Moments” by Ted Williams, edited by Connie Isbell, Illustrations by John Burgoyne, Storey Publishing, 174 pages. Pungent Prowlers On the first warm evenings of the Hunger Moon, in February, you will start to see or nose male skunks as they ramble through town and country in search of females. Probably they are striped skunks, the most ubiquitous of North America’s four species. Skunks don’t hibernate; they just sleep deeply in communal burrows, plugging the entrance with leaves or grass on cold nights. If you were predisposed to admire skunks from afar, do not waver. Breathe deeply and put away your prejudice. Their musk is the smell of spring, the fragrance of the natural world. “Who's Awake?” A twilight stroll...

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2006-01-30

Hard Lot of Big Oil

My friend Brian writes: “It is a pity the oil folks are doing so poorly! Maybe we should reconsider our position on the whole ANWR issue, they clearly need the money...at least we can put a price tag on selling out our grandchildren's future health and environment.” Click Here Click Here, Too

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2006-01-29

Bush proposal would cut salmon catch, close harmful hatcheries

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2006-01-29

Lessons from Mike Frome

"He's what all good conservation communicators should be, a gadfly to some, an inspiration to others. You can't, as the old saying goes, make an omelet without breaking some eggs, and our new Chief has cracked more than a few vulnerable shells in his career." -- Circle of Chiefs member. Joel Vance, welcoming Dr. Michael Frome to the Circle of Chiefs of the Outdoor Writers Association of America Remarks by Circle of Chiefs member Ted Williams in Outdoors Unlimited, the magazine of the Outdoor Writers Association of America. Objective Advocacy: Lessons from A Legend "But did he have to name names?" one of the many editors who have fired Mike Frome plaintively intoned to investigators from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Well, yes he did. "He...

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