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Killing Thousands of Animals in Conservation’s Name – The Atlantic
by Emma Marris - The Atlantic (via MSN) The desert of south-central Australia is crenellated with sandstone hills in shades of ivory, crimson, and apricot. The ground is littered with dead trees and tree limbs, big hunks of transparent mica, dried cow dung, and thousands of stone spearheads and blades made by the Aboriginal people …
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Early Autumn, a time for contemplation
The leaves are gradually changing colour, lighting up the early Autumn landscape with splashes and swaths of glorious orange, gold, yellow, red, burgundy, crimson, brown and maroon splendour. In a week or so, the forests, roadsides and countryside will be at their peak, on fire with intense colour. Mother Nature's fashion show: my favourite time …
Trump condemned over plans to allow drilling near national parks
Trump condemned over plans to allow drilling near national parks https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/14/conservatives-democrats-trump-drilling-national-parks?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_WordPress
Wordless Wednesday — Nature Is My Therapy
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Aki or the Whales — Walking with Aki
Aki’s back on the water. This morning she and her humans boarded a small landing craft to visit an island lighthouse. We bounce up Favorite Channel and into the deep-water fjord called “Lynn Canal. Having just having finished reading a book about John Muir’s visit to these waters in the 1800’s, I try to imagine […] …
3 Aspens — nature has no boss
Photographed in Central Colorado but not in Aspen. via 3 Aspens — nature has no boss
I am gecko
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A Spider Sampler — New York State Parks Blog
Few creatures are as iconic in the public imagination as the spider. From the ancient Greek myth of Arachne, the Akan folktale character Anansi, or the titular hero of Charlotte’s Web, these stealthy, silk-spinning predators have a long history of popping up in our shared myths and stories. However, despite their cultural prominence, these awesome […] …
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Of all the coneflowers, in all the gardens, you fly onto mine
I haven't seen many butterflies thus far this year, so a few days ago I was excited to be treated to a wonderful scene on my garden coneflower. This beauty alighted and fed for a long time, but she wasn't alone as another little flying beauty was also admiring the echinacea. The monarch and the …
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The Northern Herper 
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