Reading Time: 4 minutes One early Saturday morning in spring, my wife looked at me and asked, “Where should we hike today?” We discussed hiking around a local lake that we both enjoy visiting. Recently, we had completed our goal of hiking the six miles around this lake once each month for a year, […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Charlotte Dawe, Conservation and Policy Campaigner for The Wilderness Committee, wrote an October 19, 2018 article for the Times Colonist about conservation and species prioritization. She starts the article by saying that “a few conservationists have suggested we must let some species die for others to survive. But that’s not
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The attached article, from National Parks Traveler, shows what can happen when we feed bear. In this case, from the Grand Teton National Park, the mother bear had to be destroyed and the cubs are now in a zoo. Feeding bear is illegal, dangerous (to you and the next person
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Reading Time: < 1 minute This is a fascinating article about an infrequently visited National Park (Isle Royale), biodiversity within a species, and the cultural significance society gives to one species over another. Click on this link to read: Restocking wolves on Isle Royale
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