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Biofuels and Habitat Loss
Renewable. Sustainable. Green. All of these buzzwords make us feel good about our progress toward mainstreaming alternative energy sources. We need to power an increasingly energy-hungry world in...
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Ivory-billed Woodpecker Film Opens
It’s been more than four years since I left Arkansas, Ivory-billed Woodpecker T-shirt in hand, just days after the news of the rediscovery of the species broke in the national media. During five...
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Pennsylvania Passes Prescribed Burning Act
Many ecological communities in Pennsylvania (including native grasslands, oak-hickory forests, and serpentine barrens) depend on periodic fires to maintain their plant community composition and...
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Knocking Out Knapweed
Another July has come and gone, but not all of the fireworks are over. The striking pink display of spotted knapweed, Centaurea stoebe ssp. micranthos, is still going strong in rangelands and old...
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New Eagle Regulations: Misunderstood?
A recent New York Times piece on the new US Fish and Wildlife Service Bald and Golden Eagle regulations made the rounds on Twitter last week. The reception of the new rule among birders and nature...
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Critical Moment for Conservation on Farmland
I apologize to my readers for the delay since my last post: it’s been a very busy few weeks. But more on that later. First, I want to issue a last-minute alert on a very important conservation issue...
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I and the Bird #113
Welcome to the 113th Edition of I and the Bird! I hope you enjoy your visit. For this edition of I and the Bird, I decided to see what quotations from verse and literature would be invoked by the...
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Out of Hibernation!
Stretch…. Yawn…. Is spring here yet? Just in time for groundhog day, I’m coming out of my recent cyber-hibernation on The Modern Naturalist blog. What have I been up to during the past couple of...
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