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Anyone who watched Saturday morning cartoons is probably familiar with the Roadrunner today’s featured bird from National Wildlife Federation’s Wildlife Week, animals that Run and Crawl. There are two variations of the Roadrunner. The Lesser Roadrunner is found in southern Mexico, parts of Central America as well as a separate population on the Yucatan that […] Today the National Wildlife Federation is celebrating wildlife that hop and leap. Sad to say that they don’t have a bird on the list and I think that they are a little remiss in this. There are lots of birds that are noted for hopping behavior. The most common North American bird that comes to […] Today the National Wildlife Federation is featuring Animals that Swim as its focus. The bird they feature is the Mallard. An excellent choice because the Mallard duck is easily found almost anywhere in the northern hemisphere making it recognizable to many people. The male mallard is often one of the first waterfowl that children learn […] Today’s focus on National Wildlife Week is Wildlife that Dig or Climb. You can get the poster and the trading cards here. (Each day will have a different focus and you have to wait until that day to get the poster and cards.) Given my love of birds, imagine my delight when I saw that […] Birds, bats, bees, butterflies, dragonflies and all the other critters that fly are the focus of the National Wildlife Federation’s Wildlife Week celebrations today. As I stated in yesterday’s post, I have long had a love of birds that I think started in a Golden Book of Birds that I treasured as a child. I […]
From Monday, Mar 14 through Friday Mar 19 the National Wildlife Foundation is celebrating National Wildlife Week. The theme this year is “The Wildlife That Moves Us”. What is that for you? For me it’s birds. I remember, as a child, having a copy of The Little Giant Golden Book of Birds […] “We—human beings—are part of ‘biodiversity.’ We are dependent on the whole food chain down below us.” ~ Darrell Merrell, heirloom vegetable farmer “But what is happieness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.” Albert Einstein.
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Night Sky from FreePhotos.com by Exsodus Among my fondest childhood memories were the family drives to the desert near our home in Phoenix, Arizona. The time was the mid 1960s. We would drive to the desert, stopping along the way for A&W root beer floats. Once in the desert, near […] We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. ~Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac We are monumentally distracted by a pervasive technological culture that […]
Image by Nuttakit from Freephoto.com It seems to me that we Americans put a high premium on fancy vacations as a way to unwind from the stresses of the world. It also seems to me that we put so many expectations onto those vacations that they often fail to live […] |