Wind industry faces ‘prairie rebellion’

As this NY Times article explains.

Boar hits Prius on N.H. highway

Geez, I see white-tailed deer carcasses all the time while traversing Pennsylvania highways. Here’s a different roadkill story.

37 pythons taken in Fla. hunt

This is good news for wildlife officials hoping to stem the ongoing incursion into Florida of a major invasive species.

Officials confirm cougar sighting in Michigan’s UP

This is a neat story

Tree-hugger at play

Today’s bumpa-sticka slogan goes well with this pix of the author at play at a national wildlife refuge.

Quote of the day

“And, Congresswoman,” he added, “if you believe that the reason I have been working on this issue for 30 years is because of greed, you don’t know me” - Former vice president, senator and Vietnam-era military journalist Al Gore in his testimony to a House committee in April

Dear Sarah: Keep up the great writing

Here’s another delicious outing from the Miami Herald columnist Carl Hiaasen.

Why walk when you can drive?

Here’s a good answer, thanks to a New York City resident’s essay in in today’s NY Times.

Money appropriated for bat research

And one too soon, as Sen. Patrick Leahy notes in this newspaper article from Burlington, Vt.

EPA vows to step up Clean Water Act enforcement

About time. Goodbye Dick and Dubya.