Alan Gregory's Conservation News http://wolverines.wordpress.com Photos copyright Alan Gregory. Talk and news about wildlands conservation Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:44:03 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/b0e1567b8d5f6328b18120d3bc0e0fd7?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png Alan Gregory's Conservation News http://wolverines.wordpress.com Wind industry faces ‘prairie rebellion’ http://wolverines.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/wind-industry-faces-prairie-rebellion/ http://wolverines.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/wind-industry-faces-prairie-rebellion/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:44:03 +0000 Alan Gregory http://wolverines.wordpress.com/?p=2389 ]]>

As this NY Times article explains.

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

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

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This is a neat story

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Today’s bumpa-sticka slogan goes well with this pix of DSC01472the author at play at a national wildlife refuge.

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“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

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

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

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

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About time. Goodbye Dick and Dubya.

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