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Rethinking Smokey Bear

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Going against a legend can be an uphill battle. In this case, the legend is the character in one of the most successful propaganda campaigns in our nation's history.

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A Conversation with Derrick Jensen

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Author’s note: In November 2007, I had the good fortune to talk with controversial writer and environmental activist Derrick Jensen (see http://www.derrickjensen.org/). During our conversation I asked Derrick a number of questions pertaining to subject matter explored in his books “A Language Older Than Words,” “Listening to the Land” and “Thought to Exist in the Wild: Awakening to the Nightmare of Zoos.” The latter is the 2008 Eric Hoffer Book Award winner. His replies proved to be, as I anticipated they might, insightful, interesting and thought provoking. This first part has to do with human use and abuse of wild animals.

 

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Gateway to Conservation: 2007 Coastal Bend Wildlife Photo Contest

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Introduction

This follow up article is based on my experiences in the 2007 Coastal Bend Wildlife Photo Contest, the world’s third richest photo contest. A now all-digital contest, there are other noteworthy changes in the contest format. For basic information about the contest, please see my 2005 Naturescapes.Net article.

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Conservation Photography: A One-Year Follow Up

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While photographing the breeding cycle of Common Terns on a local lake during 2005 I discovered that none of the hatched chicks survived to fledge. As this did not bode well for the survival of the colony, I decided to see what could be done for the following season.

This Common Tern colony has long been under siege due to huge increases in populations of Ring-billed Gulls and Herring Gulls; scavenging birds that have located a food source in the mountains of garbage that humans produce every year. Tern colonies all over the world are in trouble as well.

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