From the daily archives: Sunday, October 29, 2006

Can B.C. help save endangered [mountain] caribou?

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Not to be confused with the numerous barren ground caribou or the woodland caribou, the mountain caribou is faltering all over B.C. In the United States it would be, and in fact it is, an endangered species. A tiny herd hangs on in northern Idaho. It wanders back and forth over the border.

This sad […]

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On the hunt for the elusive Adirondack wolf

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Biologist John Way suggested this article–“On the hunt for the elusive Adirondack wolf.”
It seems that the belief that wolves have, or are about to reinhabit the Adirondacks is not new, nor is debate over what the eastern coyote really is.

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Weekend photo. Pass Creek Gorge. October 2006

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Pass Creek gorge is one of the two routes dirt roads take to cross over the Lost River Range in east central Idaho


Pass Creek Gorge. Lost River Mountains, Idaho. Copyright Ralph Maughan

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‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey