From the daily archives: Thursday, June 7, 2012

B.C. black bear put down after eating part of dead murderer

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Liquor and drugs fell felon; but bears should not eat flesh of bad guys-

British Columbia has an odd, macabre, bear story.  It seems a person convicted of murder back in ’93 was on parole and hardly living up to expectations. The mix of drugs and booze probably killed him at his lone party in […]

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Entire Japanese dock floats across Pacific to crash on beach near Newport, Oregon

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Oregon Fish and Wildlife worries about non-native creatures on dock set adrift by earthquake tsunami-

There are many ways that non-natives travel the globe to invade foreign land and water. One rarely considered until recently is riding debris pushed out of sea by giant tsunami. Tiny starfish, an invasive mussel and foreign algae get the […]

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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