From the daily archives: Monday, July 22, 2013

Mohave National Preserve bighorn sheep hit by pneumonia

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Suspected to have come from a domestic goat-

The entire population of bighorn sheep in the Mohave National Preserve could die from pneumonia transmitted, probably, by a lone domestic Angora goat found in the desert near where the outbreak originated.

The number of bighorn near Old Dad Mountain (200 to 300) has clearly declined and […]

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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."

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