From the daily archives: Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Many hunter organizations like to promote the idea that hunters were the first and most important conservation advocates. They rest on their laurels of early hunter/wildlife activist like Teddy Roosevelt, and George Bird Grinnell who, among other things, were founding members of the Boone and Crocket Club. But in addition to being hunter advocates, these […]

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Yosemite bear hair study shows influx of human foods   Print Email

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Jack Hopkins collects a sample of black bear hair in Yosemite National Park.

March 04, 2014 12:04 pm  •  MSU News Service 0

Black bears in Yosemite National Park and elsewhere are notorious for seeking out human food, even breaking […]

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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