Recalling a sad confluence of elk (wapiti) and hunter in the enclaves of Colorado — in Estes Park. We weren’t expecting harm to come to these elk, meandering through a residential neighborhood of Estes Park, just blocks from the Stanley Hotel where the elk herds draw tourists with cameras, not lethal suburban adversaries.

Fast Food Gulls
Often maligned for their boisterous behavior and messiness, I maintain gulls are no more messy than humans. But, of course, that’s my usual stance when it comes to the ongoing battles between humans and critters in increasingly vanishing open space. We share space, often crowded space, and I suppose seagulls stand to lose
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