Fishing & Hunting

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The “Cripples” … or Why I Hate Wing Shooting

January 28, 2012 Birds

Yesterday evening, we were photographing Snow Geese and didn’t realize that we (along with at least 10 other photographers) had chosen a field where hunters were lying in camo. I promised myself I would wait until hunting season was over before I ventured into the wilds beyond Seattle — just as I did last year. [...]

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Part 3: Flaunting Our Economic Potential As Birders & Wildlife Watchers

November 14, 2011 Fishing & Hunting

This is Part 3 (of 3) in a series on non-hunting revenue streams for our National Wildlife Refuge system. In Part 1 I talk about the issues surrounding the current funding system. In Part 2, I interview Marlin Greene who’s been producing an alternative refuge stamp since 2006, to draw attention to this subject. Edited [...]

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Add a Voice to the Refuge Stamp Discussion

November 12, 2011 Birds

There’s a great comment thread happening over at 10,000 Birds where Mike was kind enough to cross-link to my recent posts here on Non-Hunters and Wildlife Refuges. The 10,000 Birds site is an awesome place — a repository for all things bird and birding. It’s one of my regular stops for bird news and commentary, [...]

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Part 2: The Non Hunters’ Stamp

November 6, 2011 Fishing & Hunting

In the first part of this three-part series, I posted about the funding issues that shape land-use decisions on National Wildlife Refuges.You can read that post here: Part 1: Non-Hunters and National Wildlife Refuges.In Part 3 I discuss how birders, photographers and wildlife watchers can capitalize on their economic power. Here, I interview photographer Marlin [...]

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Part 1: Non-Hunters and National Wildlife Refuges

November 4, 2011 Fishing & Hunting

This is a three part series about National Wildlife Refuge funding and how the current system affects land-use privileges for non-hunters and non-consumptive users. In Part 2 I interview photographer Marlin Greene who has created a No Hunting Stamp to promote awareness about hunting on National Wildlife Refuges. And in Part 3 I discuss how [...]

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Derelict Nets & Entangled Birds

October 19, 2011 Bay Flotsam

Note: All gulls pictured in this post, and other trapped birds were freed from the netting. Follow Up on 10/21/11: I phoned today and learned that an official went out to this net, confirmed what we saw in terms of bird entanglement, and holes in the net have apparently been fixed as a temporary measure, [...]

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Fly Away Home (and Safe) …. 2011

October 15, 2011 Fishing & Hunting

I’m re-posting my comments from October 2010, on this the opening day of waterfowl hunting season in Washington State, and a week before California’s opener. I’ve said it before so rather than saying it again, I’ve opted to reprint my thoughts from last year, with a few tweaks. See also a discussion of non-hunters and [...]

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Wolves Back on Endangered Species List

August 6, 2010 Endangered Species

I’ll let the Defenders of Wildlife release speak for me. I’m just elated the wolf hunts have come to an end. A federal judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service acted illegally when it removed wolves from the endangered species list in Idaho and Montana but left them on the list in Wyoming. [...]

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Blog Trail: Howling for Justice

April 1, 2010 Endangered Species

I have a history and a breadcrumb trail, but I’m still not sure how I ended up at Howling For Justice. I’m glad I did, though.

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Bay & Beach Flotsam: Why Coastal Cleanup Days Are Critical

August 28, 2009 Bay Flotsam

It was the best of the beach and the not-so-best of the beach. The best — luminous in color and texture, with Brown Pelicans, porpoises and whales gliding parallel to the shore. The not-so-best, well — that was the inspiration for Bay & Beach Flotsam, Episode 3. We had just found two dead sea lions [...]

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Splendor in the Low Tide

June 17, 2009 California

An homage to Warren and Natalie — in title alone. There’s photographic magic in the sun rising over a super-low tide. At the point where dawn meets a -2.0, the strange, the stunning, the predictable and the chaotic all converge on that plane of tide pools, mudflats, and beach flea burrows. One of my favorite [...]

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Fishing for Fins & Wings

April 19, 2009 Fishing & Hunting

270,000 is the number — the estimated number of sharks killed daily for their fins. The practice of shark finning is brutal and wasteful, but the activity persists in a vacuum of globalized policy mandating otherwise. This particular fact played into a stroll we took on an Alameda Beach recently. As the tide receded to [...]

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Witness to an Elk “Hunt” in Colorado’s Estes Park

November 30, 2008 Ethics

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.

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