[…]an essay, Letting Nature Take Its Course, which was first published on this website in 2016 and again in the beautiful magazine, Wild Hope in 2019. Also included in this episode is a reading of the poem, Deer Skull. As always, thank you for supporting our work. I hope you enjoy this episode. A significant amount of the music in this episode was cmpossed and performed by Erica McCool. more of her incredible music can be found here: […]
Effective July 1 2014 second generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs) will no longer be available in retail establishments and only certified applicators may use them. This is in response to years of observations that these posions have a very serious imapct on wild animals across the state… While the restriction doesn’t eliminate these poisons, it does get them off hardware and grocery store shelves… not enough but it’s a start! There will be more on this issue so critical to wildlife on the BAX website to come… but for now, good. At least this much is […]
[…]morning that the efforts of BP to stop the flow of oil and gas, estimated as high as 4 million gallons per day, into the Gulf of Mexico at the site of the wreck of the Deepwater Horizon are temporarily successful. The flow has been stopped while a permanent seal of cement is being […]
[…]include some of the birds that were photographed yesterday at East Grande Terre Island, […]
[…]in the gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon… well, as it turns out the BP/Oil industry catastrophe may be far worse than was estimated for that comparison. Still, the point remains that Industry impoverishes nations when it can, makes as few rich as possible, destroys the environment, the habitat, the homes of all who had lived there, fruitfully… and makes passing gestures toward stewardship only when threatened with steep financial penalties, but never does Industry actually repair, or replace, or in any manner acknowledge, what it […]
Holy cow! Someone in the world has enough sense to turn a machine off when it proves to be a killer. Let’s hope there are more like-minded people, and […]
These two firefighters had been working on the damaged pipeline that is causing a catastrophic oil spill in China. One fell in to the thick crude and the other jumped in to rescue. One died. The other was pulled to safety. This photograph was published yesterday in the China Daily. Apparently Stalin had occasion to suggest that “a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.” This is only true to the extent that one death can be imagined. Please let’s not fail to imagine this. As, Diane DiPrima, Poet Laureate of San Francisco has written, “the […]
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[…]past 5 years, after Thanksgiving in the US, after ‘Black Friday’, after ‘Cyber Monday’, people and non-profit organizations have been launching year-end fundraising appeals with #GivingTuesday… Each year that Humboldt Wildlife Care Center has participated, we’ve raised approximately $1000! A big help! If you’d like to help us end our year on strong footing, please, give today, […]