Category Archives: wildlife

Eel River Preserve Honored By Beth Daly – Boston Globe Green Blog – June 27, 2011 http://www.boston.com/business/articles/ 2011/06/27/eel_river_preserve_team_ honored/

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Baby Raccoon in Tub http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgzpfktxwfc

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Of all the Maine islands I visited during a summer field course on island ecology in summer ’99, Crotch Island seemed to me a ghostland: silent quarry equipment gave way to nature. Grasses and vines snaked over crawlers, ospreys nested … Continue reading

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With the holidays upon us, I think back to childhood experiences of visiting the theater to see ballets. I played the part of “floating garbage” in an environmental ballet called “A Blue Whale.” Three of my favorites are among the … Continue reading

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Wildlife and people abound in Yellowstone National Park this month.  This past weekend the Compleat Wetlander encountered bison, coyotes, wolves, antelope, Sandhill cranes, osprey, weasel, rabbit, squirrels and bear—mostly in wetlands and the adjacent floodplains of the park.  As winter … Continue reading

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Rising Seas Endanger Wetland Wildlife http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specialsections/40th-anniversary/Rising-Seas-Endanger-Wetland-Wildlife.html

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What is a wetland?  It seems like a simple question. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers defines wetlands as “those areas that are inundated or saturated at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do … Continue reading

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Water Trails Take Paddlers Deep Inside National Wildlife Refuges http://www.fws.gov/news/NewsReleases/ showNews.cfm?newsId=D44E30A7-F5C9-F854-66AD11C6C1A55B91

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Wetlands are valued for the important services they provide:  wildlife habitat, flood water storage, recreation and pollution cleaning up (water quality).  Currently the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is planning to collect information to assess the overall health of these important … Continue reading

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It’s Cold!  What Happened to Global Warming! http://www.pewclimate.org/blog/gulledgej/ science-question-cold-weather-global-warming Create a Wildlife Friendly Yard by Robert Morton http://wildlifefriendlylawn.blogspot.com/2010/01/about-us-how-to-use-this-site_31.html

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