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Libertarianism: An Ecological Consideration
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Industrial Utility In the vast arid lands of the Arckaringa Basin in Australia a major shale oil discovery has been made. Linc Energy has discovered across 16 million acres of land an estimated 133 – 233 billion barrels of shale oil lies in the...
Searching For the Coyote Totem
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I came into this world as a throwback and a cultural bastard child. I had a deep yearning to connect with the other living things around me, yet no indigenous traditions to follow. I may never find an Indian Shaman to mentor me into ancient mysteries...
How a Conservative Billionaire Is Moving Heaven and Earth to Become the Biggest Alternative Energy Giant in the Country
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In 2006, Bill Miller was about to sell his boss’ cattle ranch, a 500-square-mile high-desert expanse in south-central Wyoming. A buyer was prepared to pay roughly $50 million for it. But something was gnawing at Miller. Every time he visited the place...
Indigenous People, TEK, & Their Interface With Wildlife: An Interview With Dr. Michael Hutchins
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Inuit man eating narwhal (NGS) The following interview is my 12th in a series with my esteemed colleague Dr. Michael Hutchins. Michael recently joined the American Bird Conservancy, as the organization’s National Bird Smart Wind Campaign Coordinator...
Annals of DDT: Rachel Carson was right, DDT hurts birds
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Coming up on World Malaria Day 2014, and U.S. Congressional elections, we’ll start seeing repeated false attacks on Rachel Carson as the right’s most-favored representative of environmentalism, and those attacks will include calls to &ldquo...

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Increasing Nitrogen Loads Change Butterfly and Moth Communities

Lycaena hippothoe (Purple-edged Copper): one of the species to have disappeared from Habel et al.’s study area in Germany. © Frank Vassen You may have known that excess nitrogen pollution detrimentally affects watershed health (e.g., the Gulf of New...
An Elm Tree Dating Service on Outdoor Radio

Christian Marks, TNC, explains to Sara Zahendra how these branches will be used to help restore elms. Have you ever wondered why so many towns have an Elm Street, but there are no elms on it? Dutch Elm Disease was accidentally introduced in the late...
Painted Bunting Delights Vermont Bird Watchers

A male Painted Bunting photographed near a bird feeder in Pittsfield, Vermont. / © K.P. McFarland Bird watchers are flocking to Pittsfield, Vermont as news spreads of a male Painted Bunting visiting feeders at several residences there. This represents...
Record-breaking warmth continues in Vermont and around the globe

February 2016 was the most abnormally warm month ever recorded on our planet, running a full 1.35 degrees Celsius above the 1951-1980 average used as a baseline in measuring climate change. The data released by NASA are still preliminary – final numbers...
February 2016 iNaturalist Vermont Photo-observation of the Month

Congratulations to Larry Clarfeld for winning the February 2016 iNaturalist Vermont photo-observation of the month contest. The image of a Red Fox, was the most popular photo-observation as measured by clicked ‘favs’. Visit iNaturalist Vermont, a project...

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Vermont Center for Ecostudies

From Canada to South America, from mountains to grasslands, VCE biologists study and protect birds, insects, amphibians and other wildlife. Joining us in our work is a dedicated corps of citizen volun...
Chris Rimmer | Vermont Center for Ecostudies

Chris Rimmer received a B.S. in wildlife biology from the University of Vermont and an M.S. in ecology and behavioral biology from the University of Minnesota, where he studied Yellow Warbler molt eco...

Wood Frog | Vermont Center for Ecostudies

In winter Wood Frogs can be frozen rock hard. But as the ice clears from the ponds and the ground thaws, the call of mating season begins. When spring rains and melting snow begin to seep into the gr...