Tag: nature
member name: Dona Tracy
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March 09, 2007 10:10 AM EST --
Can you hear them? They are on the dead trees, telephone poles and, well, our houses with wooden siding. Like little jack-hammers. What's a homeowner to do?
First, we need to understand that there . . .
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May 20, 2007 09:50 AM EDT --
While there is, no question, beauty in some man-made things, they pale in comparison to those of Mother Nature. A night time city skyline may sparkle like jewels on the horizon but . . .
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March 30, 2007 10:04 AM EDT --
One of the biggest environmental travesties concerns the divide and conquer approach of Corporate America, politicians and industrial developers. Environmentalists have been pitted against environmentalists . . .
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March 08, 2007 08:51 AM EST --
Falconry, hunting with birds of prey, now more of an art than a necessity, has been practiced for over four thousand years. At first, it was a way to bring home a fresh meal that would otherwise have to . . .
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March 28, 2007 02:23 PM EDT --
Across the globe a new threat to eagles is quickly replacing shooting, poisoning, trapping and electrocution by power lines. The traditional Big Four has a new 'kid on the block'; Industrial Wind . . .
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July 17, 2007 09:19 AM EDT --
Great trip yesterday out to Stellwagen Bank, a National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of Massachusetts. Every encounter with the whales is different. You simply can't tell from one hour to the next . . .
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February 26, 2007 01:30 PM EST --
Remember the old Topper movies? Okay, I am dating myself... but for those of you who do and those of you who don't this is a story about a little 'ghost', named Kirby. Well, she's . . .
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March 25, 2007 09:46 AM EDT --
Remember the old Topper movies?
Okay, I am dating myself... but for those of you who do and those of you who don't this is a story about a little 'ghost', named Kirby. Well, . . .
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July 30, 2007 10:37 AM EDT --
The best part of watching whales in their natural environment is that up close and personal encounter that no captive situation can provide. No bells, no whistles, no hoops and no fish rewards. . . .
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February 24, 2007 10:15 AM EST --
The opposition to industrial wind power has been given a bad name by the industry, politicians and an uninformed media.
With this blog, our hope is to establish a dialog with others that believe . . .
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October 09, 2007 12:23 PM EDT --
Sandy Neck's Lighthouse, Barnstable Harbor, MA may have been decomissioned in the 1930's and its light removed but, can anyone ever really take the light from a . . .
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February 28, 2007 10:28 PM EST --
For the over twenty-five years I've been working with wildlife, particularly, the birds of prey; eagles, hawks, owls, osprey, falcons and vultures. A day hasn't gone by when I don't feel . . .
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March 26, 2007 11:35 AM EDT --
Trees Not Turbines
At best, a project like Cape Wind might save us 10 cents on our electric bill. For that same 10 cents, I would rather plant a tree.
Trees not only remove CO2 and pollutants like dust, . . .
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June 11, 2007 04:43 PM EDT --
Warning: This Post Contains Pictures the American Wind Energy Association and Some Environmental and Wildlife Protection Organizations like the Sierra Club Do Not Want You to See. . . .
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July 19, 2007 09:11 AM EDT --
Tuesday was, what I can only call, 'the whole is equal to the sum of its parts' day on the Whale Watcher.
We left Barnstable Harbor in the morning mist, on glassy waters with 342 . . .
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August 21, 2007 09:31 AM EDT --
There was a time when Greenpeace would throw itself in front of whaling boats to protect whales from harm but, now, this same organization, funded by tax deductible contributions from whale lovers, . . .
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October 03, 2007 09:27 AM EDT --
Life has a way of handing us great moments when we least expect them. And so it was with my summer as an on board naturalist on the Whale Watcher out of Barnstable Harbor, Cape Cod, MA.
I would . . .
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January 20, 2008 09:49 AM EST --
MMS Report on Cape Wind project opens door to 7 Million Dollar Contract
Is the Massachusetts Audubon Society, with a mission to protect birds, selling them out for . . .
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