Tag: wildlife
member name: Dona Tracy
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June 06, 2007 07:08 AM EDT --
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
A life saving bill, H.R. 2337, is being discussed to day by a Congressional Committee. Your support is urgently needed. The American Wind . . .
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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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May 18, 2007 02:25 PM EDT --
Industrial wind farms, like the Cape Wind project, are on the rise and along with them public protest and opposition. Is it anti-environnmental to even question much less object? Not at all. In fact, . . .
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July 15, 2007 10:21 AM EDT --
Evolutionarliy speaking whales walked from land and into the sea around 60 million years ago. 60 million years!
Talk about coming face to face with the magic of nature and the universe.
A visiting friend . . .
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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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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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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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February 27, 2007 09:20 AM EST --
Chris Pickford was a Fireman or as he would have said a Fire Man. I didn't know him. But I met him today in the faces and in the words of those he loved and had come to honor him. . . .
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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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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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May 08, 2007 02:38 PM EDT --
This past week and continuing across the Internet and mainstream media, the hazards to birds and bats at industrial wind farms are finally being recognized, questioned, studied and exposed.
This . . .
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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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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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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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April 10, 2007 06:13 PM EDT --
Last week, in an outrageous decision to speed up the process for industrial wind farms, the lawmakers in Maryland voted to eliminate environmental reviews concerning the potential impact . . .
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March 23, 2007 12:24 PM EDT --
The Chelsea Collaborative is fighting back! They are fighting what appears to be an unlikely candidate, energy developer Jim Gordon of Energy Management Inc and the Cape Wind project, who is . . .
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March 31, 2007 04:00 PM EDT --
Yes, Cape Wind has done it again. This private developer really knows how to sell a project.
Cape Wind walked its Final Environmental Impact Report, a mountainous slick four color promotional document . . .
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February 22, 2008 05:39 AM EST --
Regional - For years, residents of Cape Cod and the Islands have been promised that the Cape Wind project would lower their electricity rates. Remember: "The Wind is Free?"
But, apparently . . .
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