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Here is what we’ve been reading, watching and writing about over the past week…

Articles

USDA Wildlife Services--Black Vulture, Wolf Predation

“Wildlife Services” is the helpful-sounding name taken by the federal agency which has been conducting the misguided, wasteful, and counter-productive war on predators for over 120-years. The war started with bounties, but now relies on agency poison programs. At one time or another these folks have tried to kill out every predator in North America – plus non-predators like prairie dogs – to “protect” domestic and wild animals. Their accumulated body count including ‘by-kill’ surely exceeds 100-million animals.

Their “villain de jour” is the Black Vulture, colloquially called ‘buzzard’.

Here is an article on what they do, and why they say they need to do it, recently published in Texas’ well-respected “Livestock Weekly”.

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The Case for Destroying Old Forest Roads

For the first 100-years of its history, the mission of the US Forest Service was to make public forests accessible for a host of human activities. Beginning 40-years ago the opposite mentality took hold. These well-intentioned attitudes have led to the woeful current forest conditions and their associated wildfires.

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Videos

Black Vultures Are Good for the Environment

Bird park aviculturist, Kat,  joins us to tell us about one of the most “misunderstood” birds in the animal kingdom, the Black Vulture.

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Griz Bites Camera

At Pitchstone Waters bears are constantly chewing up cameras and drinker float valves. For them its a form of play.

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