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Natural Perspectives: Our trek to the lek
Vic and I were in the Eastern Sierras a few weeks ago. He was leading an Audubon birding trip, primarily to see greater sage-grouse on their courtship display grounds, which are called leks. The lek is just north of Crowley Lake, a few miles outside...
Tags: U.S. Department of the Interior, Lifestyle and Leisure, Game, Foods and Beverages, Science
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Natural Perspectives: Things are just ducky at our house
Vic and I have a sure-fire sign that spring has sprung. A pair of mallards has returned to our front yard. Every year in early March, a pair of mallards has taken up residence for a few weeks. They swim in our front yard pond and scarf up greenery and...Tags: Lakes and Ponds, Environmental Issues, Natural Resources
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In The Pipeline: The O'Reilly factor at Bolsa Chica
"It's not a park, it's an ecological reserve!" So intoned my friend Ross Griswold, who tracks bird behavior at the Bolsa Chica Wetlands. We ran into each other the other day on the trail and ended up lamenting the ever-increasing abuses by dog owners...Tags: Justice System, Abusive Behavior, Conservation, Pets, Crime, Law and Justice
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Natural Perspectives: Adventures in snowy Albuquerque
Generally, Vic and I try to avoid flying into the midst of a natural disaster. But sometimes it just happens. If you recall, I was caught in a tornado in April in Tennessee, near Knoxville. Golf ball-sized hail totaled my rental car with hundreds of...Tags: Natural Disasters, Science, Arts and Culture, Museums, Air and Space Accidents
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Natural Perspectives: Priority should be preventing extinction
An article in Physorg.com this week reported that a team of scientists from Japan and Russia believe that they may be able to produce a living woolly mammoth within the next five years by a cloning process. Key to their research will be finding an...Tags: Animals, Science, State Parks, Conservation, Tourism and Leisure
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Natural Perspectives: 'Rapped' up in new teaching endeavor
Vic must have thought that I didn't have enough to do, what with teaching at the Orange County Conservation Corps, writing this column, and attempting to grow 350 pounds of food this year. He asked me to team-teach his bird and natural history courses...Tags: Conservation, Science, Interior Policy, Politics, Book
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Natural Perspectives: The return of vanished species
When Vic and I were growing up, wolves had been extirpated from the lower 48 states and the California sea otter was thought to be essentially extinct. The last gray wolf in California was killed in Lassen County in 1924. Gray wolves were hunted...Tags: Earth Day, Conservation, Hunting, Endangered Species, Ecosystems
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Natural Perspectives: Kayaking to keep Bolsa Chica clean
People need to clean up after getting dirty. Wetlands are no different. In olden days, storms would flush out our coastal wetlands. Before "civilization" struck, the only debris out there was natural and decomposable. Not any more. These days, the Bolsa...Tags: Canoeing and Kayaking, Bodies of Water, John Muir, Endangered Species, Wetlands
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Natural Perspectives: The saga of the condor
At the end of the last Ice Age, California condors ranged eastward from the California coast all the way to Texas, Florida and even New York. But by 1800, the range of the condor population had shrunk considerably. The birds lived along the Pacific...Tags: Science, Health, Gold and Precious Material, Lead Poisoning, Diseases and Illnesses
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Natural Perspectives: Feeling low in the mountains
Vic has a saying that every good party ends with a trip to the emergency room. I haven't been able to embrace that philosophy. But if he's right, then we must have had a heck of a party at Mammoth Lakes. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Vic led yet...Tags: Asthma, Bodies of Water, Human Body, Lakes and Ponds, Health
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Natural Perspectives: Mea culpa for last column
I made a goof in my last column about the Bolsa Chica Land Trust's plan for the mesa. The error is mine, not Vic's. I said the Land Trust was going to excavate no deeper than 8 feet to bury its 2,825-gallon water tanks in the ground. Actually, the tanks...Tags: Landforms, Nature, Periodicals, Injuries and Wounds, Science
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Community Commentary: Columnists are wrong again about mesa plan
Last week, we told you how excited we were about the CPR (Community Promoted Restoration) for the Mesa, a restoration project for the Bolsa Chica mesa. The Bolsa Chica Land Trust, in cooperation with the Department of Fish and Game (DFG), developed this...Tags: Landforms, Nature, Periodicals, Health, Sage
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