Let me state this at the outset. I am a lifelong ACLU Liberal Democrat who has never voted for a Republican. Thus, the results of the election on November 5th put me in a deep funk. Nothing that has happened since that time,...more
I can hear the music in my ear, and the voice: “Space, the final frontier… “. Endangered and threatened species are destined to boldly go where none of them has gone before – habitats outside of their historical range....more
Susan Cooke’s recent post about the importance of peatland for carbon sequestration took me back to my law school days when I spent many hours mucking about Payne’s Prairie. This peat filled location in Alachua County,...more
On February 3rd, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would completely eliminate criminal penalties for “incidental” migratory bird deaths under the Migratory Bird Treaty...more
3/11/2020
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Climate Change ,
Criminal Penalties ,
Department of the Interior ,
Habitat Conservation Plan ,
Incidental Take Permits ,
Keystone XL Pipeline ,
Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) ,
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) ,
Oil & Gas ,
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Repeal ,
Trump Administration ,
US Fish and Wildlife Service
EPA has been a hive of activity regarding the declining bee population. The agency recently approved an organic fungicide that is to be delivered to crops via “bee vectoring”—a process by which commercially-reared bees walk...more