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Conservation Contrasts: What Are You Supporting?
There are major differences in the way conservation organizations accomplish their missions.
Cat UrbigkitApril 29, 2019
Range Writing: Endangering Success
The grizzly bear population in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem achieved biological recovery goals nearly two decades ago, but the animals remain under federal protection after more than 40 years of such protection.
Cat UrbigkitApril 22, 2019
Range Writing: Colorado Wolf Project’s Deceit
...readers should beware that RMWP isnt telling the whole truth when it responds to these supposed myths. For the sake of brevity, Ill only tackle a few points, but rest assured that RMWPs response to each of its nine points is oversimplified and misleading.
Cat UrbigkitApril 15, 2019
Words Matter: Manipulative Messaging
We see manipulative messaging examples every day. In food production it ranges from the use of terms such as factory-farmed animals or organic products, to the clean meat and meatless burgers (which are neither meat nor burger, and by the same token, just as milk comes from an animal with mammary glands, not nuts or beans).
Cat UrbigkitApril 08, 2019
Range Writing: Our Public Lands Aren’t Killing Us
Seattle-based Egan writes of out in the way beyond of a vast kingdom now being used to hasten the demise of the planet. As a rural resident in Wyoming (our nations least populated state), I live in the way beyond Egan writes about, but I know that the Big Empty isnt empty. It is home to thriving human and animal communities. We may have more elk and livestock on the landscape than people, but thats the way we like it. We are the stewards of Americas public lands.
Cat UrbigkitApril 01, 2019