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Bob in Bellingham: Three Weeks Does Not a Hamster Make
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Walking the path to sustainability in the Pacific Northwest. Friday, July 23, 2010. Three Weeks Does Not a Hamster Make. Today marks our third week in Bellingham. We celebrated with a cupcake at Katie's and dinner at Milagro's (yes, I got the order right). This is also the end of my first week at RE Sources for Sustainable Communities. I am feeling more comfortable and am starting to trundle downstairs to talk to folks in the RE Store. And the Sustainable Living Center. Hopefully, they will soon.
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Bob in Bellingham: February 2012
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Walking the path to sustainability in the Pacific Northwest. Sunday, February 26, 2012. My wife came into my office the other day after reading a Sierra Club newsletter and asked me why it was legal to shoot a wolf in Idaho and not in California or Oregon. “Aren’t wolves protected by federal law? 8221; she asked. And walking the delicate tight rope between softening protections for some wolves while at the same time maintaining or increasing protections for others—extant or missing. She also missed the p...
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Bob in Bellingham: October 2010
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Walking the path to sustainability in the Pacific Northwest. Thursday, October 21, 2010. If You Want to Know How I Feel about Farms and Farmers: Talk to Me. All this talking eventually led to a national meeting that aimed at sorting all this stuff out. The proceedings. From the meeting helped shape a lot of farm policy. We would have liked to see more of these policies get into the bill that go-round but the agri-business interests and the Farm Bureau are pretty hard to beat. Victims of the same system.
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Bob in Cascadia: We Should Stand with Chinese Pollution Activists Because They are Standing for Us
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Musings from a conservationist in the Pacific Northwest. Saturday, March 7, 2015. We Should Stand with Chinese Pollution Activists Because They are Standing for Us. Screen capture of CNN broadcast of amateur video of Chinese. He and I talked first in terms of professional toolboxes. What did each of us have in terms of approaches we could apply towards our own issues? Chinese factory by High Contrast (Own work). In this I remember the Panda man, because while we in the US and Canada stand up to the utter...
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Bob in Cascadia: May 2012
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Musings from a conservationist in the Pacific Northwest. Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Change Needed at Wildlife Services. The recent trio of articles in the Sacramento Bee by Tom Knudson about Wildlife Services opened some old wounds for me. For nearly a decade I worked with my staff at Defenders of Wildlife- primarily Caroline Kennedy- to bring reform to this rogue program within APHIS at USDA. The strategy was basically to keep the good and get rid of those actions that were not supported by science. Bob Ferr...
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Bob in Cascadia: The Selective Hearing of Selfish Earholes
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Musings from a conservationist in the Pacific Northwest. Wednesday, April 1, 2015. The Selective Hearing of Selfish Earholes. 8221; and then think that simply adding a “but” to that wholly complete statement licenses them to pontificate on phenomenon scientific. Amazing. Preamble of the US Constitution written by Gouverneur Morris. I cringe too when I watch elected officials taking actions such as gutting or dismissing environmental protections ( 1. Certainly these elected officials are doing the bidding...
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Bob in Cascadia: April 2012
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Musings from a conservationist in the Pacific Northwest. Saturday, April 28, 2012. Wolf: Green Fire or Beast of Waste and Desolation? I once read a piece written by astronomer Timothy Ferris (no close relation) about science and politics. It hit me that we could probably map biological philosophies and biologist types using a similar method. But what would or should we use as the scalars? The wolf debates in the Intermountain West. The two exemplars I used above— Aldo Leopold. Bob Ferris has been a leade...
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Bob in Cascadia: A Tale of Three Rain Barrels and What They Mean to Us
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Musings from a conservationist in the Pacific Northwest. Monday, March 23, 2015. A Tale of Three Rain Barrels and What They Mean to Us. The simple, no frills barrel. Here in Eugene. My point is that rain barrels are a little like automobiles in that they come in a variety of models and sizes with as many or as few accessories as wanted. Well-plumbed barrel from BRING. Too) and with season (Carlene and I each use about 33 gallons a day when our garden’s drip irrigation system is not working and 75 f...
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Bob in Cascadia: Duck, Duck, Goose, Goose
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Musings from a conservationist in the Pacific Northwest. Saturday, March 21, 2015. Duck, Duck, Goose, Goose. Snow geese in Washington by Walter Siegmund. Recently in Idaho more than 2000 snow geese. Where does one start to unravel something such as this? We would not have had avian or fowl cholera. In the US—if that is what it is—if it had not been brought here from Europe in the 30s or 40s. We would not have had these concentrations of snow geese. And climate change. Who knows? In addition, how much of ...
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