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No, but some of these replies have. I was just pointing out another side to it.

Yes, but forbidding it means abandoning some kids with different needs & social challenges to bullying & isolation - kids with the bad luck of living in districts without resources or will to help them. I know it's problematic, but I was glad I had the option when my son went through a tough time.

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Needed and important work. I wish you all the best there.

Thank you! I'm going to miss seeing you at PSC VIC this year. I hope you are enjoying retirement!

It is a privilege to get to work with the glove trained birds. Their keepers are both raptor rehabbers in our group and the educational birds are all permanently disabled former patients. I'm working on getting my bird license and it's good handling practice. The public doesn't get to, though.

Me wearing a green North Country Wild Care hoodie and a goofy smile, looking at the slate and brown American kestrel sitting on the glove on my hand, looking back at me. Kestrels are small falcons. This one is blind in one eye after hitting a car and unable to hunt on his own. He is missing flight feathers on the visible wing but that happened in captivity and they are growing back.

Me in a green hoodie with my name on a name tag in a selfie with a black common raven I am holding. She is perched on a glove out of frame. The raven is looking towards the camera. Her name is Melina and she became an educational ambassador after being hit by a car and breaking both wings and both legs. Her bones healed, but there is lingering weakness that prevented her return to the wild. She does educational programs and is also an animal actor. She has appeared in a number of TV shows and movies, including The Pale Blue Eye, a Netflix movie about Edgar Allen Poe.

I got a break from the madness yesterday when our regional wildlife rehabilitator member organization did public outreach at a mall. I held friends' educational birds while I talked to human people and my face hurts today from smiling.

#AmericanKestrel #CommonRaven #falcon #corvid #FindJoy

Shooting at UPMC Hospital. Victims going to York.

Snow days call for playing! ❄️

When seeking to play, wolves will dance and bow playfully. Playtime can also include a game of chase, jaw sparring, and varied vocalizations.

For wolves, playtime isn’t only fun, it strengthens family bonds and reaffirms social status within the pack.

Which British animals eat mice and rats? Stoats, weasels, birds of prey, badgers, foxes, pine marten, polecat, wildcats and lynx. All either actively shot and trapped, verging on extinction or extinct because of human activity. We have nature the wrong way around.

Obituary for Vimla Bahuguna, A Guardian of Forests, A Champion of Women Vimla Bahuguna, who spent a lifetime defending India’s forests, empowering women, and championing the rights of the poor, died on February 14th, at the age of 93. Her passing, four years after that of...

Vimla Bahuguna, who spent a lifetime defending India’s forests, empowering women, and championing the rights of the poor, died on Feb 14th, at the age of 93.

www.butlernature.com/2025/02/16/o...

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A barred owl sitting on top of a wooden owl box in a space loosely paneled with wood planks and a wire fence ceiling under the rafters.

A barred owl perched momentarily on the edge of a cardboard box with wings lifted, ready to fly off.

Low light so the release pictures sucked but I got to release the barred owl I helped rehab the other day, a highlight in an otherwise challenging week.

#druidsky /|\ #wildliferehab #adirondacks

Can anyone look at this graphic and say that we do not urgently need rewilding on a massive scale?

Black wolf walking in the summer grass in front of a forest.

Did you know wolves are absolutely essential for a healthy ecosystem?
When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone the entire system reacted. Small animals became more abundant. Birds began breading more. Rivers changed, small carnivore populations increased.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGGe...

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

The 50501 Movement has planned protests at all 50 state capitols and the U.S. Capitol on Presidents’ Day at noon. While mainstream media isn’t covering it, many YouTubers have stepped up to provide coverage.

Please stop pointing out the obvious. Dems need to find new paths forward and actually lead.

‘It’s demoralizing’: Trump’s climate funding freeze has left tribes and community groups in limbo Despite court orders to release grants, many organizations working on climate projects still don't have access to contractually obligated money.

South Dakota's Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe received $19.9 million from the EPA for repairing a bridge, replacing asphalt roofs, and climate resilience.

Thanks to Trump's illegal program cuts, however, the tribe is no longer able to access the funds.

The wealthy win while the rest of us lose.

An 'Extinction Committee' Is Just the Beginning of Trump's Attacks on Endangered Species President Trump is already trying to undermine the ESA by invoking a rarely used provision that empowers a committee to decide the fate of endangered species.

One of Trump's executive orders seeks to undermine the Endangered Species Act. This move empowers a committee of his own appointees to decide the fate of an endangered species, prioritizing the desires of special interests over wildlife and biodiversity.

I love Superb Owl Sunday.

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It never does.

Some humans really suck

I hereby create a community of people who love, respect, and admire boglands. They are mysterious, beautiful, and powerful to ecology, archaeology and climate. Yet these systems continue to be misunderstood and threatened. Who wants to join my bog fan club? Please share - bogs need friends right now

A barred owl sleeping on a tree branch. She is far away and blends well with the snow covered trees around her.

An eastern grey squirrel eating in a hanging platform feeder with snow on the edges. The evergreens in the background are also snow covered

A white-breasted nuthatch perched on the edge of a hanging platform feeder and reaches his open beak towards a nut on a pile of seeds and nuts in the middle of the feeder. The edges of the feeder and the trees in the background have snow on them.

Scenes from out back because my professor said feeling oneness with the more-than-humans helps us feel as one with other humans, too. Not gonna lie, really struggling with that at the moment.

#backyardwildlife #adirondacks

Image of a really pretty bog with red moss and green trees in the background.

Boglands once were considered portals to the gods and other universes. Liminal spaces between familiar and unfamiliar, water and land - they are eerie, beautiful, pagan. They harbor weird biodiversity and regulate climate. No wonder they are rejected by white, colonial patriarchy. Respect the bogs.