Visitors From the North Tidy Up Home Away From Home: Snowbirds Help Keep PCB Clean
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By Ed Offley, The News Herald, Panama City, Fla.  Feb. 23--PANAMA CITY BEACH -- Wayne and Kaye Rydberg love the beauty of the sand and surf that defines their winter home away from permanent home in western Iowa.
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The transport sector is a major planet polluter but truckmakers in Sweden, where a clean environment has long been a top concern, are leading the way in climate-conscious production with eco-friendly plants.
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By Debbie Gebolys, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Jun. 17--In the rolling landscape north of Scioto Downs, a colony of agricultural researchers and greenhouse entrepreneurs toils a short walk from their ecologically sensitive homes.
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One of my buddies had a brilliant idea I hadn't thought of: Check Pennsylvania's maps for what's called a co-op farm. It's not a commune, it's a farm which offers up it's land to the public for hunting.  What the Farmer Gets  If the hunters are decent-folk, they generally clean up the trash off the property. I personally built a blind out of rocks I happened to find in a fallow field to give me something to sit on and a hiding place. The blind is next to a power utility pole, so it gives me a great shot at birds coming in slowly to land on the wires. He got his field cleaned essentially for free since I also picked up trash. I don't want my game animals eating garbage.  The other bonus the farmer enjoys is limited crop losses to wildlife. This particular farmer was doing the soy-corn-fallow crop rotation which is pretty typical Pennsylvania crop rotation. Doves love this stuff and eat it up. Probably about 2/3rds of the doves I cleaned had corn in their crop.  What the Hunters Get  A place to hunt with a ton of acreage devoted to what essentially amounts to bait.
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DIY We've had a great summer of backyard bird-watching. Hummers and yellow warblers have circled our flowerbeds and our neighbor's window feeder throughout August.
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German scientists plan to help endangered geese find a safer passage for their winter migration south from Finland and Sweden by making them believe that a light aircraft, which will lead the way, is their ...
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Birder Mathew Tekulsky recalls how American robins and other species visited his California yard for a few weeks in January, when a pyracantha bush produced its ripe berries.
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While leaves tumble from trees this fall, another natural wonder is soaring overhead. Hawks in North and South America are taking to the air as part of a seasonal migration.
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By Mark Fagan, Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan.  Feb. 22--Sweeping out the garage is a drag. Avoiding potholes is aggravating. Parking alongside a pile of long-since-cleared snow -- now a heap of soiled, black ice -- at the grocery store is far from appetizing.
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By Beth Velliquette, The Herald-Sun, Durham, N.C.  Jun.
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By Gina Smith, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Feb.
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In an effort to eliminate bird droppings, the city is smothering goose eggs with vegetable oil. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has permitted the city to addle or oil-coat Canada goose eggs in nests for the past five years to stall bird popullation growth.
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By Anne Danahy, The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.  Jun. 19--PATTON TOWNSHIP -- Spend a few hours on Karl H. Striedieck's picturesque property on the Bald Eagle Ridge and you start to lose track of the number of unusual birds you hear.
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By John Weiss, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.  Jun.
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CERRO PELON, Mexico -- High on a remote mountaintop, Alfredo Cruz Colin gazed at a panorama of giant pines and firs where millions of orange and black monarch butterflies spend the winter after flying as far as 2,000 miles from Canada and the United States. He saw two things: one of North America's...
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By Greg Avery, Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.  Dec.
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Men have been responding with enthusiasm to this winterâs influx of fur.