Examples of actions found to have violated the MBTA have included the electrocution of raptors after failure to install inexpensive preventative equipment, deaths of waterbirds trapped by oil drilling equipment, and major oil spills such as the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, which resulted in 1,, dead birds comprised of at least 93 different species.
By dramatically narrowing its interpretation of the MBTA, the federal government removed any recourse against a host of actions causing substantial injury to bird populations. Fish and Wildlife Service and must demonstrate that the actors have taken reasonable steps to avoid or minimize their impact on birds. As I learned during my time as a student at Vermont Law School, it has long been a feature of American law that wildlife is held in trust by our government for the benefit of the public.
Private actors should not be allowed to profit from killing wildlife like birds without consequence. The strength of the MBTA has been a recognition, codified in our laws for over a century, that we have a shared obligation to steward our land and water and to protect the amazing creatures which inhabit it, including beloved Vermont species like the Hermit Thrush, Barred Owl, and Peregrine Falcon.
The current federal administration has worked to weaken bedrock environmental protections from their first days in office. We are lucky to have a system of environmental laws that cannot just be casually cast aside, and am pleased to have obtained a law degree so that I can join the committed group of advocates working to ensure that our birds can still be heard. Help secure the future for birds at risk from climate change, habitat loss and other threats.
Your support will power our science, education, advocacy and on-the-ground conservation efforts. Birds bring us happiness in so many ways. The results were entertaining — or, from a creativity point of view, dismal. My methodology is to pick a phrase and put it in quotes e. Examples: an irresistible story of love, an irresistible story of two worlds, an irresistible story of justice.
It appears that all your diet books are not your typical diet book. Google away and enjoy the folly. I have loved To Kill a Mockingbird both book and movie since I was 6 years old. I never saw the reference to be about just Tom Robinson.
What happened to Boo Radley? It seems to me the mockingbird reference was about him in the story as well. It was not that limited to me to be referring to just one character, but to multiple characters and to the loss of the innocence of children.
Harper Lee would have been aware that mockingbirds are no more innocent a symbol than Confederate flags or monuments to Stonewall Jackson. Only her characters and her readers missed the joke. So, while you nod to the Migratory Bird Act, you proceed to advocate the killing of mockingbirds as a crusade against their insidious inter-species role in promoting white-on-black racism?
Or is your target simply the heritage of the old South? Either way, Congrats! Mockingbirds are Confederate gray. Blue jays are Yankee blue. That is the bottom line. Personally, I think mockingbirds are worthless P. Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
Maybe you can relate. The slowpokes have been rising up, in pockets here and there, for a few years now. At SlowMovement. A Slow Blogging Manifesto , penned typed by technology consultant Todd Sieling in , declared Slow Blogging a rejection of immediacy… an affirmation that not all things worth reading are written quickly… Slow Blogging is a reversal of the disintegration into the one-liners and cutting turns of phrase that are often the early lives of our best ideas.
Slow Blogging does not write thoughts onto the ethereal and eternal parchment before they provide an enduring worth in the shape of our ideas over time. Sieling even has a recipe for how Twitter can be used in a Slow-ethos way.
Most recently, Granta editor John Freeman has written a Slow Communication Manifesto adapted from his forthcoming book The Tyranny of Email : The ultimate form of progress… is learning to decide what is working and what is not; and working at this pace, emailing at this frantic rate, is pleasing very few of us.
It is encroaching on parts of our lives that should be separate or sacred, altering our minds and our ability to know our world, encouraging a further distancing from our bodies and our natures and our communities. We can change this; we have to change it…. It is time to launch a manifesto for a slow communication movement, a push back against the machines and the forces that encourage us to remain connected to them. Many of the values of the Internet are social improvements—it can be a great platform for solidarity, it rewards curiosity, it enables convenience.
This is not the manifesto of a Luddite, this is a human manifesto. If the technology is to be used for the betterment of human life, we must reassert that the Internet and its virtual information space is not a world unto itself but a supplement to our existing world. Deep exhale: I just have to take a moment to thank the gods of Hotmail for limiting email downloads via Entourage to a minimum of every 20 minutes.
Is slowness luxury or necessity? There may be restrictions for certain species of nongame animals, including possession limits see below. In addition, be aware that public hunting lands may also have additional restrictions. If hunting at night, as a courtesy please contact your local game warden. For more information on nongame regulations, permit requirements, and lists of lawful and prohibited species, contact TPWD at , menu 7 or , or visit Nongame Permits.
It is unlawful for any person to hunt threatened or endangered nongame species. To sell or purchase goods made from threatened or endangered species, proper documentation must accompany the goods. See a list of threatened and endangered species in Texas. Arts and crafts may not include these protected species under any circumstances. A federal depredation permit may be issued to individuals who have evidence clearly showing certain protected wildlife is causing serious damage to commercial agricultural, horticultural, or aquacultural interests, or presents a threat to public safety.
For more information, visit the U. Fish and Wildlife Service website. May not be hunted, killed, possessed, purchased or sold; however, bats may be moved, trapped, or killed if inside or on a building occupied by people. A person may transport a bat for the purpose of laboratory testing if there is a rabies or white-nosed syndrome WNS concern.
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