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Snake Eyes
for World Snake Day: You have 36:1 odds for a pair of ones in the dice game of craps. Chances are probably higher that you know someone...
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Jul 17, 20242 min read
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Human Ecology
She wasn’t completely unpacked yet in her new home on Maine’s Mount Desert Island, but Sylvia Torti broke free for early lunch on the...
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Jul 17, 20242 min read
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Celebrating Kindness
My recent trip to Maine surfaced memories of growing up, like this one: a 4-some of baby field mice Dad brought home for his 1st-grader...
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Jul 17, 20241 min read
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COVER REVEAL
If you have been subscribed to my Acoustic Burro blog, you know that Bison Books will publish my first novel on September 1. Today is...
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Jun 20, 20241 min read
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They're coming...! Home.
Last weekend, my travels across the wide landscape brought me past bison herds, and found me peering through shaggy legs looking for the...
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Jun 10, 20241 min read
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Everyday Shero
Once you’ve been to Jeannette Baker’s house, you have no trouble picturing her younger days working with a variety of wildlife species at...
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Jun 5, 20242 min read
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Permeability
This distinctly amphibian characteristic provides a full-body, secondary breathing system through their moist skin, both when they live...
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May 29, 20242 min read
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Turning Loss to Loads of Love
These short posts give me a chance to amplify positive news of people and planet, and this week’s Feel-Good food is jet fueled. To move...
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May 22, 20241 min read
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Who cares? Anyone can.
When life feels like a depressing-as-hell Melissa Etheridge song, you know the one, with the dreary refrain of WorkEatSleepWorkEatSleep,...
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May 13, 20242 min read
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Words Matter
Chad Hanson, author of Swimming with Trout, as well as In a Land of Awe, noted an odd discrepancy between the words we use with wild fish...
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May 7, 20242 min read
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What we can With what we have
April 30 is National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day. In the face of animal shelter overcrowding across the U.S., adopting a new feline, canine...
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Apr 29, 20242 min read
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Playing with (Wild)Fire
A gravel road with fishing access stretches across sleeping alfalfa and barley fields that line the several braids of our valley's river,...
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Apr 20, 20241 min read
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Start with "low-hanging fruit"
Looking for positive news of people and planet, my lens has scanned far and wide. For the next year, I’ll tune my story-collector close...
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Apr 15, 20241 min read
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Partnerships for Primates, part four Acho'rate'
Fanny M. Cornejo is a Peruvian biologist with a postgraduate degree in anthropology and more than 16 years of experience in research and...
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Feb 26, 20241 min read
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Partnerships for Primates, part three
(Photo credit: Daniel Ferraz) In 1983, Karen Strier spent her first year of research in the Brazilian rainforest observing northern...
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Feb 19, 20241 min read
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Partnerships for Primates part two--Show some love!
Prof. Anna Nekaris, since 1994, has studied all eleven species of loris, including five she named or elevated from subspecies,...
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Feb 12, 20241 min read
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Acho'rate’ (Stand up, do something) PART ONE
Here's your February invitation to get inspired by the mesmerization of monkeys. Over 200 species, and my primate-typical inquisitiveness...
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Feb 5, 20241 min read
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Stories and Winter
Humans--with our poor ability to see in the dark--have turned that to our cultural advantage by sharing stories during the year's dark...
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Jan 28, 20241 min read
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To startle
In response to the 2023 mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, the editorial team at Rogue Owl Press decided to pull together an anthology...
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Dec 31, 20231 min read
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Heart Coming Home
Australia currently protects over 22% of its land and Indigenous Protected Areas are more than half of that. First Nations groups manage...
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Nov 20, 20231 min read
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