Need an argument-ending argument on the contentious issue of whether or not #trapping and #relocating wildlife is humane? When Jack Murphy from Urban Wildlife Rescue Inc endorses an article on humane wildlife control, our ears prick up. And when we…
As we barge through these first decades of the anthropocene – anthroobscene? – we’re getting reminders every day of the damage humans are doing to the planet and to our fellow earthlings. Who isn’t sickened by the sight of a…
Note: This piece was originally published in the Boulder Daily Camera on May 24, 2019. The recently released summary of the upcoming UN report on nature describes a biosphere rapidly degrading under the profoundly deleterious influences of Homo sapiens. (Yes,…
With apologies to Mr. Kilmer: I know I must look hard to seeA squirrel’s nest in a leafy treeRaccoon dens, too, elude my sightAs tree trunks reach their tow’ring heights Most of us know by now that landscape and tree…
I’ll not soon forget one of my heroes – Jon Stewart, then host of The Daily Show – giggling while airing a video of a skunk or raccoon with her head stuck in a jar of peanut butter or some…
— I sicken a little to think of all the insects I kill when traveling in my car. So I’m extra careful when on foot. This little fellow – the size of a cherry pit – narrowly escaped death when…
Among the several reasons to enjoy July 4 in the United States is the calm that comes about when this country takes a collective recess from work. Not a collective meditative calm, which is hard to even imagine, but at…
Sorry. I mean, spiders. I’ve seen two in my bathtub now in the past several weeks. Both times were when I’d forgotten to put up their escape “ladder” – that is to say, the hand towel I keep draped over…