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» Brian Sharp: Ecological Perspectives
Environmental research. Studies of Oiled Birds & the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, the Oregon & California Condor, Dusky Seaside Sparrow & NASA.
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Dusky Seaside Sparrow
The last remaining Dusky Seaside Sparrow died in 1989. Because of mosquito control to make life more pleasant for the engineers working on the Space program at Cape Kennedy, and the road-building and real estate development of 50 years, which has now resulted in massive mortgage foreclosures in Florida, we lost the Dusky Seaside Sparrow […]
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Fossil
I had been looking for land and “a home in the heart of the country” for many years. On a camping and birdwatching trip in 1979 to eastern Oregon with my friend Barbara, I made some inquiries in Fossil for property for sale. Not much, except an 80 acre parcel with a mobile home on it. […]
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Pelican Island
Located in the Indian River, central east coast of Florida, Pelican Island was the first national wildlife refuge in the USA, established in 1903 by President Teddy Roosevelt. Its purpose was to protect colonially nesting pelicans, egrets, wood storks, and cormorants, all non-game species. Later the US Fish and Wildlife Service, taken over by waterfowl […]