America's WildRead

Reintroducing lake whitefish into the Detroit River (2013) - Photo credit: USGS It has truly been an honor to moderate this America’s Wild Read discussion on Bringing Conservation to Ci...

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 The Refuge's new LEED-certified Visitor Center is  being built adjacent to Michigan's only Ramsar  Wetland of International Importance - Humbug Marsh. Photo credit : Jerry Jourdan ...

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 John Hartig Aldo Leopold is considered by many the father of wildlife conservation in America and an influential leader in wilderness preservation.  Clearly, if he were alive today ...

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The Detroit RiverWalk provides a new waterfront porch for people and wildlife in downtown Detroit Photo credit: SmithGroupJJR Clearly, much needs to be done to reconnect urbanites to their...

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John Hartig, author and Detroit River Intnerational Wildlife Refuge Putting Detroit and Windsor, the automobile capitals of the United States and Canada, respectively, in the same sentence ...

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Welcome to our Bringing Conservation to Cities book discussion.  Author and FWS refuge manager John Hartig will moderate this discussion with one essay a week and you the reader can partic...

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John Hartig Discussions begin July 1 with John Hartig, Fish and Wildlife Service refuge manager and author of Bringing Conservation to Cities: Lessons from Building the Detroit River Interna...

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One of my greatest revelations about bird feeding over the past 20 years has been the incredible appeal of bird feeding to children like our two-year old grandson who gets a great thrill from...

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Paul Baicich - Photo credit: V. Andolini Even people who are terribly pinched by hard times should remember that just a few crumbs of bread can tide a bird over its time of stress. Indeed ...

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One of my personal treasures is a small odd-sized rectangle-shaped book left to me by my paternal grandmother, whose nickname by the way was “Birdy”. Written by Chester K. Reed and printed i...

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Ethan watches and counts the birds at his Illinois home for the annual citizen science project, the Great Backyard Bird  Count--a 21st century “practical” reason to feed the birds....

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International Migratory Bird Day is right around the corner so in celebration of this event a WildRead reading frenzy will begin  May 1 with the brand new, hot-off-the-press book,  Feeding Wil...

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Robert Michael Pyle at a recent reading  in Astoria, Oregon/ Photo credit/Carol Newman, with permission Excerpt from Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage (p. 167) ....

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Photo credit: Thea Linnaea Pyle wants you all to know the following information:  The deadline for comments on the Fish and Wildlife Service 's Petition to List the Monarch Butterfly as a ...

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Almost one week out and Robert Michael Pyle will post his first commentary for our book discussion. Time to locate a copy of the book at your local bookstore or order direct from Yale Univers...

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America's WildRead comes alive again after a two year hiatus!. Beginning March 1, 2015, our WildRead will host an online, virtual book discussion of the book, Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with ...

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Moderated by Jim Siegel, FWS - NCTC In his essay, “The Extinction of Experience,” Robert Michael Pyle uses metaphor to describe two very different approaches to engaging nature: the Brown...

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Our next essay, titled "The Extinction of Experience ," was written by a well-known nature writer as part of his book The Thunder Tree: Lessons from an Urban Wildland. Robert Michael Pyle was ...

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COMMENTARY BY DEBBIE BEER To act or not to act, that is the question.  Even in a situation that might seem hopeless – saving threatened sea turtles on the beaches of bustling Miami – auth...

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ARTICLE: DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE Endangered loggerhead sea turtle hatches on the  beach at Back Bay NWR, VA. Betsy Hilbert was born in Brooklyn in 1941, but has lived in Miami since ...

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BY JOHN HANSON MITCHELL Moderator: Jim Siegel, FWS - NCTC In his essay, A Paradise of Frogs , John Hanson Mitchell found that in civilizing his Massachusetts yard he had lost his beloved fr...

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A Paradise of Frogs:  John Hanson Mitchell  was born in 1940 in Gaylewood, New Jersey, and he has his B.A. in comparative literature from Colombia University.  He lives outside Boston, w...

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Hiestand highlights how the common Blue Jay is not the sort of bird that inspires us.  It’s nest is rather humble, lacking organization and without any of the intricacies that we see in othe...

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Our first essay from CITY WILDs will be Emily Heistand's ZIP-A-DEE-DO-DAH.  Before we jump into her writing, however, we'd like to first introduce Emily:  born in Chicago, she and now lives i...

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http://andershalverson.com If you’re looking for a cheap thrill, I recommend a little etymology. A little research and suddenly a word you have been taking for granted all your life become...

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