Full Moon Howl 3 – Good Stewards Continued
There is so many different topics I can focus on right now. I could focus on our new administration gutting all the environmental safeguards that we have developed from the past 2 centuries in order to increase the GNP. Or I could focus on…
Morley Escapes
It was a typical night at the Lake Placid Lodge on 4 February 2017. I was there with my birds to conduct my normal Saturday bird of prey presentation to the interested guests. At the onset, the visit seemed to be just like countless…
Full Moon Howl 2- The Good Stewards
Luke 2 states that if we cannot be trusted with a little wealth then how can we be trusted with true riches? I feel this is definitely a commentary on our country today. We are so concerned with our own greed that we have…
The Full Moon Howl Topic 1 – The Land Ethic Revisited
It has been 70 years since Aldo Leopold’s masterpiece on the “Land Ethic” has been in print. In the “Land Ethic”, Leopold mused that until we stopped seeing land as a commodity and realize that we are all part of the community, we…
Sandhill Cranes
In Leopold’s Eulogy of the Marsh, he lamented on what looked to be the loss of the sandhill crane. Since 1948 when A Sand County Almanac came out, we have seen a dramatic rise of these inspirational creatures. I miss hearing their bugel early…
2016 Saw Whet Owl Season
Coming into the season we had high hopes for smashing our season high record of 82 owls. Unfortunately, Mother Nature had other plans and we had 9 days of rain in the 12 most important days of the migration. We did band a respectable…
Riding with Morley
I picked up Morley, my Eurasian Eagle Owl from Rick West when he was 13 days old. Through the past 15 months we have driven tens of thousands of miles together. During these rides, Morley sits on the arm rest, back of the passenger…