Wildlife
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Coffee, clones, and cartography
I heard of a writer, whose name I don't recall, responding to a question about writer's block something along the line of "You know, my father was a trucker but he never had 'trucker's block'". And I suppose its true to a point, but just like there are days when his father probably rued climbing
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Trapped
One of the current incidents happening in the news up here these days is the two hundred or so Narwhal trapped in the ice near Pond Inlet, the decision to cull them, and the hew and cry over the cull. Darcy has already posted on this issue. Narwhal, and for the matter the other Arctic
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Arluit Video
As much as I wish I was out in a boat taking these videos, I wasn’t. Here are some videos from my brother-in-law of the Killer Whale pod in Arctic Bay. And the second… Number three…
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Quirks and Quarks and Polar Bears
Just in case you think I'm just blowing smoke out of my nether regions on my previous comments on the threat to polar bears, here is Bob MacDonald's (of Quirks and Quarks fame) take on the issue.
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He’s eating my brain, I can feel it.
I’ll leave the zombie stories to Townie Bastard, this story is about a bear attack. It was just such a great headline, and the fellow tells the story of his attack with such aplomb that I couldn’t resist the post.
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Another blow
Today the US Government listed the Polar Bear as a Threatened Species. For the most part I’m just going to point you to what I said back here. I guess this now means that in order to remove the threat the US will finally take action against Climate Change. Won’t it? Nothing has changed, the
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Species at risk
The appearance of this news item on the CBC’s site was especially timely in light of my last post. Some of my readers, I know, are wondering how an animal that has been in the news a lot, as a threatened species, can be hunted. Some of my readers I know, wonder how any animal
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Right hare in black and white
This morning, while I was getting breakfast ready, a client noticed the House Hare was out front, and he has a lady friend with him (or she has a gentleman caller). They were right close feeding on Arctic Willow and then came right up to the house, where one gave the other a little nuzzle