The Roadless Rule was created in 2001 to identify and protect some of the wildest, least disturbed parts of the national forest system. These places are called Inventoried Roadless Areas – a formal designation the U.S. Forest Service uses for large tracts of land, usually 5,000 acres or more, that have no permanent roads and remain largely…
WC is a few days late getting the end of the month post up. It could be WC’s wretched time management skills, but instead we’ll blame the famously short month of February. After all, if February had a decent number of days – like January, for example – this post would be timely. But whatever…
WC has written about his adventures with varicella zoster virus (VZV) before. The short version is that because WC had chicken pox as a kid, he was at risk for shingles in his old age. And developed shingles in 2019 while on the wait list for the Shingrix™ vaccine. Ironically, when WC finally rose to…
Fascism: I sometimes fear… — Michael Rosen I sometimes fear that people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress worn by grotesques and monsters as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis. Fascism arrives as your friend. It will restore your honour, make you feel proud, protect your house, give you a job, clean…
Among African raptors, there is little consistency between common names and taxonomics. Sparrowhawks, for example, are actually falcons and not hawks, and goshawks are actually Accipiters, not Buteos, the traditional hawks. But for purposes of photos of African raptors, at least, WC will ignore taxonomics and make today’s post African birds that are called “hawks,”…
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