Full Moon Howl 5 – Collapse of Civilizations
If you look at our short time on the planet, one thing is blatantly obvious. Our days on this planet are numbered. History is full of examples of empires that have collapsed. From the Anasazi civilization in Chaco Canyon in now New Mexico and…
Full Moon Howl 4 – Islands
Today there is a political battle brewing pertaining to the ideal size of the federal government. Conservatives feel that the federal government should be minimal as stated in the Constitution and liberals feel that it should be expanded to cover many safeguards for health care,…
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…