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Mountain goat massacre begins in Grand Tetons

January 6, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Shaky science may doom mountain goats in their own habitat             JACKSON,  Wyoming––The northern and western slopes of the Cathedral Mountains in Grand Teton National Park were on January 5,  2020 closed to the public to allow air gunners flown by Baker Aircraft of Baker City,  Oregon,  to massacre as many as 100 mountain goats […]

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Why mass shooters sometimes sound like conservationists

August 6, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Madison Grant was the missing link             EL PASO,  Texas;  NEW YORK CITY––Much more than misanthropy links mass shootings by white supremacists to the obsession of mainstream conservation societies with extirpating “invasive species” and “cleansing” wildlife habitat of any trace of human presence. But don’t expect the Boone & Crockett Club,  the Sierra Club,  and […]

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Florida: Bashing the brains out of iguanas as alleged illegal aliens

March 14, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Iguanas were in Florida first––by 16 million years             FORT LAUDERDALE,  Florida––Bashing or shooting the brains out of iguanas essentially for the hell of it would be illegal almost anywhere if done to pets. Braining iguanas in the name of research,  however,  brought University of Florida wildlife biologist and research coordinator Jenny Ketterlin and 14 […]

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How Standing Rock 2016 echoes Birmingham 1963

September 5, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Use of dogs against protesters may mark turning point in pipeline campaign (Part II of two parts.  See also Security guards set dogs on Sioux demonstrators at Standing Rock.) FORT YATES,  North Dakota––History may in the long run favor the Dakota Access pipeline,  or a modified and re-routed version of it.  But history is unlikely to […]

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