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I tried switching to a new template from an outside source. Didn't like it so I downloaded my old one back on. As you can see my entire left column has been destroyed in the process!!! All my links and pictures gone!!! What is worse is that what is showing up on the site is not what is on the layout page!!! Sorry for the crappy look right now, but in time I will have it restored. A huge apology to those whose links have vanished (at least for now I'm hoping).

If you plan on creating a new template, I suggest playing around with it on a new blog. Then if you don't like it you can get rid of it without this type of disaster occuring.

In spite of this trajedy, please scroll down and read my previous post. Some grizzlies need help urgently.

Cabinet-Yaak Grizzlies Need Your Help

Once again grizzly bears need your urgent help so please don't delay! This time it is the bears of the Cabinet-Yaak area. Seems like since the Yellowstone grizzlies were delisted last spring, people are just itching to get all bears off the list (Endangered Species List).

Photo: NPS archives


Natural Resources Defense Council states:

"Grizzly bears in the Cabinet Yaak ecosystem, which are hovering at dangerously low numbers, are of particular concern. Without endangered species protection, the last remaining 30-40 bears could go extinct. At a December meeting, state wildlife officials passed a draftresolution requesting that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Servicecomplete a study of the northern Montana grizzly populations bythe end of 2008. It appears that state officials are demanding an expedited studywith the hope that small, isolated bear populations will be put together and evaluated as a single group. If that is indeed the case, overall population numbers might appear robust enough to warrant the removal of federal protection. But according to wildlife biologists, stripping these bears of protection now would drive them back to the brink of extinction."

Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks is the place to send comments and/or calls to. Or use this handy link to sign the letter designed by NRDC:

Cabinet-Yaak Grizzly Delisting Petition

Where is the Cabinet-Yaak area?


Map: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Geese Butchered & Left In Parking Lot

A couple weeks ago several white geese were found strewn about a local business parking lot. Goose hunting season had ended before this. These poor beautiful geese had the breast meat cut off of them. The rest of their bodies were shamefully discarded around the lot. Wildlife officials had been called in to investigate the incident and the business owner had "no comment." He was also instructing people to pick up the bodies and stuff them into trash bags and toss them into the dumpster-this was after knowing that the scene was supposed to be left intact until the wildlife officials could investigate the crime scene. Sounds fishy on his part. So far, I haven't heard any new information on this.

The crime against these geese was as sickening to me as this past year's antelope poaching crime. Also, last summer in Pennsylvania was perhaps an even grosser, twisted scene when a mom dog and all her puppies were found lying by a creek-all had been skinned. I'm grateful that I do not have sick thoughts against animals such as the ones some obviously troubled individuals turn into reality. My heart goes out to all the animal victims of these horrendous crimes.

Photo: freenaturephotos.com

NOW FOR SOMETHING ENJOYABLE


Livingsword has passed on another humbling award to me. What can I say? God and nature go hand in hand. God created it all and without Him I would have no animals or great places to enjoy.

I would like to pass this on to Victorya. Truly an inspiring person! Her beauty shines through in her words. She is also a person gifted with strong animal bonding, especially to her beloved Penny.

Tragic Accident Kills 19 Alaskan Eagles

19 eagles are dead after gorging themselves in a truck full of fish waste. The eagles became to sioled to fly off after picking through the slimy mess. Surviving eagles were cleaned up with soap and water. Apparently, somebody forgot to cover up the top of the truck, which is normal procedure.

Click here to learn more about this incident.

My heart goes out to these eagles. Here they were flying around in search of food when they happened to stumble upon the motherload of fish guts. They excitedly flew in to feast with other eagles. Then terror struck as some of them struggled to fly away with a content belly but could not. Other eagles watched their kin slowly die in that truck of horrors. What a sad, sad accident.

The eagles in the photo are the pair at the local zoo, taken last summer.