Doggone Fun

Volunteering for Arizona Game & Fish Department has proved very rewarding and exciting for us. However, the other day we discovered that there is an element of risk to it. Adoption When we were asked if we would “man” the Tortoise Adoption Program booth at an animal adoption event, we gladly said “Yes!” As it …

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Caring Visitors

Driving home through White Tank Mountain Regional Park after engaging visitors with our snakes and skulls recently, Chuck braked when the car in front of us suddenly served to the right, barely missing a large gopher snake stretched in a serpentine shape across the middle of the road. Approaching the Snake The car drove on, …

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Somethin’ From Nothin’

This week’s unrest across the country reminds me of my own biases instilled in me as a child in the 1950s and how a young black boy in the 1980s helped me overcome this prejudicial upbringing.  I wrote this article over 20 years ago, and it was published in AIM Magazine’s winter, 1999 issue.   …

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Magnificent Animals

“I wouldn’t want to take part in the death of such magnificent creatures!” we recently overheard someone say in regard to killing bison for meat. But what constitutes a “magnificent creature”?  Bison?  Bear?  Bluebirds?  Butterflies? [twocol_one][/twocol_one] [twocol_one_last][/twocol_one_last] Perception “It’s all just perception,” noted a biologist friend of ours. “It’s what’s been glamorized and victimized. We …

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