Garry Rogers

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2800 )

• Study: Livestock Grazing on Public Lands Cost Taxpayers $1 Billion Over Past...

  

  GarryRogers:Ranchers I’ve known receive public funds to build livestock management facilities on public lands. When ranchers do the work themselves, the income... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Something Really, Really Terrible is About to Happen to Our Coral

  

  The last time this happened, we lost almost a fifth of world reefs. “Coral reefs cover just 0.1 percent of the ocean floor, but provide habitat to 25 percent... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Study Shows Challenges of Restoring Fracking Sites

  

  ‘Wildlife habitat goals cannot be realized by merely establishing grasses …’ Staff Report FRISCO — Restoring areas after drilling and fracking requires more tha... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• CSIRO, BOM Research Shows How Climate Change Will Affect Australia

  

  GR: The fires of our industry have changed our planet. There is enough added carbon in the atmosphere to produce the changes CSIRO and BOM predict. How much... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Beetle Vs. Bird: Expert Panel Weighs in on Biocontrol of Invasive Tamarisk Trees

  

  Anna Sher Simon: “Tamarisk was introduced to the Western U.S. from Eurasia in the late 1800s, and over the next 50 years it was widely planted as a fast-growing... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• An Australia Day Post on Australian Wildlife Conservation

  

  GarryRogers:Great discussion of European settlement’s terrible impact on nature. The eastern quoll is now extinct on the Australian mainland and declining in... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• President Obama Failed His Commitment to Reducing Nuclear Weapons

  

  GarryRogers:The power to annihilate the planet grows more frightening as forests, fertile soil, fresh water, and clean air become scarce. Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• California Drought Worsening During Height of Rainy Season

  

  Figure 1. The Enterprise Bridge passes over a section of Lake Oroville that was nearly dry on September 30, 2014, in Oroville, California. Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Human Population Growth’s Effects on Global Warming

  

  Earlier this month, Pope Francis made news when he said that not only was climate change real, but it was mostly man-made. Then, last week, he said that... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Let Outdated Attitudes Go Extinct

  

  GarryRogers:Lack of concern for wildlife is outdated because so many animals disappeared in the past few decades and the extinction rate is exploding. Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Yellowstone Wildlife Sent to Slaughter; Calling All Buffalo Warriors

  

  GarryRogers:If ranchers want this, let them pay for it. Originally posted on Animal Blawg: Kathleen Stachowski Other Nations Dear Americans: You’re busy, I know. Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• What’s a “biophilic City”? Let Timothy Beatley Explain | Citiscope

  

  By Christopher Swope, Cityscope: “This week’s Citiscope innovation feature story looks at the ways Singapore fosters connections to nature in a dense urban... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• How Singapore Makes Biodiversity an Important Part of Urban Life | Citiscope

  

  Inside a city that works hard at keeping the jungle in “urban jungle.” by Grace Chua: Cityscope “SINGAPORE — When it comes to discovering plant and animal... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Feds Seek Public Comment on Offshore Wind Farm Zone

  

  GR: Alternative energy may reduce pollution, but it has its own problems. In the desert near me, solar farms are shading and destroying native vegetation,... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Forests Precede Us, Deserts Follow

  

  GarryRogers:This article discusses how deforesting the Amazon Basin and other regions could lead to the fall of modern civilization. Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Yellowstone Begins Transferring Bison for Slaughter

  

  By Matthew Brown, Phys.org “Yellowstone National Park has begun shipping wild bison for slaughter as part of a plan to reduce the park’s population by as many a... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Pennsylvania Pigeon Shoots: An Early Push for Their Extinction

  

  Politics Preys on Pennsylvania Pigeons By Rahn Forney, [email protected] 01/21/2015 08:23:49 PM EST “Pennsylvania, in 2014, almost became the 50th state to... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• #Anonymous Comes to the Aid of Endangered Swedish Wolves with #SaveSweWolves

  

  Originally posted on The Cryptosphere: SaveSweWolves via AnonSwedenInfo on Twitter Never mess with a Spirit Animal. The wolf is a hunter; so are many Swedes. An... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Is There an Optimal Urbanization Strategy?

  

  Urban Sprawl in Mexico City GR: Those 1960’s suggestions that we cluster humans in tall buildings have never been truly encouraged. In many places, urban... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Mine Could Cause Irreparable Harm to Smith River

  

  Mining Impact Potential on Smith River Bob Ream, Independent Record: “Unfortunately, the Smith River is under serious threat from a proposal to build a massive... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2015 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT