Crows have long been associated with creepiness. After all, a group of them is called a "murder." But maybe the birds have gotten a bad rap — maybe their most unsettling quality is really just how smart they are.
To get some insight into crows and perhaps set the record straight, Short Wave spoke with Kaeli Swift, a lecturer at the University of Washington who wrote her doctoral thesis on crow behavior. She cites three examples of crow smarts.
On the surface, the ban seems like a step forward; removing the competitive nature of “sport hunting” (quotes intended), changing harvest reporting requirements for fox and coyote, and even featuring a wanton waste clause - because what ethical hunter is going to argue with a wanton waste rule, right?
I’m not so quick to give a tip of the hat. In fact, MassWildlife gets the slow clap for what seems like yet another politically-charged knee-jerk reaction to hollow virtue signaling.
But hold off on lighting those torches and burning me at the stake like some devilish fur-harvesting heathen. You may be asking, how can one promote conservation, regulated management, AND poo poo MassWildlife’s decision to give up their rook in today’s “conservation versus preservation” chess match with a hunting contest ban?
Almost 40 years later, a young woman riding her motorcycle to the country club would still be an outlier. Millennials who are burdened with loan debt often can’t buy homes, much less drop thousands of dollars on club initiation fees and dues. (Annual country-club dues run several thousand dollars on average, plus an initiation fee that’s usually no less than $5,000.)
And if cost isn’t a deterrent, many young people are put off by the image of the country club—stuffy and formal, with old-fashioned dress codes and rules about cell-phone use. Not to mention the rich history of racial and religious discrimination that accompanies many such organizations.
The traditional country club and the activity that is its mainstay—golf—are both having a hard time attracting a younger demographic. In the 1990s, there were more than 5,000 full-service golf and country clubs in the 1990s. In 2010, there were about 4,100, and now that number has dipped below 4,000. A 2014 study commissioned by the National Club Association found that club membership was down 20 percent from 1990.
Arsenic-based pesticides in former golf courses is an enormous problem.
Love camping in the Adirondacks? Share your passion for the great outdoors next summer by volunteering for the DEC Campground Ambassador Program and you’ll enjoy two weeks of free camping in exchange.
Somebody I know from school 🚸 passed this along knowing how much I love to camp ⛺ and spend time in the wilderness. But I hate campgrounds. My comment:
I don't do campgrounds if at all possible, I don't like camping anywhere I am in ear shot or eye shot of others. I like to be able to have big fires, listen to music, drink beer, pee where ever I want to, burn trash, shoot guns, and pretty much do whatever and whenever I please. Things that are generally not considered neighborly behavior. In other words, camp at least a quarter mile from anyone else and often much more remote wild country then that.
I'll stay at a rustic campground with pit privies when it's the only option but I try to avoid even that for wilderness camping. But I really don't like doing that if at all possible. I live in the suburbs and I have neighbors when I want to be around other people.
While a lot of my colleagues are settling down buying houses and raising families I'm living in a jam on rather threadbare moldy apartment on the bus line. Saving and investing money wherever I can for when I don't have family locally, move out west or down south into a small off grid cabin heated by wood I chop myself and a small solar system on sufficient acerage that I can have bonfires, burn my trash, hunt and trap, four wheel and hobby farm. In a state with low taxes and not a lot of regulation or zoning codes.
The hybrid, or Canis latrans var., is about 55 pounds heavier than pure coyotes, with longer legs, a larger jaw, smaller ears and a bushier tail. It is part eastern wolf, part wester wolf, western coyote and with some dog (large breeds like Doberman Pinschers and German Shepherds), reports The Economist. Coywolves today are on average a quarter wolf and a tenth dog.