In September 1883, a tired and dispirited young man stepped off a westbound train into the tiny hamlet of Medora in the Dakota Territory, and thereby altered his life. His name was Theodore Roosevelt. Six months before, his comfortable world had fallen apart when his adored wife, Alice Lee, only 21 years old, and his […]
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Every spring, about two thousand volunteers spread out across North America to count birds for the government. The Canadian Wildlife Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service sponsor a joint breeding bird survey. Data collected is added to a continentwide, longitudinal database. The information is studied to determine what is happening to bird populations,
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“Where can we find three-toed and black-backed woodpeckers?” We were at Custer State Park, South Dakota. Three-toed and black-backed woodpeckers are on the park bird list. But we hadn’t found them, though we’d been in the park four days. Now, however, we were talking to the park naturalist, the person who should be most likely
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Prior to 2004 I’d never been to South Dakota, but that year a series of unrelated events took me to the Mount Rushmore State three times within an eight-month period. My spring trip was strictly for birding, the summer visit included camping and outdoor photography, and the fall excursion was a hunting trip. All three
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