CONSERVATION EASEMENTS: BEWARE BEFORE YOU BUY!

http://farmwars.info/?p=4843&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FarmWars+%28Farm+Wars%29

JIM ROGERS: THE WORLD DOESN'T HAVE ENOUGH TREES FOR BERNANKE TO PRINT THE MONEY HE THINKS HE NEEDS...

http://dailybail.com/home/jim-rogers-the-world-doesnt-have-enough-trees-for-bernanke-t.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheDailyBail+%28The+Daily+Bail%29

PROPERTY OWNERS - YOU NEED TO EXPLORE THIS SITE THOROUGHLY

http://www.takingliberty.us/TLHome.htm

America's land under private ownership is dwindling. I am in the Florida Forever conservation area.

Private property is being taken by the government by environmentalists and government lies.

Agenda 21 is part of it.

FOR THE KIDS - A GREAT BUTTERFLY SITE AND A GREAT WAY TO TEACH THEM ABOUT BUTTERFLIES, THEIR LIFE CYCLE AND MIGRATION

http://www.kidsbutterfly.org/

I just sent this site to my son and daughter-in-law and her mother, who is a butterfly fancier.

If you catch the photos on the Red Bubble widget above, you will see my latest "catch", a Polydamus swallowtail on the plant clerodendrum. The butterflies (so few this year) are eating and getting ready for migration now. A great time to introduce the children to this most beautiful insect.

If you have roadside wildflowers that haven't been mowed, or have a field in which the late wildflowers are blooming, just take a walk into it, stand there for 10 minutes and really look at what is around you. Down under your feet, up to your knees, your waist, eye level, above your head. You don't need a net. You just need to look and take a camera and a kid with you.

Talk about what you see, take a picture and when you get back home, identify these marvels on the net.

This is my private heaven - to steal some time wherever I am and just observe, take photos, watch for the small dramas unfold (that green spider with the sloppy web is out to pounce on a butterfly, a moth, a carpenter bee, a wasp - and she'll get him).

Conservation efforts and rescue of Spanish Goats

http://www.grit.com/Animals/Goat-Rescue-Conserves-Spanish-Goats.aspx?utm_content=GRT+eNEWS+06.11.10&utm_campaign

The picture is beautiful, and I love goats. I am also looking for a couple of Nubian does or Nubian/Alpine crosses (does only, please). My empty corral and little barn is sadly overgrown and lonely, and I miss making cheese.

I leash train my goats so we can walk together. When I lived in the desert, I walked with my donkey, my goat off-leash and my German Shepherd taking up the rear, also off-leash and a raven on my head, my shoulder, sitting on the donkey or flying along with us. We covered many a dusty mile. It was wonderful. I am so fortunate to have the memories I have.

Incidentally, I have begun the story of a raven I raised. The title has always been (it's been in my head for decades), "The Little Boy in a Birdsuit - the Story of Orville, the Raven". I decided to write it for my grandkids, who do not understand yet what a wildlife rehabilitator is. But they will. Leave it to Grandma.

If I can keep my wits about me, with this oil spill and our political climate, I'll finish it. It's a nine month segment of my life that was full of surprises, laughter, love and wonderment that a "bird" could be that smart and funny.

And if you want to learn about ravens, crows and related corvids, join ASCAR, the American Society for Crows and Ravens. There's a website and a free and remarkable newsletter that appears sporadically, to which you can contribute.

Mayflies, Coal, the government and you

http://www.redstate.com/vladimir/2009/09/07/our-epa-keeping-the-environment-safe-for-mayflies/

Don't get me wrong. I look forward to that part of the year when the mayflies hatch. They are beautiful. And yes - they emerge, they fly, they breed and they die. One day of life with nary a mouthful of food.

But to destroy an industry and the jobs and lives it supports, is not necessary.

If they are annoying hikers and tourists, that means they are flourishing despite the coal industry.

How stupid we are to believe this government line of crap. Instead, put people to work finding ways to utilize coal and build the plants that will process it so that it will be clean.

I grew up with a coal furnace and the sounds of my father shoveling it from the coal bin and then into the mouth of the old cast iron friend who kept us warm in the winter. It burned blue - it was hard coal. And I remember clinkers and the day it was "disarmed" and we got gas heat.

Lots of people burned coal back then. The sky wasn't gray or yellow with pollutants. It didn't soot up the laundry that was dried on the line and brilliantly clean.

Natural gas was offered by NY and was cheaper. And my father wouldn't have to shovel every morning before he left for work.

And back then we had butterflies and bugs and frogs and toads sung, and birds flew their migration routes, families were large and loving, jobs were plentiful, we wore and used American-made products and were were proud to do it without Wal-Mart. Small business like bakeries and butcher shops and shoemakers, and independent drugstores and neighborhood soda fountains and 5 and 10 cent stores bustled and government was smaller.

But now we must halt an industry because of mayflies who are already a nuisance to some.

But wolves are being slaughtered because they were removed from the endangered classification.

And the world bankers really do want to control the population of the world, so much so that they are prepared to kill off 80 per cent of the global population.

You are endangered, too.

The dark side of soy/biofuels in Paraguay

Note, dear readers.

Why are the police - no matter what country they're in - dressed in black, helmets, body armor, automatic weapons, batons at the ready. Everything to intimidate and to instill fear, overpower.

I remember when there was a cop on a beat who was your friend. No more...not now. They are the dark side, too. Black is synonymous with evil. Just remember that.

And "green" has its dark side, too.