posted from Seattle, WA October 5, 2022 The ad shown above is expected to run in the A-section of the Sunday Seattle Times on October 9. Here is the text of the ad: “Washington state must be ready to meet rising air demand” wrote Seattle Times editors, exhibiting...
A Different Take on Birding's Carbon Conundrum Posted from Seattle, WA on Jan 6, 2022; edited since Posted January 6, 2022 from Seattle WA Links to two articles have been posted to Tweeters, Washington state’s birding chatline, that challenge birders to not drive so often or so far...
Posted from Seattle on June 6, 2021. I'm running this ad on Sunday August 15th in the A-section of the Seattle Times. First let me include this link to a story on the Ojibwe Nation's fight against Line 3. 'It's cultural genocide': inside the fight to...
Posted from Seattle, WA August 3, 2021 In frustration over being in the lonely position of not being on the Infrastructure bandwagon I designed the ad below, a curmudgeonly piece of writing to be sure. The third bullet point of the ad contains a statement that...
Posted from Seattle WA on June 18, 2021 The ad shown above should be appearing in the June 20 A-section of the Seattle Sunday Times. The ad credits the Wild Fish Conservancy for it's leadership and activism that is going against the tide of inaction,...
posted from Seattle on June 11, 2021 On June 7, 2021, my new Super oversized larger-than-I've-ever-printed-before print Whales Starboard Super XL was printed in SeaTac at Olympus Press.. Olympus has a Heidlleburg and you can't just press the Print button on those babies. Here are Olympus Press...
Posted March 24, 2021 We've all probably heard of a “Surrogate Mother.” But have we heard of a “surrogate wetland?” Leave it to California to birth the concept. In that state, Rice-farmers are flooding their land during the off-season--turning rice fields into temporary wetlands that can be...
Posted from Seattle, WA on Feb. 15, 2021 There has been plenty of pushback against the pessimism suffusing the messaging around masks and distancing, but most of it has emanated from the segment of society that thinks of empathy as a four letter word. (It...
Posted October 16, 2020 from Seattle WA The ad featured in this blog should be in the Sunday Seattle Times this week (Oct 18, 2020.) In the ad I endorse Joe Biden (and implicitly Kamala Harris) and thank him for his reluctance to sign on with the...
BirdLife International blasts Europe’s so-called “Green Deal” Posted July 1, 2020 By making a devilish alliance with an industry, environmental leaders are stealing any hope the Earth has left to halt climate change. Somewhere, somehow, agricultural biofuels and biomass (burning wood) got an early and permanent blessing...
Posted May 6, 2020 from Seattle Publishing, like blogging can be done safely during a shutdown so I have prepped and labored and am happy to say I have 10 new prints that I am very excited about. They can be found at 6 x 8...
Posted from Seattle, WA on Earth Day, April 22, 2020. The head tax is a bad idea. It runs up against a law of microeconomics, that cannot be rescinded by elected officials. That is the law of the downward-sloping-demand-curve that says that if you tax something,...
posted on Jan 31, 2020 from Seattle, WA. Ad opposing the LCFS to run in Sunday Seattle Times, Feb 23 All that Glitters is not Green is the headline. The kicker is "Low-carbon fuel standard is bad policy." Here is the text: With the Creation in peril,...
Photo of pair of Elegant Terns from American Bird Conservancy Posted January 17, 2020 from Seattle, WA When I posted this blog on January 17, 2020, I titled it, "God ordered the birds to multiply; Virginia takes steps to disallow it." Well, thanks to the efforts...
Carroll Dwayne Littlefield Carroll Dwayne Littlefield 1940-2019 Wildlife Biologist, Sandhill Crane defender and author Carroll Dwayne Littlefield passed away unexpectedly on May 28 of a heart attack at his home in the Peloncillo Mountains of New Mexico. While C.D. had receded from public life over the past 17 years, his memory...
posted from Seattle on April 28, 2019 I'm running an ad in the Seattle Times in the A-section on Sunday May 5. The ad will make a case for buying electric cars for a reason that is rarely if ever advanced in the public sphere: to...
Posted from Seattle, WA on Dec. 20, 2018 I'm running the ad shown above in the Seattle Times A-section Friday, 2018. Ringed Kingfisher at Benson State Park on the Rio Grande. This is in the vast area that would be chopped off from the US. Photo...
Posted from Seattle, WA on December 8, 2018. I believe voters in Washington should be alarmed or at least deeply concerned by the plans the Washington state Department of Transportation is hatching to replace the gas tax with a mileage tax.Posted from Seattle, WA on...
Posted from Seattle Nov. 7 2018 I'll be running the above ad in the Seattle Times on Sunday Nov. 11 A-section. What follows is not the most concise and cogent argument on the subject. That might be at this link to the Seattle Nature Alliance.org's post on...
Posted from Seattle WA on October 6, 2018 I am running the above ad in the Seattle Times A-section for Sunday, October 7, 2018. What inspired me to run yet another ad against the Wall was this: An article in the National Wildlife Federation's magazine confronts the damage...
Posted from Seattle, WA on April 23, 2018. An ad I'm running in the Seattle Times A-section on Sunday, April 29, opposes the First Avenue Streetcar. Here is the ad, which is pretty self-explanatory. I compare the Streetcar to the 56 year old Monorail and find the...
Posted from Seattle WA on Jan 15, 2018 I am running an ad in the Seattle Times on Tuesday, January 16, A-section, that makes a nonpartisan plea to America to take the wall off the table, essentially calling it an unacceptably unpatriotic idea that insults the...