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...
Posted from Seattle, WA on December 11, 2017 I am running an ad in the Seattle Times A-section on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017 that is critical of the per mile tax. Here is the wording: The Gas Tax is a carbon tax and it’s not broken Per Mile tax...
Posted from Seattle, WA on November 13, 2017 I am running another ad in the Seattle Times November 14, 2017 against the Trump Wall, shown above. Also, I visited the border country in the lower Rio Grande valley in 2015. Here is the blog I did, “We...
posted October 2, 2017 from Seattle, WA The ad shown above is scheduled to run in the Seattle Times on Tuesday, October 3 2017, A section. (Ads have much longer timelines than news stories. There is anguish on my part over the tragic event in Los Vegas...
Posted from Seattle, WA on Sept. 4 2017 I'm running an ad in the Seattle Times Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017 that attempts to draw attention to the fact that the border wall is predicated on a mischaracterization. It's not on the border, it's far on the...
Posted from Seattle, WA on August 14, 2017 I'm running an ad in the Seattle Times Tuesday, August 15, 2017 that attempts to draw attention to the massive land giveaway that is the border wall. It also makes a note of the wall's collision with the...
Posted from Seattle, WA on May 19, 2017 I will be running the ad shown above in the Seattle Times A-section on Tuesday, May 23, 2017. If I were reading the ad the first thing I would like to know is where the citation for the opening...
Posted from Seattle on Nov. 29, 2016 The text of the ad reads: In an often-repeated unconstitutional property-rights abuse, the Dakota Access pipeline owner was gifted with the kingly power of eminent domain to take land from unwilling Americans. This subsidy unlevels the playing field, & distorts...
Posted October 9, 2016 from Seattle, WA I’m running an ad for Initiaitive 732 on Sunday, today in the A—section of the Seattle Times. For more information on I-732, here is the campaign’s website: Yes on I-732 YES ON I-732 Act NOW on climate change...
Posted September 8, 2016 from Seattle, WA I’m running an ad for Initiaitive 732 on Sunday, Sept. 10 in the A—section of the Seattle Times. For more information on I-732, here is the campaign’s website: Yes on I-732 YES ON I-732 Act NOW on climate...
Posted from Seattle,WA on August 15, updated August 18 & 25, 2016 The ad shown below should appear in the Sunday, August 25th A-section of the Seattle Times. It advocates a yes on I-732 as a "middle path." I ran the following ad tomorrow Tuesday August 16...
Posted May 23, 2016 from Seattle, WA I’m running a low-rise ad, shown above, in the Seattle Times on Tuesday May 24, 2016 that should appear in the A-section. The ad singles out Oregon but is implicitly critical of the movement of DoTs nationally, including US...
Posted May 8, 2016 from Seattle, WA “Tolls are here to stay” wrote the Editors of the Seattle Times last Saturday, May 7. I say: Don’t be so sure! Tolls have made their spectacular advance partly because we the public and our leaders haven’t really thought them...
We tend to think of atrocities against Native Americans as tragic but mostly a thing of the distant past, but they are happening in real time right now in Latin America, particularly Honduras where the eloquent and tireless Native Lenca-tribal leader Berta Caceres was killed on...