Chinese Five Color Peppers (c) 2010 Patty Hankins
Here are some sites I found interesting this week. Hope you find them interesting as well
Photography and Art Links
Social Times has 20 Twitter Influencers Every Photographer Need to Follow
PaidContent has Lawsuit Tests Whether Twitter Pictures Are Free For The Taking
Art Print Issues has 2011 Color Forecast Driven by Affordable Remodeling Trend
Photo Attorney has Three More DMCA Cases of Note for Photographers
Wired has Earth as Art: Stunning New Images From Space
Flower and Gardening Links
BBC News has Cocoa Genome Will Save Chocolate Industry
National Park and National Wildlife Refuge Links
National Park Traveler has Whitebark Pine Trees in Crater Lake National Park Under Attack From Blister Rust, Pine Needles, Conservation Groups Question Cape Hatteras National Seashore’s Preferred ORV Management Plan, and Marine National Parks Have Experienced Vast Losses of Coral Reefs to Bleaching and Disease
Cape Gazette has Feds Approve Prime Hook Dune Repairs
Refuge Watch has Interior Announces New Refuge Unit in Kansas and Support Full Funding for the Land & Water Conservation Fund
Wildlife Links
National Parks Traveler has Lead-Tainted Carcasses and Gut Piles Pose Hazards for Endangered Condors, National Park Service Establishing Protocols for Dealing with White-Nose Syndrome in Bats, and These Worms Can Jump – and They’re Unwelcome Pests at Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Wildlife Gardens has Wildlife Webcams to Take Your Breath Away
NYTimes has California Condors May Face Threat from DDT From Years Ago and For the Desert Tortoise, a Threat and an Opportunity
Wildlife Promise has Heading Toward a Record Setting Year at Hudson Bay
Mongabay has Massive Shark Sanctuary Declared in the Coral Triangle
Environmental Issues Links
NYTimes has As Glaciers Melt, Science Seeks Data on Melting Seas
Science Daily has New Explanation for the Origin of High Species Diversity in Amazon
GreenBiz has Getting Past the Whiteness of Green
SaveBiogems has Peace-Athabasca Delta
Conservation Magazine has Ease-y Does it: Do Conservation Easements Work