Virginialis Water Lily (c) 2009 Patty Hankins
Here are some posts and articles that I enjoyed this week; I hope you enjoy them as well
National Park and National Wildlife Refuge Links
National Parks Traveler has Mr. Hornaday’s War: How A Peculiar Zookeeper Waged A Lonely Crusade For Wildlife That Changed The World and How Have National Parks And Public Lands Fared Under The Obama Administration?
Wildlife Links
The Huffington Post has Sea Otters May Be Fighting Climate Change By Keeping Sea Urchins In Check
National Parks Traveler has Groups Seek To Overturn Decision To Delist Wolves In Wyoming
National Parks Conservation Association has Blitzed with Butterflies: Citizen Scientists Document Species at Rocky Mountain National Park
MSNBC has New, colorful monkey species discovered in Africa rain forest
Environmental Issues Links
Mother Jones has Why Doesn’t Your City Have Curbside Composting?
NBC News has Warming sign in the Arctic: Starving female polar bear challenges male for food
Photography and Art Links
BBC News has Obama ‘Hope’ poster artist Shepard Fairey fined, World’s first colour moving pictures discovered and Scottish wildcat extinct within months, association says
The Copyright Zone has No Release = No Glory & No Money
Chaos To Clarity has Social Media Image Size Guide [Infographic]
DC Area Flower Safari
If you are in the DC area, I hope you will join me and other flower lovers at our DC Flower Safari Meetups. The next Meetup is scheduled for Saturday, September 29 at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA. We will meet at 6:30 AM at the Grosvenor Metro Station. Then we can carpool to Longwood. I hope to see you there!