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Denver, Oct 20, 2007: Want to visit one of the selected 10 best destinations for
"Going Green" in Denver, Colorado? Just read about our
most recent award from an organization that evaluates such things without the
entity under consideration knowing that they are being reviewed by the
10 Best editorial board. 10 Best serves 40 million international travelers
with their discerning reviews and reports of the best places in over 3,000
cities world wide. Nobody can ever pay to be
included in their listings. We may be small, but we are mighty good, and when you look at
the company we are found in, and those not included, we think that says a lot. Thanks to our members,
sponsors, Docents, volunteers, and staff that obviously contributed to REF receiving this
internationally important designation. Just
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The Terminator state likes to think of itself as a leader for the rest of the country. So let's take a close look at their environmental and conservation policies to see where the country is headed. Read this rather lengthy article, and be afraid for what's coming to the state near you. Just click...
The more herbicides Homo sapiens spread on their artificially green yards, the more they are spreading endocrine chaos through their own bodies, and especially the bodies of their children. The 2nd most widely used weed killer in the United States, atrazine, is now appearing in research as one more culprit damaging human development. Let the dandelions win, they will appear on our gravesites at end of the day anyway. Just click...
Considering that Florida Democrats, Recreate ’68, Roseanne Barre, and Rush Limbaugh are all calling for riots in Denver, isn’t it time that all of us in Denver call for a stop to the Democratic National Convention this August? Anyone concerned about keeping Colorado environmentally correct and peaceful needs to consider this very carefully.
After all, even if we save just one window from being broken, one car from being fire-bombed, or one beer bottle from being busted, wouldn’t it be worth it? Let’s act now to keep our environment clean and free of all of that carbon-dioxide produced just to get those clamoring masses to Denver?
Has anyone calculated the carbon-footprint of burning cars, sweaty 68’ers, extra police resources, and drunken Democratic delegates as they flatulate their way around our mile-high city? Imagine all of the jet-fuel that would be saved! Think of the additional drug load on our water treatment facilities as everyone’s legal and recreational pharmaceuticals are flushed into our water system. Just keeping Ted Kennedy from irrigating his kidneys in our fair city would be worth it. How many more hermaphroditic fish can Boulder tolerate?
How about preventing the tsunami of toxic information that will irradiate our airwaves as the entire world’s press corps sets up their fertilization programs at our oxygen depleted elevation? This will neuter anyone within 1,000 miles of the Pepsi Center. Also, let's not forget that sniper fire following Hillary into the belly of the DNC, if we cancel the convention she will have to take those rounds somewhere else.
The reality of this entire process is also totally unnecessary. Let’s just send all the super-delegates to Cabo, lock them into one room with a buffet of soy-filled cigars, and have them appoint the next presidential perp: Hillary Hussein Obama, the first symbiant presidency.
However, if we fail to stop this predictable calamity from coming to Denver, then I think we must implore public servant, Governor Ritter, to re-institute his far-sighted agricultural trespassing certification program to deal with the rabble that is arrested. That would truly show the entire world that Denver is a progressive sanctuary city sensitive to one and all.
Oh, and we should have public servant Ken Salazar handing out the certificates, as his letter writing campaign has revealed his real talents.
Opinion: Petro Alexandrovich
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Costa Rica Wildlife Tour: Nature's Spectacles,
October 9-24,2008, featuring the nesting of olive ridleys (the most
abundant sea turtle) and the migration of raptors. Watch as perhaps
hundreds or even thousands of these turtles lay their eggs on the beach
at Ostional on the Pacific Coast. Marvel as many as l00,000 raptors or
more (of an annual total of over two million - one of the three largest
raptor migrations in the world) migrate in a day past our observation
platform on their southward journey along the Caribbean. This trip is
timed to be at these locations at the peak of the
raptor migration and the most likely period of the largest
arribadas (arrivals) of nesting olive ridleys. We'll also visit
Tortuguero, the area made famous by Archie Carr's studies of the green
turtle there. For more pictures and information on this great tour, just click... crested caracara: Bill Turner |
If the Algorian mantra "CO2 Bad" was accurate, why is it that the entire life-cycle is built upon consuming carbon dioxide to create some of the principle players of any ecosystem? Increase the levels of carbon dioxide and all of those life forms vegetarians love get very happy and thrive. Just click...
It appears that even the PC crowd at NASA now admit that things are going to cool. But, but, its a natural cycle (which even increased CO2 cannot warm up), so maybe, just maybe, all of this Algorian hoax has more to do with natural cycles having little to do with Homo sapiens exhaling or industrial farting. Gee, do you think? Just Click...
NASA has also been caught in a very interesting series of data adjustments which serve to conform a desire to serve the global warming theory instead of the actual data's conclusions. Just click...
The typical biotic pyramid most of us learned in school is wrong. But it is wrong out of ignorance, which is corrected through the scientific process. Now science is revealing that the most important aspect of the biotic (food) pyramid is the largest component of it, which until recently has been invisible. The parasitic community is being called the thread that holds ecosystems together. Just click...
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Come and visit our wild great-horned owl family nesting next to our captive owls. Two babies have been confirmed as of May 1, 2008. We have dedicated a page to chronicle our wild owls. For stills and video, just click... |
The discovery of one of America's smallest accipiter's dead, has led to a mystery as to what happened to create a very bizarre corpse. Just click...
The Algorian confidence scheme is about to put another feather in its carbon cap with the silencing of a pioneer hurricane forecaster in our home state of Colorado. CSU professor Gray (global warming skeptic) is feeling the power of the Global Warming Inquisition. Just click...
Finally, protein recovered from a T-Rex bone has given its secrets up to scientists and the analysis is undisputed. Just click...
Genetic research is revealing that our species danced with extinction about 70,000 years ago. One of the culprits very well could have been severe climate conditions. That's right, before the Algorian Revelations, before industrial development, before SUV's, before it all, the fate of Homo sapiens may have been hanging on the thread of climate change. Even then, once upon-a-time, the climate changed as it continues to this very day and the days to come. Just click...
The subsidized production of certain plants for use in ethanol production may soon displace up to 60 million poor in countries falling prey to the Algorian hoax of anthropogenic global warming by carbon dioxide produced from Homo sapiens' activities. President Bush has also added more momentum to the Algorian scam by accepting the premises, which science has debunked numerous ways.( see story about recant below) Just click...
Trash, rubbish, garbage, detritus, all fall from the hands of Homo sapiens to befoul the beaches of the earth. An annual event gathers volunteers to scour sea shores, catalogue their finds, and bring our attention to one of the most easily preventable environmental problems directly linked to Homo sapiens of all shapes, sizes, and colors. Just click...
Yep, more evidence is piling up that there is no connection what-so-ever between global warming and an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. This has resulted in one of the 1988 Nobel Peace Prize winners requesting that the United Nations come clean and admit that their infallible committee on global warming fess up to the truth. See the report that graphs out the newest data. If you still have reservations about the politics of all of this Algorian hysteria, we suggest you look at the havoc in the food markets which this massive re-allocation of resources for ethanol production is causing. Think about those on the edge of survival caught in this massive scam: poor people trapped by the global warming Algorian elite confidence shysters. Just click...
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April 8, 2008 Denver: Traveling with our
birds anywhere involving airlines is always a nail-biting
ordeal, but with
Frontier Airlines
sponsoring the air segment of our New York journey, we knew that our
animals would do well on Colorado's favorite airline. Loading our
kennels and equipment requires special attention to the bird's needs and
Frontier's employees made sure everything went well. Thanks to everyone
at Frontier Airlines for getting our birds to New York and back via one
of the craziest and busiest airports in the country: LaGuardia. And many
thanks to our other sponsors including the Greater Brighton Economic
Development Corporation and the Colorado Division of Wildlife
for their help in getting our staff and raptors to this special
promotion for Colorado representing all of the fantastic natural resources and
outdoor recreation opportunities our great state offers. And yes, we did take a few bites at some of the fabulous eateries in the city that never sleeps. For more on our trip, just click... The largest kennel holds our male golden eagle (top), followed by our peregrine falcon, and the great-horned owl brings up the rear in its orange travel case.
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The variety of species continues to proclaim natural selection as the differentiating force. The scientific method continues its evolutionary drive for knowledge, and this experiment reveals how truthful Darwin's intuition is. Just click...
That's right, we will be eating each other by 2040 predicts the scientific sage from Atlanta, because global warming will have destroyed all of our food supply, and there are just too many people with too much stuff. And besides we don't need our military 'cause the Chinese just want to sell us shoes, and the Russians want to be our pals as well. Everyone, take a lesson here: just because you might have a billion dollars or so in your pocket, doesn't mean your brains haven't been vaporized by Algorian gases. So remember, when 2040 is upon us, head for the Turner ranches and his buffalo herds, but you'd better arm yourselves, because old Ted will have his own armies protecting all those bison while he eats Barbarella burgers and watches exercise tapes. Just click...
Caught in camera, a spectacular attack prompts removal of a red-tailed hawk from a famous sports location. Just click...
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When they went looking to nationally promote Colorado's fantastic natural resources and outdoor recreation opportunities, they came to REF's magnificent raptors and 28 years of experience. With sponsorships from Frontier Airlines and Brighton's Economic Development Corporation, and the assistance of the Colorado Division of Wildlife, REF is joining the elite of Colorado's tourism destinations to show the folks in New York, what Colorado has to offer. Just click...
The government monopoly school monoculture continues to fail miserably. The raw data from the most current reports is devastatingly obvious to anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear. Keep doing what has been failing, and you will keep failing. But the political incentives to create a rational, critical, and intelligent student body only works if the politicians are interested in creating a culture inclined towards independence and not dependence. The data is obvious, but Global Stupiding will continue to ignore the facts and listen to the con men. Just click...
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Algorians should be real happy! Their hoax is making them piles of green cash, but only by destroying wild botanical green while creating massive monocultures of soybeans, corn, and other panacea bio-fuels, and accelerating the rate of carbon release into the atmosphere. You now have a perfect storm: government subsidies + bad science + religious fervor + plus political eco-hucksters = massive resource destruction. Just click...
Hunting and fishing license fees have been paying the way for a huge swath of conservation programs all across America. The folks hunting and fishing have been more than paying their own way for decades. Those revenues are now drying up as the number of hunting and fishing license sales drop steadily each year. A variety of causes have been identified, but the net result is still the same. Just Click...
Depending on their skins for their very ability to survive, frogs are very susceptible to anything that would damage a frog's skin to fulfill its role. Scientists have discovered the culprit doing all the damage, and are now struggling to see a solution. Just click...
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03/25/08: For those of you new to our site we would like to remind everyone that we have had a small presence on YouTube for just over a year. That presence is now expanding and as of this date our collection of videos has attracted 30,640 viewers. You will see a variety images and birds doing some wonderful things. Just click...
More and more facts are showing up which reveal to anyone with little more than one functioning synapse, that one of greatest cons of the last two centuries is just that: a massive confidence scheme. Even IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) gurus are having to face the stark facts produced by new satellite studies (NASA's Aqua satellite) that carbon dioxide and global warming are unrelated. This blows the entire climate model for instilling hysteria into the public's mind. Hysteria these Algorians can then manage with bigger and bigger government schemes, which restrict all sorts of development and progress, "just in case" the fantasies from their models are correct. So what happens when it is obvious to even the most biased global warming mongers that they are simply wrong? Will they pay warming reparations? Just click...
That's right, the much maligned ruminant behaving badly with loads of methane production doing what it does naturally, has provided an observant researcher with the keys to energy independence. The secret was in the cow's digestive system. Billions of little microbes, with a little hi-tech help, will help turn any biomass material into gasoline and diesel. Look for significant production to start in two years. Get ready for bad news about Big Cow, instead of Big Oil. Moooo!! Just click...
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March 15, 2008: After searching for last year's
wild great-horned owls, which had nested very near our facility, we were
disappointed they had not returned. Today, while one of our new
mentoring candidates, Master Will Toon, age 10, was assisting
with some chores, he casually remarked, "Oh, there's an owl right
there," pointing to the crotch of a poplar tree next to our raptor
enclosure (mews). Will had found the female holding fast on her
nest in a place all of us had walked by many times and seen nothing. We
realized she has probably been in that spot for at least a week.
We will be watching the development of her eggs and youngsters in the
weeks ahead. Stay tuned for video clips. Many thanks to Will
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About 5 million trillion trillion of them and they rule the world. Microbes working together create the very body that Homo sapiens inhabit, and now a new method of studying microbes in the wild is beginning to reveal a remarkable world we know virtually nothing about. And viruses, with populations about ten times greater than microbes, are now being seen as genetic banks moving DNA through ecosystems. Big creatures, like humans and elephants, lions and lemurs, eagles and finches, are nothing without this massive society of microscopic relationships, which orchestrate even our very thoughts about ourselves and the world we live in. Just click...
The east coast cod fishery has long been finished, and now the salmon fishery off the coasts of California and Oregon may follow suit. Over fishing, factory fishing, government mis-management and a variety of federal and state subsidies have all come together in the perfect storm to ruin another natural resource. Just click...
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Accompanying the Algorian bamboozle are a variety of parallel cons that are now driving up the cost of food, along with what economists call opportunity costs for numerous resources being displaced by massive corn subsidies. The net result will yield a dirtier environment and far less energy efficiency than what we can attain today from fossil fuels. Just click...
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March 9, 2008:
Beaver Creek Resort's Green Day was celebrated by our
appearance with 5 of our raptors in the village area. Hundreds of
visitors came by our display to learn about our birds, some of which are
namesakes for the Birds of Prey ski runs we helped inaugurate
during the 1999 World Cup Races. It was a beautiful sunny day, hardly a breeze to ruffle any feathers. Pictured on the left is Shelley Doris, on of REF's Senior Docents, with our Northern Goshawk which has captured the serious attention of the young Mogul Mouse on the left. Their faces always tell our story. Many thanks to Vail Resorts for their continued sponsorship of our environmental literacy mission over all these years. |
oooops!Another top notch scientist who was all for the Kyoto Treaty along with all the accompanying hysteria, has now reversed his position when he did the "math." The high level math does not add up, and after careful checking with other professionals, this Hungarian scientist wants you to look at the numbers as well. Just click...
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Congress worries about athletes using steriods? All of us are ingesting them! How about all of those concerned public servants getting worried about how all of us are drugging the entire ecosystem? Every time anyone uses medications, sex hormones, or drugs of any type, and then uses any toilet to flush their body wastes away, or flush left-over drugs down the toilet, they are literally injecting millions of tiny doses of those same chemicals into the water we drink. If you think we are not all connected in any ecosystem, then do not read this story, it will scare you to death. We are all drugging the planet! Instead of wasting very limited $$$ on the Algorian hoax, those dollars would be much better spent on solving this long-term systematic drugging of your water, your food, and your future. That is real public safety! Just click...
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Of the 51,000 specialists canvassed, 68% agree that there is NO scientific consensus on the causes of "global warming." "There is no clear consensus of scientists that we know of." The rest is pure Algorian propaganda. Just click...
A top tier of evolutionary theorists is about to come together to deal with some of the inconsistencies in the theory of natural selection. Far from being creationists, this assemblage includes philosophers, geneticists, biologists, and others seeking to understand how evolutionary theory fails to answer many difficult questions. Just click...
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A "professional" golfer began targeting a
red-shouldered hawk with his golf balls and after a concerted effort hit
the bird and killed it. So, would that be a birdie, or an eagle? We will
volunteer one of our hawks to execute punishment on this pathetic
"athlete." Besides violating a variety of federal and state
laws, this individual just gave public testimony to his high moral
and ethical character. Thank goodness the sport has stars like
Tiger Woods, and hopefully few characters like this twit. Just
click... Hero:PGA Tour golfer Tripp Isenhour |
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March 2, 2008: Getting to spend a few hours
on a beautiful blustery day with Falcon Research
Group founder, Bud Anderson,
is indeed a treat. Bud is a dedicated peregrine falcon researcher
with decades devoted to gathering information about one of the swiftest
falcons on the planet. Bud has placed GPS units on peregrines, which can
then be monitored by anyone via their computer, which we reported on
earlier. His peregrine pursuits take him all over the world. On this
brief excursion, a small group of us followed Bud around the
agricultural lands radiating out from the Skagit River as it flows out
into the Puget Sound. Hundreds of bald eagles are easily seen in the
area. On this day, Bud took us into one area, where, in a few
minutes we were looking at a peregrine falcon sitting on the ground,
several rough-legged hawks, Northern harriers, red-tails, and one rare
prairie falcon who has just harassed a harrier, which was at the time
being chased by a rough-legged hawk attempting to steal the
harrier's prey. Prairie falcons are normally found on the
eastern side of the Cascades, so this one's appearance caused a great
deal of excitement. Additionally, Bud and his group have been monitoring a Red-shouldered hawk in the area, which is considerably out of its normal range. Unfortunately, on this day, we had no luck seeing this beautiful little hawk. REF, has just recently acquired one of these in its collection, if you'd like a quick peek. To find out why Bud is holding this red-tailed hawk, just click. Photo by Marie L. Bolster |
Results of a very recently completed study will add another log to the fire caused by the slow steady pollution created by products which mimic a variety of human hormones. Congress is apoplectic about baseball players using a variety of drugs, but maybe they should pay more attention to what all of us are ingesting without even knowing it. That, however, would require spines and testes, but these appear to be in very short supply in our representative sub-species. Too many endocrine disrupters in their diet? Just click...
They may be poisoning American consumers, but they are poisoning themselves at a faster rate. And they have no EPA to whinge and whine at, and with a billion Chinese, their politicians don't really care about a few million who suffer and die agonizing deaths. As long as they can keep producing cheap knock-offs for all those Western consumers. Consumers are Kings, right? Just click...
An excellent way to assess the toxicity of the soil upon which we walk, and in which we grow our food is to test the worms that do their work below our feet. If you find no worms in the soil, well that is one serious indicator of "dead" soil, but if you find and collect those wriggly little creatures, their bodies will provide a wealth of information about what you may be ingesting with each bite. Just click...
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One Russian scientists has directly stated we should stock up on fur coats. Algorians are probably investing in the insulation industry and fur farms while maintaining their hoax of anthropogenic global warming caused by excessive emissions of carbon dioxide. Just click... NO! Now they are calling it "climate change." Worldwide monitoring stations reporting single largest temperature drop in a century...get those fur coats while they are cheap!
What is lost on all of the Algorians is that their massive hoax is just more than good intentions gone bad. It is the diversion of massive amounts of capital to grow things like corn for ethanol production instead of food. Never mind that the energetic economics of corn based ethanol is worse than conventional hydrocarbons, the price of basic food stuffs are rising beyond the means of many people on the edge of survival. This is just one of the results of letting hysteria take over common sense and science. Just click...
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The despicably reprehensible sacrifices of live golden eagles continue to be permitted by America's federal government. Yep, you are reading it right! Killing beautiful golden eagles for the sake of some religious fairy tale. Our updated report from Frank Buono lays bare the facts of what has happened over the past few years. Your politicians continue to support this barbaric behavior (among others), because they are spineless to deal with what is done under the guise of religious freedom. Everyone, however, came completely unglued when a well known football player got caught killing pit-bulls that wouldn't fight successfully in the culturally justified "sport" of dog fighting. Where's the indignation, uproar, or disgust when another set of Homo sapiens kill golden eagles and other raptors for the sake of some culturally justified "religious ritual" ? We think these Homo sapiens deserve at least the same opprobrium for behavior that is equally barbaric and disgusting. Just click... Our thanks to Mr. Buono for caring enough to continue tracking this federally enabled barbarism, and politically correct brutality. Where do you stand?
Any thoughtful and discriminating observer of the human condition will quickly conclude that a vast majority of our species quickly fall into place to follow instead of striking out on their own as leaders. English researchers have added hard data through a series of experiments which confirm this common sense observation and adding to the evidence that none of us are created equal. Baaaah! Just click...
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Spring Calls, Nature
Responds.... If you have ever had the chance to visit our facility on the prairie grasslands just east of Denver, then you might have had the opportunity to see the significant populations of wild raptors flying around our captive collection. On February 13th, with temperatures approaching 70 degrees, the wild golden on the left, flew directly over our facility. Our female, busily occupied with nesting behavior, began to "bark" at him which brought him directly over her at an elevation of about 100 feet. He circled a few times, and began to pull away before I could find my camera and get it up to the task. I watched him circle up and away as did everyone in our office who had run out after hearing our female calling out to him. Valentine's Day arrived with the temperature having plummeted 40 degrees, snow falling hard, and winter reminding us that spring is still weeks away. Our raptors, however, are already heeding the changing signals that summer is on the way. P. Reshetniak |
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For wild salmon, just swimming by an area with salmon farms threatens the wild fish with death, diseases, and other negative consequences. In an extensive research project, scientists have demonstrated that a variety of relationships occur between the wild and captive populations of salmon all to the detriment of the wild fish. Not only does the data from this research raise alarms about the increasing reliance on farmed salmon, an interesting correlation appears between eating from a "wild" or "farmed" larder. See if you can find it. Just click...
This article from the very bastion of vegans, political correctness, and utopian weirdo's brings to light the simple arithmetic that as the human hunting and fishing communities across the country decrease in size so does support for habitats and critters that are conserved by the very people that shoot and hook them. Ecosystems rely on their predators to keep them viable and conflict steers evolution. Eliminate either one of those two principles and the resulting outcomes are predictable and undesirable. Just click...
Scientists have two general theories about when birds entered the planet's history. One group looks at the fossil records, while the other group looks at the molecular record. Both groups have points to make, yet this particular story will show you how scientific theories compete to represent the current thoughts in the evolution of birds. Just click...
The growth and conversion of various botanicals into substitutes for our conventional hydrocarbon fuels is actually making our environment worse. More carbon dioxide is released into the air, than will ever be taken up. The first serious look at the entire biofuels cycle is pointing out the fatuous promises of those who have prompted the rest to jump on the carbon-neutral bandwagon, while these same agents of deceit jet about the planet collecting vast quantities of another type of green. Just click...
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Who? What? Good science is built on credible data and can begin to predict patterns based on data evaluated by the mind of a perceptive scientist. Well, Mr. K. Abdusamatov, Russian astronomer, has been collecting good data for years and he predicted that 3 years from 2005 the sun would reach one of its peak activity cycles and solar radiation gain on earth would begin to decrease. Basically, the temperature would begin to decline towards a cold period. Canadian scientists along with others are seeing more and more data confirming exactly that trend. We may in fact, be heading for the Maunder Minimum, a period of very cold weather that lasted about a century. Carbon dioxide has no relationship to these cycles, and neither do the hysteric predictions of hucksters like Imam Algore Ayatoldyah. Maybe Algore and his ilk should pay global warming reparations to everyone they have bamboozled over the past years? Just click... And here is more evidence of the possibilities of the coming of the new ice age.
Hybrids are the most politically correct cars around, but the fact is that their sustainability, their "greeness" is very suspect when you use science, reason, and logic to investigate the massive promotional tsunami associated with hybrid technology. The hybrid consensus is not superior science, nor is it economical, or ecological. It is, however, very good and creative advertising which feeds the emotions of the masses. Just click...
Biotech cotton was developed to fight a variety of pests. It worked to decrease the amount of chemical pesticides previously used to kill off those pests, yet the pesky Bollworm, Helicoverpa zea, has already evolved resistance to the man-made defenses designed into some strains of cotton. If you don't think evolution exists, then this problem doesn't show up on your radar screen. Just click...
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REF's biggest little star, our recently acquired
burrowing owl, (Athene cunicularia) steals the show as the entire
student body at Eagle County Charter Academy is immediately
focused on all five ounces of this Colorado specimen that spends
summer on our prairies hanging out with prairie dogs. Our educational tour presented programs at Eagle Charter Academy and Edwards Elementary on January 30, and 31st. Supplemental sponsorship was provided by the Beaver Creek Resort Company. For a video clip of one of the most exciting parts of our one hour program, just click... For some more still images, go to our slide show. |
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Since the arrival of our little 5 ounce burrowing
owl last year, we have been amazed at the dramatic responses this little
predator elicits from all types of audiences...no matter what their
size. These moments engender a curiosity that lasts a lifetime...this is where education begins.
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Scientists studying the remarkable migration of the monarch butterfly have made several startling discoveries about the sun compass and the circadian clock these delicate creatures utilize to steer them unerringly to their winter destination in the highlands of Mexico. Just click...
Another lesson when one begins to project outcomes using computer models and estimated numbers and assumptions is that they may be very wrong. This is what a researcher has uncovered about deforestation rates in tropical areas. Just click...
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After 28 years of providing environmental education with 25 years at our current location, our lease is up and we are moving. Stay tuned for the particulars of an exciting change in our operations!
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The November issue of the oldest continuously
published sportsmen's magazine in the world, "Ohota" runs a 4 page
article on hunting with golden eagles in the United States-note the
byline, "special to the magazine" it's REF's own Curator, Anne Price,
who wrote the story.
We have dropped in English translations on the page, and you can see Anne below with one of REF's golden eagles. The golden with Anne (below) is not used in falconry, it is part of REF's educational mission. Anne, is however, one of the few female Master Falconers in the world, and hunts with a beautiful female merlin. This is Anne's second appearance in Russia's most prestigious sportsmen's magazine. Special thanks to Andrei Gorbatov, Editor of the natural history section of the magazine. |
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Far left, Master Falconer, Dan McCarron of Rock Springs, Wyoming pictured with his golden eagle. Dan hunts the wide open spaces of his beautiful state, and prey not only includes jackrabbits (hares) but also larger prey like foxes. |
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Despite significant data coming from all over the entire
planet indicating that we are having a record of cold temperatures, the global
warming acolytes will say that global warming can cause wetter, drier, colder,
hotter temperatures, plus more storm activity or less, plus chocolate milk
coming from white cows. Wow, the theory of everything. Just
click... Could this be the beginning of
global cooling as
predicted by Russian scientists just a few years ago?
"Even if the concentration of
'greenhouse gases' double man would not perceive the temperature impact," said
Russian scientist Oleg Sorochtin, of the Institute of Oceanology at the Russian
Academy of Sciences. He's authored more than 300 studies, nine books and a 2006
paper titled, "The Evolution and the Prediction of Global Climate Changes on
Earth."
Bulletin: Professional
Warming Skeptics
Growing in Number: Just
click... and data since 2001 shows global temperature increases have
stopped! Snow for
Daytona Beach.
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More and more reports from climate skeptics continue to demolish the anthropogenic climate warming hysteria. Are you still drinking the Ayatoldyah Gore's cool aid, or do wish a healthful tonic to flush out the popular press' poisons? Just click
December 1, 2007:Arvada, Colorado. Shelley Doris,
left, with Anne Price REF's Curator, receives REF's highest honor as
Volunteer of the Year for her service and dedication to REF's mission and its
birds. Shelley contributed 440 hours in several categories. Visit our 2007
Banquet and see what else was going on. Just
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Hundreds of millions of birds, from a wide variety of species, die every year when they collide with man-made structures, especially glass walled skyscrapers. Architects are struggling with available building materials in order to mitigate the slaughter of our feathered friends. Just Click...
How on earth can anyone make predictions from temperature data records when a vast majority of the temperature monitoring stations are improperly set up? The simple fact is that the temperature recording sites are improperly situated and that most of the data being generated is useless for any scientific predictions. Who gets the Nobel prize for this one? Just click...
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November
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Denver, Colorado: Cheesman Park, north side on 13th and Gilpin atop the Park Towers condominiums I was able to see the evidence of an adult prairie falcon devouring its meal of a Red-shafted Flicker after I had watched the large falcon fly into a building immediately east of the Park Towers. Attempting to land on a high ledge, the falcon seemed to fall backwards, corrected itself and then flew over to the ledge which is shown above. I was able to take a few digital images through my spotting scope. To see these pictures of what may be the first sighting of an urban prairie falcon, just click... Peter Reshetniak
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A startling post to a professional blog for weather forecasters by the founder of the Weather Channel says it all. "I know I am correct," he asserts. "There is no run-away climate change. The impact of humans on climate is not catastrophic. Our planet is not in peril. I am incensed by the incredible media glamour, the politically correct silliness and rude dismissal of counter arguments by the high priest of global warming." If you are one of the Algore acolytes, you better not read this one, but if you are interested in reality, then pay attention to this statement. Just click...
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Nov 3, 2007 Glendale, Colorado. It was KHOW Radio day at
Infinity Park in
Glendale, Colorado when Anne Price, REF Curator, and one of REF's golden
eagles joined with Peter Boyles, Denver's morning Radio Mayor and
officials from the city of Glendale's new dedicated rugby stadium to celebrate
the newly created venue for American rugby fans and home to the Glendale Raptors
rugby team. Live cameras turned our golden eagle into a 30 foot monster on the
Jumbo Tron screen visible to everyone attending the event. Peter
Boyles announced the winner of a drawing for an REF membership including one of
our Colorado Respects Wildlife license plates which features our nation's
raptor, the bald eagle. Stay tuned as more develops...
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Although the U.S. outlawed the use of DDT in this country in 1972, other countries continue is use and manufacture. By using albatrosses as the indicator species, new studies are revealing a steady and continued increase of these substances in the marine food chain. Still eating sea food? You might want to consider where it comes from before you ingest too much of the ocean's bounty. Just click...
Senator, Public Servant James Inhofe of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works established his credentials as a respectable member of Congress by entering into our public record current and factual information concerning allegations of anthropogenic global warming. If you are a knee-jerk acolyte of Algore Ayatoldya, you will not want to read this, but if you suspect Algore and his ilk of running one of the biggest scams in recent history, then Inhofe's 2 hour speech will get your immune system inoculated against the viral hysteria permeating the public psyche. If you have sympathies for the environment, then you must have similar sympathies for the scientific method, and the application of common sense. Spend some time and read this speech. Here you have a public servant doing service for the public good. Just click...
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A six year long study using non invasive DNA sampling of feathers from nest sites has confirmed true monogamy of at least one eagle species. Raptor species in general are thought to be monogamous, however, no study has been conclusive up to this time. Just click...
Scientists have discovered that the endangered Galapagos Hawk's evolutionary history is better revealed by studying the parasitic feather lice that populate its body. Could this be the first time that a host is better explored by knowing what populates the host? Just click...
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A three page story in the Christian Science Monitor lays out the evidence that Algore Ayatoldya's eco-prophecies and climate jihad, may actually be deliberately mis-reported accounts of normal weather patterns that have been going on for millions of years. No, really? Just click... Or how about a NASA scientist straddling both sides of the climate divide? In the early 70's this fellow swore there was a consensus for an impeding ice age for the same reasons he now says we're going to toast ourselves. Just click... And then, if the previous story was not enough, this same NASA scientist has just been caught gaining $720,000 from George Soros' political ambitions to undermine anything in this current administration. Just click...
A fossil discovered in China in 1998 confirms the presence of feathers on the ancient dinosaurs made popular via Jurassic Park. A look at the fossilized evidence will show anyone the direct link to birds. Just click...
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09/12/07: REF's brand new acquisition arrived from the
Carolina Raptor Center via Delta Airlines and thanks to
Brian and Jenni McCallister (Brian is a Delta pilot). The
Red-shouldered Hawk was theorized to have been hit by a vehicle on the left
wing, and cannot be released. Buteo lineatus is not a species you
will find in Colorado. A California population exists as a sub-species, however
the main populations are generally found in the eastern part of the United
States associated with moist, mixed woodlands, and is often seen near water.
A number of sub-species illustrate the variety of colors in this beautiful
little hawk. Currently placed into isolation to asses behavioral aspects
before the hawk is introduced to REF's general population.
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August 29, 2007: In the continuation of collaborative training clinics instituted several years ago, Raptor Education Foundation and the Colorado Hawking Club provide intensive training seminars for new Colorado Division of Wildlife officers. Curriculum covers raptor identification, proper management of captive raptors, husbandry practices and equipment and falconry regulatory compliance. Left, Tony Head (standing in black) Colorado Hawking Club Master Falconer, reviews falconry regulations before the current crop of new officers for CDOW. |
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Anne Price, Curator of Raptors for the
Raptor Education Foundation( REF) and a Master Falconer, reviews some of the nuances of
raptor field identification, as Tony continues reviewing technical
information. CDOW officers had an earlier
visit to REF
facilities to see the various species in the flesh and feathers.
The comprehensive clinics have been coupled with a special REF reference
web site for CDOW employees which will provide ongoing information and
technical updates.
These collaborative efforts are an excellent example of how private & public partnerships can benefit the natural resources in Colorado by improving dissemination of current information and data concerning raptors, falconry, and best practices to insure future generations of Coloradoans will have plenty of wild raptors to enjoy. Many thanks to Kathy Konishi, of the Colorado Division of Wildlife for support and management of this innovative program. |
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The panacea of botanical bio-energy alternatives is
finally getting some much needed attention. Knee-jerk support of
dishonest hucksters like
Algore Ayatoldya without rational analysis, will create greater problems
than will be solved. Here's a report from the UK that begins to
address the dangers associated with a blind acceptance of all that is being
promoted behind the green screen of being environmentally beneficial. Just
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Another story brings this point further home, and maybe we will all be eating
flaked coal drenched with a sauce of heavy crude when most of our bulk food
crops are diverted to bio-fuel production. Just
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July
5, 2007 Dillon, Colorado: Hundreds of people came to celebrate the18th year
that we have provided our environmental literacy programs during the weekly
series held at the Town of Dillon Amphitheatre. This year was extra special for
all attending, because America's living national symbol, the Bald Eagle, had
just been "officially" removed from the endangered species list. The
cheering crowd almost came to attention when our Alaskan female Bald Eagle made
her appearance. Here, a young volunteer gets an up close look as one of
our Harris'
Hawk comes in for a landing.
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In today's age of wide spread communication and environmental consciousness, it severely shocks those of us in the raptor community to see one group of bird enthusiasts loose their common sense and perspective and kill thousands of raptors to protect their own fancied feathered friends. Just click...
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Many top scientists who were originally gung-ho behind anthropogenic global warming are joining a long list of scientists who now have broken faith with the Algore Ayatoldyah acolytes. The list is growing, because the facts speak for themselves, and scientists who practice their science as professionals cannot just look the other way very easily anymore. Just click...
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May 14, 2007: Anne Price, far left, REF's Curator of Raptors conducts an introductory seminar on raptor identification, and raptor husbandry for falconry and other uses before the current new class of CDOW agents. New wildlife officers were shown raptor banding techniques, and received comprehensive information about Colorado raptors. This seminar will be followed up by an academic session at CDOW offices later in the year. |
The more they drill into our historic past looking for proxy evidence of what was happening millions of years ago, the more researchers discover the normal climate fluctuations that have been happening without any anthropogenic carbon dioxide influences. Me thinks that somebody needs to drill a brain core sample in Algore's brain to see if he has not been overly influenced by increased solar activity producing his current dementia. Just click...
The Falcon Research Group headed by biologist Bud Anderson has initiated a precedent setting project by allowing visitors to their web site to monitor seven Peregrine Falcons as they move on their migrations along the beautiful topography of South America. For anyone interested in this creative use of technology to benefit the ecology of raptors then you must visit this site and see Google Earth reporting on the peregrinations of these magnificent seven. Just click...
03/05/07-It will not win awards from Hollywood or Bollywood, but this new video shows that the evidence behind the claim that global warming is man-made is simply bad science: BS. That nonsense, so skillfully promoted by a rich hypocrite like Algore, only shows how susceptible the public can be to slick advertising propaganda, and a consensus fostered by government funded research dollars, not evidence. The information (evidence) in this new documentary has been available for some time, but only in the written form of books and peer reviewed journals. Now all o
