MX Geography

There may be some truth to it but these things are often a gag before facts.  

Dramatic Big Cat Pix

  Note buddy in the background looking to hold it off with a stick. You have to wonder how that turned out.  Natural History Museum  Wildlife Photographer of the Year pix

Roaring Emma update

Roaring Emma now wasting away at Marford Mill never to see the foreshore again against the wishes of John Humphreys. Steve was intrigued that this famous gun was being rented out for shooters to enjoy some years ago. Apparently that is over and it has been closeted as a Safe Queen. Prior Posts

Lesser Prairie Chicken Landowner Alliance, etc

  Most of the grasslands in the Great Plains exist as rangelands – managed and stewarded by private landowners. Yet rising costs and the fact that ranching earns less than any other land use have cut rancher numbers in half since the 1980s. As we lose these ranchers, we lose the valuable grassland ecosystems that …

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Cattle Poisoning

  It won’t be 100% certain until the lab results are in but it appears at least 11 cattle have died from nitrate poisoning licking forestry fertilizer off the landings east of Quesnel. This is not glyphosate, for the record, but regular old fertilizer. It is paid for by taxpayers by the Ministry of Forests …

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Romance Books

Romance’s first advantage is its flexibility. The category is not a monolith but a broad network of interlinked subgenres, which rise and fall in popularity as readers’ tastes shift. Right now “romantasy” is huge, and “sports romances” are in. “Historicals” are on the wane; “dark romance,” potentially on the rise. These changes are often cyclical, …

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Elephant Fire Victim

Elephant badly burned in fire in Etosha Park, Namibia. A rather heart breaking pic of the suffering fire can cause. It not an accident that flame throwers and their users were reviled in wars with no mercy shown.

Horses Book

I lost touch with some reviews or other info that caught my eye but this new book sounds interesting for horse lovers. By chance, I saw this Monday and read the pages on Horses in WWII. It was very good on the myth that the Nazis were mechanized when in reality they were dependant on …

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Jim Corbett Books

Content inside appear to be the same as the other Raymond Sheppard edition, just alternative cover artwork. Jim Corbett Books The feed popped this up today and I was surprised there was a Sheppard cover I was unaware of. A really good one, too. I love how they fit Corbett onto the spine. It is …

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Scottish Artist Rob Mulholland

The Amazing Haunting Mirror Sculptures in the forest by Scottish Artist Rob Mulholland . Rob Mulholland (born 1962 ) is an environmental sculpture artist that lives and works Stirlingshire, Scotland . The figures in 2009 absorb their environment – reflecting in their surface the daily changes of life in the forest. The installation of six …

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