This is a long post with contributions by both Matt and me. It is taken from a letter written to the USFWS responding to their request for input on proposed new regulations for falcon breeders. Feel free to skip if it seems too “inside”– but I think tht it (especially Matt’s part) will be of …
The “End of Hunting”?
Both Reid and Anne Hocker noticed this article in the left- of – center Washington Monthly lamenting the decline of hunting opportunities fror the average man and suggesting ways thet “progressives” have a natural affinity with the issue. While nobody would call me a progressive I think that author Christina Larsen hits the nail on …
Hasan Dag and Catal Huyuk
Steve’s post last week on Turkish Landscapes had a photo of a volcano named Hasan Dag that he traveled past on his trip. The following is a guest post on Hasan Dag and a nearby archaeological site from Janet Jones, an archaeologist and classics professor, who was on the trip with Steve: Everytime I see …
Parvo in Yellowstone?
Here is an article on whether Parvovirus could be responsible for a sudden decline in the Yellowstone wolf population. I wsn’t sure how this might be spread, so asked sometime contributor Dr. John Burchard, zoologist and polymath, for his opinion. His answers were, as always, fascinating. I had said to Reid, who had sent the …
Engrish
On a (much) lighter note, Peculiar showed us this irresistible T- Shirt. I have seen ones as strange in Kazakhstan and Mongolia but (all together now ) THEY ARE IN THE OTHER COMPUTER!
Kill the Guns!
This New York Times story seems, well, barking mad to me. The police in Maine now destroy the guns used in murders in front of the victims’ families. One poor woman was quoted as saying “It was just a very important day for my husband and I,” she said. “This was a weapon that changed …
“Rejected by the Publishers”
Roseann sent us this interesting Times clip on two Booker – prize- winning novelists of the Seventies who had those same manuscripts rejected by twenty modern publishers. I’m not sure exactly what it means– I have not read Middleton, and a lot of Booker prize winners have seemed like trendy lightweights to me. But NAIPAUL?? …
Pigeon Culture in Turkey..
.. could be a book, and IS an excellent website, which I urge anyone interested to consult before, during, and after reading this post– it contains breeds, photos, sport, advice, origins, and more. I have had it bookmarked for years, never thinking I might get a glimpse of eastern pigeons “on the ground”. Turkey is …
More Sporting Notes/ Doom & Gloom
More from Sir Terence. Our mutual friend John Burchard, who has apppeared here, asked what had happened to Fallujah, which once apparently was a hotbed of salukis and falcons rather than ‘insurgents”. He replied: “I suppose there were two main causes [of the change]: the first which goes back to the ’60s was the deliberate …
Big Surf
Over the last three weeks or so, we have had a number of storms and attendant swell here in Southern California that’s resulted in bigger than normal surf. There have been many days in this stretch that we have had waves in the 8-12 foot range. That has made these people very happy. My daughter …