by hankinslawrenceimages | Mar 18, 2011 | On the Web
Yellow Lady’s Slipper (c) 2010 Patty Hankins
Lots of links this week since I didn’t get a links post done last week. Hope you find some of these links to be of interest.
Photography and Art Links
John Goldsmith has Empty Cup: A Case of Copyright Infringement [Update]
Silbur Studios has Lady Gaga Vs. Concert Photographers
NYTimes has Cracking Down on Croparazzi
Beyond Megapixels has 6 Tips For Wildlife Photography
Pixiq has Preparing for a Photo Workshop
PetaPixel has How Not to Photograph the Stanley Cup with a Leica M6
PhotoAttorney has Copyright Protection: Idea v. Expression and Q&A – Civil vs. Criminal Copyright Infringement Claims
Flowers, Plants & Gardening Links
Eureka Alert has Will loss of plant diversity compromise Earth’s life-support systems?
National Parks Traveler has Friends Of The Smokies Working To Save Great Smoky Mountains National Park’s Hemlock Trees
National Park and National Wildlife Refuge Links
National Parks Traveler has Stay On Top Of Your Favorite National Park: Join A Friends Group or Foundation, Women’s History Month is Celebrated in the National Parks, Keeping Track of What The National Park Service Is Up To In Your State, PEER Claims National Park Service Director’s Order On Wilderness Management Is Off-Base, National Park Service Linking Good Health With Park Visits During National Parks Week and National Park Service Rolling Out 5-Year Plan to Commemorate 150th Anniversary of Civil War
NYTimes has The Grand Canyon Uranium Rush
Refuge Watch has Video Monday: Happy Anniversary to the Refuge System!
Wildlife Links
Daily Tech has Report: Humans in the Midst of Causing Planet’s Sixth Mass Extinction
National Parks Traveler has Eagles Released In Theodore Roosevelt National Park After Rehabbing From Injuries, River Road In Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area To Be Closed For Migrating Amphibians
and Is The Florida Panther Up Next For Extinction?
Record Online has Wayne’s World: Lead poisoning kills magnificent bald eagle
Science Daily has Non-Native Snakes Are Taking a Toll on Native Birds in Florida, Scientists Find
The Courier has Shock rise in birds of prey being poisoned
WAMU has Sea-Level Rise Already Affects Wildlife
Christian Science Monitor has America’s oldest known wild bird a new mother and Under assault by stink bugs
Suite101 has Oldest Albatross Survives Tsunami Damage to Midway Atoll
Environmental Issues Links
Mother Nature Network has What can 28,000 rubber duckies lost at sea teach us about our oceans?
BBC has Polar ice loss quickens, raising seas
Cool Green Science has Heeding Teddy Roosevelt’s Words: Investing in Nature Is Investing in America
Mongabay has 15 conservation issues to watch
Scholastic has Why Kids Need Nature
by hankinslawrenceimages | Mar 4, 2011 | On the Web
Black Eyed Susans IV (c) 2010 Patty Hankins
Lots of links this week since I didn’t get a links post done last week. Hope you find some of these links to be of interest.
Photography and Art Links
Black Star Rising has Photographers, Don’t Listen to Harvard Professors — or Anyone Else — Who Asks You to Give Up Your Rights
Plagiarism Today has 7 Practical Copyright Tips for Professional Photographers
Dan Williams has Unexpected Subjects
Naturescapes.net has Must Have Items for Quick Fixes in the Field
PhotoAttorney has Is the News Media’s Use of a Portrait Photo Fair?
Flowers, Plants & Gardening Links
Washington Post has Cherry Blossom Peak Bloom Time Will Be . . .
National Parks Traveler has Searching for Spring Flowers in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
BBC has Alien plant invaders threaten UK National Parks
A new Invasive Plant Atlas of the United States has been launched.
National Park and National Wildlife Refuge Links
National Parks Traveler has Florida Court Rules Against Plan That Would Have Placed Big Box Store Next to Everglades National Park , Give Us A National Park, But Please, Not Its Regulations, Can Blackwater Falls Area of West Virginia Support A National Park? , Public Comment Opens On Whether to Allow Uranium Mining Near Grand Canyon National Park , Can We Afford The America’s Great Outdoors Initiative?, What’s Real And What’s Not Behind Reality TV’s Nature Shows?, Wyoming Legislature Agrees To Sell Land Inside Grand Teton National Park; Will Congress Pay For It?, Road Work Planned for Newfound Gap Road in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and America’s Great Outdoors Report Won’t Get Warm Welcome In House Natural Resources Committee
Examiner.com has How to follow the National Parks federal budget debates
Wildlife Links
Cool Green Science has ‘Reefs at Risk Revisited’: A Wakeup Call to Protect Coral
BBC has Amur tigers in population crisis and Owls change colour as climate warms
YahooNews has 4 rare Javan rhinos photographed in Indonesia
NorthEastern News has Lionfish roar into tropical waters
AOL news has Endangered Whooping Cranes Found Shot to Death
Environmental Grafitti has Amazing Snapshots of Wildlife Caught on Camera Traps
Christian Science Monitor has Eastern cougar declared extinct by US government
Environmental Issues Links
Examiner.com has ‘Citizen actions’ are needed to fight habitat destruction
USAToday has Federal program gives families ‘nature prescriptions’
Christian Science Monitor has Costly fence on US-Mexico border is effective – only in hurting nature
by hankinslawrenceimages | Feb 18, 2011 | On the Web
Snowdrops (c) 2010 Patty Hankins
Here are some sites I found interesting recently. Hope you find some of them interesting
Photography and Art Links
Peter Cox at Luminous Landscape has Planning a Shoot
A Photo Editor has Recent Facebook Changes Are Bad For Professional Photographers
TipSquirrel has Ten Things Beginners Should Know in Lightroom
Photo Business News & Forum has Copyright – Enforce it Whenever Possible
Flowers, Plants & Gardening Links
MyDesert.com has Variety of plants are spreading, invading space of native blooms
Invasive Notes has The Wicked Inconvenience of Invasive Golden Bamboo
Mongabay has Vines Rising in the Amazon and other American Rainforests
DCist has National Arboretum’s Azaleas: Saved!
Washington Post has Arboretum reverses decision to destroy azalea display after public backlash
National Park and National Wildlife Refuge Links
DelawareOnline has Delaware lawmakers proposes revised national park bill
National Parks Traveler has Traveler’s View: The National Park Service Failed Its Mission With Plan For Addition Lands at Big Cypress National Preserve, Budgeting Woes Likely To Hit The National Park Service, Updated: National Park Service Budget Would Grow by $138 Million Under President’s FY12 Proposal
Refuge Watch has Refuge System and Land Acquisition Funding Take a Hit in GOP Budget
Environmental News Network has Climate change keenly felt in Alaska’s national parks
AL.com has Natural habitats at wildlife refuge getting gentler version of beach cleanup
President Obama has introduced new initiatives in the America’s Great Outdoors Program. Info is available at
Wildlife Links
BBC has In pictures: Malaysian wildlife caught on camera
National Park Service has Big Horn Sheep use U.S. 93 wildlife overcross
Mongabay has Rhino Horn Price Matches Cocaine
Environmental Issues Links
NYTimes has Heavy Rains Linked to Humans, Southwestern Water: Going, Going, Gone? and The Risk to Bristol Bay
by hankinslawrenceimages | Feb 11, 2011 | On the Web
Cloud 9 Dogwood (c) 2010 Patty Hankins
Here are some sites I found interesting recently. Hope you find some of them interesting
Photography and Art Links
Plagiarism Today has Flickr Blunder Shows Problem with DMCA Counternotices
Harold Davis at Photo.net has Finding an Audience for Your Photos
PhotoAttorney has How to Provide a Photo License to a Friend
Flowers, Plants & Gardening Links
CSMonitor has Celebrating small flowers and Roses: New research raises questions about their history
National Park and National Wildlife Refuge Links
National Parks Traveler has Updated: Regional Director Approves Management Plan For “Addition” Lands at Big Cypress National Preserve, Traveler Classic: Rare Motion Pictures Show Civil War Veterans at Gettysburg
Alaska’s U.S. Senators Want To Run Natural Gas Pipeline Through Denali National Park, and New River Gorge National River Proposing Hiking, Biking Trail Improvements
Wildlife Links
National Parks Traveler has Wildlife Experts Joining Calls Of Alarm Over White-Nose Syndrome In Bats, Bison, Pine Nuts, Trout and Grizzlies: Perfect Storm For Yellowstone National Park’s Wildlife Managers?
and Will This Be Remembered As Our Preamble To Losing The Wolverine?
BBC has Rare gorilla twins born in wild
Environmental Issues Links
NYTimes has Climate Change to Force Mass Migration, Study Warns
Washington Post has EPA reverses Bush-era water safety standards, will regulate contaminants
San Jose Mercury News has Fog burned off by climate change threatens to stunt Muir Woods’ majestic redwoods
by hankinslawrenceimages | Feb 4, 2011 | On the Web
Tour de France Iris (c) 2010 Patty Hankins
Here are some sites I found interesting recently. Hope you find some of them interesting
Photography and Art Links
PhotoAttorney has Copyright Office Proposes Amendments to Deposit Requirements
PDNOnline has Actress Sues Corbis to Shut Down Online Marketing of Celebrity Images
Dan Williams has Birds in Winter
A Photo Editor has Exit Through The Gift Shop Star Mr. Brainwash Sued By Photographer
Really Right Stuff has Tripod Maintenance
Flowers, Plants & Gardening Links
Invasive Notes has Invasive plant species lists by state – US East Coast, Ontario & Midwest
The Star-Telegram has Senator cites adverse effects of measure to ban non-native aquatic plants
Get Your Botany On has Invasive Plant Species Identification
Science Daily has Home and Away: How Do Invasive Plant Species Dominate Native Species?
National Park and National Wildlife Refuge Links
Refuge Watch has The Future of National Wildlife Refuges, NRDC Joins Fight to Stop Drilling at Baca NWR, World Wetlands Day 2011 and Video Monday: Jimmy Carter Talks About His Visit to the Arctic NWR
National Parks Traveler has Roundup of Nearly 300 Yellowstone National Park Bison, With Some Destined For Slaughter, Draws Condemnation, North Carolina Politicians Ask Interior Secretary To Allow More ORV Access At Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Renewed Bid To Protect Glacier National Park From Energy Development and How Are Your Entrance Fees Spent Across the National Park System?
Environmental Issues Links
Greenpeace Africa has Filthy Dirty Money: Koch brothers continue to fund denialism
by hankinslawrenceimages | Jan 29, 2011 | On the Web
Kindergarten Daffodils (c) 2010 Patty Hankins
Here are some sites I found interesting recently. Links post is a day late this week – our power wasn’t back on until Friday afternoon.
Photography and Art Links
Photo Attorney has Copyright Office Tries Easier Method to Register Photographs
PetaPixel has Government Issued Internal Notice Affirming Photographers’ Rights
Plagiarism Today has Why Mass Copyright Lawsuits Must Stop
Flowers, Plants & Gardening Links
NYTimes has Spread of Deadly Virus Tied to Forest Decline
Christian Science Monitor has Plants’ global warming dilemma: climb to escape heat or stoop for water? and Nobel Peace Prize winner finds spiritual values in planting trees
Science Daily has Islands in the Sky: How Isolated Are Mountain Top Plant Populations?
Associated Content has Obtaining Native Wildflowers for Your Garden or Woodsy Area
The Guardian has New to Nature No 29: Mastigostyla torotoroensis
The Orange County Register has Wildflower worries at Anza-Borrego
National Park and National Wildlife Refuge Links
National Parks Traveler has North Carolina Man Reportedly Thought it Would Be “Cool” To Carve His Name On Rock Art Panel At Glen Canyon NRA, House Natural Resources Committee Plans Keen Oversight of National Park Service, Other Land-Management Agencies and State of Wyoming And One of Its Counties Again Seeking Permission To Sue Over Yellowstone National Park Snowmobile Limits
Consumer Traveler has A natural gem in the midst of historic Philadelphia
Wildlife Links
NPR has Elaborate Nest Decorations Show Bird’s Vitality
National Parks Traveler has Exhibit At Great Smoky Mountains National Park Addresses White-Nose Syndrome in Bats,
BBC has Two forms of world’s ‘newest’ cat, the Sunda leopard and Seahorses’ body shape explained
ABC Science has Smaller corals take the heat
Environmental Graffiti has Nepal Successfully Relocates Wild Tiger For First Time
Delaware Online has Petition seeks protection for Delmarva fox squirrel
The Bay Citizen has Butterfly Could KO Antioch Power Plants
Art & Other Adventures with Narca has A Snow Goose Named 5-1V
The Library of Congress had Hawk Rescued from Main Reading Room
Miami Herald has Invasive species continues to spread despite supposed obstacles
