Ice Punch Poinsettia © 2010 Patty Hankins
Here are some posts and articles that I enjoyed this week – hope you enjoy them as well
Photography and Art Links
Gay Tul Photography Journal has The Art and the Life
BBC has Live music: photographers’ rights in danger?
Kirk Tuck has So here’s what I know about iPhone-ography
Pixiq has Lightroom Twitter
Plants
Beautiful Wildlife Gardens has Best Berries for Birds in the Wildlife Garden
Silver Spring Patch has Nearby Destinations for Silver Springers to Get a Garden Fix
National Park and National Wildlife Refuge Links
National Parks Traveler has Humans, Comfort-Loving Animals That They Are, Are Changing Their National Park Habits With Climate Change, Congressman Dusts Off 1913 Law In Battle To Get Yosemite National Park’s Hetch Hetchy Valley Drained, NPS Director Jarvis Allows Parks To Ban Disposable Plastic Bottles and National Parks Heading To The Big Apple
Wildlife Links
BBC News has Polar bear ‘cannibalism’ pictured
Washington Post has New rule on endangered species would end state-by-state listing for threatened plants, animals, The reality of ‘Finding Nemo’s’ marine life, and Psychedelic gecko, ‘Elvis’ monkey among 208 new species found in Asia’s Mekong River region.
National Parks Traveler has Obama Administration Proposing Worrisome Change In Endangered Species Act
Smithsonian has Reptiles may be spreading deadly amphibian disease in the tropics
Discovery News has Russian Icebreaker On Race to Rescue Whales
Environmental Issues Links
The Christian Science Monitor has Why deforesters could soon have freer rein in the Amazon
Mother Jones has Is Your Fleece Killing the Ocean?
NY Times has Add Quakes to Rumblings Over Gas Rush