Catesby’s Trillium (c) 2009 Patty Hankins

Here are some posts and articles that I enjoyed this week; I hope you enjoy them as well

National Park and National Wildlife Refuge Links

National Parks Traveler has NPCA Worried That House Legislation Would Open National Park System To Hunting and Is A Tiny Beetle Causing Haze In Places Such As Rocky Mountain, Yellowstone, Grand Teton, And Glacier National Parks?

Flower and Plant Links

Beautiful Wildlife Garden has Runway Natives

Native Plants & Wildlife Gardens has A Tale of Two Iris

Phys.org has Scientists discover first ever record of insect pollination from 100 million years ago

The Garden Plot has A Food (pickup) Truck

Wildlife Links

AAAS has Science: Once-Rare Butterfly Is Benefiting From Climate Change

MSNBC Word News has Tens of thousands of elephants likely killed last year, experts say

The New York Times has To Save Some Species, Zoos Must Let Others Die, A Tighter Focus Yields Dividends for Penguins, and In Wild Animals, Charting the Pathways of Disease

Mother Jones has Can GMO Mosquitoes Save You From Dengue? and Is the California Condor Out of the Woods?

Environmental Issues Links

The Baltimore Sun has Lyme disease tick study stirs dispute

MSNBC World News has Budget cut overkill? Canada axes entire marine pollution program

Photography and Art Links

Whimbrel Nature Blog has Simplify…

The Atlantic has The American West, 150 Years Ago

The Terra Galleria Blog has Photographing Moonbows in Yosemite (part 1)

If you are in the DC area, I hope you will join me and other flower lovers at our DC Flower Safari Meetups. The next one is scheduled for Saturday, June 16th at Longwood Gardens. We’ll meet at Grosvenor Metro Station, 10300 Rockville Pike, Bethesda (map) and carpool to Longwood. I hope to see you there!