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.
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