Jack Burns Lives!

Today is one of those spectacular early spring days when you can just sit outside for hours. The southern sky is a brilliant blue, clear as you’ll ever see it, and the yard is full of blooming Indian strawberry (Duchesnea indica) and wild violets (Viola nephrophylla), Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) and a host [...]

Today is the Spring Equinox, one of the great solar festivals celebrating the coming of spring. It’s one of two days in the year when the day and the night are equal in duration.
Tonight, we had our spring feast and burned the Yule tree in a celebratory fire, offering blessings for the seed and all [...]

Statements about the dangerous expansion of socialism, anarchism, environmentalism and “liberalism” illustrates the success of the media elites in propagandizing society. It’s almost as if people are still looking under their beds for the bogeyman or communists. But these are myths, popularized by the tee-vee news-entertainment industry are intended to keep the citizenry on edge [...]

I’ve been camping out the past two nights, enjoying the magnificent moon and trying to keep my mind off March Madness: Iraq, the potential grizzly delisting, climate change and all the problems right here in my own backyard.
Which is why I’m in literally in my backyard, a little sanctuary for green things, birds, mammals and [...]

I’m enjoying a resplendent Waxing Gibbous moon this weekend and anxiously awaiting one of my favorite times of year, the Vernal Equinox and Rite of Spring. There have been a number of bats racing back and forth beneath the moon, most likely “Evening Bats,” (Nycticeius humeralis) a very important part of the Lower Mississippi Riverine [...]

I spent most of today on the patio, watching my neighbors hang out in the yard. There was a small congregation of juncos and sparrows, Carolina wren, Northern Cardinal, Red-bellied woodpeckers and those bothersome grackles.
The juncos won’t be around too much longer. Once the temps near the 80 degree mark, they’ll be heading northward, fleeing [...]

A recent Colorado Division of Wildlife press release suggests that a lone wolf may have wandered into and established residence in Northern Colorado. A Colorado Division of Wildlife manager took a video after following up on a report from a local rancher. While it is not confirmed, the evidence strongly suggests that it is in [...]

Rod Coronado recently wrote an interesting essay about eco-defense for EarthFirst! Journal titled “Howling Like A Wild Wolf.”
While I don’t agree with everything in the essay (using explosives or arson to destroy property), the parallels he draws between the Apache and the eco-warriors of today caught my attention.
Just today, I discovered he was arrested [...]