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On a certain level, the story “Wildlife” tells is not an
unfamiliar one, but it’s a tender and quietly powerful character study filled with understated emotion and incisive empathy.
Nature is relevant in all of our lives. That’s the simple idea that J. Drew Lanham, a wildlife ecology professor at Clemson University, keeps coming back to. Lanham is an accomplished ornithologist, an avid recreational birder, a naturalist, a hunter, and a published author and poet. He’s also black and says that he sees “very […]
Brighton Supervisor Bill Moehle was tending to town business on Runnymede Road a few months ago when he spied turkeys in a nearby yard. Turkeys are a pretty common sight in the neighborhoods between Elmwood Avenue and Westfall Road, he says. In fact, the birds are well-represented in Brighton as a whole, though nonresidents most […]
The Village of Pittsford has won a few big fights in its time — usually conflicts stemming from its strict building codes. But it has been bested by the ducks and geese that hang out along Schoen Place. The waterfowl are a fixture of the popular Erie Canal business district, and the public flocks to […]
I’m kind of surprised by the amount of attention and press the predatory habits of cats has received lately. The New York Times, for example, wrote an editorial, “Soft and Deadly,” encouraging cat owners to keep their pets from freely roaming outside. What’s giving the story legs is a new study published in the journal […]
The City of Rochester is marshalling resources to tackle a persistent and vexing problem. Open-air drug markets? Truancy? Yes, but this time they’re also talking about groundhogs. “We’re not getting taken over, but we have a groundhog issue,” says City Council President Lovely Warren. The hungry herbivores are helping themselves to residents’ gardens, she says, […]
