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Find Older Conservation Blog Posts
Conservation Blog posts prior to November, 2022 can be found at our old URL: http://conservationblog.anshome.org/. Please visit us there to read more great content on our work!
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Conservation Advocacy at ANS: “Dynamic, Changing as Conditions Change, Seeking Always to Become More Effective”
This is the first in a series introducing ANS’ new Conservation Advocacy Priority Campaign Areas. As world renowned conservationist and ANS Board Member Rachel Carson wrote, “Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.” Things have changed since 1897. The “low-hanging…
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Why water quality monitoring speaks to me
By Pete Yarrington, long-time WQM volunteer Editor’s note: This article was adapted from Pete Yarrington’s testimony at the May 17, 2001 Nature Forward (then Audubon Naturalist Society) presentation to the Montgomery County Planning Board. This article was originally published in the September, 2001 Naturalist Quarterly publication. ANS water quality monitoring site #29 is located on…