saying goodbye to an old friend

[montana500]

www.wilderness-sportsman.com


STEVE RINGMAN / THE SEATTLE TIMES

"BARROW, Alaska — The hunter rose each day last summer from his bunk in a condemned wildlife lab, down the hall from where Inupiat villagers carve whale meat on a band saw.

He slipped on hip waders and a furry white parka, slung a rifle over his shoulders and trudged onto the Arctic tundra. Through icy fog beneath a never-setting summer sun, Eric Seykora set out to earn the nickname given him by Barrow scientists: "The Fox Killer."

Arctic foxes had been eating the eggs of rare ducks because their usual supper, tiny, mouselike lemmings, were dwindling from the drying tundra"

[lostnfound]

1. Very interesting article. Here's a direct link

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002714404_arctic01main.html

for those who might want it. But the website itself is worth checking out also.

[theHandpuppet]

3. Thanks for the direct link.

I couldn't find the article in the link from the OP.

[lostnfound]

4. There's a long list of links to articles on similar topics under 'News"

if you click on News on the http://www.wilderness-sportsman.com site; this particular article is currently on top with the title "Sweeping change reshapes Arctic."

[montana500]

7. sorry guys

I put alot of stories up there and I lose track of links, so I just post up blurbs. Any news article I post will be in the "news" section.

[theHandpuppet]

2. Fascinating -- and frightening!

I'm giving this a kick and a nomination.

[lostnfound]

5. I'll nominate it also. Sadly, it's clearly not on the Bush agenda

President Gore would have gotten it on the front pages of the newspapers.

The many-layered tragedies of this administration -- not only what it does, but what it hasn't done.

[Wilms]

6. kick n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

8. Kicked and recommended

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