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sibodonkey
Jul 17, 20241 min read
Celebrating Kindness
My recent trip to Maine surfaced memories of growing up, like this one: a 4-some of baby field mice Dad brought home for his 1st-grader...
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sibodonkey
Jun 20, 20241 min read
COVER REVEAL
If you have been subscribed to my Acoustic Burro blog, you know that Bison Books will publish my first novel on September 1. Today is...
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sibodonkey
Jun 10, 20241 min read
They're coming...! Home.
Last weekend, my travels across the wide landscape brought me past bison herds, and found me peering through shaggy legs looking for the...
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sibodonkey
Jun 5, 20242 min read
Everyday Shero
Once you’ve been to Jeannette Baker’s house, you have no trouble picturing her younger days working with a variety of wildlife species at...
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sibodonkey
May 29, 20242 min read
Permeability
This distinctly amphibian characteristic provides a full-body, secondary breathing system through their moist skin, both when they live...
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sibodonkey
May 22, 20241 min read
Turning Loss to Loads of Love
These short posts give me a chance to amplify positive news of people and planet, and this week’s Feel-Good food is jet fueled. To move...
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sibodonkey
May 13, 20242 min read
Who cares? Anyone can.
When life feels like a depressing-as-hell Melissa Etheridge song, you know the one, with the dreary refrain of WorkEatSleepWorkEatSleep,...
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sibodonkey
May 7, 20242 min read
Words Matter
Chad Hanson, author of Swimming with Trout, as well as In a Land of Awe, noted an odd discrepancy between the words we use with wild fish...
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sibodonkey
Apr 29, 20242 min read
What we can With what we have
April 30 is National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day. In the face of animal shelter overcrowding across the U.S., adopting a new feline, canine...
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sibodonkey
Apr 20, 20241 min read
Playing with (Wild)Fire
A gravel road with fishing access stretches across sleeping alfalfa and barley fields that line the several braids of our valley's river,...
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sibodonkey
Apr 15, 20241 min read
Start with "low-hanging fruit"
Looking for positive news of people and planet, my lens has scanned far and wide. For the next year, I’ll tune my story-collector close...
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sibodonkey
Feb 26, 20241 min read
Partnerships for Primates, part four Acho'rate'
Fanny M. Cornejo is a Peruvian biologist with a postgraduate degree in anthropology and more than 16 years of experience in research and...
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sibodonkey
Feb 19, 20241 min read
Partnerships for Primates, part three
(Photo credit: Daniel Ferraz) In 1983, Karen Strier spent her first year of research in the Brazilian rainforest observing northern...
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sibodonkey
Feb 12, 20241 min read
Partnerships for Primates part two--Show some love!
Prof. Anna Nekaris, since 1994, has studied all eleven species of loris, including five she named or elevated from subspecies,...
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sibodonkey
Feb 5, 20241 min read
Acho'rate’ (Stand up, do something) PART ONE
Here's your February invitation to get inspired by the mesmerization of monkeys. Over 200 species, and my primate-typical inquisitiveness...
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sibodonkey
Jan 28, 20241 min read
Stories and Winter
Humans--with our poor ability to see in the dark--have turned that to our cultural advantage by sharing stories during the year's dark...
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sibodonkey
Dec 31, 20231 min read
To startle
In response to the 2023 mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, the editorial team at Rogue Owl Press decided to pull together an anthology...
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sibodonkey
Nov 20, 20231 min read
Heart Coming Home
Australia currently protects over 22% of its land and Indigenous Protected Areas are more than half of that. First Nations groups manage...
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sibodonkey
Oct 8, 20232 min read
Rematriate
Patti Baldes--Northern Arapaho and Northern Paiute-- directs the Wind River Native Advocacy Center and lives among a recently restored...
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sibodonkey
Sep 4, 20231 min read
Fine Company
Honored to be included in this new craft book alongside such luminaries! Many thanks to Joe Ponepinto of 55 Fathoms Publishing for...
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