The findings suggest that the health and diversity of wild plants and animals are not improved if farmers wait to mow fields and use less fertilizer than conventional farming. In Nova Scotia, they are most often called jackers. This is the time of year when jackers come out to play their high-stakes game. It's also the time of year when Nova Scotia's game wardens are out there waiting for them. The neighbors are moose, bear and coyote.
Birds soar overhead.
Where others see a pretty landscape, Shryer sees the Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge, home to 290 species of animals, reptiles, amphibians and fish, including the threatened Cheat Mountain salamander and the endangered West Virginia northern flying squirrel. Environmentalism has been considered the territory of mostly white communities with money and time on their hands. And black leaders have generally overlooked environmental conservation as a top priority. The Leger Marketing survey found that 67.8 per cent of respondents felt very confident or rather confident about the quality of their drinking water. The study, appearing Friday in the journal Science, reports on a laboratory experiment that showed the baby sea turtles used natural magnetic field patterns as navigation guides to stay within the Atlantic gyre, an ocean-wide current of warm water.