This week in birds - #237
A roundup of the week's news of birds and the environment : Red-tailed Hawk (Krider) photographed at Big Bend National Park. *~*~*~* President Obama designated two more new national monument sites for protection this week: Bear Ears National Monument in Utah and the Gold Butte National Monument in Nevada. Here is a video of the Bear Ears site. *~*~*~* The Union of Concerned Scientists have more than ever to be concerned about with the incoming administration in Washington. They are especially concerned about the selection of climate change denier Ryan Zinke as Secretary of the Interior. Meanwhile, as an anti-science, anti-environment administration takes control of the federal government, it will be up to local officials in states to take a more aggressive stance in protecting the environment and public health. *~*~*~* John Platt of Scientific American's "Extinction Countdown" has a review of the best wildlife conservation stori