Scott | February 12, 2010

TweetAnd just when one thought the burrowing owl dilemma in the East San Francisco Bay Area could not get any more incredible, a series of shady events unfolded during the last two weeks.  I held off reporting some of these facts because I have been in direct contact with and awaiting responses from the Department [...]

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Tags: Antioch Burrowing Owls, Blue Ridge Development, burrowing owl eviction, burrowing owls, Kiper Homes

Scott | February 7, 2010

TweetI find myself in awe over what appears to be overwhelming support for a cause in which I have become completely ensconced.  As I sat on the runway in Frankfurt, Germany on Saturday my only concern was that I could potentially miss a slot that had been scheduled for me to address the crowd at [...]

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Tags: Antioch Burrowing Owls, burrowing owls, Department of Fish and Game, Guidance for Burrowing Owl Conservation

Scott | February 2, 2010

TweetPerhaps in a bid to counterbalance the relentless activities of humankind upon the Earth, Mother Nature intervened just as time was running out for the Blue Ridge burrowing owls.  The finale was a spectacular culmination of a rather innocuous series of events that when I now look back appear to have been set in motion [...]

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Scott | January 28, 2010

TweetOver the last 9 years I have found myself many a time contemplating aberrant results.  If ever there was (or is) an inevitable lesson that one encounters in biology it is without a doubt a need to be at one with the occasional unexplainable event.  I can tell you firsthand this is indeed an inherent [...]

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Tags: Antioch Burrowing Owls, Blue Ridge Development, burrowing owls, Kiper Homes, squirrel fumigation