Beaver in the Detroit River... first in 75 - 100 years!

(Detroit Free Press)

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009902160355

Click the direct link above so you can watch the video of the cute critter and read the whole story! Google Detroit Free Press, search "beaver" and you'll find it! (Unless you're using Chrome as a browser... not supported!)

Well our river is cleaner and this proves it. It is actually very, very exciting in ecological terms! Next who knows? The Ivory Billed Woodpecker? The Carolina Parakeet?
Yes, there used to be a "parrot/parakeet" native to our area! Who knew? I didn't until Mich told me.

All in all, the bad environmental news till outweighs the good, but the good is still great!

(here's a wiki link to extinct birds http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinct_birds

Darwin Day; Happy 200 Charlie!

Darwin showed that by paying attention to nature, we can learn where we came from and how we got here.

Now, we must pay attention to nature to see where we will end up.

At the moment, it's not looking terribly positive.