Tag «wildlife»

1.7 Million People Vote in This Election Every Year. Nobody Calls It Rigged.

Fat Bear Week started yesterday, and it might be the only contest left in this country that everybody actually trusts. Here’s how it works, if you somehow missed it. Katmai National Park in Alaska runs a bracket of brown bears who spend all summer and fall stuffing themselves with salmon before winter hibernation. Sixteen bears …

Somebody in Florida Is Fighting Protected Owls With Cardboard Cats

Six flat cats showed up in a vacant lot in Cape Coral, Florida, and I have not been able to stop thinking about them since. They’re cutouts. Two-dimensional cat effigies staked into the dirt of an empty lot on Southwest 25th Place, facing outward like the world’s least convincing neighborhood watch. A second batch turned …

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