IT IS OUR TIME NOW….it is our time now to recreate our relationships with the sentient lives with whom we share our planet Earth. As our carnivores are recovering or expanding their range, our generation has the exciting opportunity to find ways of sharing the land and the sea with them. I’m wanting to share…
A sure sign of Spring is the return of our American robins and their melodious song. They are considered common, and oftentimes do not excite a word of wonder. But despite this oftentimes human perspective, they are amazing survivors of the past centuries of abuse and have regained their abundance as they are meant to…
Over and Over and Over again I read: There are SO many Coyotes… they are not endangered… they are survivors….no need to be concerned about them. RIGHT….? NO…..not so right! The following excellent article speaks to this. What kinds of lives do Coyotes live when we as humans are continually persecuting them…year round …in every…
photo by Christine Hanrahan “Coyotes let us know that the mental boundaries we keep—between the human and the wild— are more porous than we may have ever imagined. In the midst of our attempts to control the landscape, to put humans here and nature there, coyotes express an alternative set of ideas about boundaries. If…
“When the mind gives a living being a NAME, the mind thinks it knows what it is. But really it is just an attachment of a concept to a being who is PROFOUND.” Eckart Tolle Our future Coyote Center for Carnivore Ecology and Coexistence will aim to take our people to whole new levels of…
OH … WOW … THIS ISN’T A COYOTE! NO … IT IS A COD! And it is an important predator fish of our ocean. Our earth has evolved to include predators in all the diverse spaces of our planet: the land, the sea the sky! They all play the important role of sustaining biodiversity…
“Man’s respect and awe of predators turned to hatred when man’s lifestyle changed from tribal hunters – when he ceased to be a kindred spirit living by his wits as a hunter. And instead, took the land himself. He took the land without forethought once he began his agrarian mode of life, his domesticated plants…
OUR CHILDREN IN MAINE CREATED THIS MURAL After learning about Coyotes as the keystone carnivore …and coming to understand that all things are connected, the children from kindergarten to grade 8 created this most meaningful mural. Take a few moments to drink it in…. WOW!
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS AMAZING WILD DOG WHO LIVES AMONG US? The following is a great article about your wild neighbor. The more you learn about them, the more you want them to be in your neighborhood. https://tpwmagazine.com/archive/2018/mar/ed_2_coyote/index.phtml
COYOTES PLAY! Coyotes play just like our own dogs play. They like to have fun too. They delight in the joys of life too, just as we delight in the joys of life. WOW! We share this planet with such a wild being. Sharing a link about just such play: https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/blogs/coyote-stealing-newspapers-so-heres-what-delivery-man-did