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In Praise of Good Neighbours and Friends

July 14, 2022

Wild Lands Advocate article by: Gord Petersen, 2015 AWA Wilderness and Wildlife Defender

Click here for a pdf version of the article.

Apparently the last one didn’t make it. All summer, my wife Cathy and I watched a pair of Swainson’s hawks raise their brood. From little balls of not-particularly-attractive fuzz, to squabbling nest mates, to gangly adolescents exercising their wings in a space that suddenly seemed far too small, we watched as the three youngsters grew.

A healthy relationship to the wilderness is not in the least incompatible with civilized living. Indeed, I believe it to be an indispensable condition thereof; that no man is truly civilized unless he is involved in and cares for the wilderness.
- Ashley Montagu, 1969
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