In 1964, while examining the remains of various small creatures collected from inside a long disused old wood-fired oven in an outbuilding that had been the home of a family of Barn Owls in Giohar, Somalia, Professor Alberto Simonetta of the University of Florence broke open an owl pellet that contained part of the lower […]
When I was a boy, a number of legal decisions were handed down by a federal judge curtailing the commercial fishing trade on the Columbia River from which my family had made a living since my grandfather first came to the United States from Finland (then Russia) at the age of twelve. Almost immediately following […]