Jack Miner and the Birds | by Jack Miner (1865-1944)
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Jack Miner and the Birds | by Jack Miner (1865-1944)

“This, a sportsmen’s problem, may appear to you as being entirely out of place in a book like this; yet I want you to read, for I feel fully qualified to discuss this matter in a conscientious, fair and square, look-you-in-the-face manner, as I have the itching of my own trigger-finger fairly well harnessed, and have no desire to shoot any bird other than the cannibals”

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A Quest to Protect the World's Last Silent Places | Outside Online
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A Quest to Protect the World's Last Silent Places | Outside Online

“In 2005, Gordon Hempton placed a small stone on a log in the Hoh Rainforest of Washington’s Olympic National Park, one of the quietest places in the world. He dubbed his miniature cairn One Square Inch of Silence. If he could keep the rock free of human noise pollution, Hempton reasoned, many surrounding square miles would be free of it, too.”

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