A prairie falcon chick. Credit: Don Kelsen / Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
By Staff
June 7, 2011 | 7:30 am
It all seemed so simple once. You know: “Save the whales,” “save the spotted owl” and so on.
Now, black and white has given way to green versus green.[snip]
It’s enough to give those of us wanting to do the right thing for the planet a headache. Our quest for clean energy is killing protected birds; our efforts to protect the West are colliding with our affinity for remnants of the Wild West; and a success story in Florida has been so successful that the state’s oldest inhabitants are threatening to eat its newest ones.
