Environmental denial in history-nothing has gone wrong with Passenger Pidgeons

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A Feathered River Across the Sky

 

In the 19th century passenger pigeons numbered in the billions across North America. By 1914 they were extinct. Naturalist Joel Greenberg has written a book about the pigeon and its extinction called A Feathered River across the Sky, and he joins Steve Curwood to talk about lessons we can learn from its demise.

 

http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=14-P13-00011&segmentID=6

Edited March 18, 2014 by knocker