 The National Parks Service gears up for long-dreaded killing of Fire Island deer, targeting friendly ones and messing with the species natural evolution in a world dominated by humans. Keep reading Fire Island Deer Lovers Worried as Parks Service Kill Off Marches Forward  One of New York City’s most famously dog-friendly bar, The Gate, in Park Slope says it will no longer allow them because it was busted under the city’s outdated health code. Keep reading Dogs Can No Longer Walk into Famous Brooklyn Bar  Releasing predators in Central Park play a huge role in the fantasies and rhetoric of hunters. Could one have planted a dead black bear cub scare New Yorkers? Seems like somebody with access to dead wildlife was trying to make a point. Keep reading Did a Hunter Leave a Dead Bear in Central Park to Teach New Yorkers a Lesson? Watch out Fire Island deer! The Parks Service wants you out of the way of their holly plants. And tourists, if you like seeing deer, too bad. The parks service wants to cut down on “negative human-deer interactions,” which it seems to define as anything that isn’t hunting. Keep reading Parks Service Wants to Hunt Fire Island Deer Again  Several pairs of green herons are building nests or raising young in what’s becoming a heron co-op near the Lullwater in Prospect Park. Keep reading Green heron co-op forming in Prospect Park  Lepidopterist, or mothers, use a concoction of beer, bananas and molasses to bait certain sap-eating moths. Otherwise, try a bright light on a cloudy, moonless night. Keep reading Moths drawn to lights, rotten beer, often against their best interests  30 or so beagles partied for Bastille Day in Prospect Park. We blew a shofar to set off the baying and activate their inner beagle. Keep reading Beagles howl to shofar on Bastille Day in Prospect Park  At least 10 species of beetle are easily mistaken for the hated Asian longhorn beetle. Keep reading What’s black and white and not an Asian longhorn beetle?  Brooklyn got its first two great horned owl babies in a century this spring. Maybe they stayed away because they were so scared of the songbirds. Keep reading Adolescent owl trying to look tough after getting spooked by a robin–how embarassing  The Prospect Park owls have learned to fly, but are still hanging around near their nest with their parents. Keep reading Prospect Park owls fledged; Hawk parent nabs a pigeon |
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