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Jeanne-Marie saw this listing in a Golden Gate Audubon e-newsletter. A senior center, which has a telephone-based talking program, was accepting birder volunteers to talk to seniors about birds out their windows.

The program they mentioned was http://www.seniorcenterwithoutwalls.org. They were just looking for 1 volunteer. But this is definitely something that a lot of us could do. Perhaps we can come up with ideas for having these discussions from your phone...because I am not quite sure how it works.

Here is an article written by Winona LaDuke. She wrote it in 2001, and it describes many years of preserving wild rice growing in northern Minnesota. Here is a situation where the wild rice genome was being mapped by scientists -- and oh, but why...Winona LaDuke does a great job of explaining.

So in this article she talks about different kinds of rice that live in different lakes, and that they taste like their lake! that's so cool! makes me a little sad though. really sad that our farming people are trying to encroach on these rice paddies...and for what..uncle ben's rice?