Snakes and raccoons may eat chickadee eggs. The biggest threats to chickadees come from people. We use pesticides that may poison them through biomagnification. We have taken their habitat and built cities on it. It is estimated that the United States can only support large songbird populations ...
some sort of greedy schemer—locked the girl detective in a room full of black widow spiders and turned out the light, a shudder slipped down my spine. I could feel them crawling closer, deadly with venom and villainous intent. Never mind that I knew she’d survive, knew even ...
In Los Angeles, I worked at theGreater Watts Justice Centeron Central Avenue in the heart of the1965 Watts Rebellion. The center was built on top of once was nothing but burned rubble and ashes. The center was unique in the country, because it was setup as a legal office that provided ...