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Kids like (and are are like) wild animals  Reasons to Agree : 2 Animals are cool . Seeing wild animals connects people to millions of years of hunting: which has historically included risk and adrenalin. It seems almost natural to start chasing wild animals.  Seeing wild animals connects kids to another world, and so it is eye-opening, which can be fun and interesting.. Videos that agree : James and Geese on the Payette Lake Images that agree Big Horn Sheep, Rocky Mountain National Park, 2014 Phil looking at an Elk in Estes Park, 2014 A bare we saw in Estes Park, 2014. Megan kept saying all the guys were trying to get closer, but the women were protecting the kids. Big Horn Sheep, Rocky Mountain National Park, 2014   This is a photo of a mother "merganser" with its baby riding on its back. My kids and I watched it on the Payette Lake which is in Northern Idaho (2012). A photo of a Stellar's jay, on the railing of my cousin's cab...

Ali did this awesome picture. I love the fish floating all around. It is a sketch within a sketch. She based it on my sketch of a sketch below.  The lake that I worked at in the summer of 1995, sketched from my freshman dorm room that fall.  Andre Breton is not the father of surrealism Pretty good detail I tried to do some combined art, but it needs some work... Ali hard at work . 

Background, Context, and Assumptions Links: https://www.facebook.com/plainscenter http://www.plainscenter.org/ We need conservation centers The state should pay for conservation centers. The state should have conversations centers near major towns? Perhaps not. They keep rattle snakes, which is OK I guess. But deer are not endangered. In fact, sense we killed off wovles their are probably too many of them. I guess it is good for for people who live in cities to see them, but they also get hit by cars a lot. When you put conservation centers in places where cities are trying to grow, you are forcing people to drive further. Sure, you could develop more densely, but your not so your only options for a particular piece of land is subdivision nearer the city, or on the other side of the conservation center, and their is an argument to be said to move all the "conversations centers" further away from the cities... But, I guess people need parks and stuff, and public spa...