Sustainability
Swan Song
SEPTEMBER 30, 2006 Listen to this Story
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In the name of environmentalism, the trumpeter swan is being reintroduced to Wisconsin. But the plan's not without some controversy. The State Department of Natural Resources says a competing species, the mute swan, has to go to make room for the trumpeter. But a group of citizens isn't going to let the mute swan go so easily. Independent Producer Christina Shockley introduces us to the mute swan and the people who have come to consider them a part of the family.
"NIGHT SPIRITS," a poem by Grace Graham
THE SPIRITS OF NIGHT, LIKE MISTS ON MORNFADE FROM SIGHT, AS DAY IS BORNTHE SUN IS SNEAKING, CHASING AWAY NIGHTAS A PARADE OF SWANS SUDDENLY TAKE FLIGHT.THEIR FEATHERS ARE GILDED IN DAWN'S FIRST LIGHTLIKE A ROOM DRESSED IN CANDLELIGHTLIKE THE BIRDS AND SWANS COME OUT OF THEIR NESTSI TOO WANDER OUT, SEE GOD AND BE BLESSED.
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- Artist: Console
- CD: Mono (Disko B)
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