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Just back from the brink of extinction, a pair of Peregrine Falcons raised 4 eyases (baby falcons) on a ledge high above Mission Street downtown in San Francisco this spring. The first flight for a baby falcon, the first fledge, is fraught with danger, particularly in an urban environment.

A friend once said "White man make big fire, sit far away, Indian make small fire, sit close." This phrase offers a wise observation from a culture that lived at least 10,000 years here in North America without devastating the ecology. A people who didn't talk about sustainability, but who were all about it.