Plenty of poets wrote them, but the most famous of all is John Milton's  Lycidas . Like all typical pastoral elegies, Milton mourns the loss of his best bud (who died in a shipwreck). But he also compares him to a shepherd and describes the ways in which nature mourns his loss, too.
The Banff longnose dace, a small minnow, was recently declared extinct. It failed to compete with the guppies, swordtails, sailfin mollies and other tropical fish that had been released in the warm marsh below the famous hot springs by tourists and national park officials.
Blackside dace eat algae, diatoms, and small invertebrates (insects). Why should loggers care and protect blackside dace? First, sensitive species such as blackside dace serve as important indicators of overall stream health â as stream water quality and habitat conditions improve, dace num-Blackside Dace and Logging in Kentucky