fredbird at halcyon.com writes:

> our quaint southern provinces such behavior is usually seen as a
> sign of well-memorized constitutional patriot who is only protecting
> his right to bear(bare?) (fore)arms. One has to have a well-warped
> sense of humor to survive here. Besides, golf courses are usually
> crummy places to bird.

Except when it hosts an injured Emperor Goose _Chen canagica_ :-)
(sorry, cannot write things like "EMGO")

Serge "protector of golf courses" Le Huitouze

P.S.
I was just kidding :-)
BTW (aka by the way), that's amazing how "ordinary" (i.e. non environmentaly
aware) people consider golf courses as NATURE. And that's universal, as
much here, and probably south of the border, as in France, despite the
greater general awareness this side of the Atlantic Ocean.
Seems like there is a lot more education to be made.

As an aside note, I remember having heard or read (maybe here) that some
golf courses in the US and Canada tried to manage their lawns in a more
ecological manner than the standard red-neck way (tons of herbicides and
pesticides). I would like to have some information on this subject.
If this allowed me to aware some golf courses when I'll be back in France,
it would be worth a try. After all, I bet that not all golf course managers
are "bad" people, they just want to attract golfers on their own golf
courses. If this can be achieved without using as much whatever-cides, they
could get a better image in the environmental community, with no loss of
golfers, even maybe an increase in numbers.

P.P.S.:
Well, folks, this P.S. was quite a big one :-)

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A bird in the bush is better than two in the hand.

Serge Le Huitouze Intelligent Software Group
email: serge at cs.sfu.ca School of Computing Science
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