>Do your bit for the environment and create more habitat for shorebirds and
>ducks - next time you visit Montlake Fill grab a handfull of Purple
>Loosestrife
>and rip it up !!!!
>
>Stuart MacKay

And, while you're at it, pull up some of the shrubs/trees that the Center
for Urban Horticulture has unwisely planted around the only pond on the
fill that still had some potential to attract shorebirds! They roped it
off so people couldn't approach the birds, fine and dandy, then with the
tree-planting zeal that horticulturists cultivate, decided to make it a
woodland pool. They probably don't know that shorebirds--excepting
probably Solitary Sandpipers--don't feed among the trees.

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Dennis Paulson, Director phone: (206) 756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax: (206) 756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail: dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416