Subject: Re: wildlife management (was Vaux's swift nesting)
Date: Jun 21 09:27:06 1995
From: Peter Rauch - peterr at violet.berkeley.edu


>Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 10:09:18 -0800
>From: dpaulson at ups.edu (Dennis Paulson)

>The "authorities" are killing ravens in Oregon and gulls in quite a few
>places because of their predatory nature, but raptors, hallowed birds that
>they are, may never be subject to this kind of "management." Can anyone
>marshall a good argument why it's OK to "control" ravens and gulls but not
>Bald Eagles?

Manage raptors?

Too complicated for mere humans, Dennis. All those strings cross-linked
and attached to each other --pluck one and the whole web vibrates,
pieces collapse, the web-spinner runs away, no more web, nothing for us
to manage, no fun anymore.... But, at least now the system is simple.
We can "manage" that. Hmmm, do I detect a dilemma.
Peter