Subject: Golf course and birds
Date: Apr 13 19:18:08 1996
From: Burton Guttman - guttmanb at elwha.evergreen.edu



Scott Richardson said,

> At Midway Atoll, a nine-hole course can't help but run through the
> albatross colony, because Laysan Albatrosses nest virtually everywhere.

> Midway's ultimate hazards were the petrel colonies--let your ball
> get in there and down a burrow it goes.

Why does there have to be a golf course on Midway? What goes on there
these days, now that WW II (I hear) is over? Why can't it be left to the
albatrosses and petrels?

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