Subject: Bird Sanctuary, Baltimore
Date: Apr 30 08:07:05 1996
From: Susan Collicott - camel at serv.net



I thought Tweeters might like to hear about this ... Seems Baltimore is
building a new baseball park and football stadium, and the local urban
foresters want to make a "bird park" to go with them!

Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 23:04:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Flora <flora at Flora.Com>
To: Community_Forestry_Discussion <Tree-House at lists.umbc.edu>
Subject: TH: Baltimore Bird Park
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On Fri, 29 Mar 1996, Bonnie Lee wrote:

> I think a bird sanctuary in Camden yards is a great idea. Lots of folks
> feel a tremendous resentment (myself included) for the tax $$ and so forth
> that are going/have gone into these sports facilities. A nature preserve
> of some kind would help ease that resentment a bit.
>
> Now HOW does one go about doing this?!?
>
> Bonnie North

Thank You, BonBon -

I'll try to keep this brief. Having done some preliminary
research on this situation in south-inner-harbor Baltimore
City it appears that proposing a Bird Park at the site
immediately below the to-be-built football stadium is, in
fact, looking feasible. As we have already concurred upon,
an Orioles' Park (baseball) followed by a Ravens' Park (foot-
ball) could and should be followed by a Park for all the
other Birds indigenous to and migrating through our fair City.

The folks who are engineering the greenways (bike & hike's)
of the Gwynnes Falls watershed already have this interesting and
complex site slated for development as a wildlife observatory.

We may not actually have to design it, fund it or otherwise
build it, but simply provide some well thought-out input to
those powers-that-be to tie-in their concepts to those of the
stadium developments. We could suggest new meaning to the old
Baltimoron cheer of 'Let's go down and watch 'dem Birds!'

I admit that it's a long shot, but let's keep Tree-House posted
on our hopeful successes in this exciting undertaking. C'mon
Bon, let's build a Bird Sanctuary. Weeping Willows!

R Tryzno Ellsberry
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