At 12:09 AM 1/2/98 EST, you wrote:
> We stopped by there at sunset after the San Juan
>Islands (Ferry) CBC to watch the evening flight of the Short-eared Owls and
>maybe catch a glimpse of the Gyrfalcon. Nothing!

Another argument in favor of the Conservation Permit for access to WA State
lands. Building a consituency with money is step #1. MAKING THAT
CONSTITUENCY
VISIBLE is step #2.

I'm saddened by the loss of that field. From a conservation POV, clearly
it was
better managed as raptor habitat than goose habitat.




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