Subject: Re: Paul Schell's Millennium Plans
Date: May 19 09:27:43 1998
From: Jerry Tangren - tangren at wsu.edu


This is known more basically as light POLLUTION. It not only
affects birds, but also stargazers, poets, and other creatures
adapted to the night sky. The Little Dipper will be
virtually invisible to the residents of the Puget Sound area.

>In today's (Tuesday's) edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Mayor
>Paul Schell proposed that, in celebration of the millennium, Seattle
>illuminate city bridges, the waterfront, and downtown skyscrapers,
>throughout most of 1999. Obviously, he knows nothing about the serious
>risks posed by lighted structures to migratory birds. (A World Wildlife
>Federation report states that more birds die from collisions with lighted
>buildings each year than were lost in the Exxon Valdez oil spill.)
>
>I plan to provide Mr. Schell's office with information about WWF's Fatal
>Light Awareness Program. Perhaps other interested birders could also
>express their concern to Mr. Schell.
>
> E-mail: mayors.office at ci.seattle.wa.us
> Telephone: (206) 684-4000
> (206) 684-5360 (Fax)
>
>Janet Keen
>West Seattle