Subject: Canadian Geese Limited
Date: Aug 5 12:59:49 1999
From: Don Baccus - dhogaza at pacifier.com


At 12:30 PM 8/5/99 -0700, Steven Kimball wrote:
>Hey, let's get this straight once and for all: geese, crows, starlings etc.
>aren't the problem, we are. They are symptoms (pretty mild ones at that) of
>the mindless expansion of our population and economy.

I think the comments were tongue-in-cheek. Starlings, though,
aren't symptoms of "the mindless expansion of our population and
economy", they're symptoms of what happens when a species is
introduced into an environment in which it is non-native and
in which it flourishes absent the checks on growth "back home".

If we disappeared from North America, do you really believe
starlings would, too?



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