Subject: Publicity for rare and sensitive species.
Date: Aug 6 13:02:56 1999
From: Mary Manson - tonihawr at email.msn.com


>Me: Any owls around here?
>FSR: Why, did you see one?
>Me: No, but we'd like to.
>FSR: Well, we have Spotted Owls, but they're nocturnal.
>Me: Oh. Do you know where any are?
>FSR: No. But if I did, I couldn't tell you.
>
>Notice "couldn't"; she made it clear that she had been
>instructed to conceal the presence of Spotted Owls, at
>least, if she knew of them, and wasn't permitted to try to
>distinguish between bona fide ecotourists and avicidal
>loggers.
>------------------------------------------------------------
>P W (Bill) Smith


OK - I'm dense - spell it out for paranoid me.

Is this good for the bird species that bona fide ecotourists don't know
where there are birds to add to add their life lists ?

Or is this bad for the logging companies since the public doesn't know there
are birds there so loggers can log the area ?

Toni

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