At 08:47 AM 5/13/99 -0700, Jim Rosso wrote:

>When I was younger I worked in three different museums that all had
>wildlife rehabilitation units. Once you received an animal you were
>required to take care of it. To do otherwise would put the museum in a
>public relations nightmare that we didn't want to think about. To say the
>least of jeopardizing our County/City funding.

Portland Audubon does not accept non-native species. It has not been
a public-relations nightmare, indeed I think it has been a great
opportunity to educate people.

(squirrels are a special case, where the Society acts as a broker
between people who bring them in and individuals who rehab them, for
reasons too complicated for me to understand, much less communicate
to others)



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