Hal and tweets:
a few years ago Clarice and I performed some surveying work on one of the
few parts of the Toke point peninsula that is accreting (rather than eroding).
This was on about 1/4 mile of new beach that had been added since the
landowners purchased the property back in the 1940's. It was pretty close to
the end where the marina is, but hard to see from the road. The more stable
parts of the beach were quite thick with gorse. The landowner told us that a
building had been destroyed there many years ago when the gorse caught
fire. I am pretty sure we've seen it somewhere in Kitsap, but don't recall
exactly where
On 24 Jan 01, at 20:49, Hal Opperman wrote:

> Tweets:
>
> After successfully chasing the Mountain Plover about a month ago,
> Jolynn, Tom Aversa, and I birded around the Ilwaco area for a while.
> I was surprised to come across what appeared to be a patch of gorse
> growing on an embankment of the sewage pond near the Ilwaco marina.
> Maybe this scourge of the Oregon coast is known to have established a
> toehold in our state, but if so, this is the first I've heard about
> it. Can anybody help clarify the situation?
>
> [Apologies for posting my response to Ken Knittle's magazine giveaway
> to the entire list. If anybody else has issues of Western Birds they
> want to get rid of, please let me know. Ken did have one for me.]
>
> Hal Opperman
> Medina, Washington
> mailto:halop at accessone.com
>


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