Don't forget the thousands upon thousands of birds chopped by wind farms
here on the east side.

Eric Henriksen
Richland, WA
Eric.Henriksen at gte.net

> -----Original Message-----
> From: TWEETERS-owner at u.washington.edu
> [mailto:TWEETERS-owner at u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Ray
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 8:14 PM
> To: tweeters
> Subject: towerkills.com
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>
> The ultimate site dealing with this subject is
> www.towerkills.com Maybe someone already posted this info.
>
> Lots of interesting information.
>
> """"""""""""""""""""""
> " Scott Ray "
> " Yakima, WA "
> " scray at wolfenet.com "
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TWEETERS-owner at u.washington.edu
> [mailto:TWEETERS-owner at u.washington.edu]On > Behalf Of Valerie
> Shahan
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 3:22 PM
> To: 'Tweeters at u.washington.edu'
> Subject: RE: Night Lighting in Buildings Kills Birds
>
>
> Hello Tweeters,
>
> The International Dark Skies is a great organization doing
> education and giving people, both home owners and businesses,
> cost effective and doable options to their light polluting fixtures.
>
> Largely the folks who have been tooting the horn for dark
> skies are amateur astronomers. I am also an amateur
> astronomer as well as a birder so I use optics by day and by
> night. Makes me zombie eyed at times. *grin*
>
> Check out the url posted below. There is lots of useful
> information on their pages and links to the International
> Dark- Sky Association (IDA).
>
http://www.scn.org/darksky/

Regards,

Valerie Shahan
Lummi Bay
Valerie.Shahan at wwu.edu


--Original Message-----
From: Diann MacRae [mailto:tvulture at vei.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 1:42 PM
To: Tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: RE: Night Lighting in Buildings Kills Birds - abcnews.com story

Hi, Melissa and Tweets

Its a slow, slow battle trying to dim the lights. Dark Skies Northwest
is a regional affiliate of the International Dark-Sky Association. We
are a small group and just had our second annual conference in Portland
last month; two of us are birders. There *is* effort to reduce downtown
Seattle lighting, but no work that I know of to document bird kills
because of lights.

Cheers, Diann
Treasurer, Dark Skies Northwest