I'm following up on the reference to the northern harriers at Bob Heirman
Park in Snohomish County. I visited that park for the first time last fall
and enjoyed watching the harriers hunt in the meadow. BUT, a great big,
"Huh?" went zinging through my head when I saw that the native plant rescue
folks had transplanted trees (none of them endangered) throughout the
meadow. Does anyone else question this lamentable practice? Does anyone
have an explanation for what is going on? This park is noted and hyped for
its meadow. The meadow obviously provides a good hunting ground for the
harriers. The indiscriminate transplanting of trees throughout the meadow
doesn't make any sense to me. Transplanting on the edge, yes. But
throughout the meadow seems like a raptor disaster in evolution. The less
meadow, the fewer the opportunities to watch harriers hunt. No meadow, no
harriers. I'd be interested in the comments, thoughts of others. Thanks.

Carol Riddell
cariddell at mac.com