Subject: [Tweeters] Birders in the local economies
Date: Aug 24 21:53:15 2006
From: Rob Sandelin - floriferous at msn.com


I was eating breakfast in Forks, WA awhile ago and in the booth behind me a
couple pairs of locals were talking about tourists. One guy complained about
tourists, the other three locals jumped on his case and rattled off 25
people they knew who made their living off visitors. Apparently there is
even an old lady bird guide who brings in business to the local
restaurants. The rest of the conversation was dominated by how much the town
depended on nature to attract people and a general denouncing of "dumbass
loggers". Well, I sure left that place with a different attitude.


Rob Sandelin
Naturalist, Writer
The Environmental Science School
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