Subject: [Tweeters] Saving distressed wildlife - playing favorites
Date: Dec 1 07:49:21 2006
From: carenp - carenp at totalise.co.uk


for what it is worth, i have to admit rob's way of dealing with the world is
more akin to mine as well. when i purchased my new home a few short weeks
ago, the overriding reason i spent tens of thousands more than for a similar
home not 100 metres away was a direct connection with a forest, with all the
"rights and responsibilities" inherent in interacting with the denizens of
the arbor. let's face it, watching (mostly unobstructed) natural wildlife
is more fun and healthy than watching twenty other cookie-cutter baby boomer
homes all day long...

and, perhaps, this gets me reprimanded by the powers that be re policy, but
on exactly this topic:

there is a man in the american south who has taken to helping birding
populations (and one endangered bird primarily) by allegedly killing
specific predators... i'm sure some here would see that as "barbaric",
while others would think it a method for achieving "natural" balance through
a "necessary evil". the reason i won't post more about it will become
obvious to anyone who reads the article, but i thought it important to note
the world doesn't always see repercussions through OUR own
simple-and-intimate viewpoint, that there are many ways of interpreting and
handling data, and regardless of what we do OR do NOT do, consequences the
likes of which we cannot fathom, consequences that won't always make
themselves known today (or even by the end of this newly-minted
millenium)...

for those interested in the article, please email me privately.

00 caren
http://www.parkgallery.org
george davis creek, north fork


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[mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu]On Behalf Of Rob
Sandelin
Sent: Thursday, 2006 November 30 22:47
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Subject: RE: [Tweeters] Saving distressed wildlife - playing favorites


Nature is a very complex thing, and when natural systems are altered,
disrupted and replaced the consequences are often much more complex than
humans can understand. We see far too little of the world, and know far too
little of how it all interacts together. I live surrounded by 25 acres of
native forests. I would suspect that the limiting factors on bird
populations around me involve nesting space, predation, climate-weather, and
food to list the obvious ones. Food is the primary factor that I can
directly influence. I spend hours each week watching birds at the feeder
out my window and I often come up with dozens of questions about the social
interactions, the affects of feeding on survival of direct and indirect
species, etc, etc, etc. And I live with the frustration that few if any of
my many questions will ever have definitive answers. There is little
research on the question that is worth anything.
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