Kelly and all

If you can't get the page on Seward Park & wildflowers directly, use the
Seattle Times archive pages. One of your choices is "yesterdays" stories.
Scroll down to the section on Nature and Outdoors, and look for the story on
wildflowers in Seward Park.

Good story.

Brian H. Bell
Birding & Natural History Guide
Woodinville WA
bellasoc at isomedia dot com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kelly McAllister" <mcallisters4 at comcast.net>
To: "Stewart Wechsler" <ecostewart at quidnunc.net>; "tweeters"
<tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] RFI toadlet emergence dates and urban
oaksavannahrestoration article


> Well, that was disappointing. It says the page with the story about
> Stewart's work is no longer available.
>
> Toadlets will likely be out-migrating in the lowlands of the Puget Sound
> region in the last week of June or first week of July, if memory serves
> me.
>
> The work that's been done to try to figure out most causes of population
> losses points to roads a primary suspect. Toad tadpoles (and eggs) are no
> noxious that fish don't seem to be much of a threat and toad tadpoles
> often swarm about in complete security in lakes and ponds with an
> abundance of fish of all kinds. However, toads are so mobile (overland)
> and so slow and unwary (semi-sessile?) that roads may take a significant
> toll. As the number of roads grows, the point is eventually reached where
> toad mortality is just too high and the population can't be sustained.
>
> O.K., it's theory, not fact. But, talk to Sanders Freed with The Nature
> Conservancy. He did his Master's degree on this very issue and concluded
> that roads and other developed were highly correlated with extirpated
> populations.
>
> Kelly McAllister
> Olympia, Washington
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stewart Wechsler" <ecostewart at quidnunc.net>
> To: "tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 9:24 AM
> Subject: [Tweeters] RFI toadlet emergence dates and urban oak
> savannahrestoration article
>
>
>> I've been asked by our local nature reporter, Kathryn True, when the best
>> time to observe baby toads as they disperse from lowland lakes. As some
>> of
>> you know most lowland western Washington toad populations have been wiped
>> out (I suspect introduced fish are one of the largest factors, as well as
>> introduced Bullfrogs among other factors). I seem to remember I saw them
>> in
>> late June, but lost my field notes. Only lowland dispersal times will be
>> relevant. Montane would be later.
>>
>> Some of you may also be interested in seeing the wonderful article she
>> got
>> published in yesterday's Seattle Times Northwest Weekend section (page 22
>> in
>> the hard copy) on me and my work to resuscitate the Oregon White Oak
>> ecosystem at Seward Park with the maximum of it's richness that we can
>> from
>> the buttercups to the butterflies and maybe the bluebirds, Purple Finches
>> and Purple Martins. (You need to click "next", "next", "next" to see all
>> 4
>> photos.)
>>
>> <http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/outdoors/2003717960_nwwnaturalwanders
>> 240.html>
>> (If the link is broken many of you know you can hit "reply" - but not
>> "send"
>> and put your curser at the end of the first line and delete the space,
>> and
>> it should work.)
>>
>> Stewart Wechsler
>> Ecological Consulting
>> West Seattle
>> 206 932-7225
>> ecostewart at quidnunc.net
>>
>> -Advice on the most site-appropriate native plants
>> and how to enhance habitat for the maximum diversity
>> of plants and animals
>> -Educational programs, nature walks and field trips
>> -Botanical Surveys
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