Subject: [Tweeters] N Cascades N Pk listing question
Date: Jan 5 04:19:02 2011
From: vogelfreund at comcast.net - vogelfreund at comcast.net



Jan 5th '11

I just want to mention that the North Cascades Park Complex has a free printed bird checklist. I dug out the old one I had from the 1980's. I only have 10 species checked on it. There is no date printed on it, but it states there are 194 species in the park complex. That number must be over 200 species by now. But the point is that they lump the entire complex into one checklist, with symbols for ten habitat types from rivers up to alpine tundra. So that's why I assumed the Washington Birder list for the park coincided with the park's own checklist. My best bird out of the ten was an Am. Dipper close to Newhalem (biology class field trip). I also had California and Ring-billed Gulls near the Ross Lake Dam (Aug '85), which I didn't think much about. But thhis old checklist marks them as rare.

Phil Hotlen
Bellingham, WA
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From: "Steve Loitz" <steveloitz at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 4, 2011 7:13:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] N Cascades N Pk listing question



The park issues backcountry sector permits to off-trail travelers who can demonstrate competence with mountain travel.



On Jan 3, 2011 11:08 PM, < vogelfreund at comcast.net > wrote:


Thev way it looks to me, from an armchair birder perspective, is that the average person cannot go off the trails in National Parks without risking harrassment from park rangers or etc. The rarities; whether mammal, avian or rare flowers; are off limits. (Of course I don't want anybody else but me going off the trails - heh heh).

Phil Hotlen
Bellingham, WA
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