I brings joy to my soul for the following reasons: 1- they are a large and beautiful bird; 2- with a couple of different decisions back in the '40's the ivory-bill would have not have gotten into this terrible shape- population wise; 3- we cannot bring back the passenger pigeon or the Labrador duck or the Carolina parakeet or the great auk- so wouldn't it be great to bring at least one bird back from the dead Alleluia!
Shelley Steva --- Pastor Al <[email protected]> wrote: > Questions swim to the surface: > > 1) How many are left? Is there a large enough > population to conserve? (See > some of the Hawaiian species' problems.) Will > others be discovered in > divergent locations? > > 2) Should access be regulated, restricted, even > denied? Who makes such > decisions? Will birders abide by such decisions? > > 3) Which model of conservation will we use, from > highly interventional > (California Condor) to "letting nature take its > course"? > > 4) How many resources ($$ and otherwise) can we > justify allocating for > conservation? > > 5) How did they keep it secret for so long? > (chuckle) > > 6) In a completely different vein, why does this > announcement bring such joy > to our souls? > > > Al Schirmacher > Princeton, MN > Mille Lacs & Sherburne Counties > > _______________________________________________ > mou-net mailing list > [email protected] > http://cbs.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mou-net > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
