Maybe I missed a message somewhere and you already know about this, but I just read about it this morning.
There's an ongoing National Park Service study of 60 eagle pairs, from the Apostle Islands and on down along the St. Croix to Hastings, that has been tracking the presence of lesser-known pollutants in bald eagles. The chemicals studied include a couple of common, widely-used flame retardants that were manufactured by 3M. The monitoring group is holding a workshop at Crex Meadows next Saturday that's designed for teachers or educators at any level "to draw attention to the riverway as a learning laboratory through field work, observations, resource materials, and lesson plan development." To register, you call Ranger Branda Thwaits at 715-635-8346, ext. 425, but it has to be done by Tuesday. (It especially caught my attention, coming on the heels of a recent article alledging that a particular common flame retardant is associated with disturbances in the endocrine system.) Linda Whyte ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
