I am still trying to send this out. I deleted the workplace suffix to Paul Charland's name in case that was causing the rejects.
_____ From: G Andersson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 12:01 AM To: '[email protected]' Subject: RE: grasslands and grassland birds conservation MOU readers: If you love birds, you have to also love their living spaces. This guy, P Charland, with the Fish & Wildlife Service in WI has started a two wk motorcycle trip to grasslands in the west. He will be blogging along the way and welcomes more readers/writers. GAndersson St Paul ---------------------------------------------- Good morning folks Over the last couple years I've been planning an event with the intent trying to increase awareness of the loss of grasslands and grassland birds. The event is about to become a reality. On Thursday, June 9, I'll jump on my motorcycle and head for the Great Plains. I'm going to start at the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve and head to North Dakota looking at some of the best and biggest examples of prairies remaining. I'm going to take two weeks to make the trip and will be blogging along the way. You can follow me at: <http://thedeliberatebirder.blogspot.com/> http://thedeliberatebirder.blogspot.com/. I'm going to try to blog every day, but it's become obvious I'm not going to have internet access at all my stops. I'll stop at some National Wildlife Refuges, national grasslands, Nature Conservancy properties, and hopefully some private property (by permission, of course). I've talked with and gotten ideas form some of you already; I very much appreciate your help. Grasslands are some of our most endangered landscapes, which has led to precipitous declines in the numbers of many of our grassland birds. Grasslands are truly on the front lines of conservation, including facing probably the two most relentless and challenging of all threats - energy and agriculture. If we can find ways to protect and preserve sufficient quantity of grasslands to maintain healthy populations of grassland birds, we can face and survive any environmental threat. Conversely, as a group, grassland birds spend more of their collective lifecycles within the US than any other; if we can't protect and preserve those birds we have full responsibility for, how can we expect to protect those that spend half their lives beyond our borders? Grasslands have the added challenge of being invisible to a large portion of Americans. Without that recognition and a collective commitment to protect them, I find myself struggling to remain optimistic about the future of grassland birds. If you know of others who would appreciate learning more about grasslands, their threats, and opportunities to protect them, please pass this information on. It needs to be a team effort.... paul paul c. charland WUI Coordinator WI, MI, IN, OH Leopold WMD W10040 Cascade Mountain Road Portage, WI 53901 Office 608-742-7100 x23 Cell 920-948-4875 FAX 608-745-0866 [email protected] Fire is for the birds! Support Prescribed Burning for the Resource ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
