Re: [cayugabirds-l] Additional freezing info

2014-02-10 Thread sfernstr 
In 1970, I worked as the class clerk for the Cornell class of 1910. One alumnus 
told me that, while a student, he had skated the length of Cayuga Lake to visit 
with his Dad. He returned, also by skates, the next day. He said the lake 
didn't stay frozen for very many days, and had failed to freeze so completely 
any other year he was in college.

Sarah Fern
 david nicosia daven1...@yahoo.com wrote: 
 Wow. That is really interesting. It shows how much colder it was in the 1800s 
 and very early 1900s. It is almost unheard of
 for any of the Finger Lake to freeze over today. The above period was during 
 the end of the Little Ice Age before the early 20th 
 century warm-up. 
 
 
 
 
 On Sunday, February 9, 2014 11:50 PM, Linda Post Van Buskirk 
 l...@cornell.edu wrote:
  
 I wonder for how long.  The lake can skim over with a sharp dip in temp, and 
 then winds break up the ice.  When we went down to the lakeshore Saturday 
 morning (we’re just north of the village of Aurora), the shore was covered 
 with shards of ice, clear as glass—and then the water was indeed frozen over, 
 but just a thin sheet, about 100 yards out.  
  
 From:bounce-112541225-3493...@list.cornell.edu 
 [mailto:bounce-112541225-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Susan Fast
 Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2014 9:19 PM
 To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
 Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Additional freezing info
  
 A. R. Cahn in The freezing of Cayuga Lake in its relation to bird life.  
 Auk 29:437-444 reports that the lake was completely frozen over in 1796, 
 1816, 1826, 1856, 1875, 1884, 1904, and 1912.  A couple of these were thought 
 due to volcanic eruptions in other parts of the world.
  
 Steve Fast
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Bird Conservation -- REALLY!

2013-01-21 Thread sfernstr 
What comes to me first on this topic would be a local push to support the 
national effort to convince owners to have only indoor cats.

Sarah Fern

 Jody W Enck j...@cornell.edu wrote: 
 Hi all,
 
  When I think about the topic of bird conservation, I think about all the 
 great work that gets done at the local level.  In particular, I think about 
 conservation actions that increase bird habitat (e.g., habitat restoration 
 and management) as well as actions that slow down the loss of bird habitat 
 (e.g., conservation easements and set-asides).  There also are important 
 actions aimed more at birds than at bird habitat per se.  For example, I 
 think of the issues of used fishing line receptacles, putting up next boxes 
 or other structures (osprey platforms), etc.  I personally am thrilled that 
 the Cayuga Bird Club has recently started up a conservation committee to take 
 a more active role in bird conservation locally.
 
  All of this has gotten me thinking about how somebody knows that bird 
 conservation is occurring.  What kinds of things do we count as successes?  I 
 think there probably are lots of different possible answers.  I ask this 
 mostly because if we all want to (1) achieve more bird conservation on the 
 ground locally, and (2) attract more people to accomplish that conservation, 
 I think it would be particularly useful to understand and communicate about 
 what kinds of conservation “outcomes” we’d like to see happen.  I think it’s 
 hard to get my friends and neighbors interested in bird conservation if they 
 don’t really know what that means.
 
  I hope this stimulates some fruitful discussion.
 
 Thanks.
 Jody
 
 Jody W. Enck, PhD
 Human Dimensions of Natural Resources
 Cornell Lab of Ornithology
 
 
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