. This is where much of
the meaningful wildlife conservation action (and inaction) occurs.
I have been researching and promoting this change for some time, so I have a
lot more information (and opinion) in case anyone wants to take this topic
farther down the road.
Warren W. Aney
Senior Wildlife
is a publication of the Society for Conservation Biology.)
Warren W. Aney
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was
nice but it just got you into trouble even farther away from help.
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-- more of an improved road vehicle. These all
get around 25 mpg if driven conservatively.
Interestingly, the older models of these vehicles (up to around 2001) get
better mileage than the newer ones, but these are very hard to find.
Warren W. Aney
Senior Wildlife Ecologist
Tigard, OR
If you feel guilty about squandering petrofuel to attend professional
conferences, there's always the option of atonement through purchase of
carbon credits (green tags). This year's Academy Awards ceremony bragged
that they acheived carbon neutrality by purchasing green tags from
Bonneville
on eggs, thusly suggesting preventative
action.
Ain't English wonderful?
Warren Aney
Senior Wildlife Ecologist
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Subject: RE: Eagle predation
Did anyone else notice now many of these cartoons are anti-government and
anti-government employee? Isn't the real problem our anti-science
administration (just one part of government) and not the agencies and
employees who are trying to get it right?
Warren Aney
Senior Wildlife Ecologist
Gee, I didn't know bald eagles could read a calendar, much less predate
something.
(I know, many of us use predate instead of prey upon but that doen'st
make it right.)
Warren Aney
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to modify
economic activities for conservation purposes is of infinitely greater
importance
Warren W. Aney
Senior Wildlife Ecologist
Tigard, OR 97223
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Raptors scavenge to varying degrees -- bald eagles and sea eagles do quite a
bit of scavenging, including dead fish, birds and mammals. Rough-legged
hawks, golden eagles and peregrine falcons are also known to scavenge (see
Marshall, Hunter and Contreras. Birds of Oregon.)
Warren W. Aney
Senior
My knowledge of Armenian (Himalaya) blackberry, Rubus discolor, is just
observational and experiential, but I doubt that is a phreatophyte. It
seems to grow well on a wide variety of sites and soils, including
streambanks and uplands. When you pull or dig it up, the roots do not seem
to go very
As a long time user of Rite-in-the-Rain paper with pencils, I did a quick
test of writing media on wettened Rite-in-the-Rain paper: Graphite pencils
worked best, of course, followed by Pilot G2 ink pens (but I don't like them
because they tend to leak in your pocket). Ballpoint ink pens were
in school - after all, to be fair, we should have either none,
or all! Science is not a religion, it is a method of knowing, and so to
teach scientific thinking is not analogous to teaching religion.
Cheers,
Jim
Warren W. Aney said the following on 07/May/07 18:01:
As scientists, we need
You make a good point, Mark, that we take a position that science cannot
(and should not) refute religion.
I'm not sure about that guy Dawkins -- in his recent debate with a religious
figure reported in Time magazine, Richard Dawkins made and twice repeated a
statement saying, in effect, that if
everything.
What science can and will explain is crucial, but some of the inexplicables
are pretty important to quite a few other people. And many of these other
people are rational scientists.
Warren W. Aney
Senior Wildlife Ecologist
(and Presbyterian elder)
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Adam, as you probably know, threats come in many forms, not just killing.
From what I've read and been told, barred owls pose a threat to the survival
of spotted owls through territorial competition, hybridization and, yes,
maybe even outright killing. I'm not sure I understand your second point,
action, perhaps learning from
it, or being accused of taking the nonaction of let-nature-distorted-by
human-interference-take-its-course .
Warren W. Aney
Senior Wildlife Ecologist
Tigard, OR 97223
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At 11:32 PM -0700 4/5/07, Warren W. Aney wrote:
First, I would hope to see an economy and population
and commercial utilization.
Am I unrealistic? I challenge you to offer something even better, more
complete and achievable.
Warren W. Aney
Senior Wildlife Ecologist
Tigard, OR
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Allow me to oversimplify by asking: Are we a K-selected species that has
chosen to act like we were an r-selected species?
K-selection: A form of selection that occurs in an environment at or near
carrying capacity, favoring a reproductive strategy in which few offspring
are produced.
All these threads on consumerism, consumption, energy efficiency, biofuels,
biomass, etc. have resulted in a valuable exchange of information and
opinions. There has been a very good suggestion that some or all of this
should be addressed by the ESA. I hope this is done. Meanwhile, it would be
Mexico is in the grip of the worst tortilla crisis in its modern history.
Dramatically rising international corn prices, spurred by demand for the
grain-based fuel ethanol, have led to expensive tortillas. Washington
Post, 27 Jan 2007
Christopher provides a good explanation, but one statement of his needs
expansion. He said ...the forest needs to remain forest for a long time to
actually sequester carbon. As I understand the process, a forest of live
trees sequesters and stores carbon. When those trees die and fall, decay
approach.
Warren W. Aney
Senior Wildlife Ecologist
*
Adaptive Management A continuing process of action-based planning,
monitoring, researching, evaluating, and adjusting with the objective of
improving implementation and achieving the goals of the selected
alternative.
USDA Forest
The current issue of Frontiers in Ecology contains a short article Planting
temperate forests won't temper global warming (Vol. 5, No. 1, page 6).
This article reports on a presentation by ecologist Ken Cadeira at the
December 2006 meeting of the American Geophysical Union. This presentation
said
The important point is that neither economic growth nor population growth
are sustainable. And here we're talking about both environmental and
economic sustainability.
But we also need to be talking about economic justice. How do we apportion
the earth's resources and productivity so that all
Here's the solution:
Start with an ethanol burning internal combustion engine. Science develops
a free-living chloroplast system (FLCS) that uses sunlight to convert CO2
and water directly to glucose and oxygen (the oxygen is then recycled
through the engine). A fermentation system converts
I've just heard a BBC news report of protests in Mexico over the increasing
price for corn flour and tortillas (an important diet product made from corn
flour). Apparently the U.S. is a big source for this corn, and a reason
given for this increased price was the (potential? actual?) increased
Stan, there's an article on this in today's The Oregonian newspaper:
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/11700393031114
30.xmlcoll=7
Warren Aney
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different then moving gray wolves
or bighorn sheep from Canada to former sites in the United States. With
climate change, we may see more need to do this sort of species relocation.
Warren W. Aney
Senior Wildlife Ecologist
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Tigard, OR 97223
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wildlife biologists and fisheries biologists became fish biologists.
So why don't we just say the course or program or text is Fish Biology or
Fish Management?
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getting into a permanent position. I'm speaking from the experience of
having gone this route, and having also been in the position of selecting
people (male and female) to fill permanent positions.
Warren W. Aney
Senior Wildlife Ecologist
Tigard, OR
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Do we really want to get into this again? We gripe about religionists
mischaracterizing science, but us scientists can be equally guilty of
mischaracterizing religion.
Contact me off-list if you want to discuss this so we don't bore everyone
else.
Warren Aney
Senior Wildlife Ecologist
. There
doesn't seem to be any consistent rules except what sounds right. And what
sounds right on one side of the continent may not sound right on the other
side of the continent. I know of an eastern editor who insisted it should
be a habitat for Roosevelt elks.
Warren W. Aney
Senior Wildlife
As I understand it, the American Ornithological Union standard is to
capitalize all common names of specific birds, e.g., Canada Goose and
Greater White-fronted Goose, but to not capitalize when talking about groups
of species, e.g., geese, quail. As far as I know, all other taxonomic
I've been trying to follow this discussion with little profit until I read
this last posting from Wirt Atmar. This is the most intelligent, succinct,
evocative and accesible (and inspiring) explanation I've ever read on the
topic of basic evolution. Maybe it's old-hat to evolutionary biologists,
concepts of how an ecosystem operates? Or is this unique?
We tend to think that much of this understanding arose only within the last
100 years.
Warren W. Aney
Senior Wildlife Ecologist
9403 SW 74th Ave
Tigard, OR 97223
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Here's a response from The
Wayne, you ask about a replacement term for environmentalist -- I have
been trying to use the term conservation and conservationist more, not
as a replacement necessarily, but as a term that spans the perceived gap
between environmentalists on one side and resource custodians and resource
users on
You make a good point, Malcolm. I've probably mentioned this before, but
the public and the media seem to confound the terms ecologist and
environmentalist -- as in the headline Ecologists demonstrate on Earth
Day. When talking to the general public, I sometimes say Most ecologists
are
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A German friend and academician once commented to me on France's proposal to
remove roadside trees because of the high number of fatal tree-auto
smashups: Leave the trees and let Darwin apply.
Warren Aney
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carnivores, forest birds)
To obtain a pdf workshop outline and registration form go to the Chapter's
Annual Meeting website:
http://fw.oregonstate.edu/tws/2006annualmeeting.htm
Warren W. Aney
Senior Wildlife Ecologist
Tigard, OR
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Subject: Re: Birds and styrofoam pellets
What do you hope to accomplish, and what led you to do it?
WT
At 01:21 PM 1/22/2006, Warren W. Aney wrote:
I have been using small (5 mm) styrofoam pellets as a soil additive.
Since
they tend to accumulate on the soil surface
I have been using small (5 mm) styrofoam pellets as a soil additive. Since
they tend to accumulate on the soil surface, these whitish pellets might
easily be ingested by ground foraging birds. I've done a quick Google
search and found little information indicating whether or not this material
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