Adam had business in San Francisco.
Posted on 06/01/2012 5:29:48 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
A conservation group says rare woodpecker chicks in burned forest stands at Lake Tahoe won't survive if the U.S. Forest Service proceeds with a contentious post-fire logging project.
Leaders of the John Muir Project in the Sierra are pressing the agency to postpone cutting around the trees until after the nesting season in August.
They are hoping for a ruling by then on their appeal to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court aimed at blocking what's left of the salvage operation. The logging is in an area where a fire burned more than 250 homes in 2007.
Group director Chad Hanson documented the black-backed woodpecker chicks this week in a nest in a dead tree at the site and suspects there are more.
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Adam had business in San Francisco.
Very good point. The birds probably only nest in burnt forests? So, why don’t the bird people burn the trees down on their own property so the birds have a place to nest.
It’s all in the marinade....
/johnny
It never applies to their property. Only public or someone elses private property.
I thought North American birds nested in the spring.
Die offs are equal opportunity. They hit every season. Hot summer? Die off.
Cold winter? Die off. Miss the 3 days of good weather at the end of November? Die off.
What you are used to where you are isn't what other people expect, and the inverse is true.
Learn the ground.
/johnny
It's different down here at 32.x degrees. Everything has a stinger in it's tail or poison in it's mouth.
And birds don't nest in 'spring'. We don't actually have one of those. They nest when they get a chance.
/johnny
I have an old Herters cook book. It has a recipe for meadowlark and robin. One funny comment in the recipe... “I much prefer robins in the spring...”
LOL!
What exactly do robins eat, and when are they fattest?
That's exactly one remove from eating bugs yourself.
Which is why they are great for garnish, snacks and special parties with royalty.
/johnny
And some of the stories come down. But we got recipes.
/johnny
More agenda driven junk science.
Pray for America
That Chad Hanson twit is a local tree hugger whiner who knows
as much about woodpeckers as Barumba knows about econom~
mics. Never met a logging sale he didn’t cry about. Hey Hanson....
Get outta my town & take Michael Moores butt ugly sister
w/you.
This is Tahoe, northern California in the Sierras. You’d think they’d nest as soon as they could so their babies would be old enough when winter comes to survive.
No-one can actually catch them.
And they have babies.
It's a busy season. I'm cutting stuff down as fast as I can.
It will be a human world. The blue jays can wake up late and come scold in the afternoon, and the blue birds can gritch at the catz in the early morning....
But I'll bet I determine what happens on this property.
/johnny
We don't have fixed seasons like you guys do.
I've mowed grass in December.
/johnny
Didn’t Tipper Gore try to save a rare “WOOD PECKER?”
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