An excerpt (the bold font is mine):
'And now I'm being accused of using the Ivory bill to stop the airport,' Hill said Wednesday. 'Honest to God, I had no knowledge of this. Until yesterday, I was living in an academic world. I read bird journals. I was just a biologist obsessed with finding evidence that this bird still existed.' Hill and his team said they had come across signs of the Ivory bill along the sleepy Choctawhatchee last year.I fully believe everything that Hill says above.
To me, the bold text above is the most interesting part. When you're obsessed with finding Ivory-bill evidence, you're likely to find an abundance of it, even in search areas that haven't held Ivory-bills for many decades.
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Yesterday someone suggested that I championed Team Panhandle on what was their best day.
I don’t know that Team Panhandle will ever call Tuesday their best day. I imagine their best days were floatin’ down the river this spring playing boy detectives. These guys seem to be about as far from CLO as you can get… open with information, unpretentious, oblivious to politics, oblivious to money… and the ones actually likely to take a fall for CLO’s previous gaffes. They really need a photo.
Go Tigers! Go Lancers!
pd
While I'm sure Tom Wolfe would do the story justice, I think now that Florida's involved it needs to be done by Carl Hiaasen.
http://www.carlhiaasen.com/index.html
He's already done a book involving birds (Hoot), and he's got a wicked sense of humor, and he does politics well. Plus it can be done as fiction and he won't have to worry about libel. I can't find his email address or I'd put the bug in his ear.
"I think now that Florida's involved it needs to be done by Carl Hiaasen."
Ok, he looks good for it. I only harp on Tom Wolfe because of his "Electric Acid Coolaid Test" book. I mean this IBWO fiasco has it's own cast of Merry Pranksters. And many must be on drugs!
But Carl sounds good. I just can't believe someone isn't writing a book!
"I don’t know that Team Panhandle will ever call Tuesday their best day."
It's meant as the best day of their lives after their official out-in-the-open designation as "ivory-billed researchers". So their best day will be the day of the announcement. It's all downhill now.
Or is that all uphill? (Damn it!)
Actually, I think the author could be George Plimpton.
He could get his yankee-self into a kayak, don his old football helmet, and go searching for ivory bills. He'd tip over the kayak a few times. The contrast between him and the southern boys would be awesome.
In the end, he'd conclude something suitably ambiguous. But it would be funny as hell.
OK, Anon and Methinks have thrown down the gauntlet. The challenge is in.
Calling Mr. Hiaasen. Calling Carl Hiassen. Please respond here pronto. Must agree to keep identities secret. Otherwise, you can include all the merry band of bloggeriferus pranksters.
Oh...and must work cheap...
I'm way too impatient to wait for a book. I'm hoping to see Crewdson part 2 in the Chicago Trib any day now
HI:
I have a manuscript being looked at by publishers for a children's fantasy book titled: The Chronicles of Terra Avis: Genesis. Its about human caused extinct birds that are debating whether or not they want to be resurrected back on Earth. One character is an IBWO named Loki and yes one scene does take place in an Arkansas swamp! Hey, my book does explain why so few people have seen an IBWO recently!
Getting back to the subject of this post. I wonder about something that the Carpinterio said. He indicated that he doesn't believe Auburn knew about this airport.
I just don't know anymore. Dr. Hill was obsessed with the Ivory Bill, in his own words. The airport has been the subject of a bitter battle in the entire area. Including a vote by the populace that voted against the airport.
He has all those grad students who also would have had to be oblivious to the news.
I just don't know the truth here. What do you all think?
"Getting back to the subject of this post. I wonder about something that the Carpinterio said. He indicated that he doesn't believe Auburn knew about this airport"
What Dr. Hill did or didn't know about an airport is of little concern. Whether his searches did or didn't secure satisfactory documentation as to the existence of IBWOs IS of concern.
BSB
Sorry, Mr. Plimpton, I didn't realize you were dead. You would have been good though.
"What Dr. Hill did or didn't know about an airport is of little concern."
Dear BSB,
In the world of birds, yes.
In the world of hopping mad developers, not a chance.
Why doesn't Amy write the rebuttal? I'd love to see the first draft of her manuscript
Why does it need rebutting? It was rejected by 3 prominent journals and ended up in Canada.
That's the rebuttal, right there
Anonymous said..
"Dear BSB,
In the world of birds, yes.
In the world of hopping mad developers, not a chance."
Perhaps, but can you imagine the enormous potential for comedy that hopping-mad-airport developers vs. The Auburn Double-knocky Crusade Guys might afford?
It couldn't be better if you made it up!
BSB
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