Update: Winging It has printed idiotic Audubon propaganda about the ridiculous, copycat claims from Auburn University, warning birders to stay out of the study site in Florida -- "we can all agree that [the report] inspires hope" etc. (Nov/Dec 2006, p.20). No we can't. What this article actually inspires is fury that money that should be spent on essential habitat conservation and research by competent biologists is being wasted and that organizations founded by serious birders are now run by charlatans. It's a zero-sum game, and the Ivory-billed Woodpecker nonsense is zeroing out legitimate projects.
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Does anyone know Gene Sparling's address? By some bizarre circumstance I will be in Hot Springs for the Holidays. Just thought I would drop some sympathy flowers off at the home of the former Conservationist of the Year.
Seriously, maybe the researchers should be given a break for the Holidays. After all, we do live in a country where the same government pays landowners not to farm. Yes, the govt. pays landowners to place their farmland into reforested wildlife habitat. That's right. The govt. pays landowners to have fun deer hunting. Sounds like a good deal. Kinda like the Mississippi Xmas tree.
I always wondered what Martjan thought about this and some other practices we have over here. I bet he laughs his head off -- under his own breath of course.
Happy Holidays,
Bona Ditto
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Meanwhile, TNC has acquired the ruins of the Singer Tract and is initiating reforestation efforts on thousands of acres. This is great news for habitat conservation, and a side benefit will be that there will once again be IBWO's there in about 100 years (if they aren't there already...). I hope that TNC is coordinating closely with the IBWO Recovery Team.
This is great news for habitat conservation, and a side benefit will be that there will once again be IBWO's there in about 100 years
Wow. Maybe in 200 years the pteradactyls will return.
Amy-
Lighten up- I'm on your side. Sarcasm, my dear, sarcasm.... Besides, the pteradactyls may already be there, too....
Anonymous 10:40
"a side benefit will be that there will once again be IBWO's there in about 100 years (if they aren't there already...)"
What have you been smoking? I hope this is a joke.
IBWO atheist said...
"'a side benefit will be that there will once again be IBWO's there in about 100 years (if they aren't there already...)'
What have you been smoking? I hope this is a joke."
Yes, it was a joke. C'mon y'all, it's the holiday season, so get into the spirit, chill out a bit, have some spiked IBWOEGG-NOG (get it?), order up some IBWO door knockers and squeeze toys for stocking stuffers, and put an IBWO ringtone on your cell phone. Maybe even even have a dead stump instead of a Xmas tree and put an IBWO decoy on that sucker and put a little scaled bark around the bottom. Leave out an IBWO burger and a coke for Santa. Have some fun with it.
Sarcasm, my dear, sarcasm....
Glad to hear it. ;)
Next time throw in some references to Bigfoot or lens-warping microwaves emanating from IBWO beaks. Otherwise it's impossible to distinguish between that sort of "sarcasm" and the rantings of a TB.
order up some IBWO door knockers and squeeze toys for stocking stuffers, and put an IBWO ringtone on your cell phone.
Where do I get the ringtone?
Amy, about thirty years ago my roomate at the time went on a Bigfoot hunt around Orleans. 300 Weatherby Magnum with full factory loads would have done the trick. Unfortunately, no results. Same guy wanted to bag bambi with a bowie knife but once again, no results. We were working up Horse Linto Creek. I can see where it would be hard to find anything in the swamp.
Amy Lester said...
"Next time throw in some references to Bigfoot or lens-warping microwaves emanating from IBWO beaks. Otherwise it's impossible to distinguish between that sort of "sarcasm" and the rantings of a TB."
Amy-
I thought you were more intuitive on these sorts of things, but I'll try to be less subtle in the future. Maybe I should have said "tongue in cheek." Anyway, let's not quarrel any further!
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