Saturday, January 27, 2007

Ivory-billed Woodpecker funding

Just for review, note that some detailed information about Ivory-billed Woodpecker funding is still available at the USFWS site here (PDF) and here (PDF).

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have a question for the true believers. How long is it reasonable for the states and feds to supply funding for IBWO research without that research producing evidence that is convincing to 95% of the birding population? This field season? Another? 5 years? 10?

Or do you feel that the case has been so solidly "proven" that the feds should continue funding IBWO research no matter what is found, or not found, in the future?

I'm interested to see if you people have a timeline or not.

Note that private funding doesn't count in this discussion. People and private organizations are free to do whatever they wish with their own money.

Anonymous said...

This is atrocious.

Anonymous said...

I wonder how much the USFWS spends per/species on invertebrate conservation?

Anonymous said...

Anon says, "Or do you feel that the case has been so solidly "proven" that ..."
This statement represents the TB problem: they "feel", they don't "think". There is a difference, and it's not subtle.

Anonymous said...

"95% of the birding population?"

Where does this number come from?

Anonymous said...

"95% of the birding population?"

Where does this number come from?

Nowhere in particular. It was really sort of a figure of speech. An equivalent example might be the Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush that showed up in Texas. There was no dissent on the presence and ID of that bird because it was fully documented. The fact that it could be independently followed up made the case even stronger.

When the IBWO is documented at that level, (though not necessarily, with independent follow-up) there will be no serious dissent either.