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... concluded that the project “is not likely to adversely affect the ivory-billed woodpecker.”
Nor will affect the Dodo or passenger pigeon, for the same reasons.
“They’ll have to monitor the areas to make sure there are no ivory-billeds,” Sattelberg said. “Through all the investigations, they’ve not found evidence [of the woodpecker. ]”
That result was predicted by many of us here. The confirmation is gratifying.
Last month an article called “Giving up the Ghost” said that the exhaustive search by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology should have uncovered signs of an ivory-billed — if there was one to be found.
And if there wasn't one to be found, as we predicted, then no such signs would be uncovered by the exhaustive search. Exactly as observed.
Also predicted here was that some folks would continue to claim "sightings" at various intervals in order to keep the grant money, speaking engagements, and public interest in the fake "controversy" alive.
That prediction turned out to be true as well.
And in spite of all this, the True Believers and IBWO peddlers continue to claim that the skeptics here should not be taken seriously.
It must hurt when the wheels fall off the wagon.
Hmm. Like a lot of Corps of Engineers projects, it does not necessarily sound like the best use of tax dollars. Some comments on this are here and here. Four hundred million dollars for about 900 farms--it must be nice to get an (approximately) half million dollar subsidy like that! Sounds like it will cause some problems for wetlands important to waterfowl, etc.
Too bad that our political system assigns near-zero value to important wildlife habitat, unless an endangered species might be present.
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