Logging and controlled burns in northern michigan brought the Kirtland Warbler back from the brink of extinction.
In the 50s there were a handful of breeding pairs nesting in a 3000 acre tract in northern Michigan and now they’re turning up in the upper peninsula and in Wisconsin.
Profitable human activity saved them from extinction.
Sheesh! It is not our jobs to adapt to critters, it is their job to adapt to us!
They can come down to Texas. We have plenty of burned timber from last years wildfires.
rare unless they vote DEMOCRAT
Outdoor/environmental ping
This first thing we should do is find all of the scientists and environuts who want this bird to be protected. Then we have their homes or residences burned to the ground. Next, declare their properties an environmental refuge for the next million years with no development allowed whatsoever. Then force them to live in thatch huts and cannot have any modern conveniences at all.
Some one has to make the sacrifice for these birds, right? Let those who worship them be the first to do so.
A short intro, then a lot of words/big buildup, and boffo finish:
Then the black-backed, beetle-eating woodpecker turned to the Ivory billed woodpecker and the red headed woodpecker and said,
“Gee guys, I dunno about beech or birch, or beetles, but that’s the best piece of ash I’ve ever had my pecker in.”
AT least those birds really exist. Here in Arkansas, some yahoo takes some grainy movie footage of a Pileated woodpecker, claimed it was a formerly believed extinct Ivory Billed Woodpecker (there was not enough detail in the bad video to make a positive ID), and vast acres were shut down to a lot of the former use.
Millions of dollars and many teams from some of the top Universities and other research organizations have come in and combed the area and have found ZERO evidence of an Ivory Bill. Lots of Pileated, which look very similar to it (and indeed - there is a natural color phase that looks a LOT like the Ivory Bill). Further, the place where the footage was supposedly taken does not match the normal environment the Ivory Bill favored - but it does fit perfectly the preferred habitat for... Pileated Woodpeckers.
But much like the hoax formerly known as “Manmade Global Warming”, those with power just won’t let go.
Just cause a bunch of scientist can’t find them doesn’t mean they are endangered. Just like the spotted owl they may not be looking that hard due to their agenda driven science.
Pray for America
Strange. There have been quite a few major fires throughout the west in the last twenty years.