the planet is doing what it has always done: Changing. That we've played such a significant role in that is secondary to the fact that, as always, the planet will be more hospitable to some species than others.
Very true, but it's near blasphemy now to say it. A while back, the great Kenn Kaufmann wrote a piece for some birding magazine (I subscribe to them all so I can't remember which) saying the same things about certain bird species. Yes, the cerulean warbler may be in trouble, but other species — such as the northern rough-winged swallow — are thriving under habitat changes.
And so goes the world.
I KNEW I missed pinging someone on this.
Glad you are here, though, and value your opinion on this topic.
I was looking out my window earlier today and saw a beautiful pilliated (sp) woodpecker (huge bird) on a tree. I have a lot of them here, one really large one. I also have some interesting (and probably endangered) salamanders. Not long ago I was hiking in the woods and turned over a log and saw a beautiful salamander. It had a big round head and white spots on it.
Reading this article made me chuckle, as I have read some pretty interesting articles about the Ivory Billed WP sightings and efforts to determine if they are actually in Arkansas. Now that’s one story to watch.
Do you read “Audoban (sp) magazine, and Ted Williams articles?
He’s a prolific writer,published widely, but we have head butted once. Long story.