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Posted on 12/21/2003 12:11:16 PM PST by steplock

Burn Baby Burn
Date: Sunday, December 21 @ 11:55:29
Topic Environment
Atlanta judge shuts down logging operation in ONF
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
AUSTIN GELDER

Atlanta U.S. District Judge Orinda Evans (Jimmy Carter appointee) shut down contentious logging operations in the Ouachita National Forest this week, idling chain saws at least until the U.S. Forest Service proves the timber harvests in question will have no significant environmental impact.

The Atlanta judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday halting all logging and road building on 10,000 acres of national forest land in Arkansas until a Jan. 5 hearing where the Forest Service will have a chance to show it followed proper procedures in authorizing timber sales.

"The Sierra Club considers this a huge victory for the people of Arkansas," said Bryan Bird, (Florida based)legal coordinator for the nonprofit environmental group heading up the legal challenge.

This battle over Ouachita timber began in May when a handful of environmental groups teamed up and filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta division, to stop 27 timber sales across the southeast. The groups contended the sales would violate the National Forest Management Act’s prohibition of logging on public lands that exceeds a forest’s ability to replenish itself.

The Arkansas land scheduled for logging is home to a number of sensitive species including the scarlet tananger, the pileated woodpecker, and four fish species that could become en- dangered if their habitat is lost to the timber industry, said David Reagan, a spokesman for the Ouachita Watch League.

"If we lose the forest then we’re going to lose the species, because the species live in those forests," he said.

The Sierra Club and the Hot Springs-based Ouachita Watch League went back to the court this fall to ask for a restraining order after they discovered loggers were already cutting on some of the Arkansas plots included in the pending lawsuit.

In the past, the Forest Service usually delayed logging until court cases were settled, Bird said.

Atlanta U.S. District Judge Orinda Evans (Jimmy Carter appointee) divided the May lawsuit into four cases and sent legal claims regarding logging projects on public land in Texas, Virginia and Mississippi back to district courts in their own states.

She held onto the Arkansas case "to determine whether defendants abused their discretion in allowing these projects to proceed," according to the temporary restraining order.

The areas scheduled for logging in the Ouachita National Forest include the Kingdoodle, Kinsey and Logan Side ecosystem management units; the Middle North Fork of the Ouachita River project; and the north and south Gafford Creek Watershed projects.

The 1.6 million-acre Ouachita National Forest is mostly within Arkansas’ borders, with 255,471 acres in Oklahoma.

Spokesmen for the U.S. Forest Service in both Hot Springs and Washington, D.C., declined to comment Friday. The agency does not comment on pending legal action, they said.

Jim Crouch, director of the Ouachita Timber Purchasers Group, said the temporary restraining order poses a minor inconvenience for timber companies. Crouch represents companies that buy and process timber from Arkansas national forests.

"But if [Judge Evans] moves on through Jan. 5 and makes a decision at that time, the inconvenience will be minimal," he said.

Crouch said timber companies did nothing wrong by harvesting while litigation was still pending.

"If you bought a new car several months ago you’d want to be driving it," he said.

He said he was also glad to see that the judge is asking for a $10,000 corporate surety bond from the plaintiffs. Plaintiffs in lawsuits that would stop economic activities are often asked to post bonds.

"You’ve got to take some responsibility. You can’t just run out and file a lawsuit," he said.

SIERRA CLUB CONTACTS to FREEP!

David Reagan
Ouachita Watch League
P. O. Box 1521
Hot Springs, Arkansas 71902
(501) 623-8425
email David Reagan at:
dreagan@direclynx.net


Bryan Bird is the Appeals and Litigation Coordinator
Sierra Club National Forest Campaign
Mr. Bryan Bird, Executive Director
Forest Conservation Council
P.O. Box 276268
Boca Raton, Florida 33427
(561) 347-0949
email Bryan Bird at:
bmbird@worldnet.att.net


Sierra Club National Forest Campaign
Conservation Organizer

116 W. Spring
Fayetteville, Ar 72701
Fax 479-571-3316
Work 479-571-3005


By preventing the 1999 ice storm damage from being cleaned in the Ouachita Forests, The Sierra Club is intent on seeing Arkansas BURN as brightly as did California.

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1 posted on 12/21/2003 12:11:16 PM PST by steplock
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To: steplock
I KNEW I should have check that LAWYER's email address.

As typical for that sub-species, it was a LIE!

bmbird@worldnet.att.net
SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:: host gateway1.worldnet.att.net [204.127.134.23]:
551 not our customer .
2 posted on 12/21/2003 12:27:48 PM PST by steplock (www.FOCUS.GOHOTSPRINGS.com)
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To: steplock

Click here to see the results of SIERRA CLUB interference in Forest Management!

Bitterroot National Forest in Montana on August 6 by a fire behavior analyst from Fairbanks, Alaska by the name of John McColgan with a Digital camera.

3 posted on 12/21/2003 12:34:15 PM PST by steplock (www.FOCUS.GOHOTSPRINGS.com)
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To: steplock
Merry Christmas, loggers, millworkers, and families. With love from the enviro-nuts.
4 posted on 12/21/2003 12:40:46 PM PST by backlash
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To: farmfriend
ping
5 posted on 12/21/2003 12:41:19 PM PST by Libertarianize the GOP (Ideas have consequences)
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To: steplock
Tis the season to ruthlessly kill a pine tree.
Go for it! Have twice the fun - kill two!
6 posted on 12/21/2003 12:48:11 PM PST by concerned about politics ( Liberals are still stuck at the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy)
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To: steplock; AAABEST; Ace2U; Alamo-Girl; Alas; alfons; amom; AndreaZingg; Anonymous2; ...
Rights, farms, environment ping.

Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

7 posted on 12/21/2003 4:58:13 PM PST by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)
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To: steplock
He said he was also glad to see that the judge is asking for a $10,000 corporate surety bond from the plaintiffs.

That should at least be $100,000 and probably $500,000 to compensate the loggers and mills for delays...

8 posted on 12/21/2003 5:11:01 PM PST by tubebender (Don't believe anything you read and only half of what you see...)
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To: steplock; countrydummy; Carry_Okie; Grampa Dave; redrock; AuntB; Movemout; NMC EXP
I hope we can get something started here on FR. In the past, we have had some success with Klamath and Jarbidge and the Darby and the like.

This is every bit a problem as the WOT. 'Pod

9 posted on 12/21/2003 5:20:13 PM PST by sauropod ("If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.")
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To: farmfriend; Carry_Okie; Grampa Dave; marsh2; Iconoclast2; Issaquahking; eldoradude; snopercod
You people read this dammit!!! Read it and weep!!!

Wildlife is in fight of its life

And nature, although on the ropes, shows how resilient it can be

By Bruce Lieberman STAFF WRITER

December 21, 2003

CUYAMACA – More than a month after fires roared across the state park here, the charred and contorted bodies of deer, bobcats and other creatures still lie in heaps.

The remains of a young buck, its three-point antlers brittle and broken, rest in the ash 20 feet from the delicate skeleton of a bobcat. Up a slope lie more bucks, does and fawns, many scavenged to the bone by ravens.

Park rangers and biologists counted the bodies of nearly 80 animals on a single hillside – more than 70 of them deer.

"I'd like to think that all these animals died for lack of oxygen first, before the fire hit them," UC-Davis researcher Tamra Brennan said as she hiked back to her truck, her boots sinking in the ash that covers much of Cuyamaca Rancho State Park.

"That's what I'd like to believe."

From the base of Palomar Mountain in the north to Otay Mountain at the border, mammals, birds, reptiles and insects were overwhelmed by the ferocity of fires that swept across the backcountry in late October.

On Otay Mountain near the border, for example, fire might have obliterated a species of butterfly called Thorne's hairstreak.

San Diego County, from the beaches to the deserts, is one of the most biologically diverse regions in the world, and the fate of its wildlife will depend largely on how fast the habitats return.

The impact on individual species will be unclear for months, perhaps years, wildlife experts say.

A preliminary assessment of the fires' impact on wildlife and vegetation by scientists for Burned Area Emergency Response, a multi-agency group, tells both a sobering and hopeful story.

The Paradise, Cedar and Otay fires charred more than 376,000 acres, including 16 percent of the county's wildlands. Along with more than 2,400 human homes, the fires destroyed animal habitat, including coastal sage scrub and chaparral, oak woodlands, coniferous forests, mountain meadows and rolling grasslands.

Yet most mammal species probably suffered low levels of mortality during the fires, biologists say. Many larger animals likely escaped approaching flames, and there is at least anecdotal evidence that small burrowing animals are rebuilding in the scorched land.

It appears that small animals that do not tunnel beneath the ground for protection, such as brush rabbits, wood rats and voles, suffered greatly in the fires, biologists say. But their deaths have created feeding opportunities for ravens, crows, coyotes and foxes.

Ravens are surely getting their fill below Cuyamaca Peak. Their tracks have been seen circling carcasses there.

The fire probably overtook those animals quickly. Wildlife biologists found some deer kneeling, crouched low against the ground and fixed in place where the flames roared over them. For most of the animals, it appears as though they fell to the ground without struggling, a sign that asphyxiation killed them instantly.

Biologists don't know how many large mammals died in the fire or how many will succumb to injuries or starvation in coming months.

About a dozen mountain lions are believed to range between the Cuyamaca and Laguna mountains, and biologists have confirmed that one died because of the fires. Another was reported killed on a roadway.

An estimated 2,500 deer lived in the county before the fires, says the California Department of Fish and Game. Biologists believe more than 1,000 deer lived in Cuyamaca Rancho State Park before the blazes.

A few black bears have been seen in the backcountry in recent years, though the size of their population is not known for certain. Biologists have not found any dead from the fires.

But they have found the remains of some bobcats. The state has estimated there are 4,000 bobcats in California, but no reliable counts for San Diego County exist.

Wildlife biologists with the Conservation Biology Institute, the Natural History Museum in Balboa Park and various government agencies have been working on a census of mammals in the county. However, the census is not expected to be completed for two years, said Wayne Spencer, a biologist in San Diego with the Conservation Biology Institute.

Back to life

There are signs of recovery below Cuyamaca Peak, where so many animals died, and throughout the backcountry. Blades of grass rise from mounds of ash. Meadows are beginning to green over.

"This place is just going to come alive in the spring," said Mark Jorgensen, superintendent of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, as he examined the remains of a deer below Cuyamaca Peak. "It'll be unreal."

For the animals that survived the fires, the winter will be rough. Rain will be essential for habitat recovery, but there are no signs that the region's five-year drought is ending.

Animals surely will compete for resources, seeking food and cover in remaining patches of habitat. Deer, for example, might have fewer places to hide from their chief predator, the mountain lion.

In Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, biologists have seen evidence of a mountain lion attack on a deer that had wandered onto a burned and open hillside.

Mountain lions might also be heading toward Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in search of food, where endangered bighorn sheep live, biologists say. Mountain lions are the sheep's primary predator.

With so many animals on the move, many are also being killed by cars.

"The surviving wildlife in the area is just getting slaughtered out on the road," said Phillip Lambert, a naturalist at the Audubon Society's Silverwood Wildlife Sanctuary near Lakeside.

Animals have already searched out unburned habitat, in some cases finding their way onto private property where homeowners and firefighters made successful stands against the flames. And where the deer go, the mountain lions are sure to follow.

Hardships might last well into next year, but biologists don't expect the fire and its aftermath to threaten the survival of any species of mammals. Animals should be able to find food, no matter how decimated the backcountry appears.

Making things worse

Volunteer groups and individuals have been placing food throughout the area, but biologists say the animals should be left alone.

In Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, people have left alfalfa hay in burned meadows, close to roads. But deer cannot digest alfalfa, so they become bloated and actually starve to death, said Brennan, the UC-Davis researcher.

Dumping alfalfa on the side of the road, which is illegal in state parks, also lures deer near traffic.

And people who put out food on their properties for deer are asking for trouble.

"If you draw in deer, you're asking to draw in mountain lions," Brennan said.

"If a mountain lion does make a deer kill on your property," he said, "it's going to be protective of that deer kill and it's going to be on your property for three or four days while it's eating that kill. That doesn't sound very smart to me."

Although many animals will bounce back, the outlook is less certain for other wildlife.

The Thorne's hairstreak butterfly, for example, was known to live only on Otay Mountain and was entirely dependent on one type of tree, the Tecate cypress, for survival.

The fire on the mountain burned every Tecate cypress in the area to the ground as well as untold numbers of butterfly pupae within the leaf litter at the base of the trees, said Michael Klein, a biologist who has studied the butterfly for seven years.

"When I got out there, I had that sick feeling to my stomach," he said after a visit to the mountain at the end of October. "There is nothing left."

Tough times for birds

San Diego County provides habitat for more than 500 species of migratory birds, and the fires are believed to have destroyed critical habitat already fragmented by development.

Birds that survived the fires and those hatched in the next breeding season may be having a difficult time finding places to live. Habitats that remain could become crowded, making birds vulnerable to predators and disease. The continuing drought and persistent West Nile virus could compound the dangers.

Among the birds are the endangered Southwestern willow flycatcher and the least Bell's vireo – both of which depend on habitats along the upper reaches of the San Luis Rey River, below Palomar Mountain. The Paradise fire burned much of that area.

The loss of coastal sage scrub, chaparral and grasslands could make life difficult for the California gnatcatcher, rufous-crowned sparrow and the greater roadrunner.

They and other non-migratory birds rely on such habitats during their travels throughout the county. Without the habitats, entire populations of birds could become geographically isolated.

Raptors, such as California spotted owls, bald eagles and golden eagles, have fewer places to nest, roost and perch. Wildlife experts say they are probably having a tougher time finding food until the populations of the small rodents they hunt – huge numbers of which are believed to have died in the fires – recover.

There are threats to wetland and shore birds, as well. As winter rains come, ash and sediment will wash into streams and rivers and flow into lagoons and marshes. Toxins from burned-out homes and other debris might accumulate in watersheds as runoff flows toward the ocean.

Among fish threatened in the aftermath of the Cedar fire are the native rainbow trout in Cedar Creek, Boulder Creek and the upper Sweetwater River. Five years of drought have hit these streams and water holes hard, and it is possible that heat from the Cedar fire completely evaporated some of the water holes.

In Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, biologists expect a full recovery, but it will take generations.

"As time goes on and the green-up occurs, Cuyamaca is actually going to be a better environment for deer than it was before," said Walter Boyce, a wildlife biologist at UC-Davis.

"These meadows and the underbrush that have been cleared out are going to provide wonderful habitat for deer to feed. The food is going to be more plentiful and more nutritious in the future.

"I fully expect the population to rebound and potentially exceed what it was before."

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Bruce Lieberman: (619) 293-2836; bruce.lieberman@uniontrib.com

10 posted on 12/21/2003 5:30:49 PM PST by SierraWasp (Any elected official or citizen that supports illegal aliens is nothing but a worthless scoff-law!!!)
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To: steplock
"The Sierra Club considers this a huge victory for the people of Arkansas," said Bryan Bird

Right particularly the lumberjacks, and those that provide support for them, the towns they live....etc.
11 posted on 12/21/2003 6:02:53 PM PST by Valin (We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.)
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To: sauropod
Bump!!!

Merry Christmas, Pod!

12 posted on 12/21/2003 7:20:17 PM PST by AuntB (REFORM SS DISABILITY: http://www.petitiononline.com/SSDC)
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To: steplock
Does anyone know what the Sierra Club is doing to stop immigration, which is the major cause of loss of habitat? They're doing nothing? How can that be? They're so concerned.
13 posted on 12/21/2003 8:12:12 PM PST by henderson field
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To: steplock
Dryocopus pileatus
Pileated Woodpeckers sleep (roost) and nest in cavities (holes) of live pine trees. Cavities are built only in large, old pines. The birds peck the bark around the entrance to get the sap (resin) flowing around the hole. The sticky sap keeps predators like snakes away from the nest cavity.

The male bird is from 16-19" from tail to head (crow-sized) and has a flaming red crest. The female has a blackish forehead, and lacks the red mustache below the eyes.

The Pileated Woodpecker is no longer on the endangered species list.

Still Reason for Concern: Pileated Woodpeckers may still have problems because the open forests with big, old pine trees have been replaced by forests with younger, smaller pines. Also, periodic natural fires which historically kept the pinewoods open have been suppressed since settlement. Periodic fire is needed to control the brushy understory and keep the pinewoods open. Controlled burns are the main reason this bird has become more widespread and removed from the listing of endangered.
14 posted on 12/21/2003 8:32:18 PM PST by razorback-bert
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To: razorback-bert
"The Pileated Woodpecker is no longer on the endangered species list"

I should hope not since we have 4 sets of them living nearby - noisy birds but fun to watch! The woodpeckers/sapsuckers of all species are abundant in this area - and we have had LOGGING in Arkansas for over a century!

Woodpeckers are about as endangered as a spotted owl - and they "require" a specific aged tree as much as that same spotted own "required" old growth trees also - old growth neon signs in the city made real good homes for those owls!

The Sierra Club is interested only in what most of these left-wing radicals are --- power to tell others what to do.

Haven't you noticed that after they throw everyone off an area, they allow themselves full access - WITH SUV's!! and 4-Wheelers and snowmobiles --- but ONLY the sierra Club.

http://www.gohotsprings.com/focus/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=64&page=1

15 posted on 12/21/2003 9:23:09 PM PST by steplock (www.FOCUS.GOHOTSPRINGS.com)
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To: steplock
Last time I was in the Ouachita National Forest, I was in a convertible going to spend a day on the lake on my LR friend's houseboat. I was just looking with envy at the trees, the women with us asked me, why was I so enchanted with trees. I laughed and said, I have to travel 20 or more miles to see one in West Texas.

I am waiting for the Boogy Creek Monster to get on the endanged list.


Weed Wacker Bowl Bump...Go Hogs!
16 posted on 12/21/2003 10:01:34 PM PST by razorback-bert
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To: SierraWasp; Carry_Okie; farmfriend; tubebender; sasquatch; hedgetrimmer; marsh2; Grampa Dave; ...
CUYAMACA – More than a month after fires roared across the state park here, the charred and contorted bodies of deer, bobcats and other creatures still lie in heaps.

"I'd like to think that all these animals died for lack of oxygen first, before the fire hit them," UC-Davis researcher Tamra Brennan said as she hiked back to her truck, her boots sinking in the ash that covers much of Cuyamaca Rancho State Park.

Biologists don't know how many large mammals died in the fire or how many will succumb to injuries or starvation in coming months.

Wildlife biologists with the Conservation Biology Institute,

Stop right there. These people are not biologists, they are pagan socialists, hell bent on "bringing it all down man."

"This place is just going to come alive in the spring," said Mark Jorgensen, superintendent of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, as he examined the remains of a deer below Cuyamaca Peak. "It'll be unreal."

The only thing unreal is that this guy can still get enough mescaline to trigger this level of delusion. Instead of unemployment benifits, maybe displaced loggers should be issued hallucinegenics; that way the "retraining" would make more sense!

Mountain lions might also be heading toward Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in search of food, where endangered bighorn sheep live, biologists say. Mountain lions are the sheep's primary predator. With so many animals on the move, many are also being killed by cars.

This means cars bad, mountain lions good. Children are a noble sacrifice to the pagan gods don't ya know.(long as their somebody elses kids)

Animals have already searched out unburned habitat, in some cases finding their way onto private property where homeowners and firefighters made successful stands against the flames. And where the deer go, the mountain lions are sure to follow.

So the reward for good stewardship is that the State thinks the forward looking landowner should play zoo-tender to all the wildlife that has been displaced by delusional bureaucrats...gee, how charitable of them.

In Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, people have left alfalfa hay in burned meadows, close to roads. But deer cannot digest alfalfa, so they become bloated and actually starve to death, said Brennan, the UC-Davis researcher.

Now we are getting to the meat of the situation: deer are starving to death because goverment employed "conservation biologist" made a mistake and burned the wildlife habitat to a fucking crisp! Well, obviously these biologist must shift the blame to someone else, for them to take full responsibility would require more mescaline then is currently being produced.

The fire on the mountain burned every Tecate cypress in the area to the ground as well as untold numbers of butterfly pupae within the leaf litter at the base of the trees, said Michael Klein, a biologist who has studied the butterfly for seven years. "When I got out there, I had that sick feeling to my stomach," he said after a visit to the mountain at the end of October. "There is nothing left."

More of mean old mister reality: burnt to a crisp is not a good thing!!!

Raptors, such as California spotted owls, bald eagles and golden eagles, have fewer places to nest, roost and perch. Wildlife experts say they are probably having a tougher time finding food until the populations of the small rodents they hunt – huge numbers of which are believed to have died in the fires – recover. There are threats to wetland and shore birds, as well. As winter rains come, ash and sediment will wash into streams and rivers and flow into lagoons and marshes. Toxins from burned-out homes and other debris might accumulate in watersheds as runoff flows toward the ocean.

Oh my golly, the pagans actually admitted that burning the shit out of the place is terrible. Will wonders never cease! In their mind, killing all the SUV drivers is all that is required to restore Bambi's native habitat.

In Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, biologists expect a full recovery, but it will take generations.

One generation is forty years - two generations is 80 years. This is the arguement that we drive home with a pitchfork to the heart: The biologists method takes 80 years, science based land management can do it in 20-30 years. The self-proclaimed biologists methods are crude and inefficient compared to the hands-on experience of third and fourth generation loggers, ranchers and miners.

17 posted on 12/21/2003 11:20:37 PM PST by forester (A Merry Christmas rant to my friends on FR)
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To: steplock
The Sierra Club is interested only in what most of these left-wing radicals are --- power to tell others what to do.

BTTT

18 posted on 12/21/2003 11:23:28 PM PST by forester
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To: concerned about politics
I wish the Sierra Club would file an impact statement. They have destroyed more trees in the last 10 years than loggers have in the last 100.

I recall the big fight over the forest outside of the Calavaras Big Trees National Park. The Eco-weenies blocked all logging for a few years, till the forest burned down. Because the thinning was not done it crownfired. Now there is no trees to protect.

You know the difference between a clear cut and a forest fire?

Roast Bambi.

Besides of which, a clear cut is one meadow, where a forest fire is everything you can see for miles.

So enjoy your steel framed, non renewable resource house bought in the name of ecology, because the less wood we use, the less wood we have.
19 posted on 12/21/2003 11:36:23 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: razorback-bert; steplock
Pilieated Woodpeckers....

Wow! We just saw one of these for the first time ever in our backyard here in east Tennessee. What a beautiful bird, and so big compared to all the other woodpeckers that frequent our backyard.

I'm keeping the camera handy just in case it wasn't just passing through.

20 posted on 12/21/2003 11:42:57 PM PST by bjcintennessee (Don't Sweat the Small Stuff)
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