[mou] Ivory-billed Woodpecker

[Shelley Steva]

I brings joy to my soul for the following reasons:
1- they are a large and beautiful bird;
2- with a couple of different decisions back in the
'40's  the ivory-bill
would have not have gotten into this terrible shape-
population wise;
3- we cannot bring back the passenger pigeon or the
Labrador duck or the Carolina parakeet or the great
auk- so wouldn't it be great to bring at least one
bird back from the dead
Alleluia!

Shelley Steva
--- Pastor Al <PastorAl@PrincetonFreeChurch.net>
wrote:
> Questions swim to the surface:
> 
> 1) How many are left?  Is there a large enough
> population to conserve?  (See
> some of the Hawaiian species' problems.)  Will
> others be discovered in
> divergent locations?
> 
> 2) Should access be regulated, restricted, even
> denied?  Who makes such
> decisions?  Will birders abide by such decisions?
> 
> 3) Which model of conservation will we use, from
> highly interventional
> (California Condor) to "letting nature take its
> course"?
> 
> 4) How many resources ($$ and otherwise) can we
> justify allocating for
> conservation?
> 
> 5) How did they keep it secret for so long?
> (chuckle)
> 
> 6) In a completely different vein, why does this
> announcement bring such joy
> to our souls?
> 
> 
> Al Schirmacher
> Princeton, MN
> Mille Lacs & Sherburne Counties
> 
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