[mou] Re: Henslow's Sparrows (numbers)

[tapaculo@halcyon.ws]

I referred to the northwest of the state, where the population is apparen=
tly
down from 3,500 moose in 1993 to about 400 in 2002... much more serious t=
han
a peridoic waxing-and-waning.  A research study came out this year identi=
fying
several proximate factors, but proposing climate change as the common und=
erlying
cause.

http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/02/09_gundersond_moos=
edying/

>-- Original Message --
>Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 23:04:09 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Steve Foss <stfcatfish@yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [mou] Re: Henslow's Sparrows (numbers)
>To: Steve G <tapaculo@halcyon.ws>, mou-net@cbs.umn.edu
>
>
>Well, moose are not disappearing in NE minnesota. 
>
>Still lots up here. 
>
>While moose numbers wax and wane in northern Minnesota, the
>apparent lack of pattern to their numbers has not been
>explained, and, considering the limitiations of humanity,
>such fluctuations probably won't be. 
>
>--- Steve G <tapaculo@halcyon.ws> wrote:
>
>> ...
>> So we may no longer have moose in Minnesota (they're
>> disappearing from NW
>> Minnesota because of the warming), but we'll have
>> Henslow's Sparrows.  More like Iowa, you might say.
>> 
>> 
>> Stephen Greenfield
>> Minneapolis
>> tapaculo@halcyon.ws