FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Re: red-cockaded woodpecker in tennessee

[Beau Peyton <bpeyton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

cpnichol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>> More recently, 3 or 4 years ago, Alcoa, through its Tapoco subsidiary 
>> (since renamed), hired biologists to survey for RCWs in the same part 
>> of the park where RCWs occurred in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as on 
>> nearby Tapoco lands.  This survey was conducted as part of Tapoco's 
>> hydro plant relicensing effort to determine whether Tapoco's new 
>> license needed to include specific requirements for managing RCWs.  
>> The survey crew did not find any recent evidence of RCWs or good 
>> quality habitat for RCWs.
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> Did anyone really expect Alcoa to report it had located RCW?
>
> That's like asking the Mafia to search, find and report lost currency. 
>
> Beau Peyton
> Germantown, TN
>


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