FreeLists / tn-bird / [tn-bird] Re: TWRA article (Troy might not want to read this...)

["cindy mitchell" <cmitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Are these the same people (TWRA) "protecting" the trumpeter swans?  This
answers a lot of questions.

Cindy Mitchell
Clarksdale, MS
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlie" <cmmbirds@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 3:20 PM
Subject: [tn-bird] TWRA article (Troy might not want to read this...)


>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I just got around to checking out the Nov/Dec issue of Tennessee
> Wildlife, and was rather irritated by the irresponsible, and, well
> for lack of a better word, stupid item I found on page 10.
>
> This was in a (not-well-written) self-congratulatory article written
> by Jerry Bailey about the things being done by Tennessee Wildlife
> Resources Foundation.  The article (ad?) was about the money TWRF is
> getting on the behalf of TWRA.  I understand this is much-needed
> money for an organization that recieves no state funding - that is
> not my beef here.
>
> My problem is that the first picture you see, centered at the top of
> the page, is a **House Sparrow**  Yes, a non-native pest that is one
> of the biggest problems faced by our native Bluebirds, woodpeckers,
> Chickadees, Titmice, swallows and Purple Martins.  At first I
> chuckled, thinking that some copy editor who can't tell a Wood Duck
> from a Flamingo put in a pretty picture, not knowing what it was.
> But the caption was the real killer - the evidense that SOMEONE
> doesn't know what end is up...
>
> "Money to preserve the habitat for our declining songbirds like this
> house sparrow..."
>
> What do they propose to do, build more houses?  Return horses to city
> streets?  And who says the HOSP is declining?  I wish it were true.
>
> Then, to add insult to injury, at the end of the article, Bailey is
> listing some of Tennessee's wonderful biological diversity, and
> mentions boars!!  Another non-native animal that is actively reducing
> native diversity.  If this is what "wildlife experts" write in a
> magazine, it's no wonder that we suffer the environmental woes we do.
>
> Ok, the soapbox is now free to the next bellyacher...
>
> Charlie
>
>
>
>
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> Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont
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>
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