It was so sad to get down to the London Ranger Station on Sunday and see many
of the the trees there are marked for removal. The DBNF website says they are
right now in the beginning stages of demolishing the Ranger Station and putting
a road through there. We tried four years ago to call this to the attention of
those who might save the pines and the ranger station but to no avail. So sad
that they would destroy what may be one of the best Shortleaf Pine stands in
Eastern Kentucky with a very rare bird species breeding there and also the
historic Ranger Station there just to put an unneeded road where it could have
easily been put in the field next door. Seems like the people that we would
trust to save our environment, namely the State and Federal Governments often
do the worst things possible to it. The Brown-headed Nuthatches are right now
nesting in one of the trees marked for removal. I have a message in to my DBNF
contacts, including the wildlife biologist hoping they could at least wait
until July or August when nesting is over to remove the trees. I have posts and
photos I took Sunday posted on various Kentucky Bird FB groups as well.
Frank Renfrow
Fort Thomas, KY
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