[EMAS] Re: WWC & Hooper Ln.: Lincoln's Ss, Marsh Ws - 10/5, 10/6/14

  • From: Kenneth Anderson <kenhanderson@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "stevenmritt@xxxxxxxxx" <stevenmritt@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 14:02:27 -0400

The account of your loss is so tragic.  We all feel for you. Your rage seems 
well-controlled.  I hope a witness will appear.   Ken Anderson
P.s. Thx so much for your excellent pictures.
Sent from my iPad

> On Oct 7, 2014, at 12:30 AM, Steve Ritt <stevenmritt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I made a quick run around the Warren Wilson College field below the red WWC 
> barn yesterday before sunset and had:
> Lincoln's Sparrow - at least 4
> Grasshopper Sparrow - 1
> Swamp Sparrow - 11 (scattered elsewhere locally, but this seemed like a good 
> number for early October)
> Bobolink - 2
> 
> Today, I had a Marsh Wren on private property near the Asheville Airport, and 
> re-found one of Simon T's Marsh Ws at Hooper Lane. Wayne F. had two Lincoln's 
> Sparrows and a Peregrine Falcon at Hooper. A few Bobolink remain. The winds 
> kicked up, and I headed to Jackson Park.
> 
> Jackson Park was absolutely dead. I ended up with eight warblers today 
> overall. Neotropical migrant activity has really died out fast in the past 
> few days.
> 
> I kicked up a Wilson's Snipe off Hwy. 25 in Mountain Home.
> 
> Some of you know that botany was my first natural passion way before I got 
> into birds. Some of you may know that I have been passionate about growing 
> rare, native woodland medicinal plants for years in Madison County. I have 
> always been aware of the risks involved with doing this, but I finally got 
> hit hard last week. I suppose I'm in shock. I haven't let it set in yet, but 
> I lost 1/2 an acre of the most beautiful, healthy, simply amazing 
> seven-year-old American Ginseng ever. It was poached clean by my neighbors 
> days before I got back in town. I'm absolutely heartbroken. The holes in the 
> ground hurt like holes in my heart. The monumental monetary loss is one 
> thing, but the years of love, labor, and hope that I have lost from this are 
> absolutely crushing. I will never see that land the same way again. It was 
> the prime motivation for my buying the land, and it was my deepest dream to 
> cultivate this land into a productive sanctuary. Perhaps some of you have 
> experienced this loss, and perhaps some of you are considering growing. Take 
> warning. The risks are real. They're getting higher. The future of our native 
> medicinal plants is dismal. 
> 
> A few recent pics are attached.
> 
> Steve Ritt
> Asheville, NC
> 
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> <GCTH 10.3.14.JPG>

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