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

  • From: Gwenda Ledbetter <bahpu80@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Ken Anderson <kenhanderson@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 14:13:48 -0400

Der Steve,
My heart aches for your loss which is also ours.
Gwenda LedBetter

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Kenneth Anderson <kenhanderson@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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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> > <egrets2 10.4.14.JPG>
> > <egrets 10.4.14.JPG>
> > <AMGP 10.3.14.JPG>
> > <GCTH 10.3.14.JPG>
>
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