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

  • From: Leonard Pardue <eljeep129@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bahpu80@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 14:49:00 -0400

Steve, what a loss and a shame. After you get over the shock, maybe folks
who have heard about this crime could help you consider remedies and next
steps. Report to the sheriff? Seek coverage from local press? Try again in
a more secure setting?

Len Pardue

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Gwenda Ledbetter <bahpu80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>> >
>> > <MAWR 10.6.14.JPG>
>> > <LISP1 10.5.14.JPG>
>> > <LISP2 10.5.14.JPG>
>> > <LISP3 10.5.14.JPG>
>> > <egrets2 10.4.14.JPG>
>> > <egrets 10.4.14.JPG>
>> > <AMGP 10.3.14.JPG>
>> > <GCTH 10.3.14.JPG>
>>
>>
>

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