[texbirds] About Cook's Slough in Uvalde
- From: "Georgina Schwartz" <gbird@xxxxxxx>
- To: "texbirds" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:45:12 -0500
I am forwarding this letter from someone with experience with a disk golf
course.
I think Uvalde will be shooting itself in the foot if you let this happen to
you.
Georgina Schwartz
3006 Belvoir Dr
San Antonio TX 78230
210-342-2073
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Harrison
To: Georgina Schwartz
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 5:36 PM
Subject: RE: [SATXbirds] Fw: [texbirds] About Cook's Slough, please spread the
word
Georgina,
I teach at Northwest Vista College on the city's NW side by Seaworld.
A few years ago, we were meeting about how to utilize and hopefully preserve
some of the land still unpaved on campus. There was a large patch of land on
the bottom side of the campus where I had been doing some rodent mark:recapture
studies for a number of years.
Well, along came the Disk Golf proponents (one of whom worked on campus). We
argued and tried to get them to realize our campus was not a good place for
this to no avail. The disk golf course went in and the amount of wildlife paid
the price.
Before the disk golf course was even open, the Texas Disk Golf Association was
already advertising our course and one weekend when I came there to check my
rodent traps, I came across of group of "disk golf athletes". There were a
group of four guys sitting on lounge chairs in the parking lot drinking beer
(it was 9am) and smoking (both of which are prohibited on our campus) before
heading out for their day's golf.
Now that I think about it, I might be able to get my Zoology class to generate
some real data about the impact the course had on wildlife on our campus. We
had run a set of camera traps in that area of campus for a few months prior to
construction and had photographed deer, gray foxes, skunks, rabbits, raccoons
and ringtails using the area. I'll be if we set up the cameras now we would
see a profound difference.
Chris Harrison
SATX
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