[TN-Bird] GRSMNP needs help!!!

From: Charlie <cmmbirds@xxxxxxxxx>
To: TN-Bird <TN-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 09:24:24 -0700 (PDT)
Hi folks,

The park needs your help more than ever.  Many of you have seen some
of my posts about the pressures facing this, one of the most
beautiful places in the eastern US and one of the most diverse places
on earth.

I won't go into all the issues now - but would be happy to answer
off-line to those who are unaware of them, and are not able to find
my previous posts on the TN-bird webpage.

The current issue is that the park is being pressured into keeping
Cades Cove grass short, and stop the native plants program.  Being a
public entity, they need to take public comment seriously, and right
now, the majority of what they are recieving are comments that ask
the park to mow the fields.  Many people don't like the tall grass. 
So the park is planning to mow in early June.  This is not a good
time for grassland breeding birds.  And birds that breed in
grasslands have declined, as a group, significantly more than other
groups of birds in the last 2 decades, according to many sources.

If you care about the management of the park, PLEASE send your
comments to:

superintendant, Great Smoky Mountains National Park
107 Park Headquarters Road
Gatlinburg, TN 37738
fax: 865-436-1220
email: GRS_superintendant@xxxxxxx

The official web site for all the Cades Cove issues is: 
www.cadescoveopp.com

Other officials who need to hear your views:

Fran Mainella, Director,
National Park Service
1849 C Street, NW
Washington, DC 20240

Our Senator, Lamar Alexander considers himeself a friend of the park,
and some of his actions through the years have shown that.
Senator lamar Alexander
Howard H Baker, JR, US Courthouse
800 Market Street, #112
Knoxville, TN 37902
phone: 8650545-4253
fax: 865-545-4252
email: http://alexander.senate.gov/contact.cfm

Charlie

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Charlie Muise, Senior Naturalist
Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont
Townsend, TN  lat 35 deg, 38'23"  long 83 deg, 41'22"

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