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Index of Subjects Hi John and all, Just to be the Devil's Advocate, one should bear in mind that, while or shortly after birds are learning to fly a great many suffer collisions with motor vehicles. As an order of magnitude guess I suspect about 100 times as many die on highways as in logging operations. After all, logging involves about 1% of woodland annually year round and if the critical nesting period spans two months then the area involved is (1/6)% or one part in 600. Should one be required to walk ahead of motor vehicles during this period, blowing a horn during daytime and swinging a lantern at night ? Dave W, Kentville On 6/17/2019 3:10 PM, John and Nhung wrote: > The forest ecosystems of Nova Scotia owe you big-time, Bev. You get the credit for starting this particular train rolling. If this leads to a moratorium (or better still, a ban) on logging during nesting seasons, well ... I think we should all do what we can to maintain the momentum which has been started in that direction. > > -----Original Message----- > From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] On Behalf Of Bev Wigney > Sent: June 17, 2019 12:30 PM > To: naturens > Subject: [NatureNS] Good interview about nesting migratory birds on Information Morning today > > All, > > As many of you know, I've been quite involved for some time > (understatement) in trying to get LAF to acknowledge and pay serious > attention to ecology and conservation issues at Corbett-Dalhousie Lake > Forest here in Annapolis County. You will probably have read that > after the discovery of Chimney Swift activity at the forest, and > probable nesting in the huge Yellow Birch of that forest that have > numerous hollows and cavities -- and then other migratory species on > territory -- and the confirmation of at least one nest in the centre > of the forest -- a hold was finally called on operations late Friday > afternoon. (Sigh of relief -- for a little while, at least). > > Anyhow, if you've been following the news, you'll have heard that > certain individuals in the forestry industry have been stating that > logging crews are trained to watch for and avoid bird nests during > harvest operations, but there was an admission that sometimes nests > are probably destroyed - Information Morning interview last week. > > An interview was made on Friday -- with Scott Leslie -- who spent most > of last week out at Corbett Lake searching for Swift nesting trees and > other migratory bird nests. He must have been interviewed earlier on > Friday before the Minister's public announcement about the hold on > operations. I think many of you would find the interview with Scott > of interest. This link should take you directly to the podcast. > https://tunein.com/podcasts/Morning-Shows/Information-Morning-Nova-Scotia-p1781 > > bev wigney > Round Hill
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