permaculture

[Claude Genest <genest@together.net>]

YEs Please, Thanks.

> From: Mark <mpludwig@facstaff.wisc.edu>
> Reply-To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:05:21 -0500
> To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] Songbirds.....
> 
> Scott craven et al at UW Madison put out a great paper on songbird
> predation by cats in WI.  I'll hunt up info on contact if you want to
> pursue this angle.
> Mark
> 
> 
> At 03:20 PM 4/10/02 -0400, you wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> As some of you remember, I'm gathering info to combat the forces of 
>> darkness
>> that wish to spray my entire county for mosquitoes, ostensibly to "control 
>> "
>> West Nile Virus even though there's not been a single reported case of of 
>> it
>> up here !
>> 
>> Anyway, in re-reading "SILENT SPRING", the late great RAchel Carson makes
>> the observation that there's no better pesticide than songbirds, the very
>> creatures that have been decimatd  by chemical pesticides ( they eat the
>> worms that ingest the pesticides)
>> 
>> I'm looking for some stats/info on the decline of songbirds...Any leads ?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Claude
>> 
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> Mark P. Ludwig
> Poultry Research Lab
> University of Wisconsin -Madison
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