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[Claude Genest <genest@together.net>]

> Steve thanks for the excellent links ....again ! Thanks also to Len, Bob and
all who so kindly respond... I love this group...

> I doubt very seriously you have an epidemic loss of songbirds.

Why do you sat that ? Isn't that exactly what Rachel Carson describes in her
book ?  I guess the rate of decline has slowed in recent decades and that
the real "epdemic" has come and gone, but sure seems the cumulative effect
is massive (?) 
> 
 but you may be able to get
> collective buy-in to habitat and have a significant impact.


What is collective byuy-in ?

   The
> other option is to find non-toxic alternatives such as biorational
> pesticides.  BIRC is one of your best options along those lines.
> 
> Agro-ecology, agroforestry, hedgerow agriculture, riparian buffer
> strips and corridors, permaculture... they all have something in
> common with ecological design, species selection, and habitat
> management.
> 
> 
> Songbird Hedges—An Antidote to the Stockade Fence
> Plants & Gardens News Volume 16, Number 3 | Fall 2001
> by Janet Marinelli
> http://www.bbg.org/gar2/topics/wildlife/2001fa_songbird.html
> 
> Attracting and Feeding Songbirds
> Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service
> http://cufan.clemson.edu/hgic/factsheets/hgic1700.htm
> 
> Understanding the Science Behind Riparian Forest Buffers:
> Effects on Plant and Animal Communities
> Virginia Cooperative Extension
> http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/forestry/420-152/420-152.html
> 
> Design Recommendations for Riparian Corridors and Vegetated
> Buffer Strips
> US Army Engineer Research and Development Center
> http://www.wes.army.mil/el/emrrp/pdf/sr24.pdf
> 17-page PDF; addressing zones, ecological design, species
> 
> "Habitat, habitat, gots to have a habitat"
> 
> Steve Diver
> 
> 
> 
> Claude Genest wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Steve,
>> 
>> This option is quite popular around here, but I'm afraid it plays into the
>> "best and ONLY the best " mentality that seeks to "solve" the problem
>> without recognizing that the apparent "problem" is in fact only a
>> symptom....
>> Don't get me wrong, I'm all for bats, but not instead of a healthy
>> population of songbirds. And best as I can tell ( hence the need for
>> corroborating evidence) this Spring is as Silent as they've all been for 
>> the
>> last fifty years, and if it hadn't been for Miss Carson's book, I doubt I'd
>> ever have noticed that this is NOT NORMAL !
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Claude
> 
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