Rare Bird Terrorizes Boiling Springs NC

[StClone]

If there are any doubts that insanity and fear are fermenting Brain USA read this nutty article.



Fearing restrictions to save rare bird's habitat, U.S. landowners clear cut lush woods
14:48:48 EDT Sep 23, 2006
Canadian Press: ALLEN G. BREED

BOILING SPRING LAKES, N.C (AP) - What's black and white and dreaded all over?

In this booming coastal town, it's the tiny red-cockaded woodpecker.

During the past six months, ugly, stump-riddled gashes have appeared throughout the lush longleaf pine stands here as worried landowners clear cut thousands of trees to prevent them becoming homes for the endangered bird.

The chain saws started in February when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service put Boiling Spring Lakes, a state-designated bird sanctuary, on notice that rapid development threatened to squeeze out the woodpecker.

The agency issued a map marking 15 active woodpecker "clusters" and announced it was working on a new one that could potentially designate whole neighbourhoods in the southeastern North Carolina town as protected habitat - and subject to more stringent building restrictions...

...more at: http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Home+Family/060923/U092326U.html

[TriMetFan]

1. Hell I'm surprised they even stopped to just clear cutting,

I would have thought they would have set the place on fire or just shot the birds.

[NYC]

2. Preemptive war.

George Bush teaches well.

[Karenina]

3. Homo Sapiens is a VERY SICK species...

[Cleita]

4. We have acorn woodpeckers in my neck of the woods.

They are very colorful, however, they nest up on the telephone poles. I'll bet that this species will adapt and move into the cities, nest in the poles and raid peoples yards that have nut trees. Even though they call our birds Acorn woodpeckers, I have found the shells of a variety of nuts underneath their nesting area. Although Oak trees are native to this area, people plant a variety of trees on their properties.

I do think something more mundane is going on because woodpeckers can cause a lot of damage to wooden structures that they peck at attempting to get at bugs. However, wiping out a habitat for many species to target one species really makes me think that these people are bone stupid. So I guess one more species that has had it's habitat destroyed will adapt and become a semi-urban species like pigeons and coyotes.