"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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"B J Conner" wrote in message
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The Bush administration took what could be a first step Wednesday toward
removing federal protections for a small seabird that has stood in the
way
of Northwest logging.
Dammed Marbled Murrelets it they were real seabirds they'd nest on
rocks
not trees, especially trees 40 mile from the beach.



http://www.oregonlive.com/search/ind...oregonian?lcen

I tried to access the site, but they asked for personal information. Oh
well, it hardly matters. If history is any teacher, the birds are doomed.
Americans don't care......they will no more miss the Murrelets than they
do
the once abundant penguins.

Wolfgang


Here's a couple of more links.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...NGS18I7A21.DTL
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/orego...6218322350.xml

These birds find a tree 40 or so miles from the seashore and lay there egg
on top of a limb, no nest. Takes a fair sized tree limb for that. . When
the egg hatches they fly back and forth over 40 miles of trees bringing
junior food. There few trees that big left and most are in the middle of
primo steelhead / salmon country.