If you are dealing with the oil "varigated ground peckers" they are not
too bad - grunts, moans, squeeks and squaks of the mechanical equipment
not that bad as is the rather quiet motor attached to them. If you
are talking gas compression stations forget it for miles. I doubt the
bird would have a lek in the area anyway. Drilling can be very noisy
and then there are all the other people in the area from the drilling
crews to people to feed them.
Re Foxes on a lake not native - I seriously doubt it. Maybe not there
in the recent memory of humans in the area. . Those guys probably get
to the islands from time to time - just a relatively long time between
their arrivals. If the lake freezes in the winter often happens Fox
can get chased by a Coyote or other preditor out into the water - they
can swim or can climb onto a floating log from a flood and float in
style to the island.. The critter eats what is on the island and that is
probably the small mammals and birds. Nature has a way if the abundance
around the area is not wiped out of repopulating islands. Now if you
are relying solely on that island population for the species in the area
you might have a problem=20
Barb Beck
Edmonton
ladyraven_69 wrote:
>Hi all,
>I thought that folks might be interested to learn that the sage grouse has=
been denied
>threatened status and that the lands that it inhabits will be opened up fo=
r drilling, gas
>exploration etc.
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>I'm wondering how increased land usage will impact populations and recordi=
ng
>opportunities. My understanding is that the population has decrease quite=
dramatically. I
>know that we have a small population on a particular island in a local lak=
e, Utah area, that
>has had its population decimated because of foxes and other predators that=
were not
>native to this particular island.
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>The following are links to two sage grouse status stories.
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>http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2639300,00.html
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>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=3D/news/archive/2005/01/07/
>state1032EST7470.DTL
>
>FYI, I am only online when I am at my place of employment and will be back=
online next
>Monday.
>
>regards,
>Raven Simons
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
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