Thanks Martyn for the stark documentation of habitat loss such as
this.
I am fortunate to be involved in the (relatively rare) opposite
process - habitat restoration.
I live in Southwest Washington state, six miles from a fairly new
USFWS refuge (Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge). The
refuge land was previously used for farming and ranching. It is
about 1,000 acres, most of which is former floodplain from the
Columbia river - see
http://www.fws.gov/pacific/planning/main/docs/WA/cgorge/final%
20ccp/3a%20Figure3-1.pdf and http://www.google.com/maps?
hl=en&q=&ie=UTF8&z=14&ll=45.563403,-
Message: 122.
Subject: 294912&spn=0.047953,0.068665&t=h&om=1
I regularly lead volunteer groups doing habitat restoration projects
on the refuge, and am also on the board of a "friends of the refuge"
group. The restoration projects include planting native plants and
trees, building brush pile habitats, removing non-native invasive
plants, etc. You can read more about what we do here:
http://www.refugestewards.org
Some questions for the group:
Message: 1.
Subject: Have any of you been involved with habitat restoration? Do you
have any advice or lessons learned?
Message: 2.
Subject: Have you visited any particularly rich habitats (in the pacific
northwest) that we might be able to mimic? The habitats we are re-
creating/restoring are:
- Cottonwood-Ash forest
- Oak Woodland
- Oak Savanna
- Scrub-Shrub
- Emergent Wetland
Message: 3.
Subject: Do you have any ideas about how we might use nature recording as
part of the restoration? Note that I am a volunteer, and only an
amateur nature recordist with a very limited budget. Also the
refuge borders an urban area, so it is tough to escape the noise of
airplanes, trains, and highway traffic.
Message: 4.
Subject: Any other ideas if you were in my shoes? The friends group does
propose and implement refuge projects, working together with the
refuge manager. However our budget is quite small (we have only
been in existence about 2 years).
Thanks,
Dave
--- In "Martyn Stewart"
<> wrote:
>
> --- In Lou Judson <loujudson@>
wrote:
> >
> > Oh disaster! Can you pinpoint the location on google earth or a
map?
> > This looks lke Oregon - it broke my heart once driving across
oregon,
> > and see entire counties denuded this way.
> >
> > Makes me want to stop using wood entierely, but that would not
help
> > individually...
> >
> > <L>
> >
>
> Oh disaster! Can you pinpoint the location on google earth or a
map?
>
> http://tinyurl.com/6ro75l
>
> I live on Union Hill, just across the road from this 300 acre plot.
>
> Extremely sad, having said that, I saw the bear last night eating
the bird seed so at least I
> know he is OK.
> The bear costs me over $80 per week with seed until he hibernates,
the wife puts out 2
> suet for him each night too! Oh for the love of nature!
>
>
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