Leaving Only Footsteps? Think Again

[Peter Shute <>]

This article from the New York Times discusses the effects of recreation on 
nature. Surprisingly, one study found that snowmobiles had less effect on moose 
than cross country skiers - the animals were less afraid of the machines they 
could hear coming and which soon left, than the skiers who they couldn't hear 
as well and which stayed longer.

Not a very Australian example, but it makes you wonder if we birders might have 
more effect than we think, wandering slowly and quietly through the bush 
looking at stuff.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/opinion/sunday/leaving-only-footsteps-think-again.html<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/opinion/sunday/leaving-only-footsteps-think-again.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad&_r=1>

Peter Shute

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