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Re: Hummingfish and Swami-Swans



on 31 Aug 2001 Josh Rose wrote:

>>because the timber industry - afraid of the pro-tree
attitude that the book cultivates - has convinced most bookstores in the
region not to sell it. Now THAT's frightening.<<

Yikes! I had no idea I was quoting such dangerous and subversive
material...or did I?


Gary Phillips
Conway, SC
 Zone 8
walela@sccoast.net
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing's going to get
better. It's not." (Dr. Seuss, "The Lorax")
-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Stuart Rose <jsr6@duke.edu>
To: carolinabirds <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
Date: Friday, August 31, 2001 4:59 PM
Subject: Hummingfish and Swami-Swans


>On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Gary Phillips wrote:
>>
>> "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing's going to get
>> better. It's not." (Dr. Seuss, "The Lorax")
>
>Hi Carolinabirders,
>
>Last Sunday the DNHS took a trip to Hemlock Bluffs. The birding was
>average; Hairy Woodpecker probably the high point, a Northern Parula
>singing. We spent most of the trip looking at fungi, which were abundant
>and diverse; also some very young Five-Lined Skinks and Eastern Fence
>Lizards, and an assortment of interesting plants and insects. Our
>progress was so slow (as usual, for that group) that in over two hours
>there, we never reached the parts with the Hemlocks!
>
>One of my fellow grad students was very excited to find that the above-
>cited book, "The Lorax" by Dr. Seuss, was available in the visitor center
>bookstore. She hails from Seattle, and apparently it's very hard to find
>it out there, because the timber industry - afraid of the pro-tree
>attitude that the book cultivates - has convinced most bookstores in the
>region not to sell it. Now THAT's frightening. Remind me not to move to
>the Pacific NW anytime soon...
>
>On Monday, I accompanied my fiance to an interview for an internship at
>the NC Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill (she's now their new native plants
>intern!). A multitude of female/immature Ruby-throated Hummingbirds
>there, visiting feeders much more than flowers as far as I could tell.
>Not so many leps, 5 or so skipper species and one big dark swallowtail,
>but amazing numbers and variety of wasps and other pollinating insects.
>
>In other tangentially bird-related news, I read from an on-line
>conservation news service that the USF&WS is probably going to list the
>Golden Sedge, Carex lutea, as endangered. The species was only discovered
>a few years ago, and is known only from the North Carolina coast, eight
>populations in the Cape Fear basin in Onslow and Pender counties. It
>apparently grows mainly in and around pine savannahs, so the main bird
>beneficiaries of its protection would be Bachman's Sparrow, maybe
>Henslow's, and associated species. Red-cockaded Woodpecker, which also
>likes pine savannahs, is already protected in its own right, of course.
>
>Good birding,
>
>Josh
>
>
>Joshua S. Rose
>Duke University
>Department of Biology (Zoology, R.I.P.)
>
>jsr6@duke.edu
>http://www.duke.edu/~jsr6/
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