Posted by:
Jeff Schofield
at Tue Dec 9 22:33:46 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Jeff Schofield ]
That is how you have to look at animals displaced by developments. Placing them into existing habitat only adds competition to other habitat that may likely be at capacity already. For NON-endangered wildlife I suggest that adoption or inclusion to ANY meaningful end is better than possibly over-burdoning our healthy stocks.
I can remember a few years ago up here in Mass when a local "illegal" damn was finally removed....it had created a huge reservior for years and all the turtles that could made it about 1/2 mile upstream to the smaller feeder pond.You could practically WALK on the turtles!! I had a colleague across the country that wanted to do a study on turtles so I went out and removed about 50 painteds in about 2 hours with a dip net.While there may never be an ideal situation for placement(not sure where these actually ended up)there are times that harvesting/culling IS the most biologically humane way to counteract other manmade mistakes. If you decide to take on such a project though...either let your DNR know about it from the beginning(they arent likely to care that much if there are no sensetive species included)or be VERY quiet about it.Anything in between will leave you open for others to second guess your actions. Good luck,Jeff
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- To collect or not to collect, that is the Question. - smokeysshadow, Sun Dec 7 00:19:01 2003
- RE: To collect or not to collect, that is the Question. - spottedturtleman, Sun Dec 7 06:14:17 2003
- RE: To collect or not to collect, that is the Question. - paalexan, Sun Dec 7 10:14:00 2003
- RE: To collect or not to collect, that is the Question. - RichardFHoyer, Sun Dec 7 14:00:30 2003
- My Opinions >>> - chris_mcmartin, Sun Dec 7 20:33:27 2003
- Sustainable yield - Jeff Schofield, Mon Dec 8 01:57:41 2003
- Thank you all for the replys - smokeysshadow, Tue Dec 9 01:48:11 2003
- Unpopular reply! - chuckelliott, Tue Dec 16 18:59:18 2003
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Orphans, and an example - Jeff Schofield, Tue Dec 9 22:33:46 2003