http://www.openbeaches.org/2010/12/response-real-plight-of-snowy-plover.html#more
In a recent “My Word” piece, Mr. Uri Driscoll expressed a wide range of opinions and observations regarding the current management practices directed at recovering the threatened Snowy Plover. In his essay, he focused especially on dune restoration because he sees it as unnecessarily costly, damaging to wetland habitats, and altering the coastal dunes that protect the county's infrastructure. His rambling essay was filled with phantom opinions attributed to experts, disarticulated bits of information, and poorly explained “facts” derived from a cursory understanding of the ecology of coastal dunes and plovers in particular. We wish to clarify and explain the real situation involving the status of the plover. In doing so, we'll rely on scientific evidence collected and published in peer-reviewed scientific journals rather than presenting anecdotes derived from hearsay. ...
In his recent essay, Driscoll attempts to surprise the reader with an ironic suggestion that removing invasive non-native beach grass won't help the plover recover. What he failed to recognize is that we are way ahead of him. We already know that removing beach grass -- by itself -- will not safeguard the threatened snowy plover. That's only a third of the story. Biological research and the USFWS's recovery plan, published more than three years ago, clearly identified three inter-related factors: predators such as ravens, human-caused egg and chick losses, and the loss of breeding habitat from invasive non-native beach grass and other causes. Those factors operate together, so plover conservation must address all three. Enjoying coastal habitats, dunes, and the species that have lived amongst them for millennia will require that people recognize our role as simply one piece of this dynamic ecosystem. We urge everyone to behave in ways that honor the other pieces. Even if one of those pieces is as small, and as beautiful, as a plover.
Mark Colwell and Matt Johnson are professors in the Wildlife Department at Humboldt State University.
Here's the link to the rebuttal to our cowboy's My Word Piece:
I got me some love for a thick-headed cowboy, He pulls facts out of context from scholarly work. What he lacks in book learning has clearly been shown here, This red headed dawdler found a man she can irk.
Uri states he is not against dune restoration. Yet here is a link to a piece he wrote titled: " Restoration Equals Restrictions" :
http://www.openbeaches.org/2011/07/restoration-equals-restrictions.html#more
Karen Brooks seems to think that the raven over population at Little River and Clam Beach is somehow related to European Beach grass removal. This is false.
Furthermore, European Beach grass is an invasive nonnative species that does not provide habit for the Snowy Plover, which require an open sand environment to support their adaptive survival techniques.
There is a federal mandate to provide the Snowy Plover suitable habitat of open sandy beaches in designated areas for successful species recovery.
Uri Driscoll, one of the organizers of the event used the term "flash mob" in his news report to the NCJ.
Uri is tiresomely vocal regarding all things involving dune restoration.
He doesn't like being told his horse can't trample and poop in protected or restored areas.
No new news here.
Re: “Neighhhhhh, they say”
1. Crushed rock, no paving involved.