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From: jla@inuxd.UUCP (Joyce Andrews)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: We all Kill Wildlife
Message-ID: <1291@inuxd.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 88 19:01:20 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Consumer Products, Indianapolis
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> So Joyce now that you have made you position clear,  
> lets talk about the real issues here.   First

> a great job, but most of you arn't creating any habitat to put those
> animals back into.  Some groups are, and we need more of that.  BUT
> be prepared to loose the wildlife we love.  So I say 
> channel your anger into education and leave the antihunting
> politics in rec.politics. 
> 
> Everette Allen
> Associate Wildlife Biologist
>

Yeah, Everette, you're right.  I was being a complaining bitch
because I'd just tried to fix the severed tendon of a great white
heron.  And because my son, whose job includes feeding an
American crocodile (one of about 50 left in the world) who is
blind because she was shot in the head, had just mentioned that
he was worried about her health.  And I was too angry to think
straight.

So I will do more, including trying to save the paradise where I
live.  The education part I will handle by taking our three
educational birds to the local schools (an osprey who ran into
monofilament line, a broad-winged hawk with one wing shot off,
and a brain-damaged cormorant whose background would take too
long to explain).    

I think we will find that Bush will do more for conservation than
most people think.  While the present administration hasn't given
us much thought, I think we will find Bush will do better.  He is
a hunter and fisherman, and the vacation White House will be here
in the Florida Keys, where he fishes the back country for tarpon
and bonefish.  He has shown his concern for the Everglades.  I
hope he can keep it up.

Thanks for putting me back on the track.    

   

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	Joyce Andrews King                      
	att!inuxd!jla
	AT&T, Indianapolis
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