Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 21:30:07 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Frederick W. Fallon" Subject: Re: Blackwater Tree Planting MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I agree - there is still too little understanding of habitat requirements even at high levels. Generally, the best place for tree plantings is where an incursion has been made into a woodland, too narrow to support grassland species but still enough to fragment the forest interior; besides, trees will probably grow there because they once did. I have seen so many forest restoration sites fail because they were sited unsuitably, and the developer - or agency - still got credit for "mitigation" after cutting down some perfectly good woods elsewhere. Maryland Partners in Flight has addressed this issue in its "Habitat Management Guidelines for the Benefit of Birds". None of this is to criticize the particular plan at Blackwater before seeing the details, but only to sound a caution. Fred Fallon fwfallon@earthlink.net Jed Kusterer wrote: > > Hello all, > 30,000 new trees at Blackwater? Won't that alter the habitat there? Will the NWS be converting badly needed field and grassland habitat? > > With so many old fields going to forests, mowed lawns or suburbia in Maryland, wouldn't it be wiser to develop and maintain endangered natural tall grass habitat? It is, after all, the orchard and meadow breeding species of birds that > Jed Kusterer > Washington DC > > >>> Denise_Ryan@LCV.ORG 03/05/03 10:19AM >>> > This Saturday (March 8) there will be a tree planting event at Blackwater > National Wildlife Refuge in Cambridge, MD. They hope to plant over 30,000 > trees as they celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the National Refuge System. > ..... > The Volunteer Coordinator is Bev Waggoner and she can be > reached at 410-228-8355.... > If anyone has additional questions, Forester Tom Eagle may be reached at > 410-228-2692 X 111. .... Boy Scouts working on the Soil and Water Conservation Badge > who plant 100 trees would fulfill a requirement for that badge. > > Denise Ryan > Washington, DC > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================