Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 16:42:44 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Mackiernan Subject: Comments needed on Rock Creek Management Plan Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi all -- I would like to urge all of those who bird-watch at Rock Creek Park, DC, to take some time to read the National Park Service's draft management plan for the park. This can be accessed at: http://planning.nps.gov/parkweb/what.cfm?RecordID=135 Click on the "Alternatives" line. As you read the draft document, which comes over in Acrobat, you will note there is very little mention of birds, birding or migration through the park. This despite considerable information provided to the NPS during past years on birds and migration, not to mention the successful lawsuit brought by ANS last year (re the cell phone EIS failing to consider potential harm to migrating birds.) And one of the scariest things is a suggestion that the new Administrative headquarters be constructed "in the maintenance yard!" While this not a preferred alternative, to even consider placing a building in what Claudia Wilds' 1993 book called "the best migrant trap in DC" and "the most important field habitat for birds in Washington" shows a level of cluelessness which is truly amazing. Please take time to send in your comments on the management plan -- it *might* help the NPS realize that birders exist and that the park is important to us, as well as to migratory birds! Gail Mackiernan Conservation Chair MCC/MOS ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================