Re: Telecommunications Towers in Rock Creek National Park in DC
Ellen Paul (epaul@dclink.com)
Mon, 15 Mar 1999 18:37:24 -0500
I see someone already answered this, but I'd like to clear a few things
up. There is no such thing as the North American Ornithological
Council. There was a North American Ornithological Conference held in
April 1998, in St. Louis, which was a joint meeting of the American
Ornithologists' Union, Cooper Ornithological Society, Association of
Field Ornithologists, and Wilson Ornithological Society. It was these
four societies who approved that resolution. Obviously, the authors of
the Environmental Assessment didn't read it very carefully.
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Ellen Paul
Executive Director
The Ornithological Council
Mailto:epaul@dclink.com
Ornithological Council Website: http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET
"Providing Scientific Information about Birds"
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Eric L Raun wrote:
>
> At www.nps.gov/rocr, the National Park Service posted its Environmental
> Assessment-Bell Atlantic Mobile Applications for Wireless
> Telecommunications Facilities in Rock Creek [National] Park [Washington,
> D.C.] at the Maintenenance Yard & Tennis Center. I had planned to send a
> comment to the Park Service on the impact of this tower on migrating
> birds. But in reading the Assessment, I found the following quote:
>
> "The American Bird Conservancy Policy Council and the North American
> Ornithological Council have identified any telecommunications tower over
> 200 feet with lights for aviation warning as having potential for killing
> migratory birds at night under certain climatic conditions. Since the
> monopoles proposed at the tennis center and maintenance yard are well
> below 200 feet (100 feet and 130 feet respectively) and are unlighted,
> they would not pose a threat to migratory birds."
>
> Does anyone know if this is true?
>
> Eric Raun
> Silver Spring, Maryland
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