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t;sans-serif&quot;;color:bla This is a multipart message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0025_01CDFFE1.C48AD610 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The best scientists have open minds, open ears, and humility. =20 Each of us has something to teach, and something to learn from, = everybody else. =20 My favorite bugbear is the intellectually dishonest use of =E2=80=9Cno = evidence=E2=80=9D to disprove or discredit a hypothesis. All = =E2=80=9Cno evidence=E2=80=9D means is =E2=80=9Cno proof.=E2=80=9D =20 =20 Either way. =20 From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca = [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] On Behalf Of Paul MacDonald Sent: January-31-13 5:44 PM To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Subject: Re: [NatureNS] mourning doves eating wood ashes =20 Hi Lance The time frame what I referred to was the 1950/60s. I talked to them then and was told I didn't know what I was talking about! It was over hunting. Glad to see they came around to the truth - only took 50 years! Like when coyotes came to Nova Scotia. Oh no, they wouldn't kill deer.=20 Have a nice winter Paul =20 =20 --- On Thu, 1/31/13, Laviolette, Lance (EXP) <lance.laviolette@lmco.com> = wrote: From: Laviolette, Lance (EXP) <lance.laviolette@lmco.com> Subject: Re: [NatureNS] mourning doves eating wood ashes To: "naturens@chebucto.ns.ca" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Received: Thursday, January 31, 2013, 1:18 PM Hi Paul, =20 >You wouldn't find that from University or government folks. =20 You may find a small amount of comfort knowing that that isn=E2=80=99t = always the case. In a 2012 environmental assessment report of the impact = of the realignment of the Trans-Canada Highway in PEI the following can = be found: =20 =E2=80=9CRoad salts that contain inorganic chloride salts are considered = =E2=80=9Ctoxic=E2=80=9D as defined in Section 64 of the CEPA=E2=80=A6 = Environment Canada determined that the development and refinement of = Salt Management Plans is the best mitigation against potential = environmental effects from road salt use.=E2=80=9D =20 Also, Environment Canada has issued a number of bulletins regarding road = salt as well. This from an August 2000 bulletin: =20 =E2=80=9CBehavioural and toxicological impacts have been associated with = exposure of mammalian and avian wildlife to road salts. Road salt = increases the vulnerability of birds to car strike and may poison some = birds directly. To relieve thirst, birds may ingest snow which could = have negative energetic consequences; consumption of meltwater = containing high concentrations of salt may increase salt ingestion = rather than alleviating salt toxicosis. Road salt may also affect = wildlife through its impact on habitat, with reduction in plant cover or = community shifts that could affect wildlife dependent on these plants = for food or shelter.=E2=80=9D =20 Of course whether decision makers heed these warnings is another = question entirely. =20 All the best, =20 Lance =20 Lance Laviolette Glen Robertson, Ontario =20 =20 =20 =20 ------=_NextPart_000_0025_01CDFFE1.C48AD610 Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html xmlns:v=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" = xmlns:o=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" = xmlns:w=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" = xmlns:m=3D"http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" = xmlns=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta = http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dutf-8"><meta = name=3DGenerator content=3D"Microsoft Word 14 (filtered = medium)"><style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;} @font-face {font-family:Tahoma; panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {mso-style-priority:99; color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-priority:99; color:purple; text-decoration:underline;} p.yiv317946240msonormal, li.yiv317946240msonormal, = div.yiv317946240msonormal {mso-style-name:yiv317946240msonormal; mso-margin-top-alt:auto; margin-right:0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:0cm; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} span.yiv317946240msohyperlink {mso-style-name:yiv317946240msohyperlink;} span.yiv317946240msohyperlinkfollowed {mso-style-name:yiv317946240msohyperlinkfollowed;} span.yiv317946240emailstyle18 {mso-style-name:yiv317946240emailstyle18;} p.yiv317946240msonormal1, li.yiv317946240msonormal1, = div.yiv317946240msonormal1 {mso-style-name:yiv317946240msonormal1; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} span.yiv317946240msohyperlink1 {mso-style-name:yiv317946240msohyperlink1; color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} span.yiv317946240msohyperlinkfollowed1 {mso-style-name:yiv317946240msohyperlinkfollowed1; color:purple; text-decoration:underline;} span.yiv317946240emailstyle181 {mso-style-name:yiv317946240emailstyle181; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D;} span.EmailStyle25 {mso-style-type:personal-reply; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;} @page WordSection1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} --></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapedefaults v:ext=3D"edit" spidmax=3D"1026" /> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapelayout v:ext=3D"edit"> <o:idmap v:ext=3D"edit" data=3D"1" /> </o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=3DEN-CA link=3Dblue = vlink=3Dpurple><div class=3DWordSection1><p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497= D'>The best scientists have open minds, open ears, and = humility.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497= D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497= D'>Each of us has something to teach, and something to learn from, = =C2=A0everybody else.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497= D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-ser