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Index of Subjects > On 2014-04-23, at 6:38 AM, Richard Stern wrote: > >> From The Globe and Mail: >> http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/editorials/why-is-the-humpback-only-special-now-that-gateway-beckons/article18113453/ * evidently this is just following a COSEWIC reclassification of the species - though it's hard to imagine that any of the great Whales could be anything less than Special Concern. I don't know anything about the COSEWIC Mammal subcommittee, but I've heard from people on the Herps and Mollusc subcommittees that since the Species at Risk Act has come in there's been various bureaucratic pressures on the personnel that tend to dissuade dedicated folks from serving, and the process of bidding on reports - rather than inflicting them on the person who knows the species best - must compromise the quality of the reports, even if it gets them finished more promptly. Someone in the press should look into the status of COSEWIC in the SARA era. fred. ------------------------------------------------------------ Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad Bishops Mills Natural History Centre - http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/ South Nation Basin Art & Science Book http://pinicola.ca/books/SNR_book.htm RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0 on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------
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