[NatureNS] Miner's Marsh offleash park...

From: David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com>
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By all means Fred; entirely OK.
Dave. 
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From: "Fred Schueler" <bckcdb@istar.ca>
To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 10:39 PM
Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Miner's Marsh offleash park...


> Quoting David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com>:
> 
> * I trust it will be okay with you if I quote this to the Ontario Herp  
> Atlas page? My main thought about 'coons is that, charming as they may  
> be individually, the main ecological response of humanity to their  
> numbers should be to exploit their delicious character - it's not just  
> dogs that used eat them.
> 
> fred.
> ==============================================
> 
>>   a key message that I have attempted to convey many times, with  
>> limited success it seems, is the overriding importance of habitat  
>> and this includes air, water, climate and freedom from disruptions.
>>
>>     If these necessary conditions are out of whack and getting  
>> whackier then the only thing protected when you deliniate a  
>> 'protected area' is the delusion that the life forms within that  
>> area are thereby protected.
>>
>>     The Painted Turtle is a good example of an animal that has a dim  
>> future due mostly to good intentions gone sour. Some 70 years ago  
>> they were abundant in every pond on our Cornwallis River meadow in  
>> Cambridge. Seeing a Raccoon track there, in any of the numerous  
>> muddy areas, was a big event. Dogs were not chained then and any  
>> Raccoon that came near settlement was likely to be given a canine  
>> escort to elsewhere. We grew corn every year, some fields ~1/4 mile  
>> from the nearest house and never lost a cob to Raccoons.
>>
>>     Unfortunately we now have the mirror image of the above, dogs  
>> not allowed to run and Raccoons abundant everywhere. This would all  
>> be harmless enough except for one circumstance. Raccoons are fond of  
>> turtle eggs and quickly learn when and where to look for them.
>>
>>     Raccoons numbers were lowered by disease recently but that will  
>> be temporary. As I noted some years ago on Naturens ~15?), those who  
>> want to save Painted Turtles should build Raccoon barriers over  
>> turtle egg laying sites.
> 
> 
> 
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