Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 11:37:56 -0500
Reply-To: Jim Ozier <Jim_Ozier@MAIL.DNR.STATE.GA.US>
Sender: Georgia Birders Online <GABO-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From: Jim Ozier <Jim_Ozier@MAIL.DNR.STATE.GA.US>
Subject: International Paper HCP (fwd) -Reply
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Robert Bonnie's (EDF) note on RCW HCPs contained some good
information, but I believe his reference to the Georgia statewide RCW HCP
was misleading. His criticism of RCW HCPs in general was directed
mainly to take of demographically isolated birds on private land with
mitigation on public land, and he lauds the IP HCP because it mitigates on
private land. Yet, he boasts of not letting the Georgia HCP "see the light
of day," and the Georgia HCP is very similar to IP's -- take of
demographically isolated birds is to be mitigated on private land. There
has been some disagreement over determination of demographic isolation
as well, but further data analysis has supported what was evident all
along -- small isolated populations of RCWs will not persist. Our plan to
salvage disappearing demographically isolated RCWs and build a viable
mitigation population on private land has been delayed (not seen the light
of day) for about 3 years because of what appears to have been
misguided opposition. In those 3 years, it is likely that several
demographically isolated groups of woodpeckers were lost forever and
will not be replaced.
Jim Ozier
Georgia DNR
Forsyth
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