On 1/20/2014 12:41 PM, Erick Staal wrote:
> After reading this account, I think that stopping the cleaning of
> beaches would be far more effective than introducing collecting bans, etc.

* look at the update section of
karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.ca/2012/11/0-false-18-pt-18-pt-0-0-false-false.html
- on our northern freshwater beaches we don't have many Molluscs living
in the active beach, but there's lots of herps and Birds that depend on
washed up material and its Insect occupants, and on this beach, before
it was destroyed by grooming,  I'd been finding Unionid shells that
presumably indicated survival of offshore populations persisting in the
face of Dreissena...

fred.
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