Re: When Life Gives You Oil, Make Biodiesel?
Posted by CypressTX on 6/13/2010, 7:34 pm
when is the shrimp & crawfish's breeding season?  might that not wash out the young?  or the incredible numbers of birds nesting in the marshes, might that not cover their nests - same thought with changing the river course.

I read somewhere that when an earlier oil spill hit the LA coast decades ago (I think due to a hurricane) they burned the marshes to get rid of the oil.  The marsh grasses grew back, but who knows what that did to wildlife???

According to this site:  http://www.tulane.edu/~danny/selatxt.html  these birds all breed in the marshes of Louisiana

Great Blue Heron  
Clapper Rail
Great Egret  
Purple Gallinule
Snowy Egret  
Common Moorhen
Cattle Egret  
American Coot
Tricolored Heron
Willet
Green-backed Heron
Black-necked Stilt
Little Blue Heron  
Forster's Tern
Black-crowned
Night Heron  
Fish Crow
Least Bittern  
Marsh Wren
Glossy Ibis  
Common Yellowthroat
White-faced Ibis
Red-winged Blackbird
White Ibis  
Boat-tailed Grackle
Mottled Duck  
Seaside Sparrow
King Rail

reading this  was very informative - can you imagine bison roaming our Louisiana today?  Man has really changed this continent in the past, and continues to do so today...

I remember seeing moose and wolves when I was much younger in N MN (even in our acreage/yard), you would be very hard pressed to find them now, though the wolf has rebounded a bit.

I guess the more things change the more they will never be the same
heavy sigh...
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