[Tweeters] Pulling loosestrife

[Hal Opperman]

Stuart  MacKay. He was a frequent contributor to Tweeters from the beginning until his departure for Europe a decade later, around the middle of 2004. He was a bander, very knowledgeable about the birds of the area (and everywhere else), public minded, participated in CBCs and other valuable field projects, and a particular friend and advocate of the Montlake Fill. A great birder and a great guy.

The tree-planting debacle, as I remember (perhaps defectively), came about as a way for the city to spend public monies allocated for habitat mitigation for wetlands destroyed for the enlargement of the SR 520 bridge. The Montlake Fill “restoration” project was gearing up about the same time, and city officials saw it as a convenient place to spend the money by planting some trees without having to pay a political price for actual reclamation of former wetlands taken over decades earlier for various projects, and now closely guarded by various politically powerful interests. 

Hal Opperman
Seattle
hal at uw dot edu


> On Jun 23, 2021, at 4:04 PM, Jim Elder <jelder at meteorcomm.com> wrote:

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> I remember those loosestrife-pulling parties. I think his name was Stuart. It was 1995. And it did work (and they were fun). There were a lot more shorebirds that year and for several years afterwards.

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> Jim Elder

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> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2021 18:19:53 -0700

> From: <jstewart at olympus.net>

> To: "'Tweeters Newsgroup'" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>

> Subject: [Tweeters] Dennis Paulson

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> Hi Dennis,

> Remember this?

>            Many years ago when I frequently visited the 'Fill', there was a Scotsman, who organized a group of birders to pull loosestrife around the edges for the  shorebirds.  We met every Wednesday for a couple of hours to pull.

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>            It worked!.  The next year the shorebirds came.

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> Wings,

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> Jan(e)

> Jan Stewart

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> jstewart at olympus.net

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