<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Ellen Cohen shared this NYT article on the Marbled Murrelet a few days ago, but the message was scrubbed by those pesky IT gremlins.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(54, 54, 54); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">"</span>A Tiny Seabird Faces Growing Threats in the Forest<span style="caret-color: rgb(54, 54, 54); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">"</span> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/science/marbled-murrelet-endangered-redwoods.html?smid=url-share" class="">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/science/marbled-murrelet-endangered-redwoods.html?smid=url-share</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">There’s a nice reference to the work of our very own Scott Pearson: <span style="caret-color: rgb(54, 54, 54); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">"</span><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Scott Pearson, a senior research scientist with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, has been doing sea surveys of murrelets for 20 years as part of a team monitoring the health of old growth forests. He said that the murrelet's decline is worst in northern Washington, where the number of birds has dropped to roughly 4,500 from 10,000 just two decades ago.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(54, 54, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">"</span></div><div class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Elaine Chuang</span></div><div class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Seattle</span></div><div class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> elc at uw dot edu</span></div></body></html>