Re: blue heron fiasco

So the DNR can authorize someone to shoot a federally protected bird but
they can't authorize anyone to help it? Ignorant...just plain ignorant.
:-(



Melody 
Hills, IA  zone 5



 --- On Tue 04/26, Donna < gossiper@sbcglobal.net > wrote:
From: Donna [mailto: gossiper@sbcglobal.net]
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 08:26:30 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: [CHAT] blue heron fiasco

it is a federal offense to touch that bird.... <br><br>Donna<br><br>---
Chapel Ridge Wal Mart National Hearing
Center<br><4042N15@nationalhearing.com> wrote:<br>> I'm not sure what is
wrong with the folks around<br>> here. Everything is always<br>> someone
else's problem.<br>> A locla column today wrote about a lttle boy who
saw<br>> a great blue heron<br>> hanging upside down in a cottonwood
tree, trying to<br>> get untangled. They<br>> called animal control, the
fire department, the DNR,<br>> all of which said they<br>> couldn't do
anything. After 6 hrs the bird was<br>> bloody from the high winds<br>>
and its efforts to get loose so DNR authorized<br>> shooting it - if
anyone<br>> happened to have a gun, which finally someone found.<br>>
Unfortunately, the<br>> carcass is still hanging there. They said
someone<br>> finally called a tree<br>> service the next day, hoping
they can get it down.<br>> <br>> I'm not sure what should be done, but
don't you<br>> think the second largest<br>> county in Indiana should
have some plan in place for<br>> such problems?<br>> Kitty<br>>
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