Re: blue heron fiasco

Well, to be fair, by the time the DNR was called in, the bird was beyond
help.  they authorized putting it out of its misery.  But they still should
have taken in it down IMO.

Kitty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Melody " <mhobertm@excite.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 4:32 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] 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.
> :-(
>
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>
> Melody
> Hills, IA  zone 5
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>
>  --- 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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