yeah. along with the clearcutting of the northeast by the early settlers, the house sparrow helped kill off the courier pigeon.
RIP the courier pigeon. he was a good bird......
and we left out the common domesticated dog...along with extermination of the prairie dog took down the Black Footed Ferret (at least reduced them to 17 remaining...they are making a comeback, though....). Awesome little guys, the BFF, fascinating creatures. Our South Dakota or Wyoming Friends have probably heard all about them.
What's really interesting is the prairie dog killing sprees....you know as much as it is accepted as common knowledge nowadays there is not documented, verifiable research that proves the potential economic harm prairie dogs have on ranch lands is actually higher than the confirmed cost of exterminating them as "pests"? (at least there wasn't when i wrote the paper, and most people were pointing to the fact that there wasn't any confirmation of it...who knows, i studied that years ago, could be very wrong).
Last edited by skinnybass; 03/23/10 01:08 PM.
