Gone_Fishin's thread has done one thing for sure.
I have been reinspired to go back to Lightroom and look over all the thousands of photographs I took at the Rotary Marsh over the last two years. I am astonished not that I took so many photos, but of the diversity of what was captured over time.
Kingfisher, Blue Heron, Grebes, Golden Eye, song birds of all types, deer (doe, fawns, bucks), coyotes, racoons, otter, beaver, muskrats, Osprey, Eagles, coots and yes, I have coot chicks, fish. The marsh area provides multiple food sources for American gold finch, house sparrows, doves, in fact, it's overwhelming how diverse the species and ecology the march supports.
I am furiously editing and discarding and refining what I thought was edited well the first time, only to apply new skills and be glad I never published some of them. The process has freed up a lot of space on my disks. I plan to upload and publish them in time. I also have an agenda for them, in case anyone gets the idea photography has no place in protests.
When I say diversity, I will add that the great North American bird number loss is real. We are seeing fewer of certain species for a hundred different reasons. Which makes it more difficult to swallow the more I see headlines about roads being approved through wetlands, as happened in Vernon last year.
It's all mouth and no protection. To wit, if you look carefully at plans of a second bridge, one of those plans plows right through the clearly expendable Rotary Marsh.
Which brings us back to this thread. Make no mistake, I am as horrified by the cut as GF is. Funds can go around the World, but Canadian wetland projects are redirected to a new ministry? Any new ministry is an unknown quantity, as in "how generous will they be with funding projects? How seriously will they take Canadian habitat and wildlife? I believe that is the frightening part. How seriously will a new ministry take saving wetlands? Is that as worrisome to you Gone_Fishin as it is to me? And others I'm sure.
Even Rwede posted that he agreed with MJ about the stupidity of putting a road through a park protecting a bog. Politics didn't make the cut there.
Habitat is the one area where there is no interpersonal or political conflict. All boat jokes aside.
(admit it GF, harsh called for hilarity in that other thread, I poked gentle fun at you only
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