don't let the bird of paradise...

fly up your nose....
I'm thinking that maybe that's not the only thing (sniff sniff) going up the noses of the Parks Service, Nature Conspiracy and their #1 propagandist Chuck Graham...Chuckie had a puff piece in Noozhawk, highly censored Noozhawk, that he writes every now and then..he always..ALWAYS.. says what the Parks Service wants him to say...demonizes non native species and claims that by removing them, the rare native species populations are recovering..it's all bullshit as you can see... the latest ploy, after killing all those non-natives, is to lure birds to the islands by using MPs players, lights, and amplifiers!! real natural that!!!
says Chuck: Former threats to seabirds on the chain once included feral cats on Santa Barbara Island that wiped out the Cassin’s auklet population in the 1800s, and black rats on Anacapa nearly ended the murrelet population in 2000. The cats were removed in the early 1900s. Black rats were eradicated in 2002. Auklets have been difficult to recover on Santa Barbara Island, but murrelets have rebounded on Anacapa. There are an estimated 5,000 to 12,000 murrelets worldwide, with the Channel Islands supporting 40 percent of the population.
"Santa Barbara Island has the largest U.S. colony," Little said. "There’s so much restoration potential on the island."
One way the National Park Service is encouraging seabirds to return to the volcanic archipelago is by ridding invasive non-native plants from the islands and planting natives to increase soil stability. All of the seabirds are crevice nesters, or, like the auklet, they burrow underground.
Another way the Park Service is enhancing restoration efforts is by social attraction. On some of the offshore rock outcroppings, biologists have erected solar panels affixed with MP3 players, light sensors, amplifiers and speakers using seabird calls.
"We’re using nocturnal audio broadcasting to attract seabirds like auklets and ashy storm petrels to potential breeding sites," Little said.
Slowly but surely it’s working. On Orizaba Rock, there are now four petrel nest sites, and there are about 50 pairs of auklets on Santa Barbara Island.
— Noozhawk contributor and local freelance writer Chuck Graham... is an idiot!!