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Greg Brown (gregb@siu.edu)
Tue, 10 Dec 1996 00:08:04 -0600 (CST)
>From: dgeist@uidaho.edu (Dennis Geist)
>Subject: help
>
>Folks-
>
>Here is a message that I sent last week that apparently evaporated. We've
>been having sick computers here due to registration loading the system. If
>other people sent messages mid-week, you may want to check for them.
>
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>
>Visionaries-
>
>Here's something completely non-planning, but I thought you good-hearted
>folks would be a good place to start my quest.
>
>I do a lot of work down in the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). The principal
>ecologic problem down there is the introduction and proliferation of exotic
>species, which typically out-compete the endemics. Currently, the major
>catastrophe is the introduction of goats, which destroy the habitat of the
>famed giant tortoise. Alcedo volcano used to be my favorite place on earth
>- great volcano, and tens of thousand of the endangered tortoises. But a
>geometric population increase in the goat population over the past decade
>(<100 to over 10,000 in 10 years) threatens the tortoises and makes the
>place the ecological equivalent of a feed lot. The tortoises (not to
>mention other endemics) are doomed without serious intervention.
>
>Thus, the good folks of the Charles Darwin Research Station and Galapagos
>National Park are systematically hunting the goats. They are looking for
>donations of used boots (sizes 7-9 typically), cammo T-shirts, and hunter's
>orange caps and vests (hot weather). Right now, the poor hunters have $4
>tennis shoes for traversing the barren lava, and there have been several
>close calls with the shooting.
>
>If anyone has an old pair of boots or the other stuff they are willing to
>donate, I'll take them down to Galapagos with me after Christmas. Let me
>know.
>
>Dennis
>
>
>P.S. The article in Friday's DN (Thanksgiving Friday) on fire danger was
>pretty good, but I want to say that they attributed a bunch of "proposals"
>and "suggestions" to me that weren't either. I had merely presented some
>regulations that other institutions have on the books; I strongly disfavor
>many of them. Nonetheless, if anyone has any feedback on the issue of
>regulation vs. advise for fire prevention in Latah Co., I'm all ears!
>
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>Dennis Geist, Associate Professor
>Geology Dept.
>University of Idaho
>Moscow, ID 83844
>208-885-6491
>208-885-5724 (Fax)
>dgeist@uidaho.edu
>http://www.uidaho.edu/~dgeist/
>
>
>
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Greg Brown (gregb@siu.edu)
Asst. Professor, Dept. of Forestry
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901
(618) 453-7465
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