Re: wildlife habitat structures - more clearly stated?

2007-07-13 Thread Mills, Stephen (MNR)
From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Andrew Cole Sent: July 12, 2007 1:15 PM To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: [ECOLOG-L] wildlife habitat structures - more clearly stated? As I've received many helpful comments on my init

Re: wildlife habitat structures - more clearly stated?

2007-07-13 Thread Wayne Tyson
I responded off-list last time; thanks for the clarification. However, as I think I stated in my response, your assumption may be right in some cases and in others there may be a big payoff. I suspect I would agree that building such structures at great expense just for the hell of it could b

Re: wildlife habitat structures - more clearly stated?

2007-07-12 Thread Malcolm McCallum
Wood Ducks often use wood duckboxes. OF course, you have to put them where wood ducks are likely to be encountered. There are piles of papers on wood ducks using boxes. I cannot comment on goose nesting structures, but brush piles are sometimes used by small wildlife like rodents and rabbits. Sn

wildlife habitat structures - more clearly stated?

2007-07-12 Thread Charles Andrew Cole
As I've received many helpful comments on my initial query about the utility of wildlife habitat structures, it occurs to me that I wasn't all that clear to begin with. Let me try and be more precise. On wetland mitigation sites, I frequently see piles of brush (often underwater), wood duck box