Comments on: Rare Woodpecker Sends Town Running for Chain Saws - AOL News http://www.crazybutable.com/weblog/archives/2006/09/29/rare-woodpecker-sends-town-running-for-chain-saws-aol-news/ A weblog for people who otherwise wouldn't. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:56:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Keir http://www.crazybutable.com/weblog/archives/2006/09/29/rare-woodpecker-sends-town-running-for-chain-saws-aol-news/#comment-128057 Keir Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:02:59 +0000 http://www.crazybutable.com/weblog/archives/2006/09/29/rare-woodpecker-sends-town-running-for-chain-saws-aol-news/#comment-128057 That would certainly help. Of course, the fools failed to think of how much money might be brought into the town from bird-geek tourists. As far as buying the land above fair market value goes, I'm sure some of those bird-geeks would pay ridiculous amounts of money to be able to live next to those woodpeckers. Now they've probably just F'd themselves. The same thing was happening all over the West Coast of New Zealand when I was there. Everyone was clear-cutting as much land as they could before the government could designate it as critical habitat. That would certainly help. Of course, the fools failed to think of how much money might be brought into the town from bird-geek tourists. As far as buying the land above fair market value goes, I’m sure some of those bird-geeks would pay ridiculous amounts of money to be able to live next to those woodpeckers. Now they’ve probably just F’d themselves.

The same thing was happening all over the West Coast of New Zealand when I was there. Everyone was clear-cutting as much land as they could before the government could designate it as critical habitat.

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