Larry Caldwell wrote in message t...
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Well, I just guess ole Colorado does things differently than you
parts:

http://www.insidedenver.com/drmn/sta...509465,00.html

Habitat loss blamed for birds' decline
Audubon Society assessment lists 39 species frequently found in state

By Gary Gerhardt, Rocky Mountain News
October 29, 2002

As farmland gives way to housing, and timber is cleared to make roads,
39 bird species are losing their native habitats in Colorado.

We were discussing forest land, not urban sprawl. Of course cities
sterilize the ground they are built on. A nuclear explosion would be
easier on the wildlife of an area than a housing development. The
natural environment recovered on Bikini Atoll after the H-bomb tests, and
it only took about 20 years. If you build a city on it, you are looking
at environmental destruction that will persist for centuries.

Well I hate to tell you this = but there is massive development on the
forested front range in Colorado! Most of it, and on the plains, that
birds and a lot mammals need for lower range existence druing winter!

And in a lot of the higher forests, the lower valleys are composed of
inholdings which can be very well developed!

In fact, the concept on critical habitat is that in times of very
heavey environmental stress, there are few areas that provides the
needs of large mammals during such times! Most of these areas are on
lower land which is mainly privately held and developed!



Unfortunately, urban development is exempt from most environmental
regulation.