PRESIDIO LOGGING CALLED THREAT TO NESTING BIRDS.Byline: Kathleen Sullivan The San Franciso Examiner The Golden Gate National Recreation Area Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Calif.: see National Parks and Monuments (table). has run into a buzz saw of criticism from a bird expert who says the agency is ``acting completely irresponsibly'' by logging a grove of trees in the Presidio during peak nesting season. ``If the National Park Service or any other park agency wants to do the most possible damage to birds, now is the time to log,'' said Dan Murphy, who teaches field ornithology ornithology Branch of zoology dealing with the study of birds. Early writings on birds were largely anecdotal (including folklore) or practical (e.g., treatises on falconry and game-bird management). at the California Academy of Sciences The California Academy of Sciences is one of the ten largest natural history museums in the world, and one of the oldest in the United States of America. It is located in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. . ``Any park district that allows logging in A colloquial term for the process of making the initial record of the names of individuals who have been brought to the police station upon their arrest. The process of logging in is also called booking. April - the absolute peak of the nesting season - is acting completely irresponsibly.'' The GGNRA GGNRA Golden Gate National Recreation Area (San Francisco, CA, USA) , which oversees the Presidio and 20 other national parks in the Bay Area, called a halt to the logging last week after receiving an inquiry from The Examiner. Len McKenzie, the GGNRA's deputy superintendent , said the Presidio logging is part of a project to remove a97-year-old underground pipeline, once used to distribute heating oil to homes on the former Army base. Leaks from the six-mile-long pipeline, which hasn't been in service for more than a half-century, have contaminated contaminated, v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material. 2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials. 3. an infective surface or object. the surrounding soil. The soil and the pipeline are slated for removal under a contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - and the trees must be taken out to accomplish that. The pipeline removal project began last June and is expected to be completed by late July this year. This week crews began working in the woods behind a row of white homes in the Presidio. A member of GGNRA's natural resources staff walked around the grove with the contractor three weeks ago but didn't find any bird nests or signs of nesting activity, such as birds flying to and fro to and fro adv. Back and forth. to and fro Adverb, adj also to-and-fro 1. , McKenzie said. However, he added, because small nests can't be seen from the ground, the tree crews also were supposed to climb the trees and make sure they didn't contain any nests. McKenzie said the tree crew apparently didn't get that message. |
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