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Cindy,
I don't have NGS on CD but I do have access to back issues and a
photographer husband.
I'll check it out. Thanks. The students seem to relate better to what they
see as opposed to imagination.
My guess is that it is a TV generation!
Suzy Hill
UT 240 x-8361
-----Original Message-----
From: Cindy Lee Duckert [mailto:duckert@focol.org]
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 4:11 PM
To: channel-talkgeography@learner.org
Subject: [Channel-talkgeography] dramatic border/boundary photos
At 11:04 AM 1/16/2003, you wrote:
> After watching the first program, I was delighted with the aerial
>view of the border
>showing the difference between Mexico and Texas. That picture is worth
>several hours of
>explanation.It gave me an idea - find other aerials of othe borders to
>explain culture problems.
>
>Thanks,
>Suzy Hill
Suzy,
THere are lots of border issues that are neat with aerial or satellite
photography. This year I have been using a fence line on one of the
Channel Islands off California and what a difference it is to see where
cattle and pigs get at the native vegetation. There is a photo from
several years ago in National Geographic that shows the
deforestation/reforestation border between Haiti & Domincan Republic that
is breathtaking. (Do you have access to the Natl Geographic on CD ROM?)
for the Channel Islands photos/info (and other island ecosystems)
the photo I am using is from Natinal Parks Magazine, May/June 200 in the
article A Land Apart by Elizabeth Daerr pp.35-39 the photo is on p.38
Title: PIG-FREE IN THE CHANNEL ISLANDS.
Subject(s): FERAL swine -- California; FOXES -- California; CHANNEL
Islands National Park (Calif.)
Source: E Magazine: The Environmental Magazine, Mar/Apr2001, Vol. 12
Issue 2, p14, 2p, 1c
Author(s): Graham, Chuck
Abstract: Reports on the menace brought by feral pigs on the plants
and animals in Channel Islands National Park, off the coast of Santa
Barbara, California. Number of plant and animal species in the
islands; Impact of feral pigs on the fox populations on Santa Rosa and
San Miguel, California; Cost of eliminating the pigs in the islands.
AN: 4121504
ISSN: 1046-8021
Lexile: 1210
Note: This title is not available at the Neenah Public Library.
Full Text Word Count: 409
Database: Middle Search Plus
Section: CURRENTS IN BRIEF
PIG-FREE IN THE CHANNEL ISLANDS
The five islands in Channel Islands National Park, off the coast of
Santa Barbara, California, are a state treasure: Despite such close
proximity to heavily populated Southern California, they have remained
relatively undeveloped. There are 2,000 species of plants and animals
in the park, 145 of them unique to the islands.
But now a squatly menace has them all under siege. Feral pigs, brought
to the archipelago in 1853, are the only holdovers from the islands'
ranching days, which ended in 1990. Herds of cattle, horses and sheep
have also left their mark on the chain, but the four-legged
rototillers on Santa Cruz Island, the largest of the islets, have had
the greatest impact--even on neighboring Santa Rosa and San Miguel,
where there are no pigs.
"We want to be pig-free," proclaims Diane Divine of The Nature
Conservancy. Approximately 4,000 pigs are rooting up endemic flora
like the island oaks and manzanita groves, and they've also lured
mainland-based golden eagles, which have in turn discovered that the
endemic island fox is as easy a kill as a piglet. "Golden eagles are
making day trips over to the islands," says Tim Coonan, terrestrial
biologist for the park service. "They're decimating the fox
populations on Santa Rosa and San Miguel."
The feral pig population will be hunted until they've been extirpated.
Nearby Santa Rosa Island took a year and a half, from 1991 to 1992, to
eradicate its pigs. Eliminating them from the entire park will cost an
estimated $1 million.
Kate Faulkner, chief of resource management for the Channel Islands
National Park, says the Santa Rosa pigs were wiped out with a force of
gun-toting wildlife biologists; a similar method may be used on Santa
Cruz. Stephanie Boyles, a wildlife biologist representing the People
for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), says that the group
hasn't taken a position on the Channel Islands plan, but has opposed
Nature Conservancy eradication efforts when they involve the use of
painful snares.
Years of overgrazing have taken a toll on the fragile native
ecosystem, but there is hope in reclaiming the islands. "I feel we've
gone from an era of ranching to an era of restoration," says Faulkner.
CONTACT: Channel Islands National Park, (805)658-5711,
www.nps.gov/chis/.
PHOTO (COLOR): The once-pristine Channel Islands are under attack from
a non-native population of feral pigs (right).
~~~~~~~~
By Chuck Graham
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