Biologist Richard Dolbeer said of the bird-strike that precipitated yesterday's emergency landing of a commercial jet on the Hudson River:
"The root of the problem right now is that because of the very successful wildlife conservation programs in North America since the 1970s, we've seen a tremendous resurgence of many wildlife species, particularly large bird species -- species that weigh over 4 pounds, including Canada geese, snow geese, bald eagles, great blue herons, double-crested cormorants, turkey vultures and black vultures."
Wow, what's to be done? Bring back the market hunters?
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Could we bulldoze the habitat of airplanes? Fewer planes, fewer collisions.
I love how the Navy cared so much about the safety of its own pilots (and its multimillion dollar planes) that it proposed that (now-skewered) Outlying Landing Field next to the wintering grounds of 80,000-100,000 snow geese and tundra swans. Oh, pish. What were the chances of a 20-pound swan with a 5-foot wingspan colliding with jets taking off and touching down 24/7?
That plan deserved to be skewered about a hundred times.
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