Florida Traps

[wanda]

Thanks Jeff, for representing us so graciously.   

I'll certainly vouch that traps of all kinds get damaged, removed, etc.
and don't mean just by the weather!   There has been a big push for
bringing bluebirds back to the area and numerous birdhouses have been
built and placed in parks toward that end.  If a birdhouse makes it
through the year, it is amazing! 

Wanda Dameron
LA-NABA, Lep Soc, Xerces, Lorquin, ATL
Flutterby Press, San Fernando Valley, Ca.

> NABA wrote:
> 
> Earlier today, the following message was intended to be copied to this
> address,  but  an  empty   message  was  inadvertantly  sent  instead.
> 
> Dear Mr. Koehn,
> 
> Alana Edwards  forwarded to me your email in  which you state that you
> have  received  telephone  calls  informing  you that  a  NABA  member
> destroyed  a trap  and removed  others that  you had placed  near Port
> Mayaca.
> 
> Please be  assured that if such  actions did in fact  take place, they
> were in  no way encouraged nor  condoned by NABA. I  have seen some of
> the same second and third hand information that you have seen, stating
> that a  NABA member  did interfere with  one of your traps.  If you do
> have  convincing information  that  a particular  individual destroyed
> your trap, I encourage  you to take this matter up with them directly,
> if you so desire. If a NABA member participating on one of these field
> trips did  destroy or take a  trap belonging to you,  then I sincerely
> apologize on behalf of NABA for their behavior.
> 
> A few  groups of  NABA members did  visit an area near  Port Mayaca in
> conjunction with  the NABA  Members Meeting being held  in nearby West
> Palm Beach, Florida. I, myself led the first group of approximately 16
> people to this area on Friday, May 18. You mention that you had placed
> a  number of  traps in  this area,  but I  noticed only a  single trap
> placed in  a tree. Since my group was the  first NABA field trip group
> to visit the site, it is entirely possible that other, non-NABA people
> removed some of them. As you probably know, bait traps can attract all
> sorts of attention. The first traps that Bob Robbins and I placed near
> the Amazon River in 1970 were cut down and stolen the first day out.
> 
> Very  few  of the  people  in my  group  remarked about  the trap  and
> certainly none  did anything to disturb it.  Personally, I had no idea
> as to  whom the trap belonged  or for what purpose  it were there, but
> assumed  (apparently  not  entirely  correctly) that  any  butterflies
> trapped would  be released. A  few other groups visited  the same area
> when I was not present.
> 
> To reiterate,  NABA does not condone  the destruction of others’
> property and if a  NABA member was involved in such destruction during
> a NABA-led  field trip, then we  apologize for that individual’s
> unwarranted, unauthorized and unacceptable behavior.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Jeffrey Glassberg
> 
> President: NABA