The pheasant was introduced to the state of Wisconsin in the late 19th century and fast became a popular bird for hunting. While originally the bird thrived in the state, it didn’t take long before it began to decrease in number due to urban expansion. With crop lands diminishing and being replaced with towns, cities, and malls, the pheasant ran out of viable habitat. Wisconsin in recent decades though has recognized the state-wide pheasant decline and has made valiant efforts to reintroduce this once plentiful species.
Today the best pheasant hunting in Wisconsin is found in the southeast of the state along with some of the west-central regions. While many states have formed pheasant and wildlife conservation programs, Wisconsin’s efforts have seen enormous increases in the bird population. The Wisconsin Pheasant Stamp was created in 1991, with the sale of each stamp contributing to the conservation of this beautiful fowl. With the money raised, the state was able to better restore and manage pheasant habitats. Many acres were preserved for nesting and winter habitats, and without it the pheasant would be nearly extinct.
The areas restored for pheasant habitat are also available for other uses. They provide excellent pheasant hunting, fishing, trapping, hiking, nature study, and berry-picking. Some areas even allow a hunter to train his dog or are the venue for field trials. There are dozens of parks, forests, and wildlife preserves throughout the state for the hunter to choose from.
Wisconsin also offers a number of forms of wildlife rehabilitation which has helped to raise awareness and restore pheasant numbers. Many organizations provide temporary care to the injured, sick, and orphaned wildlife of the area with the goal to release the animals to their native environments. It can be a challenge when rehabilitating animals to keep them assimilated to the type of food and shelter necessary to survive in the wild, but with much research and effort these organizations are able to release with a great success rate. There are also many licenses available to the private citizen with an interest in offering rehabilitative services for wildlife. Doing some research online will allow the concerned citizen to get in touch with the necessary state agencies to acquire the proper licenses. With the great effort on the part of the state to conserve habitat and the pheasant species, the state is a great example of what concern for the nation’s wildlife can do.
By: Abhishek Agarwal
Archive for September, 2009
Wisconsin – What It Does For Pheasant Conservation
September 29th, 2009Creating a Cleaning Environment
September 28th, 2009g environment is one where the pollution of the past is remediated and cleaned with time to remove existing historic risk to the environment and public health. A cleaning environment implies a return of the natural endemic local ecology, and is an ideal to strive for.
We need to create a cleaning environment if our marvels of science and technology are going to be matched, and not outweighed, by many current tragedies, including human starvation in some parts of the world and extinction of other life forms. Global warming is taking place and is an increase in the Earth\’s average temperature. This, in turn, causes climate changes. Global warming also could cause droughts and disrupt agriculture.
A cleaning environment means not despoiling the remaining parts of the world which are still undeveloped. Globally, indigenous people inhabit areas with some of the highest remaining biodiversity on the planet and are actively being engaged as partners in biodiversity conservation. Issues of sustainable development, resource management and ecological restoration all include native stakeholders. Global harmony is possible, yet confrontations take place more often than meaningful dialogues for peace. Our science and technology has done much good, but if we are not careful its unimagined polluting effects will be matched, if not outweighed, by the many, including depletion of resources which is destroying the possibility for people to bring up children in a clean environment.
In some parts of the world extinction of other life-forms is growing apace. It is ironic that exploration of outer space will now only take place at the same time the earth\’s own oceans, seas, and freshwater areas while they grow increasingly polluted and their life-forms are still largely unknown and where known are probably misunderstood.
However, it is not impossible to return to a green and clean environment. Obama will soon take over the Presidency and clearly intends to take very positive action. .The world became weary that would ever Bush rein in the polluters and close the so-called grandfather loophole as the air in Texas becomes ever smoggier. Never forget though that Bush may have had his arm twisted, but he did concede that humans are causing climate change. It may have taken many a sleepless night in Bali, but his representatives did agree to draw up a post-Kyoto treaty by 2009.
In the US the general public are beginning to take on-board their profligate use of energy. Just look at recent statistics in the US for big car sales. SUV sales are down by 50%, car sales are down 50%, but small, fuel efficient cars, hybrid cars, diesel cars are up 40%.
So here we can start to shift our thinking. The US may soon start to take her place among the nations seeking a clean, or if not clean, then cleaning environment
Greenhouse emissions do not poison people, or lakes or woods, in the direct or obvious way that noxious chemicals do. But at least in the medium term, they clearly alter the earth in ways that harm the welfare of all and the poor more than the affluent.
One relatively clean energy technology cited as a possible stop-gap while renewable energy sources can be fully developed is nuclear power. It is the rich industrialized countries like France, Sweden, Japan (and many others) who are the biggest users of nuclear energy. Although new nuclear technologies reduce the problem of nuclear waste-management, and make it much more manageable, many in the west prefer to force oil-based energy use in oil-poor countries like India.
A method of cleaning technology is carbon sequestering of CO2. Carbon sequestering is obtained by chemically binding the CO2 in a material that will not dissolve in water or release CO2 with time. This eliminates the need to sequester pure CO2. IF the power generators sequester their CO2 they won’t need to buy carbon credits. Carbon credits have been called the modern day Papal indulgences for rich people. We don\’t accept hypocrisy from our preachers, they say, so I don\’t give eco-preachers an easy ride on this hypocrisy. Carbon credit administration is so bureaucratic and expensive that it is hard to justify perpetuating, on that basis alone, but in reality it will not bring us the cleaning environment we need and seek.
We talked about Nuclear energy as a part of cleaning the environment. Is it really so bad? It brings economic benefits from new jobs created to run new plants. It is like adding $500 million a year to the economy for each new plant brought on line. Nuclear currently accounts for about 20% of electricity generation in the UK. When all nuclear plants except Sizewell B in Suffolk are closed by 2020, the nuclear contribution will fall to some 4%. Many say that to burn coal would mean replacing this capacity would be a backward move and far from moving to a cleaning environment be the opposite.
By: Steve Evans
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