[CT Birds] wildlife pays the price...

[Carrier Graphics]

    Steve had some very good points to tell in his response to my comments on our vanishing 
forests here in CT. 

    "To  this,  I  would  only  add  that  the  ten  years  since  the  publication  of  
 this  book  have  seen  continued  penetration  and  fragmentation  of  the  
 forest  as  new  homes  have  gone  up." 
    Steve  Broker


The main purpose in my writing was to  explain how much we have recently fragmented into the re forestation that has been happening within our State since the turn of the century. Most of this being caused by our human expansion outwards and its development through homes, roads  and malls which has fragmented the re forested areas of what was once farms and open country. With this fragmentation comes homes with more people, dogs, cats, poisons, cars, trash, etc, which will influence the balance of the fauna and flora within these smaller islands of forested land that remains.

Most statistics do not take this loss of natural balance and life into account as a result of forest fragmentation, but it happens, and is happening today at an accelerated rate. Just try to remember all those open fields, swamps and forests we remember seeing just 30, or 20, or 10 years ago near where you now live, which are gone today caused by this continual development.       


I don't need statistics to tell me, we are loosing ground here in our State of CT to the expansion of our human population, and wildlife is once again paying the price for it.

Paul Carrier