Comments on: Acorn woodpeckers: Please sign petition asking Rossmoor NOT to kill them

By: Kurt Nordquist

Kurt Nordquist — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:53:51 +0000

I’m going to broad brush selfish developers and development management. If they left the dead trees alone and built the structures out of durable materials not styrofoam. The woodpeckers are a positive asset. ps aren’t they protected by the Migratory Bird Act? The developers may be rich how do they trump this international treaty?

By: Paulette Kenyon

Paulette Kenyon — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:06:42 +0000

That may be true, Kit. I think it’s worse than that, though. I think they are spiritually dead and hopelessly rigid. It’s unfortunate. I see some elderly people who have become expansive and brave in their old age. That doesn’t seem to be the case in Rossmoor. Instead, they want a parklike setting; but, they don’t want any real animals to live there. I imagine that the whole place is lacquered with pesticides, so they don’t have to worry about a single bug jumping on them as they hobble around. It’s a sign of their times – the age when asbestos and pesticides were good things and nature was to be conquered and destroyed. Let’s hope there are enough real human beings over there to override this hideous “final solution.” There are a number of genuinely kind solutions to this dilemma.

By: Kit Fisher

Kit Fisher — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:28:02 +0000

Really! Why do the Rossmoreans insist on killing the woodpeckers, by gun no less, when the Audubon Society and others tell them this does NOTHING to solve the problem, just kill a bunch of birds. Really. What is with these people. Are they senile or something?

By: Nora King

Nora King — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:35:31 +0000

These birds are beautiful! They are most welcome here in Martinez, where we have an abundance of cork oaks.

By: Mona Reeva

Mona Reeva — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:27:34 +0000

Destroying wildlife when there are other solutions is short sighted and creates a void in the ecology of our planet. Don’t do it! Us better methods than killing acorn woodpeckers to solve this problem!

By: Irene L. Jorgensen

Irene L. Jorgensen — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:20:20 +0000

I hope and pray that Rossmoor will not kill the woodpeckers. I find it very difficult to comprehend that “we – humans” want to live in “their” natural environment, yet when “they” get in “our way” we decide to kill them. How ghastly unfair to the creature. They never asked that we invade their territory. Please Rossmoor, work with the professionals and please don’t kill the woodpeckers. I thought I heard that you also a professional killer for the wild turkeys, what’s next, hunting, killing old people.

By: Pat in Antioch

Pat in Antioch — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:05:21 +0000

Signed! Hope many more do the same!