Warning
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 00:20:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Graham Etherington
I thought I should send this one on to all. Better safe than sorry!
From: Murphy Family
Subject: [SFBirds] warning
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:55:06 +0800Just in case you care I forward this little item.
If you receive an e-mail titled "Win A Holiday" DO NOT open it. It will erase everything on your hard drive.Forward this letter out to as many people as you can. This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people know about it. This information was announced yesterday morning from Microsoft, please share it again by passing this along to everyone in your address book so that this may be stopped.
Regards,
Ed Maloney
Proto-Power Corporation
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Re: Warning
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 07:23:12 -0800
From: Larry Tunstall
Graham forwarded:
If you receive an e-mail titled "Win A Holiday" DO NOT open it. It will erase everything on your hard drive.
This is a hoax. See
http://www.icsa.net/services/consortia/anti-virus/holiday.shtml
Just a reminder to those who are somewhat new to the Net that you should check out such warnings at a site such as
http://www.ncsa.com/services/consortia/anti-virus/alerthoax.html
before passing them along to anyone, and you should never post them to a list such as EBbird.
We all appreciate your good intentions, Graham, and most of us did it at least once ourselves before we learned!
Good birding,
Larry
http://www.best.com/~folkbird/
EBbird website:
http://www.best.com/~folkbird/EBBC/
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RE: Warning
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 14:23:39
From: Graham Etherington
OK, OK - I get the message. So, I'm easily fooled when it comes to computers!
Regards,
Graham Etherington
----- Forwarded Message Starts Here -----From: Jon Fisher
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 06:57:06 -0800
To: 'Graham J Etherington'
Subject: RE: [CALBIRD] WarningGraham,
Just FYI... you've probably already received messages on this, but.. this type of hoax virus message crops up every few months... it is impossible to infect your computer simply by opening an e-mail. Your hard drive will not be erased by doing so... if there are files attached, and you open or use them and they are infected, you CAN get a virus, but not by merely opening e-mail...
the description "very malicious" or "very desructive" virus seem to be used every time this hoax re-appears.... and it scares the hell out of people... and overloads e-mail systems and servers, etc....
oh, well, i guess some people have nothing better to do than inconvenience others... what can you do?
thanks
JonJon Fisher
Walt Disney Imagineering
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Local birds in the news
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:54:18 PST
From: Bill Scoggins
Hello East Bay Birders,
Recently I read three articles concerning the conservation of local birds and have noted them below.
Good Birding,
Bill Scoggins
Castro Valley
http://members.aol.com/wnscoggins/chact.html
What's going on at
Coyote Hills?
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(1) One article ironically tells of the remarkable recovery of the California clapper rail due to the aggressive control of the red fox using steel leg-hold traps. This is actually a press release summarizing a five year study at San Francisco Bay NWR. In order to read the full text go to Back from the brink (11/10/1998) http://www.mercurycenter.com/premium/local/docs/trapbox10.htm
(2) Another article, published the same day in another section of the paper, laments the fact that the success of Prop. 4 might mean the end of the clapper rail. For the full text go to Endangered species called Prop. 4 victims (11/10/1998) http://www.mercurycenter.com/premium/local/docs/trap10s.htm
Here are some highlights.
Published Tuesday, November 10, 1998, in the San Jose Mercury News
Endangered species called Prop. 4 victims
BY MARILEE ENGE
Mercury News Staff Writer"We have lost our most versatile tools," said Gary Simmons of the federal Wildlife Services agency, which conducts trapping in national parks, refuges and on state and private land.
Government wildlife managers and the animal rights activists who sponsored Proposition 4 disagree on how the new law should be interpreted by agencies working to save endangered species. But for now, the biologists who work in the bay refuge and other sensitive wildlife areas in California said they will not use leg-hold traps, the favored device for capturing the wiliest predators.
In the Dumbarton Marsh on the eastern shore of the bay, the birds' [Clapper Rail] numbers had plummeted from 200 to about eight. The clapper rail colony there now numbers about 100.
Refuge manager Margaret Kolar said Monday she had no idea what biologists will do now. They are not barred from shooting the foxes or using other devices, such as box traps, but they maintain that leg-hold traps are the most effective method of catching the animals, which are then euthanized.
"I guess we'll have to hold off," Kolar said. "It gives us no time to plan for alternatives."
In another action prompted by the recent election, California Department of Fish and Game officials have revoked trapping permits for about 30 separate scientific projects in the state. Researchers routinely use leg-hold traps to capture animals before they are outfitted with radio collars and tracked. One such project involving coyote behavior is under way at the University of California-Berkeley.
A Washington-based lawyer who often represents environmental and animal rights groups in endangered species lawsuits said the federal law protecting creatures in danger of extinction overrides any state statutes banning traps.
"It doesn't matter if you're talking about endangered species or federal land management or disposal of nuclear waste," said Eric Glitzenstein. "The federal law is the one that's enforceable."
"If all trapping stops immediately, that means we start losing endangered species immediately," said Arthur Feinstein, president of the Golden Gate Audubon Society. "When you only have 700 birds in the world, they get gobbled up pretty fast."
(3) The final article is Bird-friendly windmills to go on Altamont Pass (11/11/1998). http://www.mercurycenter.com/premium/local/docs/windmill11a.htm
Here are some important points from the article.
Published Wednesday, November 11, 1998, in the San Jose Mercury News
From 1992 through January 1998, 1,025 birds were killed in the windmills' blades or by electrocution on their wiring. That includes 149 golden eagles, which are protected by state and federal laws. Neither the state nor federal governments has ever prosecuted the wind farmers for killing golden eagles.Tuesday's approval mandates a two-year study of whether the new technology will save birds' lives. Until the study is finished and the county agrees the new technology is safe for birds, wind farmers will not be allowed to build more electric capacity than what they have today.
The Altamont Pass is home to the largest concentration of nesting golden eagle pairs in the world, with about 100 in a 30-mile radius, according to biologists.
In giving its approval, the county rejected arguments made by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the California Department of Fish and Game, which called for wind farmers to pay for off-site bird habitat protection.