[BCNnet] Fwd: FW: [Appealist] FCC to Study Birds, Communications Towers
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FYI - more on comm tower studies.
Christine Williamson
Chicago/Cook
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From: "Jim Bensman" <jbensman1@charter.net>
To: "Williamson, Chris" <birdchris@aol.com>
Subject: FW: [Appealist] FCC to Study Birds, Communications Towers
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:35:59 -0500
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Bird [mailto:Bryan.Bird@sierraclub.org]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 10:21 AM
To: Sequoia ForestKeeper; appealist@onenw.org
Subject: RE: [Appealist] FCC to Study Birds, Communications Towers
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Actually, it is not entirely understood what draws the migrating birds in to
the towers where they can then collide with the tower, the guy-wires, or
each other. However, it is most-likely related to the frequency and color of
the FAA required flashing lights or the radio frequency radiation itself as
Ara pointed out.
I have researched this issue extensively for Forest Conservation Council.
There is a large amount of research on the impacts of towers and their radio
frequency radiation on human health (not good) but less on the mechanisms of
avian mortality. Nearly 90% of nightly mortality at a tower site can be
consumed by scavengers!
FCC has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to conduct a
full-blown EIS on the issue and especially a cumulative effects analysis. In
order to file the petition we had to formally protest hundreds of tower
applications across the country. This is most likely why the agency is
suddenly interested in the topic. FCC filed a 60-day notice and put the
agency on alert that we were planning to file a NEPA-based lawsuit. A great
deal of this information is available on the website
(www.forestconservation.org) or John Talberth can provide details
(jtalberth@cybermesa.com).
Bryan Bird (purely coincidence!)
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From: Sequoia ForestKeeper [mailto:ara@sequoiaforestkeeper.org]
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 4:23 AM
To: nixon@enviroweb.org; appealist@onenw.org
Subject: Re: [Appealist] FCC to Study Birds, Communications Towers
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It is more likely that the birds are drawn in by the frequencies transmitted
by the towers. It is like the whales and dolphins getting lost and swimming
to shore because of the low frequency vibrations put into the oceans by the
US military.
Ara
Ara Marderosian,
Executive Director
Sequoia ForestKeeper
California non-profit 501(c)(3) Corporation
P.O. Box 2134,
Kernville, CA 93238
(760) 376-4434 or (760) 378-4574
www.sequoiaforestkeeper.org
ara@sequoiaforestkeeper.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Nixon" <blackrail@hotmail.com>
To: <appealist@onenw.org>
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 9:43 AM
Subject: [Appealist] FCC to Study Birds, Communications Towers
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> FYI, in case you hadn't heard/seen:
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> FCC to Study Birds, Communications Towers
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> WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal government is opening an inquiry into why so
> many birds are killed flying into communications towers.
>
> The Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday it is taking on the
> issue in an effort to manage the expansion of communications towers in a
way
> that "best preserves the country's environmental resources."
>
> The inquiry is part of the FCC's environmental and historic preservation
> action plan announced in May.
>
> That plan is an effort to study and police how the growing number of cell
> phone and broadcast towers sprouting across the country affects historic
> sites, Indian land and the environment.
>
> The agency will work with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to study why
> migratory birds fly into towers. An estimated 5 million to 50 million
birds
> die that way each year, according to Fish and Wildlife.
>
> Researchers suspect that lights on the towers attract the birds. The FCC
has
> said more research is needed to understand the problem and the role of
> lights and tower height and design.
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> On the Net:
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> Federal Communications Commission: http://www.fcc.gov
> 2003-08-21 07:16:37 GMT
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> Copyright 2003
> The Associated Press All Rights Reserved
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