As the forest went, so went the bird. It's an indicator species, representative of what we did to the forests. Having it return is perhaps a sign that the forests and habitat are coming back as well.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES allow substantial loss of habitat for species that depend on older forests. DANIEL HALL There has been so much forest lost all over the country, and it takes years for trees to grow back. ... FREDDY MELLA We need healthy forests if we want to protect our climate. As the climate changes, forests become mo... CHRIS NOTH Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the fore... URSULA K. LE GUIN The Doktor took a fly swatter and hit it hard. ‘Bang!’ it went. But it didn’t go splat! The ro... CHRISTINA ENGELA Ecologists have debated for decades whether there is ecological value to species diversity. We found... CHRISTOPHER WILLS Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD The Forest Service appears to be having an internal fire sale, with the heart of our national forest... JEFF RUCH Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS Every successful prescribed fire is a blow for safety in surrounding communities and for forest heal... BRUCE BABBITT Ecologists have debated for decades over whether there is something of ecological value to species d... CHRISTOPHER WILLS Before I got here, I thought that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it didn't exist, ... JOHN GREEN We do have federally listed species that use the forest, and we need to have a plan that protects th... JIM YOUNG I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of... BILL WATTERSON One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests,... ED RENDELL The fact the placement went so well is a sign of strength for that company. LEX WERKHEIM When all the birds drowned in the sliver bay When the smoke signal went into outer space N... 喬靖夫 The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Ama... ALEX SHOUMATOFF We stopped the fundamentals for a little bit. That's what we did so well - the fundamentals. And whe... JULIE KOLCUM These open houses provide Hoosiers with a chance to receive firsthand information about how the stat... KYLE HUPFER Uncontrolled emotion is as undisciplined and needlessly destructive as starting a forest fire with a... LORETTA YOUNG Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi... DEYTH BANGER One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational fore... ED RENDELL And the beautiful open spaces, the forests of Pennsylvania, the recreational uses that come from hav... ED RENDELL This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to our... CHRIS MASER It's the first species that we've had that really forced a broad-scale re-examination of the high mo... GARY PATTON A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The forests of the South are among the richest in terms of total number of species of any habitats i... STEVE MCCORMICK Every other civilized nation in the world has been compelled to care for its forests, and so must we... JOHN MUIR While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests. NANCY GIBBS Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin borea... ALEX SHOUMATOFF May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... CHRISTINA ENGELA Forests shouldn't exist. The trees in the middle of the forest don't get enough light or nutrients t... SHERRI COALE We want to put an end to the pattern of abuse on the Kootenai National Forest that has resulted in d... JEFF JUEL Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER Maybe the secret to happiness is simplicity. AMY HARMON The forests of the South are among the richest in terms of total number of species of any habitats i... STEVE MCCORMICK Now the Forest Service and BLM must stop avoiding their legal responsibilities and get to work imple... DOUG HEIKEN As a threatened species, you can't harm it, harass it or adversely affect its habitat. JIM NICKLES The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its... JOHN BURROUGHS Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, ki... SCOTT WESTERFELD Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stor... CARRIE RYAN Sumatra has these lush forests and huge, amazing creatures like elephants, orangutans, and tigers. T... PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. As a species the cheetah is still in dire straits in Iran, so it is extremely encouraging to see an ... PETER ZAHLER They made a promise to protect species by doing surveys back in 1994 and they've known about it all ... DOUG HEIKEN Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and o... JULIUS STERLING MORTON And now, first and foremost, you can never afford to forget for a moment what is the object of our f... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU The match went well. We did what we had to do. SARAH BATTY And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, a... BIBLE The heaviest burden: “What, if some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneli... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. JIM HARRISON What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Spec... JAY INSLEE The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Modernism had two great wishes. It wanted its audience to be led toward a recognition of the social ... T.J. CLARK You get to see things like what species are attracted to certain habitat. You'll also see what types... LARRY CASTLE Everything went as planned. We wanted to win both relays, and we did. We also wanted to get our kids... ANDREW WASHINGTON We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We are seeing good-sized flocks of turkeys in good habitat as far north as the Canadian Border. Havi... DOUG BLODGETT A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the a... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he the president is the representative of the people. H... ABRAHAM LINCOLN You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's... N.K. JEMISIN You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES The forest-dwellers have grown weary of wandering in the forests; following the Guru's Teachings, se... ATHARVA VEDA What went down well?" Mum asks, coming back to the table. "Nothing," I say. "The Titanic,"... ZOE SUGG His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING By saving tigers, we also save forests in which they live and conversely by not saving tigers, we wi... JAI SINGH It was something we had thought about, so we just went out tonight and did what we had to do. We sta... DEVIN HARRIS I think what we did was slack up on a lot of it, and that's what caused the problems. So when we red... THERESA ADAMS They are all ... quite economical and inexpensive and sometimes free. Most of the national forests h... DON WRIGHT Frodo gave a cry, and there he was, fallen upon his knees at the chasm's edge. But Gollum, dancing l... J.R.R. TOLKIEN These are really kind of isolated pieces of forest. Most of our forests in East Texas are public lan... ERNIE MURRAY It was really an amazing show. The rodeo, the music, the stock show everything went off as well as w... ANGELA RABKE It was really an amazing show. The rodeo, the music, the stock show everything went off as well a... ANGELA RABKE We bowled well as a team but the ball went into gaps and we dropped catches. But if we can get a lea... ANDRE NEL We have 90% more hardwood standing inventory in U.S. forests than we did 60 years ago. The willingne... TIM LOCKE The Swan Valley and surrounding lands are an important part of the Northern Rockies landscape, and t... ERIC LOVE She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, becaus... CATHY MCMORRIS RODGERS It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, becaus... CATHY MCMORRIS In army, I went to Kashmir and did well, which was a challenge. In sports, I went to Olympics at a t... RAJYAVARDHAN SINGH RATHORE So you have you price," I said with a mouthful of crumbs. "Your soul for a cookie." Fang made sure D... JAMES PATTERSON Things went very well for us today. It was a great meet and we had a lot of breakthroughs. To compet... DARRYL ANDERSON What it really is a story about is about a community went from being a second-class community in eve... JAMES GARCIA Everything went well. It was important to me because I wanted to test it [back] out in a game situat... COREY MAGGETTE We went down to Drake, and she did not perform well at Drake, so I think it was a good experience fo... BRENT SANDS Because Led Zeppelin weren't having to worry about doing singles, each time we went in to record... JIMMY PAGE Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in ever... CHRIS NOTH By 1950, he had come to view the pedestrian as a threshold or indicator species capable of foretelli... JONATHAN ELLER The fact that productive kelp forests are found adjacent to some of the earliest coastal archaeologi... JON ERLANDSON In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being k... FRANS DE WAAL
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