Thanks very much for the photos of the memorial. Hopefully they will have a commemoration of some kind in 2014 for the 100th anniversary of the passenger pigeon passing.
Thanks very much for the photos of the memorial. Hopefully they will have a commemoration of some kind in 2014 for the 100th anniversary of the passenger pigeon passing.
Just found this on the web. It stands as a monument to the stupidity and complacency displayed by so many legislators throughout the world:-
In 1857, a bill was brought forth to the Ohio State Legislature seeking protection for the Passenger Pigeon. A Select Committee of the Senate filed a report stating "The passenger pigeon needs no protection. Wonderfully prolific, having the vast forests of the North as its breeding grounds, traveling hundreds of miles in search of food, it is here today and elsewhere tomorrow, and no ordinary destruction can lessen them, or be missed from the myriads that are yearly produced."
