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Hello,
This is a request for help. About ten years ago a few cat hoarders installed a feral cat ranch in our wildlife sanctuary. Property is owned by Town of Brookhaven . Wildlife Sanctuary is at Cedar Beach , Mt. Sinai Harbor, Town of Brookhaven. The park/beach is a .02miles long peninsula on LI Sound with a harbor on the south side, Sound to the north side. Santuary has long been nesting habitat for the Piping Plover as well as foraging habitat for many other species including blue heron, night heron, egrets etc. The hoarders have deposited between twenty and thirty diseased cats into the sanctuary. In 2002, I contacted DEC and US fish and Wildlife. Together we contacted the Town of Brookhaven . We were told the cats would be trapped and removed as this is also a bathing beach and school groups of children are coming to an ecology center on the site. The cats seem everywhere. The "hoarding without walls" continued , nothing changed , The Town arranged secretly to pay the cat hoarders. The Town allowed the cat hoarders to ADOPT THE PARK via our Towns adopt a park program. Time passed and the number of cats escalated. In 2007 September again US fish and Wildlife was called as the problem was never solved and the plovers reproduction had failed as cats eat the chicks each year. Cat tracks cover the nesting areas fenced by DEC and the entire Sanctuary. We met with Town officials in January and were told again the cats would be trapped and removed. The cats remain , regular daily feedings continue, , hoarders threatened Town , said beach would be covered with cats if the hoarders were removed. The beach should have ten to twenty nests by now but with the cat predation we only get a single pair per year if that. The santuary has been denuded of wildlife including marine turtles, rabbits, chipmunks and birds. I have been working alone and had no help with this sad situation. The hoarders are organized and aggressive. Has anybody gone thought anything like this? It seems insane but its true. Can anybody help?
Any advice?
captainwen@optonline.net
W. Giebel
Hello,
I am requesting information on how to find out what a strange bone I found is. It is a piece of what looks like a spine with spines coming out of it, but I can't seem to find anything like it.
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