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Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 12:59 pm
WELLS, Maine (AP) - Scientists say they've found a species of butterfly in Maine 75 years after the last reported sighting in the state.
The state's Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Department set out last summer to confirm one way or the other whether the spicebush swallowtail lived in Maine. Maine is at the northern end of the butterfly's range, and the only documented Maine sighting was in 1934.
Wildlife biologist Phillip deMaynadier (dee-MAY-nah-dee-air) says the effort paid off in September when several occupied swallowtail nests were discovered in some hardwood swamps in Berwick and Wells. He says the finding provides proof that the butterfly breeds in Maine.
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The Spicebush Swallowtail is
The Spicebush Swallowtail is not an endangered or threatened species. All you right-wingers can rest easy.
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It will be nice when some of these folks posting are extinct. Where do we stop killing off species?
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I wonder how much it cost the bankrupt state and brike taxpayers to find out this butterfly is still breeding in the Grand State of Maine? Maybe some more tourists will show up for a few hours visit with butterfly nets and picnic baskets after gasing up before crossing the state line to escape their urban whatever.
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You need to do some homework re: where the majority of IF&W money comes from.
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it would have been nice for you to have enlightened us. I will tell you what I know. Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (IF&W) is funded by 1) fishing and hunting licenses, a tax. 2) tag fees of which the agent gets a whole dollar and IF&W gets the res including all of that big increase (I belive they now get $4 per animal), another tax 3) boat registrations, a tax 4) vanity motor rehicle registration, a tax 5) atv registration, a tax 6) snowmobile registration part to the local club for trail maintainence part to IF&W, a tax. 7)Trust Funds previously created with tax dollars from various sources and other contributors including fines and penalties, 8) the general fund, taxes 9) federal funds in the form of grants etc,but still originated from taxes. Anyway you look at it comes down to TAXES.
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Very little comes out of the general fund. The point is that they are funded primarily by consumptive users. They're not funded by the way DHS is, for example. Let's just forget about wildlife or any interest in science and fire 'em all. Does that make you feel better? You seem to have very little use for state agencies. They are not all created equal. Let it go.
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The money wasted on looking for a butterfly could have been spent on game wardens, fire wardens, equipment and state park operations, maintainence and equipment. There are trails damaged by an earthquake, what 10 years ago, in Baxter that have not been fixed due to lack of funds and we are spending money looking for a buttterfly? Only in Maine!
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State park maintenance is not part of IFW. If funding is a problem for Baxter State Park they should increase their gate and camping fees so the park can support itself. Raiding IFW funding is not the way to fund parks and state park funds should not be diverted to other agencies. I doubt much money was spent to find these butterflies when you consider that the biologists were taking notes on other things as they were in those swamps.
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I think that every living thing has a purpose, be it the food chain or a sign of change in the environment. There are frogs all around the world dropping like flies due to a fungus and many scientist believe its due to change in the environment (pollution/temperature/etc.) If a species-any species is no longer inhabiting in the state of Maine it could very well prove to be detrimental to many things-clues, questions, awareness-to bigger and better things. Its a chain... if one is gone, then maybe the next in line and so on and so forth (not just with extinction, but inhabiting as well).
"Small minds discuss people, Average minds discuss events, Great minds discuss ideas"~E. Roosevelt
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And I thought after looking at the picture it was a scatanustron usually found domiciled near rivers in the Lewiston & Auburn area and a main food supply for river rats.
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Absolutely astounding! Its kinda neat to think that a species (thought not to be here) is actually around... I went to the museum in Augusta and its interesting to know that some creatures use to be here-but are no longer-like the Eastern Timber Wolf (''extirpated' from Maine around 1880') . Hopefully the state's Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Department can get the information it needs on the Spicebush Swallowtail. They are quite pretty... like a jewel.
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Well we have to prevent right wing wackos from filling in the wetlands to make the Spicebush Swallowtail Mall and Museum including an exhibit of the last spicebush swallowtail killed to make the mall possible.
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Great! Halt all local development projects! Deter the tourists! Overcharge the residents more to preserve land that they can't utilize! We must preserve a butterfly that has only been seen twice in 100 years!
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