End of the Cerulean Warbler

By Jason M Hogle | Posted on September 10, 2009

The mountains are clearcut, then leveled, their tops removed, their innards dumped down into the valleys below, stopping up, burying the streams, choking off the life blood of the land. They are flattened, scraped away, every sign of life destroyed, turned to moonscape. The rich loam, tens of thousands of years in the making, is blown away, and with it the roots and seeds—the future—of every plant in the ecosystem.

Yet it’s more important than the cataclysmic end of the cerulean warbler, a species now more difficult than ever to find…

Read this marvelous piece by my blogging friend Julie Zickefoose, and in it find not only the reason to fear the end of one bird species, but the end of what should be held precious to anyone who loves nature’s vast and marvelous diversity.