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Letter to the Editor

Where have all the small animals and birds gone

Leonard Wallace, New Meadows, Idaho
January 7, 2026

Years ago miners had a canary in a cage to let them know when the air quality got bad in the cave the canary would die. In the 1990’s the funeral service started doing controlled burns and announcing the air quality in regards to humans nothing being said about birds and small animal’s which may being killed in this area due to bad air quality. This a list of birds and animals that I have seen less of or maybe none, since the 1990’s. Animals; Coyotes, Foxes, Raccoons, Skunks , Squirrels, Weasels, Chipmunks, Rabbits, to name a few but I am sure there is more. Birds; Canadian geese, Crows, Killdeers, Robins, Ducks, Humming birds, Hawks, Eagles, Buzzards, Quail, Pheasants, Grouse, that all I can think of now but I am sure there is more plus insects. Honey bees, yellow jackets. My common sense tells me that the U.S.Funeral Service haven’t tough a single thing sense the 1990s that hasn’t done more harm than good, a classic example of this they won’t put out forest fires and when a hard rain comes the floods are worse due to burn scars.

Yes, climate change is very real caused by the U.S.Funeral service and their burns and mismanagement.

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