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July 08, 1993 - DEC Is Exporting East End OspreysJuly S, 1993 • The Suffolk Times • 19 DEC Is Exporting East End Ospreys By Bob Lieoa Twelve fledgling ospreys will be transferred Monday from their eastern Long Island nests to a wildlife man- agement area in western New York as part of an effort to restore the state's os- prey population. About eight of the young ospreys will be moved from nests on the North Fork, including some in the Orient area, said Michael Scheibel, a senior wildlife bi- ologist at the New York State Department of Environmental Conser- vation's Long Island regional office. Once the seahawks are collected, they will be taken to Gabreski Airport in Westhampton and flown to the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area in western New York. In a process known as hacking, biolo- gists will care for the ospreys at a spe- cially- designed rearing tower, gradually releasing them into the wild with mini- mal human contact. By imprinting their new surroundings on the ospreys at a US on Ethics Conference Is Tuesday Councilman Lizewski vows to participate SOUTHOLD— United South- old supervisor candidate/Repub- lican Councilman Tom Wick- ham and his running mates will host a public meeting on ethics in government at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday at the First Universalist Church in Southold. Mr. Wickham and United Southold Town Board candidates Joe Townsend and Ruth Oliva are scheduled to participate in a question- and - answer session on the rules of conduct in town government (and other topics) after outlining the general prin- cipals United Southold is follow- ing in preparing an updated Code of Ethics for Southold. Billed as an opportunity to provide citizens with a glimpse of how the Wickham administra- tion would operate once in of- fice, Councilman Wickham called the meeting last month, in the wake of conflict-of- inter- est charges he levelled at Republican Councilman Joe Liz - ewski. And Councilman Lizewski in- tends to appear at the meeting on Tuesday to defend himself, he said yesterday. "There's no way I wouldn't be there," he said. "I don't consider myself unethical in any sense of the word." Alzheimer's Support An Alzheimer's disease support group sponsored by the Riverhead Kiwanis Club meets on the first Mon- day of the month at Central Suffolk Hospital. New members are wel- come; meetings begin at 2 p.m. Brief respite care is available. Call 727- 3200, ext. 290. young age, it is hoped they will return to nest in the release area when they reach sexual maturity in three to five years. Making a `Dramatic Comeback' Long Island's osprey population was decimated by the widespread use of a highly toxic chemical pesticide, DDT, during the 1950s and 1960s. Since then, however, ospreys have mounted what DEC officials call a "dramatic come- back." Ten years ago, they were reclassified from an endangered species and placed on the threatened species list. In comparison to 1976, when Long Island had 69 active nests, an annual helicopter survey completed last week found between 240 and 250 nesting sites on the island. Ospreys can now be found on both coasts of Long Island, from the Jamaica Bay National Wildlife Refuge to Fisher's Island, although they are primarily concentrated on the East End. "The return of this magnificent bird to suitable habitats in New York State is an unqualified success story," said DEC Commissioner Thomas Jorling, who called the recovery of the species "steady and strong." Last summer, DEC wildlife biologists transferred nine young ospreys from their North Fork nests to the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. And from 1980 to 1987, the DEC moved a small number of ospreys to Cattaraugus County in southwestern New York in the department's first attempt to hack ospreys. 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