Peer reviewers are exhausted. It's common to spend *months* inviting reviewers, getting refusals, inviting more, maybe 12 or more, then 2 agree but 1 doesn't complete, so you go again. That's why your paper is in limbo. I'm very sorry, it's awful, but it's also an untenable academic labour issue.

Jaeger/tern photo from Massachusetts submitted in thanks for the quiz.

Could it be....Mottled Petrel?

Look man if you say regenerative 3 times backwards and click your heels, upland sandpipers just start shooting out of your ass, I dont make the rules thats just science

Thanks Tommy I'll think about it..some complications as I'm a gov employee. At worst I can recommend others.

Opre also falls into the trap laid by groups opposed to wildlife conservation, defund organizations like USFWS, complain about resulting poor management, convert to private lands.

Did he mention that USFWS budgets are so deeply cut that the 1.1 million acre CMR refuge has 1 biologist on staff?!?!

Not to mention, there probably are negative effects of no grazing on parts of the CMR, but that is only because bison restoration, which is in the CMR management plan, has been politically blocked by the same ranchers your guests lionize.

The most desirable elk hunting districts in the state are on the CMR...refuge for 1000s of pronghorn in bad winters...best riparian forest habitat in Montana, hosting Black-billed cuckoos in big numbers...there is too much to list. Your guests are incredibly biased.

CMR was one of the last refuges of Black-footed ferret until a plague outbreak a few years ago (you can google) www.fws.gov/press-releas...

Mountain lions: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

You can read my two papers focused on birds in the region here: scholar.google.com/citations?us...

...like all you have to do is go to these places and open your eyes it's not hard