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Re: [GWL]: Old Growth
In a message dated 8/7/01 6:13:45 AM, grapes@fastransit.net writes:
<< Is it because they represent an ecosystem that cannot be replicated in a
younger forest? >>
Bingo! As our knowledge of the natural world increases, we discover uses and
benefits inherent in the lesser species that would be destroyed by the loss
of that habitat. When one studies how the flora and fauna depend upon each
other within a particular ecosystem, we discover how the removal of some of
the elements of the ecosystem unbalances the whole. Where do new drugs and
medicines come from? For the most part, they are synthesized from chemical
compounds found only in the jungles, usually in rare plants indigenous to
that area.
I don't believe that our old growth forests are sacred to the point that they
become a "holy of holy" places where no man may dare enter, but we should at
least appreciate and protect the last of them for what they are -- naturally
working spaces that are, for the most part, working the way God designed them
to work. For me, they do evoke a reverence for the Designer.
Larry Maupin
MAUPIN PHOTOGRAPHY
Dallas, Texas
214/341-3933
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