Re: OT:Farm findings
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- Subject: Re: OT:Farm findings
- From: T* H* <d*@fgi.net>
- Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 19:55:23 -0700 (MST)
I think Celia makes a good legal point - but feel I must defend my ethical
standards - in both cases the iris have 'walked' to the road ditch, into
the ditch and have no where to go with increase unless they can grow on an
oil road. As for the daffs, one homestead had been bulldozed, and the
entire - fence row, all of it, put to pasture, so you gotta dodge the cows,
and the gazillion of them scattered everywhere indicate they were plowed
and disked several times, spread everywhere, but still, I did ask and was
granted permission. Other homesteads are in the family - and one - well,
the house has collapsed in - there's an heir - out of state, beyond the
clutches of the village to enforce clean-up - He'll sell to someone who
wants to pay the price badly enough to bulldoze it clear so yes - I just
boldly walked right onto the property and took some daffs. Perhaps the
difference is in knowing the area - knowing the people, or the history of
the place - but rescuing is not always stealing.
Sharon
At 05:55 PM 3/23/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>Over the weekend I came
>>across an abandoned farm house and always having a shovel in my trunk,
>>I stopped and searched the overgrown areas.
>
>Umm ... darting into other people's land and taking their things is
>stealing, whether the owners seem to want those things or not. Would you
>have brought along a flatbed truck and hauled away the house? It's the same
>principle. Telling ourselves we are rescuing the poor plants is specious
>reasoning. If they've persisted 30 or 40 years without being tended, they
>aren't in dire need of immediate help.
>Unless there's a backhoe poised above their heads, go to the county
>courthouse, look up the parcel, call the landowner and get permission. Many
>times you won't even need to go to that much trouble. Just stop at the
>corner store and ask who owns the land.
>
>We should not condone stealing. Find the owners and ask permission.
>
>celia
>storey@aristotle.net
>Little Rock, Arkansas, USDA Zone 7b
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>257 feet above sea level,
>average rainfall about 50 inches (more than 60" in '97)
>average relative humidity (at 6 a.m.) 84%.
>moderate winters, hot summers ... but lots of seesaw action in all seasons
>
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