Re: "Time for the return of the native"
- Subject: Re: [SG] "Time for the return of the native"
- From: M* L*
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 09:08:48 -0700
Brilliant, Claire. Wonderful post. Margaret L
>I own a few acres in an Eastern state and the property I own is an old farm.
>The land has been changed in the eleven years I have lived here by increased
>deer herds, three years of severe drought several years back, rabies infected
>raccoons, deer ticks increasingly infected with Lyme disease, birds infected
>by more than one fatal type of virus (West Nile), one October freak snow that
>destroyed a lot of woodland, and local owners returning to lumbering
>practices that have been absent for over 75 years. All of these are legal as
>far as I know and no regulation will stop any of them. Furthermore in my
>town 100% of all free flowing water is polluted by dumping corporations, the
>General Electric being the largest. No fish caught in the Rennselaer County
>town of Nassau is edible. Over $50,000 was raised and expended by this very
>small town to stop a mining company from blowing up a mountain directly in
>the center of the town. A broom on a hillside pales in comparison to all of
>this. We have bigger fish to fry while considering our environment.
>
>Claire Peplowski
>NYS z4
