> You can't preserve nature by putting it >in a zoo or making rules. The real problem is our domination >of the earth and continued development. Every perchase we >make has an impact. Our air and water pollution reaches >everywhere and growth constantly eats away at natural habitat. > >with that happy note trudge off into the woods muttering. <grin> > >jeff > >>
but maybe you can sometimes give people a glimpse of what has been lost by creating nature zoos. I have a photo I cherish of my god daughter running through the tall grass prairie re-created in Oklahoma. I was involved in a tiny way for a short while in that project and the time was well invested for a child to be able to experience what my own kids couldn't because it wasn't there. But of course the pollution generated by people driving to see it.............. I'll never forget as long as I lived being half way down the Grand Canyon on July 4th. There were traffic jams on the rim and hardly a soul a hundred yards down the trail and my first sight of a western blue bird.....If those people had got out of their cards I wouldn't have seen the blue bird. Guess I'm talking in circles. kathryn
