I have to side with Carson on this if someone is going to the work of
finding out where the road work is going to happen, if there are
orchids to be salvaged and then salvages them, they should be allowed
to sell the plants under state supervision and make some money to pay
for the work. I meet Tom Nelson once, years ago, he is a great guy
and is trying to both save orchids and make a living doing something
he likes.
If plant societies and botanical gardens want to raise groups of
volunteers to do the same, great, but both groups are working to save
the plants that would be destroyed by the bull dozer. They should not
look down their nose at someone who is out there doing the same work,
but making money at it. He is not making a fortune selling these
plants.
I have seen here in Iowa, where the State Department of Natural
Resources has built parking lots over beds of Cyp. calceolus and not
bothered to move any of the plants to other sites in the same park.
Why no one who cared know the project was going to happen and those
who did were not worried about the plants as there were so many.
--Tom
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At 12:09 PM -0400 7/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Carson [E. Whitlow]
for your comments about Tom Nelson and his conservation efforts in Minnesota.
As mentioned in the article about Tom Nelson, "some ... believe
collecting plants from the wild is unethical and encourages
poaching".
[http://www.startribune.com/stories/418/5525283.html]
Carson expresses another point of view : "those who criticize him
... would prefer the plants be destroyed than have them salvaged."
Personally, I remain skeptical about selling salvaged plants to nurseries.
Of course, if our orchid societies and institutions (botanical
gardens and government agencies) are passive about the conservation
of wild orchids, we should not be surprised that others would
collect and sell them, be them individuals or nurseries.
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Regards,
Viateur
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