Steven
At 02:55 PM 2/22/00 -0800, you wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 13:31:15 -0600 (CST)
>> From: mcclurg luke e <mcclurgl_at_washburn.edu>
>
>> Unfortunately Steven, the Iowa Darter disappeared
>> from Kansas Streams long ago. The only ones I
>> know of that still exist in the state are the 4
>> located in my darter tank which are tank raised
>> by Ray Katula. The Iowa Darter, along with several
>> other species such as the Blacknose Shiner,
>> disappeared around 1900 when, believe it or not,
>> water demands on the states rivers was even higher
>> than today. It is my hope upon graduation
>> to get state support (which I am confident will
>> come) to start reintroduction plans for some of
>> these lost species.
>
>This does not make any sense. You're going to
>reintroduce these fish to waters where they went
>extinct? Why? To watch them go extinct again? Why
>don't you work at saving what's already out there
>that's trying to cling to survival?
>
>Maybe after you've finished reintroducing
>extinct-in-the-wild fish, you could go clone some
>dinosaurs...
>
>
>
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