You could get more things done at less cost.
> the images streaming through my television
> and newspapers on environmental disasters and species extinctions in my
> lifetime; to the activities of land speculators and developers,
> profit-blinded corporations, and corporate agri-businesses who have little
> in common with the family farmer;
>
And who do you think underwrote much of this activity with agricultural
subsidies, and grants to dam, dredge and channelize waterways over the
last century? The same agencies who are now wanting to take control of
everything to undo the damage. Right here in my own backyard we have a
good example - the lower part of the Greenlick Watershed- once an
incredible diverisity of meandering stream, oxbows and cutoffs, aluvial
forest, skunk cabbage beds , open marsh with sweet flag and iris, plus a
thriving population of wood turtles and northern leopard frogs- all
destroyed and it was not by private ownership. It was cleared and turned
into a flood control dam back in the late 70s. Much of what was lost
might even still be there had the land remained in private hands. Who
knows, maybe when the old fellow who owned much of it died- someone else
could have bought it and donated the land to the Nature Conservancy.
Of course that dosen't matter anymore. It's gone forever now.
Jeff
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