killing butterflies

[Sharyn Fernandez]

Mark Walker wrote:
>>       Every individual that goes into the field to explicitly
>> observe/study/investigate the natural world is obligated to keep records
>> (however simple) of what is observed.  It is this behavior that gives
>> watching and collecting a scientific value, regardless of an individual's
>> credentials or even underlying motivation.
>
James Adams responded:
>I couldn't agree more.  Personally, I feel it is pointless, even
>inappropriate, to collect specimens without keeping data.

Altho' it goes on to make an interesting point about relating what is being
caught and how people react to it, I interpret the original message to mean
that any activity (photography, just hiking, using binoculars, whatever) be
documented... which I also totally agree to.
Thanks. S.

Sharyn Fernandez
"Recreational development is a job not of building roads into  lovely country
but of building receptivity (inroads-sic) into the still unlovely human
mind" - Aldo Leopold. SAND COUNTY ALMANAC (Conservation Esthetic) c. 1949