Southern strays

[Chris J. Durden]

Right! Most habitat reserves are too little, too late, but we must strive
to protect them anyway.
......Chris Durden

At 06:21  5/11/00 -0500, you wrote:
>    These trends also work in the negative. I think it is fair to attribute
>the scarcity of many species of Lepidoptera in the Sand Hills region of
>South Carolina to these recent climatic trends. Years of hot weather and
>less rain in already arid regions can is devastating. In ages past
>populations could shift their regional distribution centers. In areas of
>extensive human environmental destruction or alteration, this can no longer
>occur.
>    The following is a brutal fact. This planet and the organisms on it have
>rolled with the eonic environmental punches.Things have been able to evolve
>and thus survive because there was always a niche, a corner of the ring, to
>retreat to. In the past the great swings of global warming and cooling have
>been survivable because biogeological movement was available. Modern man has
>changed this for a long time to come. Thus, global warming concerns me very
>little (I don't own beach property), because regardless of the cause, it has
>happened before and will happen again. I am concerned that so many living
>things no longer have somewhere else to go to weather the storm.
> 


 
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