Butterflies (3 spp.) and the F&WS

[Chris J. Durden]

You are quite right Mark. Big bucks win over idealists every time. They can 
afford the most effective lawyers.
Protecting habitat seems to be the most productive way to go. However one 
person's idea of protection is another person's ruin.
...........Chris Durden

At 03:51 AM 8/31/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>I'm going to pop up and say something extremely controversial, but what they
>heck.  It won't be the last time, and Lord knows it's not the first time.
>Here goes:
>
>Listing doesn't work.  I agree with Norbert that the bureaucracy of it all
>is particularly disturbing.  But before you flame - let me explain.  I
>recently went to visit an Aunt who lives in Murrieta, near Temecula, in
>Southern California.  She lives literally a stone throws distance from a
>well known population of the listed Quino Checkerspot (Euphydryas editha
>wrightii).  I was only made aware of it's location and proximity to
>relatives a few years ago, but have been silently monitoring the spot ever
>since.  Of course, collecting has never been considered - but now I'm pissed
>I didn't catch and mount every last one.  You see, the whole population
>(though listed for about five years now) has been completely decimated by a
>master planned community.  Gone - wasted - every square inch.  If all this
>bureaucracy only serves to keep out the collectors and scientists from
>sampling the bugs, and proves incapable of actually saving the habitat, then
>it's all for naught.  It's enough to get a mellow person riled.
>
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but the same thing happened to the Concord, N.H.
>population of the Karner Blue.  Lots of buzz amongst the learned, but whilst
>they chat over cappuccinos, the bulldozers roll.
>
>Walker.



 
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