Butterflies (3 spp.) and the F&WS

[Neil Jones]

In article <6AA1CFDDE237D51190160000F805064D279E83 at hqmail.gensym.com>
           MWalker at gensym.com "Mark Walker" writes:

> 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).

Excuse me being pedantic but it is actually E.editha QUINO.

Wrightii isn't valid it actually applied to something else a ssp
of E. chalcedona if I recall correctly.

Listing does work. Not all the time. It is just like chemotherapy but
would you refuse that?

-- 
Neil Jones- Neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk http://www.nwjones.demon.co.uk/
"At some point I had to stand up and be counted. Who speaks for the
butterflies?" Andrew Lees - The quotation on his memorial at Crymlyn Bog
National Nature Reserve


 
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