Photos of urban monarch overwintering sites in California

[Ron Gatrelle]

preservationist and a restorationist -- with the latter wanting to actually
role back the hands of time. Somehow I don't think any of us want to return
so far back that we are only at the point of primeval ooze? It is very sad
that so many only see the future as environmentally dead. (Spring is still
far from silent.)
 
Many, many, many events in celestial time and space have affected our
little rock much more than man ever has or ever will. Evolution is an
awesomely violent, totally emotionless, blindly agendaless thing. OOPS,
Anne, I'm in the second paragraph! So let's not let me get to the third.
 Ron
 
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Vaughn" <aa6g at aa6g.org>
To: <LEPS-L at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 2:12 PM
Subject: Re: Photos of urban monarch overwintering sites in California
 
 
> One of the interesting viewpoints I see on this list is the one that
seems
> to be expressed here: Environmental change = Environmental degradation,
> especially if humans had anything to do with it.
>
> I think of this viewpoint as that of preservationists, those that view
> change as mostly bad. I'm not a preservationist. I see all change as
> having positive and negative aspects and that it's inevitable.
>
> As a kid in San Lorenzo in the 60's Sky West Golf Course was open land
> where wild wheat(?) was harvested each Spring and the land was then
> plowed.....certainly not a natural state even then. We collected Monarch
> caterpillars on Milkweed patches in the Summer along with various
butterflies.
> Now the same land is a Winter sanctuary for Monarchs. Is this a good
> or a bad change? Some would say bad simply because it's a change. One
> could come up with all sorts of pluses and minuses. I see it simply as
> a change.
>
> Chuck Vaughn <aa6g at aa6g.org>
>
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