Extinction vs accuracy

[rudy benavides]

Michael,
 
I agree.  In my opinion bulldozers do more for the extirpation of habitats
than just about anything else (including, invasive sp., etc).
 
Rudy Benavides
Maryland
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>From: Michael Gochfeld <gochfeld at eohsi.rutgers.edu>
>To: rbenavid at hotmail.com
>CC: leps-l at lists.yale.edu
>Subject: Re: Extinction vs accuracy
>Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 08:22:26 -0500
>
>Next time you (anybody) have the dubious opportunity of watching a tree
>removal
>activity from land to be developed, watch the huge tree biting and chipping
>equipment, and see if it fits the description of "violent" or even "violent
>destruction at the very source".
>
>M. Gochfeld
>
>rudy benavides wrote:
>
> > --------------------------------------
> > John:  My Webster's New World Dictionary states that the synonym for
> > extirpate is exterminate.  Under exterminate, it states...SYN.-
>exterminate
> > implies the complete, wholesale destruction of living beings or things
>whose
> > existence is considered undesirable; extirpate and eradicate both
>suggest
> > the extinction or abolition of something, extirpate implying a
>deliberate
> > and violent destruction at the very source so that the thing cannot be
> > regenerated, and eradicate connoting less violence and often, the
>working of
> > natural processesor a methodical plan.
> >
> > So I have to maintain that unless someone went to Streetboro Fen to
> > deliberately snuff out the Mitchell's satyr, it was not an extirpation.
> > That habitat destruction resulted in its vanishing from the site-- I
>would
> > agree on that.
> >
> > Rudy Benavides
> > Maryland
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