How America works

[Chris J. Durden]

Mark,
    You are quite right. My trips always include someplace old (so I am not 
disappointed) and somplace new (for the thrill of discovery). I would 
recommend this strategy to all.
..............Chris Durden

At 12:20 AM 6/10/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Ron wrote:
>
> > One thing TILS is doing is to try to discover (collect), determine
> > (scientifically identify), and document (publish)  butterfly and moth
> > species and subspecies before they become extinct with no one
> > ever having
> > known they even existed! At TILS our motto is "As a world
> > community, we can
> > not protect that which we do not know."
>
>Another thing worth encouraging is the discovery of new pockets of habitat -
>places where bugs fly that have not been previously studied or where data
>has not been previously recorded.  Simply going back to the same old well
>known hot spots is important for the monitoring of known populations - but I
>find it so much more interesting to locate these new spots.  Here's where
>you(we) amateurs play a huge roll.  Most (I'm tip-toeing through the tulips
>here) BTB and collector folks will seek out locations where they can expect
>to see certain species.  Others - especially the children amateurs who are
>limited to the habitats very close to home - tend to go out looking wherever
>they see flora (the concrete jungle of L.A. in the 60's was still inundated
>with overgrown empty lots).  These are my kind of lepidopterists.
>
>Mark Walker.
> >
>
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