Government and habitat

[Ron Gatrelle]

I also believe we should tattle-tail on the screw ups via the web so those
who mess up can be held more accountable to the public for who they work
and whose resources they are entrusted with the PROPER management of. The
bigger the government entity - the bigger the potential screw up. Do
industry and individuals mess up the environment and ecosystems -
absolutely. But so does the environmental arms of government - yet I
virtually never here them criticized.  I say expose all the bad apples and
praise all the good ones.
RG

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dameron, Wanda" <be496 at lafn.org>
To: <Norbert.Kondla at gems3.gov.bc.ca>
Cc: "'lepsl'" <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: Government and habitat


> We've taken many "well-intentioned" conservation related actions,
> especially during the last century, and undoubtedly still doing so, for
> lack of knowledge.   We must continue our endeavors in learning and to
> make that knowledge easily available.   Hallelujah for the computer &
> internet!
>
> Cheers, Wanda Dameron
>
> "Kondla, Norbert FOR:EX" wrote:
> >
> > Ron's examples of habitat destruction by government are well taken. My
> > favorite example of misguided habitat alteration is the transformation
of
> > part of a provincial park in Ontario, Canada. The area once supported
> > Plebejus melissa samuelis, which has been extirpated from Canada. Some
folks
> > thought it would be nice to plant a whole lot of trees in its habitat
(after
> > all tree planting is always a good thing ???). Sure enough they
succeeded in
> > creating a nice forest but also succeeded in driving the Karner blue
and an
> > entire natural ecosystem into extinction. These were not evil people
intent
> > on wreaking havoc but intent does not matter from the perspective of
> > results. it is an interesting world we live in :-)
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Norbert Kondla  P.Biol., RPBio.
> > Forest Ecosystem Specialist, Ministry of Environment
> > 845 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar, British Columbia V1N 1H3
> > Phone 250-365-8610
> > Mailto:Norbert.Kondla at gems3.gov.bc.ca
> > http://www.env.gov.bc.ca
> >
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