The Butterfly Palace, Inc.

[Michael Gochfeld]

Of course in a real rain forest you could spend a very long time without
ever seeing a Fer De Lance and at some times of the year Army Ants are
in short supply also even in rain forest.  Mike Gochfeld

Richard Worth wrote:
> 
> And 400 acres is not a small chunk of land either.  I walked clover
> fields last summer and got a real appreciation for what an acre is.
> It seems this land could be used more wisely than for hotels and
> parking lots like Disneyland.  I sense more Bambification about to
> happen too, where people go into a safe artificial rainforest without
> the Fer-de-Lance, army ants, cayman, etc.  A glass structure that big
> will probably act like a prism and start a fire in the summer sun.
> Rich
> 
> >Mike Quinn wrote:
> >  >
> >  > By pages 28 and 29, the cost had apparently risen to $300 million...
> >  >
> >  > http://www.butterflypalace.org/page29.htm
> >  > http://www.butterflypalace.org/page28.htm
> >
> >And the conservationist promoting this $300 million Butterfly
> >Palace says "How can we afford not to do it and risk losing
> >the Western Monarchs altogether?"
> >
> >In reality, monarch overwintering sites can be created from scratch for
> >the pocket change price of $250.00 worth of trees.  Just buy 50 blue
> >gum eucalyptus trees for $5 each at the local wholesale tree nursery
> >and plant them in a U-shaped configuration on existing, government
> >owned land along the California coast.
> >
> >But I know very few monarch butterfly conservationists interested in
> >any monarch conservation solution that doesn't involve spending
> >millions of dollars.
> >
> >Paul Cherubini
> >
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> Richard A. Worth
> Oregon Department of Agriculture
> Plant Division
> rworth at oda.state.or.us
> (503) 986-6461
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