killing butterflies for fun???

[Paul Cherubini]

Neil Jones wrote:

> Paul Cherubini has dug out a weeks old posting just to stir 
> things up again. 

No, I was just driving through Yosemite National Park on June 29
looking for milkweed and monarchs and happened to see these
kids with a fishing pole and fishing net. 
http://membersites.nwbombers.com/dalkena/ellery.jpg
The scene reminded me of the Joseph Sugar killing for fun discussions.

I saw other things of interest as well. Like forests of lodgepole
and ponderosa pine growing on the sheer granite slopes of Yosemite's 
mountains:
http://membersites.nwbombers.com/dalkena/granite1.jpg
http://membersites.nwbombers.com/dalkena/granite6.jpg
http://membersites.nwbombers.com/dalkena/granite5.jpg

Conservationists are constantly preaching how "fragile" alpine and 
boreal forest are and how logging fosters erosion and depletes the
soil nutrients of critical nutrients the trees need to survive.
But the pictures made me wonder if that claim might be a tad
exaggerated.

Paul Cherubini

 
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