Miami Blue ACTION!

[Ron Gatrelle]

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Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: Miami Blue ACTION!


> Are there no "stewards" of these sacrosanct areas?!  Shouldn't that be
> the first implementation of protecting a discovered population of
> threatened species?  Someone needs to be "put in charge" of such areas
> before broadcasting their existence to the oft well-meaning, though
> uneducated and bumbling public.(!)
>
> Granted, it's a big responsibility for the designated individual or group
> of individuals, but not an impossible undertaking.  If even one person
> can be found to moderate the numbers of visitors to such sites, then that
> person can be the liason for allowing "look sees," and the one to contact
> if people wish to "observe" whatever the habitat has to offer.
> Generally, the steward is someone who lives within close proximity of the
> area and has an invested interest in the occurance of the particular
> species or habitat.
>
> It won't curtail all the public marauders, but it would help to keep most
> curious visitors under moderation.
>
> In this "information age," you can't stop people from finding out things
> they are hell-bent on wanting to know, but you can still exert some
> restrictions on how they go about it!  And talking endlessly about it
> isn't going to solve the problem...
>
> M.B. Prondzinski
>

I agree completely.  Email is at many times nothing more than venting or
wishful thinking.  Which I guess is fine as long as one realizes it is no
substitute for actual action.  Shut up or put up comes to mind.  Ron



 
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