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Jay, did you ask this just for me?

Posted By: Steve Haines, catboats, Goose Bayou, FL
Date: 6/27/08 4:54a.m.

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In Response To: Environmentalist vs. Conservationist (Jay)

I took land that was eroding and turned it into a tree farm, planting several thousand trees by hand. Put out feed in winter for the wildlife, and stocked around 300 pair of quail. More recently, I've spent several days marking stormwater drains, and several more mapping, measuring and photographing storm drains and outflows on St. Andrews Bay. Also kayaked Econfina Creek with a large group picking up lots and lots of trash. Several hours a month, I'm part of a group that plans projects and finds helpers for stuff like seagrass restoration, building oyster reefs, and mapping threatened plant species. I'm part of a team that is putting together a brochure for homeowners and developers on "Living Shorelines", providing cost and construction information about an alternative to bulkheads and seawalls. I'm in the Florida Master Naturalist program, too.
No pay for this stuff, but I learn alot, see alot, and get outside alot, sometimes to places less travelled. When I'm there, I pick up the trash. For that matter, when I go to a public beach, I always police up my trash, and usually some junk someone else left behind.
I think dark things about people who bury their bottles in the sand, or leave trash behind. There's not much I can do to make a pig do much but grunt, but I can do other things.
So, what does that make me?

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Messages In This Thread

Environmentalist vs. Conservationist -- Jay -- 6/27/08 4:28a.m.

Jay, did you ask this just for me? -- Steve Haines, catboats, Goose Bayou, FL -- 6/27/08 4:54a.m.

Excellent Steve...keep up the great work! I canoe several times a week on the -- Robb, Great Dane 28, Yankee Dolphin, Lake Superior -- 6/27/08 8:00a.m.

I already liked you, Steve...how can I like you even MORE? -- Noemi - Ensenada 20 -- 6/27/08 9:31a.m.

Makes you O.K. in my book. -- Mike -- 6/27/08 9:48a.m.

Good work Steve. -- Brian, Precision 23, Lake Lanier, GA -- 6/27/08 12:47p.m.

I just get so sick of the Environmentallists... -- Jay -- 6/27/08 4:37p.m.

It makes you a GREAT example -- Tim -- 6/27/08 9:03p.m.

Actually, both. I pick 'em up AND support regulations. -- Noemi - Ensenada 20 -- 6/27/08 9:29a.m.

Take something away from everyone rather than deal with the offenders? -- Brian, Precision 23, Lake Lanier, GA -- 6/27/08 9:43a.m.

Unfortunately, Bush-Cheney have not enforced environmental laws. -- Boudreaux - bolger bateau -- 6/27/08 7:44p.m.

Bush and Cheney are now responsible for litter too? -- Brian, Precision 23, Lake Lanier, GA -- 6/28/08 4:01a.m.

you should look into the concept of -- Jeff, Reinell2200 -- 6/28/08 5:55a.m.

Bush-Cheney appointed Alberto Gonzalez as Attorney General -- Boudreaux - bolger bateau -- 6/28/08 1:59p.m.

I'd rather your kids grew up in a relatively clean world; wouldn't you? -- Noemi - Ensenada 20 -- 6/28/08 6:50a.m.

The question is how to accomplish that. -- Brian, Precision 23, Lake Lanier, GA -- 6/28/08 1:19p.m.

We Moved Here Eleven Years Ago -- Dan McGuire -- 6/28/08 7:56a.m.

I agree with Dan, politics has got probably zilch to do with it -- Arlyn Stewart -- 6/28/08 11:19a.m.

Also, what's considered trash to many Americans, is treasure, or at least worth -- Robb, Great Dane 28, Yankee Dolphin, Lake Superior -- 6/28/08 12:15p.m.

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