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"Guaranteed it is the local envirowhacks who did it."

No way. As much as you might not like environmentalists, they care very deeply about endangered species. They do, as well, volunteer their time to preserve species. I have a close friend who seeks out and photographs threatened and endangered wildflowers all over California, every year, and donates his pictures to preservation projects and museums. You will not convince me he is a flower killer. His work had gone toward preserving several varieties that would otherwise be lost to us.

No way. As much as you might not like environmentalists, they care very deeply about endangered species.

You don't know diddly about these people, or me.

As much as you might not like environmentalists, they care very deeply about endangered species.

Then why, pray tell, are so many of their policies inevitably destructive to the fish? They think whatever they are told to think buy a professorate and bureaucrats with vested interests in the outcome, not to mention politicians who make a good buck pleasing the corporate interests that cash in on the game.

I have a close friend who seeks out and photographs threatened and endangered wildflowers all over California, every year, and donates his pictures to preservation projects and museums.

I spend full time, six days a week, restoring habitat. The full time work has gone on for three years, and before that there were twelve years part time. I have nearly 300 plant species on my property, most of which I have photographed in all their phases (better than CalPhotos). When your friend has spent $250,000 on land and improvements, spent fifteen weeks solid bent over weeding, when your friend is willing to hang off the end of a rope over a cliff to do it, then I'll know he "cares." Until then, he's doing his volunteer work for self aggrandizement and the sheer pleasure of controlling other people's land.

It's very easy to show that your friend is very likely to be a plant killer. Here's how: Take tarweed for example. This is a species that is endangered in Santa Cruz County. Never mind that it probably isn't a separate species and produces viable hybrids, let's just presume it is in trouble. Well, what do the econuts have codified into law? They have the land where there is tarweed REQUIRED to be preserved, and not touched. Too bad for them that the plant REQUIRES occasional disturbance to survive. It pops up all over wherever a bulldozer has broken up the surface. Worse, a no disturbance policy absolutely guarantees eventual weed infestation and thereafter, extinction.

Most plants on the endangered list in California are either threatened by weeds or are post disturbance (early succession) species.

That's how stupid and destructive these people are, and clearly, so are you to have taken such a pompous position without knowing what you are talking about or whom you are addressing. Your covetous greed to control other people's property without any accountability for the consequences makes me puke.

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