But what about the rare “six feet east of the pine tree next to the big rock” microbe that exists there, and nowhere else in the universe? I’m sure that if we got enough biologists to run enough DNA tests we could find at least a couple of thousand life forms that exist nowhere else, which will be forever destroyed by the effort to save the butterfly.
Oh, the Hugh Manistee!
Otto Township About the only way you can get to most places in this forest is over logging roads. That US Forest guy is smoking dope when he says that County Roads can still be used to get to parts of the forest.
I've always thought that a disabled person would have a VERY GOOD chance of suing a government plan like this under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Forest Service loves to just shut access to logging roads. Maybe the ADA is the way to go to force them to stop.
I would rather that land be cleared as a sanctuary for Liberals and Enviro-Nazis. There would be no roads and the perimeter would be secured by barbed wire fences for their protection.
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I saw that coming down the pike, which is why, when I saw one of those butterflys in my garden this summer I whacked it with a fly swatter......
WOW, I can’t wait to share this with my deer hunting, democrat voting UAW “brothers”.
I just read a report in the Saginaw Field and Stream newsletter about a study done on the areas of riverbank that were cleared of soil and plants to alleviate a contaminant - I believe it was dioxin - in the Tittabawassee river area near Midland. The study showed that the areas that were contaminated and NOT cleared show no effects in the wildlife or any organisms that live there. The cleared areas are devoid of animal life and show no signs of recovering yet. In other words, when left alone, nature seems to recover. When “helped” by environmentalists, matters are made far worse.
In Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, they are paying crews to go into the woods and pull out forget-me-nots because they are an invasive species. These flowers grow all over in the woods near Grand Marais and are just beautiful in the spring. They grow in and with trilliums on the forest floor. I wonder how much stuff will be destroyed by these workers tromping all over and disturbing root systems of the trilliums and other plants?
Maybe we should let nature take care of itself and leave the damn trees alone in the Manistee National Forest? Do you think?
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