Ok, I know this isn’t going to surprise many people, but, I felt the need to include this little gem in my blog. My past posts have clearly indicated my passion for habitat conservation. This is a subject that all of us have to face and understand. We in the U.S. now number over 300 million. This relates to a big piece of the our economy, real estate. We all have to have someplace to live, someplace to buy our food and clothes, someplace for our children to attend school. Most people who have been around for a while have personally watched their neighborhood and surroundings transform under the hands of developers. There are a lot fewer open fields and woods for us to walk in, and for our kids to play in. This of course, will never stop. Why should it? As long as developers stand to make money and we have no policy for conservation, every last bit of open space will be built upon or paved over. It is a logical conclusion. How much would we like to have left over in the end, if anything at all? I am afraid that with each successive generation in America, we become more and more removed from nature and those beings that need a wild habitat in which to survive.

This article is another example of how someone was appointed to an office in the Bush administration, with no other qualification than that she could be counted upon to act against conservation. She also acted in a corrupt way by serving her own family’s real estate interests. Not really surprising, from a Bush appointee. I’ve heard the angry rants before, from those who own land and believe they should be able to do anything they wish with it. Well, sure I guess, except, this isn’t a right that all of us can exercise however we wish and forever. Logically, we will sell our land, develop it and profit until there is none left. What is out there to stop it? We are putting ourselves, as humans, above all other living beings on this earth, and not just to eat or have shelter.

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