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.

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