Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

It is extra sad for some Pego. I am a biologist, used to work in a zoo for a while even. I like wolves, snakes, crocs and bears and got on with them very well. Miss them in my present life although there still is the occasional adrenalin rush when our two year old bull wants to play rough.

john

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From: Pego Rice

To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org

Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 7:34 PM

Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Predators and the soil

Oh John!

 

No wonder some of your letters have been so disheartened.  That is utterly appalling.  I know that it is simple ignorance but I also know how hard it is to educate an entire country.  I'm in a region that is, well, not dissimilar in attitude, tho, with our droughts the fire thing is less an issue.  I am at least associated with the groups that help educate and that track the changes in public attitude, slow tho they are.  It happens, it is changing variously around the world.  It's just so hard to wait and watch the disaster unfold sometimes. 

 

Wolves are quite pleasant as neighbors.  They sing sweetly.  I am thinking to move north, where they are.  Bears, not so much, but they at least remind people to tidy up the place and not leave food about.   'Gators are one of our apex predators but lack the same charm.  They do give the northerners quite a, hmm, Adrenaline rush when they pop up in the back yard and smile at the poodle.

 

Yours, always, Pego

<<<Very sorry to say that reintroduction of apex predators looks impossible here in Ireland. ....not a week went by this spring and summer without one or more of these fantastic birds being found poisoned and dead.
I don't know whether this happens all over Ireland but in West Cork rural people burn land, trees and hedgerows as a form of recreation. ..........Others use roundup for recreational purposes. One farmer not too far away bought a back sprayer for each of his three teen age sons and they love it. Things get dryer when round- upped and then they burn better.
I'd prefer wolves and bears as neighbors sometimes.>john>>>

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