permaculture

[Marimike6@cs.com]

Toby--

Your observations are so sensible you're scary as hell.

I wish we had you at the hearings to fight the re-routing of Route 70 past 
Havelock, NC. This road gets busy at morning and evening rush, so our highway 
department intends to cut down a staggering amount of acreage of our coastal 
longleaf pine forest-- of which they're not making any more-- to build a 
bypass.

No matter that the problem could be solved by staggering the hours of the 
main local users, a couple of adjacent Air Force bases. That would be too 
much 
trouble, and no heavy equipment could be used implementing sich a solution. 
However, the highway folks announce blithely that they are willing to offset 
the 
loss by the creation of some habitat elsewhere. This normally means taking 
some 
fields they already own and plowing them up so they become waterlogged-- 
thus, instant wetlands behind the WalMart lot.

The invasive species par excellence? It's us.

M. Elvin