Saving Endangered Plants
J.E. Shields (Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:47:29 PDT)

It seems worthwhile to expand on the comments by Pamela Harlow that in
nature, plants are coming from dynamic environments. Just as for Pamel's
home, my home was under 2 miles of ice just 20,000 years ago. There was
not a tree where my woods is now when the ice melted just 12,000 years
ago. I suspect that the first Trillium returned to the then-nascent woods
perhaps only 10,000 years ago. What is in fact a "native" plant? Go back
to the previous interglacial period, maybe 120,000 years ago, and I suspect
that the native species here were not the same species that we find in my
woods today.

Environments are dynamic and constantly changing. Almost all species are
in constant flux. These "fundamentalist" conservationists are living in a
pre-Darwinian fantasy world that never did exist and never can. Don't they
have any grasp of modern biology?

Jim Shields

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