I gave a lick-and-a-promise summary of conservation concerns, somewhat reflecting those expressed in this forum recently, in my blog today: http://shieldsgardens.com/Blogs/Garden/… It is obviously slanted to my own particular interests. I did not deal with one notion of conservation of rare and endangered plants (or at least bulbs) that we talked about, namely conservation by propagation and distribution. I think this is an idea that needs to be seriously developed. Dynamic preservation as opposed to static conservation. Active vs. passive. I'm not prepared to deal with this idea adequately on my own, but I think someone, somewhere, needs to promulgate this approach and it needs to be introduced into the serious conservation discussions. Jim Shields ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Lat. 40° 02.8' N, Long. 086° 06.6' W