new member . introduction

Tim Eck teck11@embarqmail.com
Tue, 10 Feb 2015 21:37:11 PST
There is no purpose to most CITES restrictions.  They are a bureaucracy set
in place that has much momentum and little insight.  In my opinion, they do
more harm than good and are likely to cause more extinctions than they
prevent.  In my work with the American chestnut, the import restrictions
prevent us from importing all material from blight resistant species because
it might harbor the chestnut blight.  That is what we are trying to correct
and they are over a hundred years too late for that!
A similar irony is the mindless bureaucracy of the US congress.  They
believed they could get more votes if they were "HARD ON CRIME" so they put
the pot smokers in jail and ruined their lives and careers.  So are we going
to give those poor people their lives back now that we are legalizing pot?
If entitled white males like me feel helpless when confronted by
bureaucratic indifference, I can't imagine how the underprivileged must
feel.
Sorry, I got carried away there.

-----Original Message-----
From: pbs [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Lee Poulsen
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 10:50 PM
To: Pacific Bulb Society
Subject: Re: [pbs] new member . introduction

On Feb 10, 2015, at 10:48 AM, Mario Klesczewski <mario_kle@yahoo.fr> wrote:

> sending seeds of interesting (non protected) species too

I have a question regarding Mario's comment here. I would like to know the
purpose for not allowing the sending or trading of seeds of protected
(CITES, I presume) species, especially those that are produced by plants
grown in personal gardens or collections? I can sort of, kind of, understand
possible reasons for disallowing the collecting or distribution of seeds
collected from wild, protected species (although I would point to the
example of South Africa's Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden of growing and
providing seedlings of Clivia mirabilis to anyone who ordered them
everywhere in the world shortly after this new and rare species was
discovered as a brilliant way to immediately diminish the problem of
poachers decimating the wild-growing populations of rare plants). But seeds
collected from your own personal non-wild plants?! Who came up with that
idea? And why, oh, why?

--Lee Poulsen
Pasadena, California, USA - USDA Zone 10a Latitude 34°N, Altitude 1150
ft/350 m







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