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Re: ALL Human activity (was Acid rain) SPAM

Bruce Stallsmith wrote:
> 
> I actually have killifish content to add to this thread. To my knowledge,
> the first North American freshwater fish to go extinct after European
> settlement was the Whiteline Topminnow, _Fundulus albolineatus_ which was
> endemic to the Big Spring system in what is now downtown Huntsville,
> Alabama. It was last seen in 1889, 

snip...

> ... and the spreading of _Dambusia_ into their
> springs. If you doubt that human activities, even low-level, can affect fish
> distributions I invite you to visit the Tennessee Valley. I can show you
> some non-killifish cases too.

Amen, Brother Bruce.

Those of us who spend several weekends a year doing Desert Fish habitat
maintenance really see it. Look at http://www.tkphotos.com/dsac/index.htm .

Right here in the bay area, we still have two or three counties deliberately
distributing damnbusia, despite all the evidence that they are much *less*
effective at mosquito control than our native dace and other small fish that
they quickly displace.

The misplaced use of government force has been the single most powerful
factor in species destruction in the US West. From failure to set up strict
liability systems (encouraging rapacious ranching, mining and logging), to
direct habitat damage via City (LA in Owens Valley), County (Alameda and
Contra Costa damnbusia infections), to the Army Corps of Engineers (in the
NW rivers), the government agencies have been a powerful force for evil in
the environment. We need to take a close look at how such things are done,
and seek a new paradigm that gets the results we all want. Let's not become
another Romania.

I have found a few answers at:

http://environmental.networkroom.com/

That's probably not the whole solution, but offers some new ways to look at
old problems we seem to have been handling rather poorly.

Wright

-- 
Wright Huntley, Fremont CA, USA, 510 494-8679  huntley1 at home_com

        "Congress has not unlimited powers to provide
for the general welfare but only those specifically enumerated."
                                      --Thomas Jefferson

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