Ever increasing human population

thanks cricketsounds. you are the first responder to my first blog thereby earning a permanent spot in my life's blogging experience thank you very much. there is a certain amount of rejection and isolation even knowing that there is a bit of a difficulty in navigation and such a large multitude of various options. never-the-less...

hear ye all: CRICKETSOUNDS ROCKS!!!!!!!!! as shown by her evident intelligence, sound decision making process, taste, class, logic and choice in devoting and spending such a valuable thing as time (and our time is very dear, personal and short) on commenting on my blog. with all sincerity and no facetiousness thanx cs.

back on subject (bos)my gf was just looking at a sight showing how the earth would recover if there were no humans on it. I will have to find it and post it. But my initial reaction was really..."what do you mean recover?" I don't even really hope for recovery, but just a cessation in the wanton and reckless abuse and destruction...and our subsequent overpopulation and crowding. it all has the feel of that game-Ab's Odyssey...once the animals are crowded out and gone, what will be the primary source of meat protein in the human diet? where will these animals be kept? how will they be kept? anyone thought about the steroid birds from KFC recently?...urban legend has it that they don't even have heads...just a breast and legs plugged into a machine pumped full of steroids and given the necessary chemicals to grow (and anyone who has ever eaten at a KFC-Kentucky Fried Chicken-that they have never, NEVER, seen a chicken that friggin big).

i've helped escort three turtles and one huge canebreak/timber rattlesnake across the road this week ...they are such objects of animosity and its not their faults. kinda like cats in england?

lol...about KFC...somethings are harder than others. after seeing the movie "fast food nation" i was able to lay off other fast foods. it wasn't that gross of a movie, but it was just enough xtra to help me avoid stopping at a mcdonald's or wendy's.

@cricketsounds...it was a laud well deserved, no one else can i hold in as much, if naught near half as much, esteem as yon most noble first poster.

agreed, although "intelligence" is very subjective lacking any real standardization among humans. and granted some other species might cause a large impact enviromentally or specifically leading to the extinction of a species, but Abhilasha ...u r absolutely correct. nothing has caused as much death (including human on human)as homo sapiens.

so how does one going about getting a government grant to purchase land and set up a wildlife management area? ...where there is a will there's a way!!!

but its the only way to keep the forest from being torn down is to own it. and in order to own it you have to be able to afford the taxes on it...unless its some kind of verified habitat and then you can get a tax break on it

one more turtle this morning.

On one hand its pretty awesome...on the other, being a bit cynical, i'm am sure he is making a profit or potential profit. Land is always a safe investment if one can afford to upkeep it and pay taxes on it. He appears to be doing it much the same way state and Federal parks do by allowing hunters to pay. I wonder if Buffalo is a healthier meat than beef? It can't be too much worse and it sounds as if they are free range. It is definitely an awesome prospect for the animals getting a possible migratory route back and I reckon that if some gas drilling has to help pay for it, the positive still outweighs the negative. Turner is established and has had cardiac problems, so he might be trying to settle into a less ambitious mode of life considering profit and actually be trying to give something back. Lord knows our state park and federal park systems are systematically getting their funding cut and seem to be given more over to private corporations such as the oil compnay more and more. What says it better than Bush's appointee to the Secretary of Interior Position...I can't remember who, but it was a person who had done their graduate thesis on why parks should not be maintained (or similarly ridiculous...it is quite pervasive with Bush's appointees such as with the Environmental Protection Agency and similar agencies). So It can't be much worse for obviously and publicly being owned and controlled by one individual, as opposed to clandestine organizations of a few weilding power to make decisions for their own interests while masquerading it as public will.

those look really good and i'll read 'em more in depth later. but this is the guy who opened the artic wildlife refuge for drilling right? and which i understand to be the general attitude throughout his administration? surely this is some smokescreen to actually contribute to the country before he departs. i mean...seriously, who else would cut veteran's benefits and compensation and healthcare spending right as he is leading us into war? i've been watching jobs with the park service for over three years now and plan to follow up in that direction for a career path. i've seen lots of positions that have not been filled for funding and those that are filled are only 25% about the poverty line starting at 19k a year!! even in a location like Georgia with a low cost of living this is a bit of a sacrifice. granted federal pays better, but relative to the number of guests and the increasing lack of alternatives.

as for tour, maintenance and seasonal...these bring up recollections of volunteer work and experience and intern pay.

thanks for the links i look forward to reading them and greatly appreciate you contributing them. hopefully i haven't just picked up the ball and ran in the wrong direction before actually looking at what i'm talking about.

lol, as an interesting point of note, that the largest dirt road network in the world is owned by the U.S. Forestry commission (who it seems for my simple interpretation to focus on efficient harvesting of lumber as opposed to preservation).

there is a pretty cool series about w va. on youtube...just search for mining+west virginia.

its comforting to know though that some consideration and effort is being put forth or enforced

lol. that is a pretty good point