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08-31-2004, 08:19 PM

Well the sad thing is that eventually they will be gone, if no one stands up for them. You may scoff at this but the truth is it will happen. It is up to all of us to do our part to keep the native fauna in our country safe from over collection and loss of habitat. The right thing to do would be to pick up the animal and place it on the side of the road in the direction it was traveling.

It's easy to say they will never be gone from your area, but history proves you wrong. It may not be in your life time but may be in your kids life that they will just be a distant memory. And it will be you or your kids telling there kids that "I remember when".....Think about it?

And remember this, It has happened many times before! Just one small species the passenger pigeon, once thought to be the most numerous animal in the United States if not the world. There flocks would number in the hundred millions, the would darken the sky for a period of a few days at a time, sometimes measuring a mile wide and three hundred miles long!!!
Now the average person would think that they would never be gone!....but they were wiped of the face of this earth by ignorant men. Martha the last known living Passenger pigeon known to be alive died On September 1, 1914, the last of a population of billions!!!!

Yea...I can see you now laughing....but the truth is it was people with out insight that caused the total destruction of a single species...and thats only one of many in the U.S. alone!
So keep on "SAVING" those tortoises and maybe someday you'll really believe what you have done was right!

Overton Pratt

"Men still live who, in their youth remember pigeons;
trees still live that, in their youth, were shaken by a living wind. But a few decades hence only the oldest oaks will remember, and at long last only the hills will know.
We grieve because no living man will ever see again the onrush of victorius birds, sweeping a path for spring across the March skies, chasing the defeated winter from all of the woods and prairies.
There will always be pigeons in books and in museums but they are dead to all hardships and to all delights. They cannot dive out of a cloud, nor clap their wings in thunderous applause. They know no urge of seasons; they feel no kiss of sun, no lash of wind and weather, they live forever by not living at all."
From a Monument to the Pigeon

Aldo Leopold, 1947

08-31-2004, 08:19 PM	#15
riverjop	It's up to you! Well the sad thing is that eventually they will be gone, if no one stands up for them. You may scoff at this but the truth is it will happen. It is up to all of us to do our part to keep the native fauna in our country safe from over collection and loss of habitat. The right thing to do would be to pick up the animal and place it on the side of the road in the direction it was traveling. It's easy to say they will never be gone from your area, but history proves you wrong. It may not be in your life time but may be in your kids life that they will just be a distant memory. And it will be you or your kids telling there kids that "I remember when".....Think about it? And remember this, It has happened many times before! Just one small species the passenger pigeon, once thought to be the most numerous animal in the United States if not the world. There flocks would number in the hundred millions, the would darken the sky for a period of a few days at a time, sometimes measuring a mile wide and three hundred miles long!!! Now the average person would think that they would never be gone!....but they were wiped of the face of this earth by ignorant men. Martha the last known living Passenger pigeon known to be alive died On September 1, 1914, the last of a population of billions!!!! Yea...I can see you now laughing....but the truth is it was people with out insight that caused the total destruction of a single species...and thats only one of many in the U.S. alone! So keep on "SAVING" those tortoises and maybe someday you'll really believe what you have done was right! Overton Pratt "Men still live who, in their youth remember pigeons; trees still live that, in their youth, were shaken by a living wind. But a few decades hence only the oldest oaks will remember, and at long last only the hills will know. We grieve because no living man will ever see again the onrush of victorius birds, sweeping a path for spring across the March skies, chasing the defeated winter from all of the woods and prairies. There will always be pigeons in books and in museums but they are dead to all hardships and to all delights. They cannot dive out of a cloud, nor clap their wings in thunderous applause. They know no urge of seasons; they feel no kiss of sun, no lash of wind and weather, they live forever by not living at all." From a Monument to the Pigeon Aldo Leopold, 1947