It's the end of the world, and I feel fine

Townhall ^ | 4/1/05 | Jonah Goldberg

[smoothsailing]

Hey, we got Bobcats round here!

[Billthedrill]

On my little lake in Idaho there were two bald eagles last summer, and I hoped that they might be a breeding pair. They were. We now have eight.

I'm thinking of bringing in a bunch of wiener dogs. Yum!

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Might have missed in the blizzard of information, but.

There are now more deer in North America than when the White man first set foot on the continent. So drive carefully, or eat more venison.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Just damn, I did miss it, as found on second read.

[VietVet]

Don't forget also that most suburban development meant that the land was actually going back to a state closer to a state of nature (mixed perennial grasses - and weeds, shade trees, and so on) than it was a farmland (cleared, monoculture planting of annuals, and so forth).

[Freemarketman]

Great article. Jonah missed one of the major reasons for the comeback of the forests, however -- the replacement of the horse by the internal combustion engine. Once horses were no longer required for hauling people and goods, the need for pastureland was reduced dramatically.

[Brian328i]

AHHH logic, no, no, no. Facts are not allowed in environmental debate!

Ping farmfriend, you might find this interesting

[Graybeard58]

I even have kudzu creeping up the walls of my house here in central Illinois. No longer just a southern nuisance.

[sure_fine]

planting a ping seed

[spinestein]

I didn't know there were moose in Maine.


Mooses?


Meese?

[spodefly]

BTTT.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Its because of global warming and the animals are cuddling more. Plus the ice caps are melting giving more water for growing trees. Nature is so simple.

[SlowBoat407]

Meese?

[spinestein]

LOL!

[standing united]

All of this "farmland" and to think the American Farmland Trust has spent millions of our tax dollars to convince us that the American farm is on the brink of extinction, and so the reason they are in our Northern Michigan County pushing for an ordinance to purchase development rights from the farmer in order to keep a farm there "for ever." Too bad there will be no one to farm it, but what the hell, state owned farms worked in Russia right? Or, is this just another land grab? Hey, you decide!

I can't keep up with all of the lies going on around my County, one says we have gained farmland. Another enviro-nut screams the "sky is falling" and so the government needs to purchase all private land, because Americans are too stupid to know how to work and preserve their own private land.

Now I read that we have more forested land in America than in the last 100 years. The Township just redesignated our 500 acres of land from "timber cut over" to "residential" thus doubling our property taxes, and, now we can no longer make maple syrup on our private property because you are not allowed to "farm" your property on residential property! To hell with the fact that our family has made maple syrup on the same property for more than 75 years!

O'well, America is destroying the earth, and chicken little is still screaming the "sky is falling!"

Aint it great to be an American, land of the free, home of the brave? Have a very nice day!

[John Lenin]

We will have to create a new scare, obesity !

[kanawa]

Treemendous news

[nathanbedford]

I have not seen the statistics but I will wager that more Americans have been killed by deer last year than by insurgents in Iraq.

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