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To: KeyLargo

The rock was unstable and would have fallen on its own in a short time.

Typical conservationist’s wet dream.


17 posted on 10/19/2013 5:41:34 AM PDT by caltaxed
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To: caltaxed
The rock was unstable and would have fallen on its own in a short time.

It had managed to stay up for tens of thousands of years, if not longer.

21 posted on 10/19/2013 5:50:23 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: caltaxed

“The rock was unstable and would have fallen on its own in a short time.”

Well then you go and call the park management, and let them know that so they can handle it.

You dont just go and knock it over because you think it needs to tip. What if in their effort to show they know better, it slipped and crushed them?


23 posted on 10/19/2013 5:51:29 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: caltaxed

“Typical conservationist’s wet dream.”

Do not confuse Liberal ENVIRONMENTALISM with CONSERVATION.

As an outdoor sportsman, fishing, hunting, I was raised by my father to be a true conservative of natural resources which is also one of the tenets of the BSA.

ENVIRONMENTALISM vs CONSERVATION

A LOOK AT TWO ROADS
By T. R. Mader, Research Director

In years past, Conservation, the wise use of natural renewable resources, was supported and understood by a majority of people. It was taken for granted that man, due to his ability to reason, had the power and right to improve, change and utilize the environment.

Irrigation ditches were built, diverting the natural flow of water to man-made ditches, thus making mountain streams live streams year around due to return flow. This enhanced the land for man and animal. Stock reservoirs and dams were built in the semiarid parts of the West allowing the land to support stock and wildlife which, in years past, supported few animals due to limited water.

Man continued to progress, and with that progression he learned new ways to better conserve and use nature. Land in eastern states was often left in a state of little use after coal mining. Learning from those mistakes, man came west to mine coal and now often reclaims the land better than it was in its natural state.

Logging, though never very pretty to look at, was found to be the best thing for nature’s forests. Instead of dying off of disease, insect infestation, fire and other common tree killers, wood could be harvested and utilized, thus making forests healthier and man had a natural resource to use.

Then along came Environmentalism, a view that nature and natural forces should be the dominating force of change, a concept that Nature is “god” and man no more or less than any other living creature in the natural flow of events. This new philosophy was based upon several tenets:

1. Nature was perfect until Man disfigured it.

2. Man invariably disrupts and wreaks havoc in the
environment.

3. The Natural Balance of Nature is the only way to go.

4. Man must reject all of modern technology and call for
a return to a simple, pastoral life free of fumes,
artificial chemicals, and any noise but the chirping
of birds and the croaking of frogs (Science News).

5. Animals have a right to live as much as man and
therefore man has no right to eradicate or control any living
creature.

Read at: http://www.aws.vcn.com/env.html


24 posted on 10/19/2013 5:55:13 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: caltaxed
I object.
A true conservationist sensibly uses God's bounty.Such as by using farming methods that don't cause the soil to wash downstream or objecting to pouring waste chemicals and trash into the water.A conservationist knows that intelligent hunting is necessary;an enviromentalist demands ending all hunts.
It is the radical environmentalists who demand nothing natural be disturbed and you should let predators eat your pets.
46 posted on 10/19/2013 7:48:42 AM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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