> hunters could be a danger to IBW's just shooting at them for fun. The
> good ole boys may also not tell city slickers what they know just
> because they don't like them messing in their outdoors. The city
> slickers tend to come in and bulldoze everything flat and plant a
city
> slum in the country and that's definitely resented. I've talked to
> landowners who are really angry at birdwatchers who just tromp
through
> their place like they owned it. Or environmentalists who want to
control
> their land and dictate what they can do with it with no regard for
their
> needs. City folk do not value the country and are destroying it as
fast
> as they can. City folk are the enemy of country. I could rage on, I'm
a
> country boy.
Walt, you know I (being a streetwise city kid) can't help but comment.
Such perceptions are common and our activities as nature recordists
will be taken as intrusions by some no matter how decent, benign (or
corrupt)our true motives.
Where habitats are faced with destruction there is often a human clash
between greed and compassion, and in this I see no great differences
separating city from country folk.
John Hartog
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