Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 11:04:15 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gerald & Laura Tarbell Subject: Re: Open season on Horseshoe Crabbers & Birders? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit it places the onus on certain segments of society - in particular those who have limited alternatives in making a living. Limited by what? This is my point. If we allow some less priveleged segments of our society to exploit the land and water at will, they will do it until it is gone. People can (and should) do something else for a living than cut down old growth forest and harvest horseshoe crabs. So they have to be retrained. Anybody can be retrained. Even me. We do have programs for displaced workers in this country. Everything else Maryanne says a totally agree with. 100%! Jerry ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================