Preservation of America's Wildlife

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  • Finding Nature — Co-Existing — With Nature About Nature

    Article by
    John Cox, M.A. C/M

    “Years ago I read about a tribe in South America, who defined the difference between tree species, by tasting the bark.  A Botanist later, doing research there (years earlier in the Congo as well) tested himself, and his wife (also a Botanist) tested themselves on whether they could establish identity from the taste of the tree bark.  Neither could tell the difference in taste test; which, when testing tribal members from each location, they tested 100% in identifying the species by tasting the bark.

    It’s the Nature of the tree, or the plants, or the wildlife — the plant or animal that contains the sign, not the terms or words we attach to them, which are often superficial, or, refer to decorative or other perspectives we have planted into our minds since birth.  Some plants I can identify as coming near a swamp, the Meadow Cranesbill or the Meadow Sage for example, often with the plush meadow in eyesight, sometimes not and yet I know it is coming up soon.  But then — the “pretense” is Latin for “Meadow” – yet, my experience tells me far more than what the term, scientifically, has given it.  We obtain much deeper meaning when experiencing Nature, openly, not contrived perceptively.  Compared to, when academics use their terminology to define the “wisdom about nature” or to re-connect to Nature, being largely by identification – a hold-over from Natural History, and often left non-advanced, or antiquated, to maintain its heritage or myth.

    To believe identification is the point, when being in Nature, is never more than half-the-challenge, if that – and never on its own represents wisdom or insight, at all.  When I speak of those who lack experience, for example, with Horses or Wild Horses, or the Redwood Tree out back — this is the point I am attempting to achieve.  Often, education from a book, and identification the point most often (handy to have yet most often only half-useful), in reality leads to nowhere when out and within Nature.  Little to no insight takes place, wisdom and value often ignored, due to not being achieved. 

    Perhaps why so many never see any wildlife while visiting our Natural Environment. . .  As our current view is that Habitat can help us identify a species, yet the reality of Wildlife combined with a Terrestrial Environment, and the Diversity that exists, becomes ignored, or never was in sight of those simply seeking identification – after all, it was identified.

    In ancient times, less population of humans and the Landscape was vast, identification was limited, because getting lost in wilderness could mean death.  Suddenly, identification of Wildlife or Trees et al., becomes “not” a priority, but how to use the things they seen, and knowledgeable about, would keep them alive for another day – another adventure.  The knowledge then, and obtained from childhood, was far more significant.  Danger, Use, or Habitat.  Interesting here is that Anthropologists had found the way of tribes that established Danger, Use, and Habitat, to be more conformed, to communing with Nature – when compared today, by how we, as humans destroy Nature –

    BUT WE SURE AS HELL CAN IDENTIFY WHAT WAS BEING DESTROYED – EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT THE CONNECTION WE COULD HAVE HAD, WITH NATURE, BY FIGURING OUT HOW TO CO-EXIST WITH NATURE.  LEARNING ABOUT HOW NATURE CO-EXISTS, WITHOUT ALL OF OUR OWN BUILT-IN PERCEPTIONS, WOULD BE A GOOD START IN COEXISTING WITH NATURE.

    This short article is merely the tip of the ice-berg of information we should be discussing, and why.  We see science over-taken by commercialism, as well as salesmanship, lies, and disinformation campaigns.  Very destructive to our environment, as the evidence shows us Loud – n – Clear.  It is simply time to set aside the superficial, the Identification process can be used well, but it is not the end-all, to true Conservation – which is Co-Existent with Nature = Precisely.”  — John Cox, M.A. C/M, Cascade Mountains

  • We are in a Train Wreck Heading Toward a Collapsed Bridge over a River Named Destiny

    John Cox, M.A. C/M

    To understand modern principles of sustainable management and the “conservation” of wildlife species, it requires intimate knowledge, experience, and observational abilities to acknowledge both past and present life-process, and the results of actions already taken in past years.

    Very Important Information that concerns all of us: As Albert Eisenstein points out, especially when the matters are someone with “Delusions Only” perceptions, we then have false-parameters established, alongside false theories, excepted as truth — when indeed, contrary to the truth.

    It is all connected, truthfully connected, with demography, animal behavior, and ecosystem dynamics. With emphasis on practical application and quantitative skill development in order to generate positive action-management from truthful information. This becomes paramount, and valuable as a workable synopsis favoring truthful “Conservation” of Wildlife, and in-combination with our Terrestrial Ecology. We are connected to it all, equally. It is only “Delusion Toward a Favored Enterprise” that makes the difference between Sustainability and Destruction.

    Even though we may be seeking information on Wildlife, for example a Wolf, or Wild Horses, we have to be informed, knowledgeable,especially about all the aspects involved.

    Not only of surviveability, but of Contribution, or their offering to the “overall landscaper”, and whether useful, or destructive. When we favor an “Invasive Species” such as cattle, for example, there exists no Positive Lands Values they contribute — it is all Negative Values. Research, observation, experience, history, and Desertification of Lands, as well as the ultimate test,

    “We cannot drink the water” after cattle use lands, as they pollute the streams, and the managers of the same lands, kill-off all the Species that Contribute Positively to the Ecology, and we have big problems. Delusions are a very serious aspect of bias, of bigotry, and of bad decision making within our Environmental Complex and Process.

    Suddenly, by supporting this invasive species, “Conservation” and its very meaning, is thrown out. And we are led to believe we should not bring this to the general public (through intimidation techniques, defamation, cheap and tawdry threats, and the list goes on) — and we must all believe the lies, the innuendo, and the misinformation about cattle being of any necessity at all, especially from our Public Lands.

    The situation above, the introduction of this article, is proper Conservation. Why? Because in the habitats where this becomes a priority, rather than ranching, or hunting, or industry, fracking, or mining, and compared to our Public Lands being desertified constantly — Means that true “Conservation” is more than just a word to use to film-flam the general-public into believing that sacrificing wildlife, our water resources, our grasslands, and our Natural-Based Food Supplements, are worth it. It is not only “not worth it”, but we get nothing out of it, and pay more taxes, that support the lies, and misinformation. In reality, very costly, indeed.

    The ultimate test for truth, when these people state they are Conservationists, for example, remains, Can we drink the water??? — in areas where there is heavy hunting, ranching, i.e. all of the above. The answer is, through experience — No, we cannot drink the water — There is a truth in this. So simplistic, yet so confusing to many.

    One example among others, keeping up with gun-technology, or producing more cattle on smaller amounts of lands by modern technology, full-throttle for high profits, use and destroy more lands, or commercialization and technology ripping apart mountains (technology again, because its there) and destroying forests for future ranching or technology purposes . . . And Why? As they answer (and yes, this cannot be made up — heard it on many occasions), Because we have the technology to efficiently do it! This is not an appropriate answer to any of it, as we continue to observe the outcome today — But again, the ultimate test, whether it is comparable with Nature or not — Can we drink the water . . . ?

    Another Example: We then go to manipulating Wildlife, for profit; which many States do, and the Natural Selection situations, as well as a proper Evolution-Process, expires. Science no longer assists in our decision-making process; rather, a profound Lie with tremendous consequences develop, and yet, ignored. Destructively.

    All the experience in the world, all the knowledge in the world, and we cannot hide the fact, that the road we are forced to go down, for monetary income and profits, remains simply the wrong road. If nothing is left to obtain profits from, and nothing for the hunters to shoot and kill, and no grasslands left to place more invasive cattle upon, then what? This is not from a book of fiction, it is reality, today.

    This is not about a fictional book, and a dramatic story — It is for real. Although, it is being led by those who have Delusions of superiority, that we can disconnect from our Natural Resources, over and above Reality. . . Albert Einstein points this out, in his writings, “separateness being an “optical delusion” of consciousness. . . “, and when we separate ourselves from Nature. In truth, we are in the middle of a train-wreck, and the bridge, over the River called Destiny, is totally collapsed. Now what.“ — John Cox, M.A. C/M