Re: Wild Plants
Oliver T Massey CFS (massey@hal.fmhi.usf.edu)
Tue, 24 Oct 1995 10:36:06 -0400
> I've got to disagree, the collection of a few plants by a collector is
> more of a problem then commercial collection. A company is more
> easily regulated than an individual and compared to the numbers of
> individual enthusiasts the number of companies is infinitesimal. If
> every enthusiast < collector, individual, fan , whatever you want to
> call them> went out and took what they wanted the forests would be
> denuded inside a week. And thou it's popular to blame THE BIG BAD
> BUSINESSES , we need to remember that they're collecting those plants,
> cutting those trees , and any other thing you've got an axe to grind
> about because WE < You ,Me , All of US> are buying their products.
> Rob = Holder of the Gleaming Sword of Truth
>
>
Well, I promised myself I was not going to get into this discussion, but what
the hey. I have to disagree. Chances are, anyone who has been in the
panhandle has seen sites, as I have, where literally thousands of Sarrs. have
been destroyed. If one of these sites had been fully harvested and
distributed, every CP enthusiast in the US and maybe the world would have all
the plants they wanted. When you talk about companies like Saint Joe Paper,
you are talking about concerns that own hundreds of thousands of acres. In
areas around Crestview clearing occurs in thousand acre chunks. Every
enthusiast in the nation could not do the damage these clearcuts do in an
afternoon.
Tom in Fl