Re: Plant Mapping
Oliver T Massey CFS (massey@hal.fmhi.usf.edu)
Wed, 6 Mar 1996 09:54:58 -0500 (EST)
> > Of course,
> > you could always offset the circle a bit in order to be
> > misleading, but this would just add inaccuracy to the
> > geographical data.
>
((snip))
> Imagine if one would write a protologue and would not give the best
> information he/she has. Is this the kind of science you prefer? For
> me that sounds a bit like middle ages style...
> The consequence would be to limit access to university libraries to
> the privilegued who are best in pretending that they are the right
> people. Deep dark middle ages........
> The same holds true for a mapping project:
> I think that science simply has no right to select who will get information
> an who will not. Conservation people should do their best to conserve
> environments or plants but not information.
>
> Andreas
Very well said. And as we can see below, of course, nurserymen/women are the
right people. :) Or put another way and quoting that famous philosopher
Marx: "I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
>> The woman who represented the nursery said "not right now
but we hope to start by the fall or next spring...We sent some people
to Louisiana/Georgia and collected a few thousand plants of 5
Sarracenia species...We hope to start setting up cp bog gardens when
we learn to successfully cultivate these plants".
(attached from Rick C.)
>>
Tom in Fl