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Re: Rolling Blackouts
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 30 May 2001 13:33:03 GMT
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Christopher Weeks wrote:
> Are there any left? I'm fine with that too, but it's harder to finance. How
> undeveloped must it be? What if 5 acre lots are sold with a covenant that 4
> acres must be basically undisturbed. That gives people an acre on which to
> build a home, kill all the native flora and smack down an ugly slab of short
> turf. I don't see the attraction, but that's what most people seem to want.
> That would leave 80% of the area intact for the Monarchs. Would that be
> enough?
This is where the issue of fragmentation comes into effect. For those
not in the know, fragmentation is the disruption of large extensive
habitat patches into smaller, isolated, less hospitable patches.
The 80% number in your example, would that be contigous habitat or
patches?
Monarchs could probably (and do) tolerate a fair bit of fragmentation.
The larvae primarily feeds on Milkweed plants which are pretty common
along road sides and disturbed areas. This model may work for monarchs,
but what other species? I'd be less likely to say that would work.
-chris
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| (...) Great! I'd prefer to see it done through private works, but if our government wanted to be involved, surely we could offer Mexico stuff in exchange for the land that they would value more. (...) Are there any left? I'm fine with that too, but (...) (23 years ago, 30-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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