There was a time when tapirs and camels flourished here. Things change and how idiotic would it be to put camels and tapirs back in the Everglades today? They do belong there. For some reason they died off. If you put them back now, they would die off again. When do you pick a single frame from the motion picture that is history and say this is how we want it to be and stay? Do we want to go back to when the everglades was filled with alligators, water moccasins and rattlesnakes and so many birds that when in flight it would shade the sun? Would that make you happy? Maybe it would, but you can’t have one thousanth of the birds you used to and have everything else back the way it was. You can’t say let’s have some of the alligators but none of the rattlesnakes and maybe a few moccasins but those flocks of birds poop on our cars, so no, and maybe more spoonbills but not so many eagles, well maybe some eagles, but then we need more rabbits again and they dig up the golf course, but then maybe a few rattlesnakes to balance the rabbits, or maybe, didn’t we use to have some wolves? You can’t do any of that. Here’s the big solution- acceptance. Accept what you have and stop crying oh how it use to be in the good old days. You can keep going back and back and back to saber tooth tigers and giant armidillos. When was it perfect? Never. Or always, including today. Take your pick. I pick it is perfect always and today. Accept that it is fleeting and enjoy it at every step along the way. Or just admit you never did like it no matter what it looked like and you don’t like it now either. Unfortunately, a lot of the so called preservationists, conservationists and animal rights people fall into that last group. They never really liked it out there, ver. They want it developed. They aren’t so concerned about turning you against pythons, they want to turn you off to protecting the everglades, that it is ruined and not worth protecting. Next they will hit you with the dollars being spent, which are being used to destroy it faster right now for the coming propaganda campaign. They want the land! I want it preserved as a wilderness area, I don't care what lives there in the past, present or future. That IS the everglades.





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