Why would I want to jump in at the beginning of the thread, when I can sit buck and understand the situation before speaking out. If you want a one on one conversation with out others, use e-mail or better yet, create your own forum that has a block to all but the first two speakers.

Back to the subject. Why is the land useless just because it is locked between buildings and/or freeways? Once it is essentially an island does not make it useless, this actually opens the door for increased evolution. Look at Hawaii, Mascarenes or the Galapagos Islands. Look at the lakes of the Great Rift Valley. These areas have an abundance of species due to these walls of separation. If it is water, land, buildings or freeways it makes no difference. The biggest thing that impacted parts these areas biodiversity where not man alone, but the introduced species man brought with him. Some archipelagoes and lakes have lost over 90% of their species due to a single introduced species. Since land that man has developed on is turning into similar closed habitats, all the more reason to compare with the reactions of archipelagoes and lakes.

I am simply saying to you that there is room for nature to take its course as naturally as it can even with man filling in most of the habitat. Why would you consider it ok to introduce a foreign species without concern?

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