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Very good point

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Posted by: monklet at Mon Jun 22 09:42:50 2009   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by monklet ]  
   

The birding community is large, highly organized and typically affluent. As such they bring income to sometimes remote locales and so have lots of pull. I wouldn't wish that herping become so popular but there are some lessons to be learned here.



I just noted Joe Forks post above this and his request for documentation of $$$ spent in the herping the S.W., I assume more specifically S.W. Texas and I'm sure that some of the little towns there benefit from herpers patronizing gas stations, markets, restaurants and lodging. Maybe that's the best form of lobbying. So, would it be best to make it clear that you are "herping" or might that be counter-productive for some other reason? In the birding community birders are encouraged to wear there "bins" into restaurants etc. to make it clear that they are bringing in the $$$.

   

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