Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 16:45:49 EDT From: JWi5770869@aol.com To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg1252$foo@default> Subject: Wilde collection
In a message dated 24/04/00 12:37:34 GMT Daylight Time, cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
writes:
> Further, a certain nurseryman contacted me wanting hundreds of Florida
> Pinguicula pumila. This species isn't in bad shape but it is so easy to get
> going through seed why field collect hundreds of plants every few months??
> Do you remember a state park in Al that lost most of its S. oreophila
> population to a commercial nursery?
> ~Mike
Mike and all,
Just my two pennyworth.......
The problem isn't about wether its right or wrong, because as has been
pointed out on the list, there could be situations where it is logically
correct to rescue/ collect a plant that is in danger. The main problem is
with "Joe public" who come back with the line "well if he can do it then so
can I.....", or even certain unscrupulous nurseries that would hide behind
the excuse that they were "rescuing"plants when they were actually harvesting
them for material gain.
I'm not sure what the answer is.
Do we go down the legislation road, all plant collecting is illegal or do we
stay as we are and try and educate the public that its wrong?
The only thing that I am sure is that we all have a responsibility to be
"whiter-than-white".Its no good us telling the public that collecting is
wrong and then going out and stripping a bog of Sarracenias (even if it is
logically right).
John Wilden
Southport
Lancs.
UK
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