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    The Black Senior Member Papewaio's Avatar
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    Default Save the Trees!

    Deadly threat to stand of Wollemi pine

    THE secret mountain grove of Wollemi pines, the world's oldest living tree, is threatened with destruction after suspected intruders infected them with a virulent disease.

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    The trees, which have survived as a species since the time of the dinosaurs, were discovered by accident in a narrow canyon in the Wollemi National Park in 1994.
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    Oh...new desks, chairs, and cabinet wood. Nice.

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    That's...horrible.

    Apart from my personal love of the Earth, I don't think any decrease in biological diversity would serve any good; and the specie in self, bless my vanity, is rather spiritually important as a survivor since the Dinosaur times.

    Also, biologists ("evolutionists" for creationists around here) could increase much knowledge in studying the specie. How much has it changed since the time they first appeared, for example, and the mapping of the biological history...

    On a completely unrelated note/rant, we could've saved much tree if the Cornell notes system is but abandoned. Now, the notes are taking practically twice as much paper as they used to be in schools because of the schools' attempt to adapt to the system in a "convenient" way, which includes using only half the entire paper for notes and the other half for pointless "questions" and empty space. Save the trees, dammit!

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    Save the trees!
    Wipe your *** with an owl.

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    P.S. For those living outside of Washington state, 10-20 years ago we had the 'owl wars' where a bunch of environmental wackos managed to get huge tracts of forests legally protected from logging. Logging is a huge industry in Washington state, and those jerks cost many people there jobs and dealt a great blow to the economy.

    Why, you might ask? Because some twit saw an owl that wasn't seen often in a forest-meaning that logging was prohibited in huge tracts of forest where such an owl might live, not was, for sure, living, but might have lived theoretically-and this was based on the assumption that said owl was endangered, since it was spotted only infrequently by a few lone twits.
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