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In article <c83_9507121300@salata.com> Doug.Bashford%ow@salata.com (Doug Bashford) writes:
    >Need I point out that again, you have equated "profitable"
    >with "healthy"?
    >
    >I have hardly begun to list the degradation that heavy
    >tropical animals cause our West. Or the disease to our once
    >pristine creeks. I am not really trying to pick a fight with
    >you, it sounds like you are trying to do your best.
    >
    >I can only say, that until I looked into it, I looked at the
    >hills and thought "natural". It is all I have ever known. Now
    >I can see the damage from across the canyon. (I am NOT
    >talking about overgrazed to the point of no grass cover and
    >rut-erosion) It is worse than clearcutting some say, but I
    >think it is in the same ballpark.

And YOU have equated "natural" with "what men consider aesthetically pleasing".

Man and cattle are both "natural" parts of our entire ecological system.

Just as introducing (or reintroducing) beavers causes major changes in
the local look and feel of the area, so do men and cattle.

It is NOT degrading NOR unnatural for men & cattle to say, eat the grass
and make the stream real muddy.

Not as pretty as you or I would like, but it is JUST as natural as anything
else.

This blind stupidity of asserting that most anything man does is unnatural
has got to stop.


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