HomeMy WebLinkAbout11/9/2021 Item 4a, Evans
Delgado, Adriana
From:Pete Evans <riki77@gmail.com>
Sent:Monday,
To:E-mail Council Website
Subject:Night time use of wildlife areas
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The proposal before you to allow night time human usage of protected
wildlife zones (such as SL Mountain etc) seems so selfish. We have
already displaced most of the critters who inhabited this land for
millennia before we came along.
We have covered vast areas with concrete, asphalt and other materials for
our convenience, pushing native species further and further away from
their lands. For the last 50 years or so when we discovered others deserve
to live alongside us and magnanimously set aside bits of refuge here and
there for them the battle has raged on as to how much and where, and now
when. It is often nearly too little, and too late. Wildlife corridors are cut
with fences, freeways and our expanding cities. Shipping noise
interferes with cetacean navigation, feeding and procreation. Our huge
skyscrapers and wind farms interrupt avian migrations. Loss of habitat has
brought many species to the brink of extinction, and some are now gone
forever.
This reminds me of the travesty concerning how the invading white people
treated the native Americans. We fought them (for their lands), sent them
to reservations that we didn't want with many promises that we failed to
keep, and then displaced them again when it suited us. Nomadic tribes
were forced into boundaried lands, a concept foreign to them and alien to
their lifestyle.
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We have always treated animals as to how they could best serve us,
usually to their loss. Now we know that we all depend on their vitality to
maintain a balanced environment, which should suit us.
But short sighted greed for our short term goals often interferes, and like
greedy little children we gorge on those short term efforts.
I call on you to take a higher look at this and just say NO to the hordes of
those who want to interfere with the last refuge of our wildlife, their
nighttime activities. Our native species deserve to live in their natural
habitat unhindered by human activity, at least for those few hours we
allow them.
Pete Evans
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If you want peace, work for justice
Pope Paul VI
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