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Come back to this page each day to read another entry from Frederick R. Gehlbach's almanac of suburban natural and unnatural history, "Messages from the Wild," which chronicles the world of a forested ravine in central Texas.
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My generation is least concerned that environment is a critical issue, because we had no environmental education and were taught that we could do anything we wanted to after being released from restrictions of the 1930s depression and 1940s world war. Even by 1996, with mounting evidence of environmental damage, a survey showed that only thirty-nine percent of us believed we were doing too little to safeguard the environment. Conversely, sixty-six percent of those too young to know rationing and loss thought that too little was being done. My generation is about to turn its leadership over to those younger, better informed folks, and I hope they won't forget. |
Frederick R. Gehlbach is Professor Emeritus of Biology and Environmental Studies at Baylor University. His ecological studies have taken him from New Zealand to Slovakia and, in the Americas, from Alaska and Newfoundland to Guatemala, Belize and Honduras. His research interests include the life-history strategies of small owls, small burrowing snakes and urban wildlife ecology.
From MESSAGES FROM THE WILD: AN ALMANAC OF SUBURBAN NATURAL AND UNNATURAL HISTORY by Frederick R. Gehlbach, Copyright © 2002. Courtesy of the University of Texas Press.
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