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Biofuel Growth Is Decimating Wildlife Habitat in Corn Belt
Posted on 3/14/13 at 10:25 am
Posted on 3/14/13 at 10:25 am
This is a serious issue facing all hunters and fisherman. Conservation is important to me and I wanted to bring it to the attention to everyone on this board.
Field & Stream Link
Field & Stream Link
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In the words of these researchers, what is happening in the nation’s corn belt is analogous to the ecological disasters that have overtaken other areas of the planet where less developed nations have given profit margins a higher priority than a healthy environment – or fish, wildlife, hunting and fishing.
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This couldn’t be happening at a more dangerous time for waterfowl and upland birds, in particular. Drought is returning to much of the Midwest and Prairie states, and as climate scientists have been warning for close to a decade, global warming is making the impacts of this event much deeper and longer-lasting that recent cycles.
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Posted on 3/14/13 at 10:26 am to eyepooted
Damn hippies
Posted on 3/14/13 at 10:26 am to eyepooted
I'm not even going to get started on this.
Posted on 3/14/13 at 10:30 am to eyepooted
Corn and biofuel are an interesting debate... The overwhelming majority of the educated/scholarly community agrees that global warming is happening..
There ecological benefits of the cleaner air from ethanol are tainted with the higher cost to produce ethanol when compared to gasoline, the effects on farmland listed in the article and also the overlooked impact which is an overall increase in the cost of food which impacts poor and lower income societal members.
There ecological benefits of the cleaner air from ethanol are tainted with the higher cost to produce ethanol when compared to gasoline, the effects on farmland listed in the article and also the overlooked impact which is an overall increase in the cost of food which impacts poor and lower income societal members.
This post was edited on 3/14/13 at 10:33 am
Posted on 3/14/13 at 10:32 am to eyepooted
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global warming is making the impacts of this event much deeper and longer-lasting that recent cycles.
That's why we should have elected Al Gore. He would have fixed this problem and made sure we had no global warming.
Posted on 3/14/13 at 10:33 am to eyepooted
I'm no defender of ethanol but it isn't the cause of this. Corn is stealing acre from CRP and other crops. Farmers are NOT draining old wetlands. The Clean Water Act made it illegal 20+ years ago.
Posted on 3/14/13 at 10:57 am to eyepooted
In my severely biased opinion, the whole problem is there are a bunch of gosh-damned hippies who think we are supposed to be farming corn with a bunch of solar-powered tractors. Until Jr. is driving something that doesn't burn petroleum at Daytona on Sunday (or Saturday, and sometimes Thursday) I'll continue to say we need to drill and just feed the polar bears and penguins to the starving pygmies in New Guinea...Amen.
Posted on 3/14/13 at 11:33 am to eyepooted
I rank Al Gore right up there with tv evangelist 
Posted on 3/14/13 at 12:09 pm to eyepooted
So glad I'm at work and don't have time to type out my anger about biofuels.
Posted on 3/14/13 at 3:20 pm to eyepooted
Frick iowa i hate that state
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