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Please help me with this biology question?
I really really really could use those who are great at biology! I do not understand this question...I know it is long BUT I really need help with this...please and thank you, 10 points promised!
Near Lawrence, Kansas, there was a rare patch of the original North American temperate grassland that had never been plowed. It was home to numerous native grasses, annual plants, and grassland animals. Among the species present were two endangered plants. Environmental activists thought the area should be set aside as a nature preserve, and they started to raise money to save the patch of land. In 1990, the owner of the land plowed it, stating that there are no federal laws protecting endangered plants on private grasslands and that he did not want to be told what he could do with his property. What issues and values are in conflict in this situation? How could this story have had a more satisfactory ending for all concerned? What would you have done if you were an environmental activist? If you were the farmer?
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- Anonymous9 years agoFavorite Answer
> What issues and values are in conflict in this situation?
Private ownership vs public benefit
> How could this story have had a more satisfactory ending for all concerned?
Those activists should have been quicker to come up with enough money so the land owner would take it and sell the land.
> What would you have done if you were an environmental activist?
Written my congressman in hopes of getting more money from the federal government.
> If you were the farmer?
"I'm a reasonable man. You can come up with enough money to buy the land. Or come up with enough money every year to lease it. Do one or the other within x months. If you don't, then I'm going to put that land into agricultural production. My land makes me money. This patch is going to be no exception."
- JonathanLv 49 years ago
Someone has already responded to the specific case. I don't know enough about it to really comment.
I would encourage you to do some more research. It's true that 90% of the tall grass prairie has been cultivated, including almost all of it around Lawrence. So it would have been a rare patch left near Lawrence.
45 miles west of Lawrence are the Flint Hills of Kansas. It's that last major stand of original tall grass prairie left in North America. Google the Konza Prairie and National Tall Grass Preserve.
