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On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:59:19 -0800, "nom=de=plume"
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They're a non-native species and they pollute the waters. Let's send
them
home.



Sorry, but you're wrong...

http://www.fws.gov/northflorida/mana...tive-facts.htm


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Correct, the thing that is different is we have created a year round
presence, concentrated around a half dozen power plants where this
used to be a migratory species that was only here in the summer.
In that regard the ESA should have prohibited the thermal pollution of
the power plants and allowed the manatee to resume their normal
migratory patterns.


No argument here. We've screwed up lots of things... sigh.

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