max vuong
stone age (imperial beach, ca)
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Seems flickr can't handle the color gradient in the sky as it looks very smooth at full resolution on my computer. Weird.
Went to check out the Tijuana Estuary this weekend with a friend. Was a pretty cool place with plenty of birds frolicking in the protected reserve. As we were walking on the beach we notice a couple of boys who were inside of the nesting area of the Snowy Plover. These are very sensitive birds that freak easily so we were wondering why their dad was encouraging such behavior. We decide to talk to him and it was mind opening to see how ignorant some people can be. Bare with me please as I rant...
This man says he grew up in the area when the wildlife flourished and the nesting area was not protected. Plenty of birds and man sharing the land. He even admits that there are fewer birds now then when he was growing up but could not grasp the fact that things have changed and it's no longer cool messing with endangered animals. This guy could not get it through his thick skull that his childhood was well over 30 years ago. There is overpopulation, overfishing, pollution, you name it, but the reason is irrelevant because now there are less than 2000 of these birds along the California coast. He kept saying that it was just "Extreme Environmentalism" and I am a bit upset I didn't ask him to explain what he meant. Science is based in logic, methodology, data, statistics, metrics, experiments and so forth. Volunteers and scientist sit around and track these little buggers, counting them and tagging them and it is definitely not for fame. How in the world is collecting data and taking appropriate actions to save a species considered extreme? I did say a few things that I hope woke up the slumbering hamsters in his dormant brain. He also kept saying how Man was entitled to this land where birds have laid their eggs for centuries. We are free to roam just about every inch of beach but this tiny area was what he wanted because he couldn't have it any longer. My goodness I wanted to slap him silly. Where does this false entitlement come from? Well I can only hope his children grow up to use their own judgement and to realize how embarrassing it is to have such a misguided father. Maybe if more people keep confronting him and his kind, their children will figure out what is truly right and wrong. The thing is, the area they were playing in was exactly the same as the miles and miles of beach that was not restricted. What a jerk...
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stone age (imperial beach, ca)
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Seems flickr can't handle the color gradient in the sky as it looks very smooth at full resolution on my computer. Weird.
Went to check out the Tijuana Estuary this weekend with a friend. Was a pretty cool place with plenty of birds frolicking in the protected reserve. As we were walking on the beach we notice a couple of boys who were inside of the nesting area of the Snowy Plover. These are very sensitive birds that freak easily so we were wondering why their dad was encouraging such behavior. We decide to talk to him and it was mind opening to see how ignorant some people can be. Bare with me please as I rant...
This man says he grew up in the area when the wildlife flourished and the nesting area was not protected. Plenty of birds and man sharing the land. He even admits that there are fewer birds now then when he was growing up but could not grasp the fact that things have changed and it's no longer cool messing with endangered animals. This guy could not get it through his thick skull that his childhood was well over 30 years ago. There is overpopulation, overfishing, pollution, you name it, but the reason is irrelevant because now there are less than 2000 of these birds along the California coast. He kept saying that it was just "Extreme Environmentalism" and I am a bit upset I didn't ask him to explain what he meant. Science is based in logic, methodology, data, statistics, metrics, experiments and so forth. Volunteers and scientist sit around and track these little buggers, counting them and tagging them and it is definitely not for fame. How in the world is collecting data and taking appropriate actions to save a species considered extreme? I did say a few things that I hope woke up the slumbering hamsters in his dormant brain. He also kept saying how Man was entitled to this land where birds have laid their eggs for centuries. We are free to roam just about every inch of beach but this tiny area was what he wanted because he couldn't have it any longer. My goodness I wanted to slap him silly. Where does this false entitlement come from? Well I can only hope his children grow up to use their own judgement and to realize how embarrassing it is to have such a misguided father. Maybe if more people keep confronting him and his kind, their children will figure out what is truly right and wrong. The thing is, the area they were playing in was exactly the same as the miles and miles of beach that was not restricted. What a jerk...
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