Comments on: White-nose syndrome

By: Sherry Chandler » Blog Archive » Links

Sherry Chandler » Blog Archive » Links — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:07:25 +0000

[...] the heartbreaking: Dave Bonta on white-nose syndrome that is killing off our [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:42:20 +0000

Well, I don’t think of a guy who goes on solo treks into the wilderness as being exactly biophilia-deprived. There are some people who seem unable to perceive non-human nature as having any intrinsic value at all — that’s what I was getting at, there. “Nature lover” probably isn’t the best term for what I’d like to think is the normal, default setting for most human beings.

By: dale

dale — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:44:45 +0000

Well, there are also people in your audience, (one at least) who care about nature but don’t think about it much, just because there’s so much else to think about. For us this sort of thing is neither to shrug about nor just the daily news from Hell. You and Chris Clarke are my main news sources for this kind of thing, you know.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:11:21 +0000

And not just that, but all the new diseases and pests that are wiping out species of trees here in the eastern U.S., too. The butternut, for example, an obscure walnut species: the last speciment on our mountain was in my front yard, and just toppled one calm autumn morning seven years ago. In that case, the loss of a single charismatic individual symbolized the species’ mysterious blight-caused extirpation throughout much of its range.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:07:15 +0000

Thanks for caring.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:06:45 +0000

Well, it’s always possible that my unusual ineptness last night was for unrelated reasons. I don’t know.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:15:17 +0000

It’s good to have someone like you who breaks crockery over bats. When I break crockery and burn things it’s always to do with human affairs.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:53:41 +0000

Dave, thank you for reporting on things that really matter.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:28:26 +0000

Glad I prompted you to renew.

I guess one of my main motivations in occasionally sharing despair-inducing stories like this, aside from their inherent importance, is so people will understand that the dark tone often present in my writing is not an affectation.

By: Crafty Green poet

Crafty Green poet — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:25:54 +0000

I thought of the similarities with chytrid fungus too, yes uselessly distraught is how I feel about this type of thing…