Charles,


I appreciate much of what you said in your recent post.


Regarding your remark "If you follow the "common knowledge" that unspoiled land is perfect for bees. Then any fool would realize that well over 80% of the country is still unspoiled land and pasture. "

Where do you get this information?  I tried to verify it.  What I learned from digging on the Internet was this:

38%  of the USA total land area is agricultural.  Most ag land is treated with chemicals and so I doubt it is "unspoiled".
11% of the USA is either impervious cover (concrete and asphalt), urban, or water.

This is 49% of the total, and of the remaining 51%, I doubt it can be viewed as "unspoiled" as that includes military use land,
large waste dumps, and other usages like large wind farms.  As far as bees are concerned, much of the high Rockies and places like
Death Valley are probably useless, although they too are in the 51%.

So I would be interested to know how you calculated 80% as 'unspoiled'?

Christina




Christina Wahl, Ph.D.
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine
Ithaca, NY 14853

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