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Charles Linder <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 6 Jan 2018 17:11:58 -0600
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Charlie, I understand that some species continue to eke out a living in ag areas.

But please be realistic.  If one were to survey 1000 acres of virgin biologically productive land anywhere on Earth, there would be hundreds or thousands of species of plants and animals of all sorts living on that thousand acres, each adapted to specific niches (for example, many insect species are adapted to feed on only one or two host plants).



Sorry Randy,  but that’s grossly misleading and inaccurate.  Go take a quick trip to the Lost hills in Kansas.  Barren prairie.  Oh the southern hills of TX  and compare that biodiversity to Central Iowa.
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You may be able to count numbers  but you will be amazed at the increase in biodiversity.  Ducks and gees that don’t need to fly to the gulf,  Millions of birds that feed on grain.  More species of bugs than you apparently realize.  And the tonnage per field FAR exceeds that of normal fallow forest of prairies.

Deer and turkeys and squirrels LEAVE the woods to feed in fields.  More dear and turkeys now than EVER before (might argue buffalo out of the way)  the amount of biodiversity here boggles the mind should you really dig into it.  

Hawks and eagle so bad I cant raise chickens...

Growing food such as corn feeds everything.

And a long list of pollinators.....  And yes we still have milkweeds


Chrles

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