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...Park Biologist Lloyd Loope
...major reason is that the park areas have been so carefully protected from fire that the pines have become aged and thus vulnerable. Now millions of them are turning bright red and then gray as they die. Says Yellowstone Biologist Doug Houston: "The longer you suppress fires, the more we set ourselves up for insect infestation and for unnatural catastrophic fires...
...weight of beef cattle, and a comparable increase in milk production-for a cow that is being bled by vampires may yield only 20 quarts of milk a day as against a normal 30. There is no danger of the vampire's becoming extinct, says Mexican Biologist Raul Flores Crespo. "We can reduce the population, but we cannot totally destroy it. The vampire can return to the jungle and live as it did before the coming of the Spanish." That is, by sucking on wild animals but not on horses and cows...
...other members disagreed, and at least three have resigned from the society. M.I.T. Biologist Jerome Y. Lettvin complained bitterly: "You decided not to award him because you disap proved of the man but not his poetry. I will have no part of it." Pound wrote in Canto LXXXIII...
Motherhood was almost a dirty word here-but it had its defenders. At the scientists' Environment Forum, Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich blamed half the world's environmental problems on increases in population. A woman biologist from Nigeria, aided by four burly colleagues, startled the audience by seizing Ehrlich's microphone and declaring that birth control was merely a way for the industrial powers to remain rich by preserving the status quo. Peace was restored only after Ehrlich conceded that the U.S. should curb its own consumption of natural resources before urging population controls on developing countries. Brazilian...