On 1/12/2014 3:43 PM, Allen Aigen wrote:
> The public swimming beaches in NYC are cleaned daily during the
> swimming season by large mechanical rakes that effectively remove large
> shells and rock as well as garbage. (There are nearby areas that are not
> cleaned and the difference is obvious, although shell collectors prefer
> the non swimming beaches). It is clear that the number of shells that
> are removed by the rake are a lot higher than the few picked up and
> removed by tourists. Stopping the cleaning of the beach would put a lot
> of pressure on local politicians to clean the beach.
* The "grooming" of beaches is a huge problem, and not just for shell
collectors - see the comments in
http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.ca/2012/11/0-false-18-pt-18-pt-0-0-false-false.html
Beaches are places where substrate is emplaced and moved by water, and
any mechanical modification of their surface is an offense against their
nature. The real problem is the opposite of shell collecting - it's that
*everything* washed up on beaches offends an evidently abundant subset
of the human population, leading the authorities (who may often belong
to this subset themselves) to remove beachwash, rather than educating
beach users about its ecological value and species composition.
fred.
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Fred:
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- data input
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free ranging livestock
Rory: [watch this space for the revolutionary calendar]
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