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| Upscale Housing Development Torched in Maryland | ||
| 2004-12-06 | ||
As many as a dozen homes in a new housing development burned down early Monday morning, and Maryland fire investigators suspect arson.
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| Posted by:Steve |
| #10 Wow, that is only a few miles from my house. I was wondering what all the commotion was about this morning... |
| Posted by: Lilly 2004-12-06 6:38:33 PM |
| #9 If that place is full of bogs, I'd say plant a whole bunch of Venus flytraps. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-12-06 12:54:28 PM |
| #8 severely degrade one of Maryland's largest magnolia bogs Anyone consider the option of planting lots of magnolias throughout the suburban development? |
| Posted by: lex 2004-12-06 12:43:47 PM |
| #7 ELF, ALF (Animal Lib. Front), the UK ARM (Animal Rights Militia) and PETA are all in this ecoterrorism movement right along with the Sierra Club. There have been some previous Rantburg posts about ELF's non-charismatic Craig Rosebraugh, who has no qualms about advocating violence. |
| Posted by: Dar 2004-12-06 12:42:02 PM |
| #6 Jarhead, native species tend to be pretty resilient (the whole "producing more offspring than the environment can support" thing that Darwin noticed). Give them half a chance, and they will recolonize their original range, and then some. Its been observed that if a small part of a coastal fishing range is left untouched, it acts as a nursery, and fish numbers quickly rebound. The lady who with me co-chaired our elementary school nature preserve got me started planting species native to our county, and now the plants in my little 1/3 acre woods are colonizing the neighbor's gardens. Animal life appears to be following the plants (I've got salamanders, box turtles, chipmunks, and at least one very rare snake in addition to the usual garter snakes and black snakes...and of course birds). If you are interested, I've got some good catalogs! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-12-06 12:40:22 PM |
#5 Can you say "ELF"?Environmentalists opposed construction of the 300-home enclave. *sniff sniff* Something smells mighty fishy here... |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-12-06 12:17:34 PM |
| #4 Instead of torching someone's legally bought property they should have petitioned the state on conservation principles if those arguments were legitimate. I'm not an enviro-nut but am a big time conservationist in the spirit of Teddy Roosevelt. Same thing is happening here on the NC coast, developers are fighting w/locals over building on wetlands, endangered species habitats etc. Nasty court battles to ensue, which is better then destroying private property. We are not doing a very good job in this country (imho) of city planning and controlling sprawl. No forethought for posterity. |
| Posted by: Phiter Glolung1555 (aka Jarhead) 2004-12-06 10:32:12 AM |
| #3 I am openly hostile to any self identified member for the "Serria Club." I am guessing ELF anarco-enviro-commies. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-12-06 10:27:23 AM |
| #2 The local news radio is busily wringing its hands: "O, why did this happen? Who could do such a thing?" |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2004-12-06 9:58:45 AM |
| #1 "the Sierra Club said the construction would "destroy a forest..." "So we burned it down! Now they'll have to...er...cut down more trees to replace the lumber...D'OH!" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-12-06 9:52:06 AM |