Don't worry, Burnie, our environment will peter out long before the dollar. I go out turtle hunting every year during the spring and summer, and the damage is absolutely unbelievable. Far, far worse than anyone lets on. Three cheers for MTBE!

burntwire brothers wrote:The US economy and dollar have been in a slow death spiral for a few years now thanks to the oil assbags running our country. With huge companies like GM and Ford having serious problems I'm getting really nervous.

Those Oil assbags have done wonders for the Economy out here in Western Canada!  The folks out in Eastern Canada are havings problems with there auto sector as well.  You would think that people are buying cars more than ever now

Hunting for captivity. I breed endangered ones. Every year I have to release the last year's babies and get new blood adults, to prevent inbreeding.
I'll tell you how bad it is. Amphibians (frogs, salamanders) are easily affected by environmental changes and pollutants. Every year they have been less and less common. I spent at least 150 hours out in the swapms, rivers, ponds etc. last year, and I saw perhaps 100 frogs total, as opposed to thousands years ago.
Bad times be a'coming.

Deadlord39 wrote:Hunting for captivity. I breed endangered ones. Every year I have to release the last year's babies and get new blood adults, to prevent inbreeding.

Small world after all......any of them happen to be Clemmys guttata ? on average I release about  12 to 18 babies back into cedar swamps and vernal areas in southern Mass. Last August I released all my females and males ( except 1 male who I have had for 15 years now ) back into the wild to start from scratch again. May start with Northern Woods  this time.....going to hopefully build a whole new breeding setup this year in my basement with a basking pond outside.

Deadlord39 wrote:Hunting for captivity. I breed endangered ones. Every year I have to release the last year's babies and get new blood adults, to prevent inbreeding.
I'll tell you how bad it is. Amphibians (frogs, salamanders) are easily affected by environmental changes and pollutants. Every year they have been less and less common. I spent at least 150 hours out in the swapms, rivers, ponds etc. last year, and I saw perhaps 100 frogs total, as opposed to thousands years ago.
Bad times be a'coming.

Observing the decline in frogs myself over the past few years I have been doing some looking for information on it, with little success, until recently:

From NPR:

"A study in the journal Nature has linked widespread frog extinctions in Central and South America to a fungal epidemic triggered by increasing temperatures. Frog species began disappearing from the region in the late 1980s."

Here's another more detailed explanation of the theory:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4257232.stm

Wow, what the hell happened here?  DId this thread go OT or what?  

Deadlord39 wrote:No, I was about to expound on how I found a mint Tamoachan in the grass last year while I was out.

Another fer-de-lance*, no doubt...? Topically tropical
(*As opposed to the lance-de-chemin-de-fer on that other thread )

Heh. And the former is venomous, whilst the latter merely attracts venom... ^^

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[*g*. Any danger of me rambling back ON topic here?]

*slaps self with wet phish*

Deadlord39 wrote:Hey now, no comments from non-Sage Collectors, if you please!
Actually, David, could you let everyone know when Tamo arrives? Either one............ I'm glad you finally got one! Inverness next, right?

Will certainly be looking forward to their safe arrival, Frank.

I might file the better of the two (VF/NM?) under "trade bait", but will see...