That made me recall the time I went to a natural spring near the city. I was expecting to see a lively environment but I only saw feral cats, maybe a cat colony supported by those crazy cat people that thinks those poor kitties don’t do any harm. Where I live there are also LOTS of cat colonies near the rivers, some are registered as such, some not.

It always pisses me off when I hear about draining of wetlands for development…

There are rules here that say you need to replace wetlands you destroy, but of course they never recreate what they took away. Those wetlands are WHAT they are and WHERE they are for a fucking reason. You can’t just move them and expect them to function the same way, but beyond that, they typically replace the active and stable wetlands with shitty stuff like swamps that are only replacements on paper. Swamps exist where they do because they work there. They do not exist elsewhere because they do not work there. And swamps are no substitute for marshes and floodplains and creeks and stuff. They just aren’t.

And a barrier against flooding, as it soaks up and slowly releases large amounts of water, instead of it running off quickly down rivers.

But you don’t UNDERSTAND!

A large company needs MORE PARKING LOTS!!!