Captain Obvious
04-15-2015, 01:33 PM
What, you mean like in "people are douchebags and need to just leave these creatures alone"?
Aww, gee.
I guess swimming with darter snails isn't as... spiritual.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/wildlife/emails-reveal-concerns-among-refuge-employees-regarding-people-swimming/2225009
CRYSTAL RIVER — For Michael Lusk, it was a bizarre and unpleasant encounter he had with some angry people and a woman in a pink chiffon dress that made him wonder whether hands-on, up-close encounters with manatees had finally crossed the line at the most popular place in the world to swim with the endangered mammals.
Lusk, who spent four years as manager of the Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge, ran into the entourage of photographers and a fashion model at Three Sisters Springs as the model posed with resting manatees last year. He warned them that if they disturbed a sleeping manatee, they were breaking the law. His thank-you was a profane verbal attack.
Lusk told his superiors in an email that uneducated and unsupervised swimmers were violating the Endangered Species Act on a regular basis. Since swimming with manatees has the blessing of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Lusk concluded that if the agency couldn't devote sufficient resources to prevent the harassment, "The service should close the springs while manatees are present.''
Aww, gee.
I guess swimming with darter snails isn't as... spiritual.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/wildlife/emails-reveal-concerns-among-refuge-employees-regarding-people-swimming/2225009
CRYSTAL RIVER — For Michael Lusk, it was a bizarre and unpleasant encounter he had with some angry people and a woman in a pink chiffon dress that made him wonder whether hands-on, up-close encounters with manatees had finally crossed the line at the most popular place in the world to swim with the endangered mammals.
Lusk, who spent four years as manager of the Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge, ran into the entourage of photographers and a fashion model at Three Sisters Springs as the model posed with resting manatees last year. He warned them that if they disturbed a sleeping manatee, they were breaking the law. His thank-you was a profane verbal attack.
Lusk told his superiors in an email that uneducated and unsupervised swimmers were violating the Endangered Species Act on a regular basis. Since swimming with manatees has the blessing of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Lusk concluded that if the agency couldn't devote sufficient resources to prevent the harassment, "The service should close the springs while manatees are present.''