SANCTUARY FOR ALL SPECIES

In keeping with the intent of the property to provide sanctuary for all species, it will be important to carry out each of the parts of the development with this thought in the backs of minds, always, and all ways.

The two most important species requiring protection are the birds, and the frogs. The gardens and land are already a bird sanctuary with over 30 species of birds that nest and rest here. Providing sanctuary also allows for the restoration of species. Birds can rebuild their numbers safely and healthily in a toxin-free environment where there is adequate food. Frogs need protected, clean, healthy water with lots of microbial activity in order to spawn in numbers and survive in multitudes to replenish the land.

The obvious fact that pollination must occur in flowers of any kind in order for reproduction to occur must lead to the obvious fact that flying insects of all kinds are necessary for this activity. Providing a city of bee boxes is one way of providing sanctuary and pollination in the orchard and gardens for optimum production. Providing an abundance of flowers is another. Honey bees would be an alternative that could also provide sustenance for man. The keeping of bees would require returning to the old ways of doing it without toxins, without sugar, without robbing them of all their honey, and without killing off the bees for the winter.

It appears evident with all the scientific evidence that a climate crisis is occuring that will affect all our lives, and the lives of all other species, at the level of minutia. There are two areas of conservation that will be essential to survival—trees and water. “Conservation”, being the pivotal point, may be a mute point. It will be difficult to conserve trees and water when clear cutting seems to be the order of the day, and polluting water a huge adjunct. This project of developing an orchard/arboretum and the five ponds will go a long way to preserving and conserving this property and all its species, and the area surrounding this property. It is recommended that the outflows of all the ponds be purification systems, if you will, to remove the impurities in the water table and underground streams flowing under this property.

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