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"For the Beauty of the Earth, Over and Around us lies"

FTLComm - Tisdale - October 9, 2000

suits our
needs
perfectly
The place in which our life form has evolved suits our needs perfectly, after all, over the short time we humans have been making our home here we have adapted to match the resources and conditions that prevail from pole to pole. There has been so much discussion during this year about the environment with worries about global warming and how some feel that we are responsible for the subtle shifting in global climatic conditions.

sometimes disruptive
Since it appears that we evolved on this little blue marble revolving around an obscure medium class star in the middle of an obscure medium sized galaxy, we are ecologically appropriate to these conditions and our actions and those of the beaver, though sometimes disruptive are the way we were intended to behave.

help nature

It is interesting that in our humble and feeble efforts to help nature our we often take some pretty drastic action. Since we know how important the trees are to us and all other life forms on the planet we have taken a special interest in them and as they become infested with various bugs and diseases we sometimes get involved trying to help out. This picture shows a massive area South of La Ronge where a kind of tree cancer has infected the forest. The condition

causes the trees to develop huge uncontrolled growths in their limbs and it is known as "mistletoe". The provincial government is attempting to curtail the spread of this problem by cutting down the infected forest.

harvesting
While this measure of assistance to the forest goes on here in other places harvesting in the form of clear cutting simply removes all vegetation and in British Columbia and Alaska, since the forests are on mountain sides the result is not only the removal of the trees, but the very soil itself. Deep in the Amazon jungle huge sections of the world's rain forest are being eliminated each year as development forges into the depths of the jungle.

products of combustion
On Friday night we got into Tisdale fairly late and there above the town drifting by in a thin layer was a strip of smoke. Humans and the natural consequences of lightening each year set fires that send prodigious amounts of carbon and various oxides that load up the atmosphere with the partially consumed materials and the resulting products of combustion. There is nothing we can do about the natural fires that sweep through forests each year but we as a species are genuinely concerned about the amount of combustion material we vent into the atmosphere from the production of electricity or from our vehicles.

increase our demands
Our planet is a pretty and wonderful place. It is our home, it is what sustains us and we have responsibilities to look after it because we are able to predict the consequences of our actions and understand our role in the ecology of this great little habitat we call earth. As we grow in numbers we increase our demands on the resources of all kinds. We are presently grumbling about the rising cost of a limited resource, petroleum products that have for a century been squandered and yet much of our way of life has been shaped by the capacity for nature to provide the miracles we need to progress.

always been blessed
Throughout our time we have always been blessed. We have also recognised how much we depend on the continued bounty of our world. It is strange that throughout that awareness we have to over and over again, direct our attention and encourage each other, to be conscious of the consequences of abusing the land, the water and the air that give us life.

give thanks
Today on this magnificent thanks giving day, at the end of one millennium and the beginning of another, it is an excellent time to appreciate and give thanks for our planet and what it gives us.

Sincerely
Timothy W. Shire

"For the Beauty of the Earth, Over and Around us lies"

FTLComm - Tisdale - October 9, 2000

suits our needs perfectly	The place in which our life form has evolved suits our needs perfectly, after all, over the short time we humans have been making our home here we have adapted to match the resources and conditions that prevail from pole to pole. There has been so much discussion during this year about the environment with worries about global warming and how some feel that we are responsible for the subtle shifting in global climatic conditions.

sometimes disruptive	Since it appears that we evolved on this little blue marble revolving around an obscure medium class star in the middle of an obscure medium sized galaxy, we are ecologically appropriate to these conditions and our actions and those of the beaver, though sometimes disruptive are the way we were intended to behave.
help nature	It is interesting that in our humble and feeble efforts to help nature our we often take some pretty drastic action. Since we know how important the trees are to us and all other life forms on the planet we have taken a special interest in them and as they become infested with various bugs and diseases we sometimes get involved trying to help out. This picture shows a massive area South of La Ronge where a kind of tree cancer has infected the forest. The condition
help nature	causes the trees to develop huge uncontrolled growths in their limbs and it is known as "mistletoe". The provincial government is attempting to curtail the spread of this problem by cutting down the infected forest.

harvesting	While this measure of assistance to the forest goes on here in other places harvesting in the form of clear cutting simply removes all vegetation and in British Columbia and Alaska, since the forests are on mountain sides the result is not only the removal of the trees, but the very soil itself. Deep in the Amazon jungle huge sections of the world's rain forest are being eliminated each year as development forges into the depths of the jungle.

products of combustion	On Friday night we got into Tisdale fairly late and there above the town drifting by in a thin layer was a strip of smoke. Humans and the natural consequences of lightening each year set fires that send prodigious amounts of carbon and various oxides that load up the atmosphere with the partially consumed materials and the resulting products of combustion. There is nothing we can do about the natural fires that sweep through forests each year but we as a species are genuinely concerned about the amount of combustion material we vent into the atmosphere from the production of electricity or from our vehicles.

increase our demands	Our planet is a pretty and wonderful place. It is our home, it is what sustains us and we have responsibilities to look after it because we are able to predict the consequences of our actions and understand our role in the ecology of this great little habitat we call earth. As we grow in numbers we increase our demands on the resources of all kinds. We are presently grumbling about the rising cost of a limited resource, petroleum products that have for a century been squandered and yet much of our way of life has been shaped by the capacity for nature to provide the miracles we need to progress.

always been blessed	Throughout our time we have always been blessed. We have also recognised how much we depend on the continued bounty of our world. It is strange that throughout that awareness we have to over and over again, direct our attention and encourage each other, to be conscious of the consequences of abusing the land, the water and the air that give us life.

give thanks	Today on this magnificent thanks giving day, at the end of one millennium and the beginning of another, it is an excellent time to appreciate and give thanks for our planet and what it gives us.

	Sincerely Timothy W. Shire