[ RadSafe ] Re: Chernobyl and Rocky Flats ecosystems

[Emil]

You are absolutely correct.
Humans are predators in nature and we are on the top of the
ecological food chain, unless of course you are the first line
management ;-)

You have not mentioned that in Rocky Flats deer herds were walking
inside the buildings, right before we took them down and where
Plutonium pits were produced in the past...

Emil.

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> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 22:31:41 -0700
> From: John Ahlquist <john.ahlquist at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Chernobyl ecosystems
> To: radsafe at radlab.nl
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> I'm not surprised that the Chernobyl ecosystems have come back so
> well. 
>   You find a similar pattern at Rocky Flats and Hanford in their
> buffer 
> zones.  Where humans do not intrude for a period of years, the
> natural 
> ecosystems thrive.  The Rocky Flats buffer zone has become a
> special 
> ecosystem of what the area was like before human interference and
> is 
> now  being preserved as such.  As I recall, an endangered species,
> the 
> Preeble jumping mouse, which was thought to be extinct or nearly
> so, 
> was found there and doing well. In some of the grasslands in
> Montana 
> that were set aside in a conservation move, it was found that
> limited 
> grazing [like the buffalo used to provide] is needed to ensure the 
> health of the system.  We have found out the same with fire and 
> forests.  Basically if you remove human tinkering [even if well 
> intentioned]  or misuse, the ecosystems will likely do well.
> 
> John Ahlquist
> 
> 



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