How America Uses Its Land

Post by redblacktree » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 9:26 PM UTC

logfromblammo wrote: post #188

justinwp wrote: post #180

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>but that's about all you can do with it, and there are better places for 'outdoor activities' there are better things to eat than shitty meat from cows grazing in a desert. i'll take the outdoor activities and the preservation of these ecosystems

That stretch of highway seems like about 95% of the way to the place where you buried the bodies, or the barrels full of cash and/or guns. Or a good spot to pick up a supernatural hitchhiker of some sort, like your own father, but 5 years before you were conceived. Also, that Street View vehicle needs to readjust its camera mast to vertical. If I managed a beef herd out there, I wouldn't expect it to gain much weight…

Post by hueving » Fri, Aug 03, 2018, 6:35 AM UTC

distant_hat wrote: post #120

hueving wrote: post #99

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>Does the Mojave have to be useful to humans to be a valuable thing? Yes, humans are the only creatures we know of with the concept of valuing land.

Territoriality is coded really deep in evolution. Even animals as simple as the fruit fly get aggressive when another fly takes its space.