I pray that we are giving our collective thanks for the Gift of the replenishment of the snow pack above the Pacific, Great Plains, and Atlantic water tables and watersheds. Hopefully our leaders will see the vision that suitable dams and dikes and levees and permanent overflow canals, ponds, and lakes shall be permanently constructed to handle what Nature teaches about Spring flooding. It is time for humans to think humble instead of arrogant and to build in each place the permanent earthen works necessary to hold the flood waters at bay and scoot them into overflow canals…I foresee full employment possibilities.
As we construct the overflow canal waterway system of the Great Plains we will open up vast summer and winter recreational potential for the area. Let it be that humans shall again see the gently guided but mostly unhindered migration patterns of the bison herds as the fences are removed and humans and bison interact with one another again as they did a mere seven score years ago.
Let our world leaders create a vast fence free International Park Preserve carved out of the middle of the the States of South Dakota, North Dakota, and Canadian Provinces to the north. Teddy Roosevelt would order this done by Executive Order if he were here. Is our now sitting President a man of Vision or not? In the matter of creating the fence free bison migration corridor perhaps named North American Grasslands International Park (NAGIP) or some such useful name…this place will be at this intersection of the human species and the Bison (and maybe even the Mammoths arising from their very DNA) herds seeded and left to recover their natural habitat and migration patterns.
AND, when the herds need culling let every part of the animal be handled each in its proper respectful manner…let these words be written into the Act of Congress: “the animal shall be humanely killed and the meat shall be preserved and given freely as high protein food for the poor. Failing all else, the carcass and entrails shall be given to the regional zoo. The skin shall be used in the binding of books and the making of articles of public safety apparel, belts, harnesses, and so forth…it shall be sold in public commerce and all excess profits shall flow automatically and unencumbered into the Housing For Haiti Fund.
AND: let there be computer pollution detection, automated water flow control gates, earthen ditches, concrete where needed, full GPS coordination by an associated wireless network.
COMMENT: Suppose that the Great Plains fences were melted down into plowshares and tractors given freely to farmer cooperatives. That would be a cool adjunct idea.
