"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote:

I'm taking some conservationists up tomorrow for SouthWings to
document polluters and illegal loggers around the southern MS-LA
border. Last year we managed to convince Wal-Mart and Home Depot that
the cypress mulch they were selling came from illegal loggers and
millers and they stopped buying it. That shut the crooks down and
saved hundreds of acres of irreplaceable mature cypress, which is
critical to wetlands preservation in the Atchafalaya Basin.

This is valuable work and fun, low altitude flying (and it's
deductible, too). SouthWings supports conservation efforts across the
southeast U. S. Anyone in interested in being a volunteer pilot for
SouthWings may contact Caroline at
http://www.southwings.org/index2.html .



Cool! well done!

Thx.

We caught some more yesterday, and my pax will sic the U. S. Army Corps of
Engineers on them Monday.

We also got photographic evidence on a chemical plant dumping pollution into
the Mississippi River. Too early to tell what the upshot of that will be, but
it most likely it will be unpleasant for the pricks making money by dumping
poison in the river.

It was a great trip, finished off with an ILS to minimums coming home this
afternoon. Perfect.

This is great flying and you meet some great people. SoutWings needs more
pilots, so, again, pilots in the SE U. S. may contact Caroline at
http://www.southwings.org/index2.html to get involved.


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Dan
T-182T at BFM