"Dan Luke" wrote in
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"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.

Hmm, wonder if there's somethign similar in my area...


Bertie