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"Jay Honeck" wrote:

Well, compared to the $50 million Congress just approved to build a RAIN
FOREST here in Iowa City, Iowa (I'm NOT kidding), it's relative peanuts I'm
sure...

WHY has Congress approved a rain forest for Iowa? It doesn't make any
sense...

Iowa doesn't have the yearly precipitation needed for rainforest
climates, does it?

Rob

"Rob Perkins" wrote in message
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| "Jay Honeck" wrote:
|
| Well, compared to the $50 million Congress just approved to build a RAIN
| FOREST here in Iowa City, Iowa (I'm NOT kidding), it's relative peanuts
I'm
| sure...
|
| WHY has Congress approved a rain forest for Iowa? It doesn't make any
| sense...
|
| Iowa doesn't have the yearly precipitation needed for rainforest
| climates, does it?

It was done in retaliation for the Iowa delegation's constant interference
with how western states and Alaska develop their resources. Western and
Alaskan legislators have also proposed creating an Iowa wilderness area,
mandating that all economic development in the state stop immediately and
that the entire state be replanted in trees.

WHY has Congress approved a rain forest for Iowa? It doesn't make any
sense...

No one here knows. This lame-brained idea has been proposed as an
environmental and educational tool by a wealthy businessman from Des Moines.
He's been shopping the idea around for four or five years now, with little
success or interest from local developers.

Somehow he has managed to get Sen. Grassley involved, who apparently had the
clout to ram it into the overall spending bill. (Can you say "Major
Campaign Contribution?")

What the hell our federal government is doing building rain forests in Iowa
is simply beyond me. Even the local newspaper -- as left wing, pork-barrel
project loving as you can imagine -- has publicly ridiculed the idea.

Iowa doesn't have the yearly precipitation needed for rainforest
climates, does it?

It's going to be built IN-DOORS, under a roof that would dome over three
football fields!

I'm dumb-founded. Even though it will probably bring more guests to my
hotel, I think it's the dumbest idea I've EVER heard.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Maybe they'll use the dirt they move for the rain forest and build a ski
mountain. Might as well have some benefit from the snow you get out there...

Michael

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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No one here knows. This lame-brained idea has been proposed as an
environmental and educational tool by a wealthy businessman from Des
Moines.
He's been shopping the idea around for four or five years now, with little
success or interest from local developers.

The sad thing is that if they spent that same money toward preserving REAL
rainforests it might actually have some real benefit to the world.

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:N4gQb.132988$xy6.545923@attbi_s02...
WHY has Congress approved a rain forest for Iowa? It doesn't make any
sense...

No one here knows. This lame-brained idea has been proposed as an
environmental and educational tool by a wealthy businessman from Des
Moines.
He's been shopping the idea around for four or five years now, with little
success or interest from local developers.

Ok, rant on, Off topic:
Meanwhile, here in the Socialist Republic of Wisconsin, the DNR continues to
buy up any piece of land inhabited by any animal other than a human, all in
the name of protecting the environment and it's resources. At the same
time, deer are so over populated that Darwin is pulling new diseases out of
his hat in a futile attempt to control them, turkeys have become the number
two road hazard (behind deer of course), sand hill cranes now produce more
noise pollution than all the airports combined, more crop damage than
Wisconsin's thunderstorms and tornadoes, and have become so friendly that
pairs of them routinely return to peoples back yards each spring to hatch
their young. They have actually spent money to re-introduce rattlesnakes
into south western Wisconsin, and wolves into northern Wisconsin!! I would
much rather have them attempt to create a rain forest, they've been
wayyyyyyy too successful protecting the environment here.
--
Jim Burns III

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In article N4gQb.132988$xy6.545923@attbi_s02, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

I'm dumb-founded. Even though it will probably bring more guests to my
hotel, I think it's the dumbest idea I've EVER heard.

oh heck, we can come up with dumber ideas than that...

--
Bob Noel

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 22:59:09 GMT, Bob Noel
wrote:

In article N4gQb.132988$xy6.545923@attbi_s02, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

I'm dumb-founded. Even though it will probably bring more guests to my
hotel, I think it's the dumbest idea I've EVER heard.

oh heck, we can come up with dumber ideas than that...

You got a public zoo there?

Don

In article N4gQb.132988$xy6.545923@attbi_s02, Jay Honeck
wrote:

WHY has Congress approved a rain forest for Iowa? It doesn't make any
sense...

$50 million would buy a lot of airline tickets to El Junque, Puerto
Rico, the only rain forest in the US Park Service.

EDR wrote:

$50 million would buy a lot of airline tickets to El Junque, Puerto
Rico, the only rain forest in the US Park Service.

What? Olympic National Forest doesn't count?

Rob