Paiute good stewards of Malheur land
By C. Melvin Aikens
For The Register-Guard
MAY 1, 2016
... It is clear that the Great Basin environment cannot support the level of exploitation to which it has been subjected for well over a century ...
North Americas Great Basin is .. arid because moisture from the Pacific Ocean is blocked by the high mountain wall of the Sierra Nevada and the Cascades ...
... the Native American example of living lightly on the land respecting it for what it is and not asking for more than it can give offers the best practical guide to future social, environmental and productive policy in the region.
We need to wean ourselves from the extractive Wild West economy of the northern Great Basin ...
http://registerguard.com/rg/opinion/34246377-78/paiute-good-stewards-of-malheur-land.html.csp
2naSalit
(86,920 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,662 posts)who were guardians, protectors of the earth for thousands of years.
Bundy-like people can only destroy. They degrade this world with their presence.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)The envagelical Xtians like to babble on about "stewardship", I've listened to it, but never about the land. We need to start being good stewards for our country while there is still some of it left.
And who better to teach us than the natives who thrived here for 15 thousand years and more?