Re: Osprey Eagles in Animas Canyon

Yes, sometimes our government gets it right!
Well, there's another side to that story that flies in the face of the all-out ban on DDT rather than more judicious use of it instead. Just ask any impoverished countries now suffering the disasters of malaria and other insect-borne diseases. They depended on US-produced DDT to control the insects because it was very cheap and affordable to them. Malaria, for one, was almost completely wiped out. Then came the ban and DDT was no longer available. Now the insects and diseases are back in full force with devastating human diseases and their consequences. It's a classic case of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's observation, "Every reform, no matter how necessary, will, by weak minds, be carried to an excess which will, itself, need reforming." (With my apology for non-NG content).