The New York Times Quotation of the Day

"There used to be rivers of butterflies, but now there are years when there
are no butterflies at all. This is a village full of ghosts, not of people,
but of nature, a paradise lost." -- HOMERO ARIDJIS, a naturalist in
Contepec, Mexico.

In the Des Moines Sunday Register:

Iowans investing in Western Iowa Energy biodiesel plant near Wall Lake:

http://dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050313/BUSINESS01/503130324/1029/archive

Des Moines Sail and Power Squadron will offer safe boating classes at Lake
Red Rock Visitor Center in Pella and Mau Marine in Des Moines:

http://dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050313/SPORTS10/503130363/1039/archive

If you can still  find a hard copy of the Des Moines Sunday Register,
reporter Anne Fitzgerald wrote a feature article on how biotechnology is
deepening its hold in agriculture.  For example, according to Fitzgerald, in
2004 more than half of the soybean crops planted were with engineered seeds.



Neila Seaman, MPA
Director
Sierra Club, Iowa Chapter
3839 Merle Hay Road, Suite 280
Des Moines, IA  50310
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515-277-8868

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