Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Date of this Version
1979
Abstract
In answer to the rhetorical question, Water usage-who cares?, I considered listing the thousands of species of aquatic plants and animals that inhabit and depend upon the surface waters of Nebraska. But this would take too long, and I don't know them all anyway. However, I must defend the nonhuman species' rights to habitat. There are many frameworks to justify their continued existence: economic, aesthetic, and philosophic, to name a few.
Having been active in the environmental movement of the 70's in Nebraska, I can assure you that it has so diverse a following that I cannot possibly presume to speak for all of them. Thus my remarks primarily reflect my feelings, but probably mirror the thoughts and feelings of many Nebraska environmentalists and conservationists.
Comments
Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences- Volume VII, 1979. Copyright © 1979 Nagel