UA administration a bit off base in reply to campus conservationists

PLEASE CLICK ON IMAGE for an enlarged view of the University of Arkansas tree dump. These huge stumps (compare to the dumpster about the same distance from Indian Trail — south of Sixth Street near Razorback Road — from which the photo was taken, for size, apparently came from the area that looks a bit like a road into the woods at right. The administration may be willing to talk to the students about sustainability, but they are clearly willing to destroy the best single weapon the campus has for fighting global and south Fayetteville warming — the incredibly magnificent huge timber not only on the main campus but on the west side of Rochier Hill. That land was donated to the UA, maybe Jonah remembers the article about the donation a few years ago. The highest and best use of the land, not only for the environment of Fayetteville and the world but also for the reputation of the University of Arkansas, is to remain as it is and make it the UA science and agriculture departments' demonstration wildlife and forest preserve. No maintenance or restoration required (unless they can bring those massive trees with their hollows large enough for an average Ozark bear back to life).

Discussing isn't something of value when these young people already KNOW the right thing to do. Just selling the beer cans in the campus dumpsters could finance a major recyling effort. Young people are sent to learn things they don't know. When students KNOW some things the administrators apparently don't know, then it is obvious that some in the administration haven't figured out that they weren't born knowing everything and that "everyone knows something they don't."

Maybe they'll offer to team with the city to hire consultants to figure how to do the wrong thing without its being noticed. Oh, I forgot, they've already done that.