I am a senior citizen who…

I am a senior citizen who has enjoyed the pleasures of what nature has to provide. Ever since I was young enough to venture into the woodlands, I have captured the beauty of nature mainly through memories. Many of my ventures were near swampy waters, beaver ponds or natural water retention areas. I have scene the over harvest some areas on traplines, witnessed woodlands harvesters cut down trees near lakes, ponds and streams, and viewed the development of housing projects that erased any signs of a pond that I once enjoyed watching our ecosystem at work. All of these sitings have one thing in common - the destruction of nature's beauty and it's work in progress. Now our provincial government want to create a 'work in progress' by labelling it as housing deficiency. Our provincial government can name it anyway it wants to, but once our wetlands are gone; they are gone forever. Has greed for big business developers and tax revenue earnings dictate our morals and responsibilities to our children and their children's children? Future generations will never have the oppotunity to witness nature's ecosystem first hand. They will have to read about it books or watch videos on websites. The hand's on learning experience will be lost. It is time for our governments to think about consequences, before thinking about their coffers.