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| Rock Stacking is a popular activity |
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| If Environmentalists succeed, these signs will be common |
Not everyone agrees with Stacy or her organization, but
regulatory steps have been taken in some places to restrict the activity of rock
stacking. For example, in Hawaii at the
Volcano National Park, the practice has been outlawed because those who build
rock stacks, “…are doing nothing more than tampering with potential scientific
evidence of long-ago erruptions and should stop, park rangers and volcano
scientists said.” According to an
article from 2005 in the Honolulu Advertiser, the practice of rock stacking is:
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| Some Parks already make rock stacking illegal |
Currently the US National Park Service already outlaws the
practice, although it is only generally referenced as “moving rocks.” The US National Park Service was not able to
be reached for comment on this article.
Stacy Bufume explained, “The US Park Service is not
enforcing their rules. We are demanding
that rock stacking be considered just as harmful to our planet as littering or
having large families. There must be significant
penalties for committing this environmental crime, and we have to get serious
about enforcing these rules.” Not
everyone agrees with the proposed policy remedies submitted by Save Our
Beautiful Earth Rapidly.
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| Scenes like this will be rare in the near future |
Fern U. Quiseley, a colleague of Stacy O. Buffume explains
the harm caused by rock stacking along beaches “Every rock that is moved from
its natural state causes a disruption to the local ecosystem web of life. This is particularly true along salt water
beaches. If you study the original rock
location closely, you will see small crabs, insects, and microorganisms whose
life force is impacted by moving that rock.
Many will die or at least be disturbed.
This is happening all around the world and man is at fault.”
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| The artist who placed these rocks harmed the Earth |
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| Soon, this will be illegal |
“Years ago people thought driving SUVs was okay, and that
there was nothing wrong with human pollution.
Now everyone knows better. We can
change the world. We will succeed in
stopping the dangerous practice of rock stacking not just in North America, but
everywhere on our planet. These recent
grants from the United Nations and the USFWS will help us get started in
achieving our goal.” Stacy finished as
she and Fern completed the interview.
The future of rock stacking is not clear, and based on the
enthusiasm for the practice around the world, it appears that Save Our
Beautiful Earth Rapidly and their allies have an uphill battle to fight. However, a journey begins with a step, and
their first steps are certainly in process now as they obtain funding, submit
their legislative policy reforms, and get world-wide attention to the harmful practice
of rock stacking.
Please tell me this article is tongue-in-cheek, and there are not imbeciles who believe this...
ReplyDeleteIncredible, does Stacy Bufume has nothing else imortant to do ? In few places, I can understand thaht moving rock can dammage the soil, but it's only very few places all around the world. I really think that balancers are very involved in the preservation of our mother Earth, aren't they ?
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime, builders are removing tons of stones from environmental locations and hauling them far away to be used as architectural accoutrements for the wealthy. This is much more degrading to the environment than the occasional rock being stacked and left behind in its natural location.
ReplyDeleteBesides, in all locations have have conducted my practice of stacking rocks, I noticed Nature herself moves the rocks around. She accomplishes this by using waters to move stones out of the earth that she placed there previously by moving them around with glaciers. Now she washes them out of her banks and they migrate down to streams and head towards lakes and oceans. Sometimes she also stacks them i incredible formations.
I can see a concern here when rock stacking infringes upon other's cultural rights. But those areas are limited to certain sites and burial grounds.
Perhaps Stacy's efforts would be better spent looking at all the pollutants environmentalists release with their incessant talking and BS stacking.
Most rock stackers I know of are concerned about he earth and take special care not to disturb or harm anything while conducting their practice. We look around at Nature and appreciate her beauty. When other species are present we honor them and are are careful to not disturb active colonies and habitats.
I am concerned about the huge impact all other human activities have on the planet, especially our housing and transportation needs, These seem way overboard and anyone not looking at this but instead picking on a small local activity is probably seriously out of balance and could probably benefit from sitting in a natural environment and handling some of Mother Earth's treasures.
And one more thing.
ReplyDeleteOne more activity I see as much more harmful to living things and the landscape is live fire target practice.
This practice is much more widespread and has many more enthusiasts than those engaged in stacking stones.
And i believe a high speed bullet has much more impact upon whatever it strikes than a rock toppling over.
It is a sad state of affairs that a group that uses the acronym SOBER can be so out of balance and is willing to spend their efforts picking upon a group of folks that have no powerful legislative lobbying organizations in which to defend ourselves against these outrageous attacks. I believe that both Fern U. Quiseley and Stacy O. Buffume would likely benefit from just sitting on the ground and trying to communicate with Mother Earth about their beliefs and efforts.
I find it frightening that Large grant monies are being provided in an effort to quell our spiritual art form.
As a novice stone piler, I see the S.O.B.E.R. movement as the answer to my prayers. Introducing meaningful prohibition to the menace of rock stacking will keep gateway dabblers like me from rocketing down the slippery slope of stackery.
ReplyDeleteYou have got to be kidding me.
ReplyDeleteWalking on beaches with your tire tread sandals are as much a harmful thing as Cairns. $150K of taxpayer money to these jokers. No wonder the NPS is getting less money each year. Get a life people.
ReplyDeleteFrightens wildlfe? Lol hahaha! The only thing wild animals fear is their natural predator that is trying to capture an eat them. Liberalism should be considered a mental illness and form of retardation.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the nice shrieky lady has granite countertops in her kitchen...? Or tabletop rock fountains that make nice sounds? Or new age type crystals? How about those crystals, huh? Or natural gems in her jewelry?? Noooooo, that mining does not disturb the poor defenseless rocks at all.
ReplyDeleteUh-oh. And walking on sand. If the nice shrieky lady is so worried about disturbing the entropy of nature, maybe she should never walk on sand. That rearranges tiny sand particles into vile polluting human footprint shapes.
And breathing!! Breathing un-naturally moves the air molecules out of their places!!
Next they will want to stop people from walking on the beach as it leaves footprints and may compress the sand on critters below the sands surface. Or ask us to stop breathing as we are depleting their oxygen.
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