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- From: "Michael Smith" <p00004@psilink.com>
- Subject: Re: Multiplying in the Backcountry (kids/population)
- In-Reply-To: <1992Nov19.165051.25474@guinness.idbsu.edu>
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- Organization: Performance Systems Int'l
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:01:40 GMT
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- >DATE: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:50:51 GMT
- >FROM: Greg Jahn <jahn@guinness.Idbsu.EDU>
- [....]
- > It sure seems to me
- >that everywhere I've gone there are more people now than before,
- >I've certainly seen very distintive changes here, both in town AND
- >in the backcountry ... [....]
- > the FACT is population HAS profoundly affected the entry
- >points to roadless backcountry here in Idaho. So, who cares what the
- >statistics and population models say? LOOK AROUND!
-
- Your toolbox of concepts obviously includes that of population growth,
- but you might want to consider adding to it the concept of population
- movement. The latter can, in some cases, produce local instances of the
- former. In the last few decades, the US population has notoriously shown
- a tendency to move West and South, a trend quite clearly encouraged, if
- not entirely created, by policy. So your anguish might actually have its
- origin in something other than the statistically invisible
- philoprogenitiveness of North Americans.
-
- --Michael Smith
-