a horribly ambitious and terribly long project

[gravotrope]

I am thinking in terms longer than any of us would ever be alive to see, and I perceive two threats, though, sadly, neither are snakes. I have no data of their decline other than the fragility of their habitat combined with their high level of specialization.

The example of the Dendrobiums is great, because it shows how people are ultimately not stewards of the environment regardless of what billions of other people may be trying to do. That is what I'm operating with, and projecting that chaotic destruction right or wrong down the road hundreds of years inspires me to do something.