Wilderness almost non-existent on planet Earth


	Wilderness almost non-existent on planet Earth

wildcat

6-29-2007 4:52 AM

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science, environment, study, earth, wilderness, nature, untainted, domesticated

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6-29-2007 8:31 AM

debbyski

I think I may still own 110 acres of it; at least civilization has not come there in the form of anything progressive.

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