WILDLIFE AND HABITAT

With a heart full of love for nature

it is not hard for me to see,

with wildlife habitat dwindling

it will soon come but memory.

Immigrant population now crowding

still our government brings in more,

searching for homes, resource and food

we can bid wild land goodbye for sure.

Thought I could make a difference

purchased a hundred acres in one spot.

With the advice of several agencies

made a pond, planted trees, food lot.

Noticing within a few short years

my efforts had gained me naught,

what game the poachers didn’t steal

my surrounding neighbors shot.

They killed hawks, owls, ducks, heron,

coyote, coot, marsh hens, bobcat,

shot squirrel, crow’ spike horn, doe,

and squint my old pet blind muskrat.

Trapped skunk coon my project doomed,

captured turtle’s for soup while laying eggs,

shot blue jays, doves cooing their love,

stole mushrooms in sacks and bags.

Broke the beaver dam opened the lodge

this flooded turkey nesting flats,

washed out trees eroded stream banks,

floated old garbage down in mats.

Liberal game laws killed the red fox.

Extended season killed the last pat.

Everything that leaves my acreage

is shot, stomped or car crushed flat.

Never time to fish my private pond

but someone found time for theft.

Bullheads, three frogs, one old snake

I find is about all that I have left.

Spray programs for moths and weeds

killed off butterflies, bees and bat,

left me one old crippled grasshopper

and Im gonna try and fish with that.

The law refuses to get involved

D.N.R., D.E.Q., Police all under staffed,

seems I’m never on the winning team,

but the one who gets the shining shaft.

I’d put my land in conservancy,

save the flowers and trees so grand,

but with my luck new laws would pass

granting developers theft of such land.

Long as big money runs our government

little chance in saving, public and private land

for wild life, recreation or natural resources.