SAVING THE NATIVES

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Saving the natives—native plants, that is. People steal them. Rip them right off the desert. Two people with a truck can uproot a saguaro in 20 minutes and sell it for $55 to $75 a foot. These criminals enrich themselves at the expense of our natural environment.

There ought to be a law against it and there is. However there are only two cactus cops in the entire state. Just two! At one time there were more and they caught 90 to 100 cactus thieves per year. But now, the state just doesn’t have to money to hire more cops.
This cactus cop thing is no joke. We need to take care of the plants that make Arizona special.

DON'T TOUCH MY CACTUS BRO.!

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