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Petition Title: KEEP WISTERIA NATURAL
United States By mikemongo
  
Location: Key West, FL, United States

Created on 5/18/2010

Wisteria Island is an unspoiled green space. Should Wisteria Island be bulldozed and paved, all the island's trees and animals uprooted, displaced, and killed? Perhaps that would be acceptable in our past, but here in 2010 let us show we know better.Wisteria Island is over 100 years old. It has:-naturally-occurring salt flats;-wild butterfly gardens;-pine woods filled with nesting white-crowned pigeons;-pelicans;-ospreys;-bald eagles;and thousands of wild land crabs, flowering native plants, wild grasses, fruiting bushes, and indigenous trees.Along the shore of nearby Sunset Key (aka Tank Island), the sea is devoid of life. It is being constantly choked out by the imported beach sands which spread from the shores into the water, covering and suffocating all life for yards out in all directions.Sunset Key has no boats around it, or near its shores, yet it is barren and devoid of life.Wisteria Island has had boats and live-aboard boaters around its shores for all of the 20th century, and its harbors are filled with fish, sea life, lobsters and crabs, and even (regularly) wild dolphin.Most significant, generations of children who have grown up in Key West have run, swam, played, fished and grown upon the shores of Wisteria Island. Would we in 2010 be the ones to take that privilege away from future generations of children of Key West?Sunset Key is developed, artificial and exclusive while the shores of Wisteria Island are natural, alive, fertile, and open.Why for any reason would we want another Sunset Key when we have a Wisteria Island? KEEP WISTERIA ISLAND NATURAL




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