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​THE MAURADERS one who roams from place to place making attacks and raids in search of plunder 
When Pritam gained ownership of Parcel  C, He began converting a tiny historical building called the cook house.  a former kitchen behind the main house use to gook in in order to keep heat out of the main house.cook house .  it had a small historic building know as the cook house he immediatly began to make a silk purse out of a sows ear. with the plans that he and his wife would live there. to mthis reminded my of the phrase trying to make a silk pirse out of a sows ear. was a m\lot of waste in the conversation because he changed his mind daily .When I asked him his plans for the big booming green biomass he had just acquired. his reply was he planed to to sit quietly with iin order to gain understanding.  He was the star developer in Key Key As well as up the Keys,  I hoped that  maybe this was his chance to learn and reflect on the nature his huge projects had ddisplaced. I tried mto reach him with the environment principles  I was  teaching  the puplic for years. Shortly there after he anounced he did not like the way the groud lookrd which was like a normal naturalized rainfirest would look like. leav literdmffc00overing the human natural fallen leaf litter fallen on himus.paths and beds I was  critta call wounded when he   hired a big team of workers to rake up probably what was 10 inches and haul off property all the soil on Paecel C It took a crew of eight men raking sil for for day all the soil in pC big trunk hauled it aoff property. They raked and scouwered the land to get every spec of black soil in the trunk haulrd off  and dumped elsewhere after that and b sevral large trucks  to remove all the humas from the acre. Out went all the humus, top soil humus top soil earth . and all the mearth worms and nsrct and mifroscopic life trillions of necassry organisms . the weather became dry and windy amd then it got dry and anoth inch of blew away tiny bit of black top soil blew away so the white in color  limestone ground was aolinf soilwhite alcoline soil. with little nutriants, I was devastad. I had protecterd and added to this detritsformimg  forsince 1965 it tkes 500 years to make i inch of soil. so eons of soi from centrys before  back to the  time this island was formed and the soiution hole formed all this was gone the foundation of the garedm, after removal many plant becme stilt roored and fell over. the next ecision was to install a huge irrigation systm drawin on the fresh water lens that is occasional available but mistlu sraws salt water intrusion andnot to mention it is pumping line stone which coates the plant npludg up their stomates nd folige is not green anymore. the garden tue pants struggled to s[survive many fell over others could nt breath coated with drey whie,
.he did not likr the look of the simple follow the herd kind of paths thru thr le junge as one admirer called pargwll c nor did he like the natural leaf litter look of the forrester so  i wi dug 
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