A hole:
What's with the hole? I was so focused
on the plants, I didn't really pay attention to this. Then I looked
closer. Hey! Somebody dug this hole! I could see the curved edges of
the hole were made by a shovel. Then, I saw another hole, and another,
and another. All told, I counted seventeen poaching holes, each large
enough to sink a basketball.
These poaching holes were scattered around the Sarracenia flava
population. It was sickening. Some lazy $#%&s had come and cut
at least 17 large clumps of Sarracenia flava
out of the ground. Some of the poaching holes were really
large--I estimated that 30% of this relatively small population of
Sarracenia had been stolen just this last year. It looks like
the thieves focused on large clumps, and I am guessing they took the
most prettily veined plants, leaving the comparatively drab specimens
for us shemps unlucky enough to visit the site after the best had been
stolen.
