Value of Ecological Corridor Confirmed

Results of a study lead by Ellen Damshen, an ecologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have produced 'experimental confirmation' that corridors enhance biodiversity of species (both plant and animal) when connecting ecological patches. The experiment was conducted in a pine forest in South Carolina. Apparently, some scientists had dismissed the corridor/patch system as harmful to plant and animal communities, arguing that corridors exposed wildlife to hazards such as roads. [These must be the same scientists who do not believe in evolution, global warming or renewable energy resources.]
This system of ecologic protection is in use on large scales in India and Brazil, and is being advocated for in western United States, in particular. In landscapes with agricultural land settlement patterns, such as in the South, patches and corridors exist by default in rural areas. With 'proof' now of the success of corridors and patches, perhaps legislative safegaurds should be passed to protect that aspect of rural land use from urban sprawl, as southern cities grow, and hopefully incorporate cities themselves into a large-scale web of ecologic protection from the development of man-made infrastructue.
Science and truth are fighting the good fight for those of us who consider good land sterwardship an imperitive trait for entrance into heaven... or into dust. I am pretty sure science has an opinion on that, too.