Drained marshland carries its whole lost community to extinction unnoted

Evidence

Some day my marsh, dyked and pumped, will lie forgotten under the wheat, just as today and yesterday will lie forgotten under the years. Before the last mud-minnow makes his last wiggle in the last pool, the terns will scream goodbye to Clandeboye, the swans will circle skyward in snowy dignity, and the cranes will blow their trumpets in farewell. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 573

Categorization

• XREF: Closing elegy recalls ch15’s economics-of-extinction thread and grief-for-known-species (ch9): the marsh dies companionably with its users’ memory. — connects to: Agricultural marsh draining caused 90 percent loss of U.S. wetlands — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 833; Fen drainage depleted the wildlife that once fed local inhabitants — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 294; Agricultural drainage destroyed half of America’s original wetlands — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 166 (+5 more)
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• English fen drainage permanently converted marsh ecosystems into geometric farmland #exemplifies (0.90) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 293
• Fen drainage depleted the wildlife that once fed local inhabitants #exemplifies (0.85) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 294
• Agricultural marsh draining caused 90 percent loss of U.S. wetlands #contradicts (0.80) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 833
• Agricultural drainage destroyed half of America’s original wetlands #contradicts (0.80) — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 166
• Environmental degradation of a place is experienced as an attack on community identity #expands (0.80) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 232
• Fen drainage transformed both ecology and inhabitants’ livelihoods through struggle #expands (0.75) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 293
• Harvested moss carries whole untold communities of invertebrates to their death #corroborates (0.70) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss, 608
• Quiet places are disappearing faster than species are going extinct #corroborates (0.70) — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 63