Conservation

This is a subject that comes up on this board all the time, why not have a thread dedicated to it?

Anyways, Joe just had a thread about fishing in Ohio and it got me thinking. At first a thought came to my mind of why don't they teach this in school. Then I thought, why is this the schools job? It's a parenting thing IMO. Maybe they should make an app for that...(different subject all together that gets my heart pumping) At any rate, I might have some info to help someone else and you might have some that will help me, but it has to start somewhere. So here we are, it'll be a free fore all that has anything to do with conservative habits.

I'll start with a quick one about gardening. I don't have a lot of time to dwell on this as I'm sitting at work in the parking lot...

I don't buy hybrids, and this is why-

When you finally get that perfect tomato, don't eat all of it! Harvest the seeds from it for your plants next year.

I have a conversation with my kids every year about how we actually harvest the garden also. We only take what we need at the time and save some for other days. Once we have enough to jar, then we do that also. Because if we harvest everything at one time, we won't have any for other days or years. We have to think ahead. That's what conservation is about to me, the future.

Alright, time to go to work... Please share some thoughts folks. I feel this is a missing link as people seem to only care about today.

How about fishing?

It seems over the years I've become about a 90% catch and release guy. (Unless fishing salmon in AK) I haven't kept a big fish in many of years either. I always snap a couple of pics and release it in hopes of it breeding.