Earlier this week I had an opportunity to ask my Mother if she recalls any of our family/neighborhood cemeteries being burned off. She advised me they had never been burned off in her lifetime. She further advised me that each Memorial Day the families would gather at the cemetery and each family would clear off their own group of lots with scythes and sickles. Mother is 92. They had enough problems each year with lightning strikes setting off fires in the Black Water Marsh and burning off 8,000 acres, more or less, of prairie grasses, etc. Does anyone know if lichen is on the endangered species list? Does anyone know if algae and fungus are on the endangered species list? It takes algae and fungus to create lichen. Seriously, if any of you will have an opportunity to speak, in the near future, to the Chairperson of the Natural Resources Committee or the Judicial Committee, of the Indiana General Assembly, make them aware of the burning of cemeteries by DNR. I believe that the Governor's office, the Attorney General's office, the Senate President, the Speaker of the Indiana House and other "political power houses" are going to be quite upset when they find out what is going on; and they will find out, if they haven't already! :-) Based on the evidence presented on this list the State of Indiana is indeed in violation of the Indiana Constitution. Cheers! Sam Cline Hoosier Web http://www.hoosierweb.org/ The candle light will always be gleaming through the sycamores. The latch string is always out.