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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Cemetery Concerns
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:05:00
	Publish Date:		2021-01-18 05:30:00
	Description:		Have you thought about your funeral plans and their impact on the environment? It is not a pleasant topic, but it is one the Masked Biologist thinks deserves some extra thought, as he shares in this week’s Wildlife Matters. There were times in my life when I would worry, I suppose somewhat oddly, about where everyone is supposed to be buried. I even remember thinking at one point, “Where does it end? How much land can we afford to make into cemeteries?” Everything else seems like it can change—forest to grassland, grassland to cropland, farm buildings to forest, but cemeteries stayed cemeteries. I think it started with my childhood on the outskirts of Milwaukee, where occasionally I would ride with my grandpa to deliver funeral flowers and casket sprays to enormous cemeteries as part of his floral business. As I got older, the reality and permanence of death sank in as we would go around the cemetery at our church and school to see which of us could find the grave marker with the
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