Replying to a message of Richard Webb to Roger Nelson:

 RW> Hi Roger,

 RW> Roger Nelson wrote in a message to Bob Ackley:

 A>>> RN> How would a hayburner affect the ecology there?
 RN>>  
 BA>> Not much, a lot of folks out here have horses.  If enough of us start
 BA>> using them to commute there will be a different sort of emission
 BA>> problem...
 RW> THat's for sure.  IN fact there's a guy lives on south side of
 RW> Burlington Iowa whose horses are grandfathered in.  City can't make
 RW> him get rid of them, so long as he keeps horses on the property.

 A>>> RN> Not too many of those around anymore.

 BA>> More than you think, at least around here.

 RN>> None here that I've noticed, although there are quite a few
 RN>> farms/plantations around.  They mostly grow sugar cane and
 RN>> everything is mechanized.  The closest thing to a buckboard is in the
 RN>> French Quarter of N.O., where people are taken on tours of the
 RN>> Quarter by horse and buggy.

 RW> YEs, but where Bob lives, as I recall from personal
 RW> experience/knowledge, there are numerous Amish communities.  Easy
 RW> enough to find a buckboard, or even a wagon.

A cattle company a couple of miles east of me has several restored horse drawn
conveyances (buggies, buckboards, sleighs) on display.

 RW> A few years ago, and I'm sure Bob can recall  this, there was a
 RW> controversy in IOwa regarding those folks.  STate govt wanted them to
 RW> put those triangular slow moving vehicle emblems on the back of their
 RW> wagons and buckboards. IT violated their religious prohibition
 RW> against adornments however.  dOn't recall how it came out as I moved
 RW> to NEW ORleans before it shook out.

I remember the controversy, but I was living in Nebraska at the time.  
Amish buggies in Iowa have the fluorescent red/orange triangles on the back.

Some drivers ignore the slow moving vehicles, though.  Not too many years ago
a fellow had completely restored an old sutler's wagon and was driving it along
US34 behind two draft horses.  An 18-wheeler rear-ended him doing 55 mph, totalled
the wagon (made firewood out of it), killed one horse and put him in the
hospital.  Of
course, the wagon had the triangle on its back.  And also of course, the trucker was
going much too fast for conditions - he obviously could not stop in the
distance visible
to him - and in broad daylight.

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