[PCA] NEWS: Wildflower rescue groups often operate one step ahead of developer bulldozers

[Addsum-Tony Frates]

 Adolf - I assume you meant was what do "they" mean by saving the 
flowers.

And you're right, and the situation is no better in the U.S.

Tony Frates



> What do you mean by "saving the flowers"? As the article indicates,
> most "flowers" just cannot be saved. In Canada, or correctly speaking,
> in British Columbia, we do not save the "flowers", we "salvage" them.
> But to what point? With the crazy uncontrolled development around
> Victoria, many people have gardens full of salvaged plants and are not
> really interested in "salvaging" more of them. 
> 
> Any development can get around the Environmental Assessment when the
> so-called environmental consulting firm gives the developer 50 or so
> pages copied directly from the "Harry Potter" and presents them as an
> Environmental Impact Study. As the recent case in the City of Langford
> development shows, you can sue the protesters on the base ofof such a
> nicely looking Environmental Impact Study ("Harry Potter Study"), and
> put them in the jail.
> 
> I heard about the case when the ecologists working on a pipeline route
> were asked to "translocate" plants of Botrychium sp. The crew dug them
> up, never mind that they did not get the corms, and stuck them away
> from the pipeline route. Mission accomplished, and we can sleep
> without any bad dreams. As we all know, it really does not matter too
> much, if you "translocate" Botrychium plants with or without the
> corms, they will die regardless.
> 
> If you want to change the system, you have to start in Grade 4 to 7.
> The curriculum of the Canadian schools require to know only one plant
> and that is dandelion in those grades. I do not know what the
> situation is in the USA, but I do not have too much illusions that it
> would be better.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Adolf
> 
> Adolf  Ceska, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: native-plants-bounces at lists.plantconservation.org
> [mailto:native-plants-bounces at lists.plantconservation.org] On Behalf
> Of Olivia Kwong Sent: March-04-08 7:32 AM To:
> native-plants at lists.plantconservation.org Subject: [PCA] NEWS:
> Wildflower rescue groups often operate one step ahead of developer
> bulldozers
> 
> http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jAEtHPsN8beCRoj2kDq0TvpR
> yuuw
> 
> Wildflower rescue groups often operate one step ahead of developer
> bulldozers The Canadian Press 16 hours ago
> 
> Before the bulldozers arrive, Jane Pausch is there to save the
> flowers.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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