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

[Fuhrmann, Paul]

Saving, salvage, recycling, re-use are all good components of any
project planning/design.   There are many "so-called environmental
firms" that are adept in circumventing regulatory compliance which
usually results in a 'scorched earth approach' to site preparation
unless stakeholders can influence resource protection/restoration
decisions during the permitting process.  In many US regions, project
site clearing and grubbing activities involves marketing saw logs, fire
wood, topsoil and anything else of value. That precludes any plant or
soil 'salvage' unless it is in the permit specs. 

Other environmental consultants will engage stakeholders to work with
developer and regulators to address (all) resource issues prior to
permitting.  Most projects have regional and site specific plant
community issues that require a diversity of experience on the project
team to define saving, salvaging, harvest, preservation, and mitigation
for resource losses.  Those concepts have many meanings and are viewed
as obstacles to most developers.  

Agree totally that primary school age humans (pre teen) are most
reachable and the hope for better understanding of the value (economic
and spiritual) of the natural world, 'saving', preservation,
restoration, mitigation, etc.  For now adults need to pressure their
local governance and regulators for better land use planning.  Resource
minded people need to become part of the project design process early
and often and not let development or governmental pressure drive project
planning or design.

Paul R. Fuhrmann
ecology and environment, inc.
368 Pleasantview Drive
Lancaster, New York 14086
Tel.  716 6848060 ext. 2876
Fax. 716 684 0844
www.ene.com 


-----Original Message-----
From: native-plants-bounces at lists.plantconservation.org
[mailto:native-plants-bounces at lists.plantconservation.org] On Behalf Of
Adolf Ceska
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:16 AM
To: 'Olivia Kwong'; native-plants at lists.plantconservation.org
Subject: Re: [PCA] NEWS: Wildflower rescue groups often operate one
stepahead of developer bulldozers

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/ALeqM5jAEtHPsN8beCRoj2kDq0TvpRyu
uw

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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