[Vision2020] Prairie RIP

[Pat Kraut]

Let me guess...its right near where you have already built!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "david sarff" <davesway at hotmail.com>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 8:59 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] Prairie RIP


> Today a lone, one acre prairie remnant was turned up and plundered for its
> Granite boulders.  My guess is to use them for local landscaping purposes.
>
> Permission had been properly gathered to acquire the field stones that had
> been pushed up against one side of the small prairie remnant. But hey, the
> ones up-hill with the old lichens must have looked pretty good, too . . .
> more valuable even, considering that local Prairie is one of the most
> endangered plant communities in the Americas.  The land owner and the
world
> truly lost more than they will ever get in return.
>
> The person responsible for this error in judgment is in fact the very same
> person who was stopped in the process of removing the plant growth from
the
> Palouse Mall; only in my opinion, the Mall issue was not nearly as morally
> apprehensible as this present action was.
>
> I was informed by one of the workers that the new highway was going
through
> the area  and so why does it matter . . . Interesting considering a two
year
> EIS (environmental impact statement) is presently just beginning  to
assess
> a broad range of options for the location of a new highway.  This measure
> would certainly include assessments for endangered plants, some of which
> have now been conveniently turned under . . .
>
> Dave
>
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