One of them had just informed us we couldn’t collect a soil sample by hand because the area slated for it might not have been included in a survey for and endangered tuber. This, regardless of the fact the entire area is destined to become an engineered slope with retaining wall, and has been so designated for about 6 years of design and review.
But hey, it’s only taxpayers money...
“might not have been” and “might contain” an (unknown and unseen) underground tuber, eh?
Yeppers. Certainity as an enviro crisis.
The is bureacratic 2+2=71 or some such nonsense. the best retort is, yes, yes, of course, unless the tubers are indigenous in which case none of the soil is exempt from examination. I cannot allow a violation of my protocols where little or nothing is at stake.