Yes it is about 1 salamander.
It is about $24 million that the salamander will waste because the project will not be completed.
It is about the taxpayers who will have paid money into a bond that will not be spent on the project they approved.
It is about all the homeowners within a mile diameter of the sighting who will have their property rights stolen from them by the county because 1 salamander was found.
No one said anything about wiping out every species of creature in the world.
What is Macadamize and McMallize? I don't see those words in the dictionary.
"Yes it is about 1 salamander. "
No. There has to be a breeding population there unless some eco-nut just dropped off one specimen where he hoped somebody would find it.
"It is about $24 million that the salamander will waste because the project will not be completed.
It is about the taxpayers who will have paid money into a bond that will not be spent on the project they approved."
It seems to me that its more about the incompetence of local officials who didn't hire a consulting engineering firm to do an environmental study of the site before they decided to build there. If they had and this critter turned up, they could have built elsewhere. If the consultant overlooked it, the consultant's insurance company would incur the loss, not the residents.
"It is about all the homeowners within a mile diameter of the sighting who will have their property rights stolen from them by the county because 1 salamander was found."
No homeowner should have their property rights taken away without fair comepnsation.
As for professional land speculators and builders - tough. It a risk of the business. Maybe they should check out their potential construction sites better before investing.
"What is Macadamize and McMallize? I don't see those words in the dictionary."
Take a trip to the Los Angeles area, or to the area on the East Coast between Kennedy - town (Boston) and Charlotte North Carolina. Builders are buying up and developing huge tracks of land and converting good farmland and open woods into mile after mile of malls, roadways, parking lots, residential subdivisions, etc.
At the rate they are going your grandchildren will be growing up in a Country which imports all its food as well as its oil because the whole place will look like downtown Los Angeles or Mahanhattan - all concrete and asphalt. And the oly "wildlife" they will ever see will be city pigeons, cockroaches and house rats unles they go to the local museum to stare at stuffed animals.
Thats not the kind of world I want to live in or leave behind me for my grandkids.