Great idea!  Thanks for doing this!

Seems to me that anything about to be bulldozed qualifies as endangered. People read what they want to.

I find your use of the word "endangered" to be a little misleading, Ms. Gibbs.  Especially since the letter writer never used the word himself.  And if the Amberwing (a building that will help people) is built in the same manner as the Solway Hospice project, there will be very little "bulldozing," as there were measures taken to minimize the impact on the surrounding space.  You can clearly see the this evidence on the map provided.  

Also, you'd think an Eagle Scout would be more apt to help, you know, people.  But I guess plants take precedent.  And a final FYI: That land doesn't qualify as "old-growth forest."

Thanks BeastOfBurden, could you possibly be more annoying? 

You're making a big deal about the headline - not even the content of the note or the event. Then, you couldn't be more dismissive about the project, for some reason.

Obviously lots of land is going to be bulldozed to build a new building - duh - where do you think  the building sits, 40 feet up in the air?

Your lame statement about 'plants take precedent' shows plenty of ignorance about helping nature's diversity benefits humans.

I don't.  Mostly because many liberals (not all) are unable to separate politics and the rest of life, and feel the need to cause financial, political and reputational harm to those who dare cross them.

So you're worried about your reputation? Seems a well-earned concern.

Where are the plants going?  

I have a few small patches in Wild Goose Manor that are too hillside-ey even for me and it seems vaguely unsafe to mow them, not to mention being a lot of work to maintain.  I want to leave them "wild" preferably with native plants.  And I have vague notions of doing a butterfly garden since I'd heard monarch's are very threatened by loss of habitat, meaning there are apparently many  ENDANGERED plants around here.  Including (it sounds like) the ones near this development.

Beast has a perfectly valid point. Ms. Gibbs took a fairly innocuous story and put an enviro-alarmist twist on it. Old growth? Really? Endangered? I'm sure the fine folks at Miller Dwan would love to hear that someone is labeling the land they are building on as potentially needing environmental protection due to an old growth forest and endangered plant species being threatened. I'm surprised sacred burial ground or spotted owl didn't crop up in that description somewhere.