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XemaSab

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24. I'm a biologist in California

Reply to quaker bill (Reply #23)

Mon May 28, 2012, 08:10 PM

May 2012

and while I respect your professional expertise, I am cynical about mitigation.

For example, mitigation for loss of valley elderberry longhorn beetle habitat is usually elderberries planted in a monoculture without any habitat context.

The money would be better spent buying areas of intact riparian habitat that have no elderberries and planting some, but for whatever reason that's not how it's done.

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Wetlands expert suspended by DEP after she refuses to approve permit [View all] teach1st May 2012 OP

So let me see if I understand this SGMRTDARMY May 2012 #1

Devils like Rick Scott, the Koch Brothers, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, Dick Cheney, the Bushes lark May 2012 #8

you forgot Jebbie and his developer pals in FL - no doubt under the rocks it reeks if you look wordpix May 2012 #19

oh, yeah : ( MBS May 2012 #11

this is going on in nearly every state DEP and town wetlands commission in this nation! And I'm wordpix May 2012 #18

Sorry to hear of your plight, but let me say I am truedelphi May 2012 #22

Always tooeyeten May 2012 #2

Post removed Post removed May 2012 #3

Carlyle Group, again n2doc May 2012 #4

There seems to be no limit to Repupblican corruption DFW May 2012 #5

You hit it on the head cilla4progress May 2012 #15

That's what I'm talking about. Baitball Blogger May 2012 #6

We need more people to do things like this... malthaussen May 2012 #7

Wetland credits! That's got a great ring to it. raouldukelives May 2012 #9

Can I get wetland credit for my driveway? I promise not to build on it. McCamy Taylor May 2012 #10

in my CT town, the wetlands comm. told a friend he couldn't have a driveway xing even though wordpix May 2012 #20

So they are only top experts when they agree??? hmmm lunasun May 2012 #12

K&R XemaSab May 2012 #13

"Department of Environmental Protection"? SunSeeker May 2012 #14

I was wondering exactly who Ms. Bersok had offended when this happened. quaker bill May 2012 #16

Wetlands mitigation still results in a net loss XemaSab May 2012 #17

Not as much as you seem to think quaker bill May 2012 #23

I'm a biologist in California XemaSab May 2012 #24

so, the CARLYLE Group created the wetlands mitigation bank in question. whooboy. nashville_brook May 2012 #21

+1, thanks. +1 to the o.p., too. NT Mc Mike May 2012 #27

Gaia Bless Her! FarCenter Fan May 2012 #25

Women are sooo often the whistleblowers - the ones that refuse alittlelark May 2012 #26

Shades of Bunny Greenhouse... chervilant May 2012 #28