Hi Folks:
I'm sending in our public comment to a USACE public notice about a road that is planned to be put through a pitcher plant bog in Texas (see
http://www.swf.usace.army.mil/pubdata/environ/regulatory/public/pn/2010_12/PN_SWF-2009-00404.pdf). Public comment has been extended until tomorrow, Jan. 27. Among several issues here is that the compensation for destroying part of a pitcher plant bog will go to a mitigation bank for FLOODPLAIN species. Mitigation should go to restoring, purchasing, or creating in-kind pitcher plant habitat, not floodplain habitat.
I've talked to the Corps representative mentioned in the notice and he was very helpful and sincerely interested in constructive public comment. Here's you chance to make a suggestion.
Sincerely,
Phil Sheridan, Ph.D.
Director
Meadowview Biological
Research Station
I'm sending in our public comment to a USACE public notice about a road that is planned to be put through a pitcher plant bog in Texas (see
http://www.swf.usace.army.mil/pubdata/environ/regulatory/public/pn/2010_12/PN_SWF-2009-00404.pdf). Public comment has been extended until tomorrow, Jan. 27. Among several issues here is that the compensation for destroying part of a pitcher plant bog will go to a mitigation bank for FLOODPLAIN species. Mitigation should go to restoring, purchasing, or creating in-kind pitcher plant habitat, not floodplain habitat.
I've talked to the Corps representative mentioned in the notice and he was very helpful and sincerely interested in constructive public comment. Here's you chance to make a suggestion.
Sincerely,
Phil Sheridan, Ph.D.
Director
Meadowview Biological
Research Station