Geee Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 CNSnews: The government spent at least $205,075 in 2010 to “translocate” a single bush in San Francisco that stood in the path of a $1.045-billion highway-renovation project that was partially funded by the economic stimulus legislation President Barack Obama signed in 2009. “In October 2009, an ecologist identified a plant growing in a concrete-bound median strip along Doyle Drive in the Presidio as Arctostaphylos franciscana,” the U.S. Department of Interior reported in the Aug. 10, 2010 edition of the Federal Register. “The plant’s location was directly in the footprint of a roadway improvement project designed to upgrade the seismic and structural integrity of the south access to the Golden Gate Bridge. “The translocation of the Arctostaphylos franciscana plant to an active native plant management area of the Presidio was accomplished, apparently successfully and according to plan, on January 23, 2010,” the Interior Department reported. The bush—a Franciscan manzanita—was a specimen of a commercially cultivated species of shrub that can be purchased from nurseries for as little as $15.98 per plant. The particular plant in question, however, was discovered in the midst of the City of San Francisco, in the median strip of a highway, and was deemed to be the last example of the species in the “wild.” Prior to the discovery of this “wild” Franciscan manzanita, the plant had been considered extinct for as long as 62 years--extinct, that is, outside of people’s yards and botanical gardens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clearvision Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickydog Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 "translocate"? "designed to upgrade the seismic and structural integrity of the south access to the Golden Gate Bridge"? Bureaucrat talk at its best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandyM Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Now I have to wipe up the coffee that was just spewed all over the kitchen table & laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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