I’m here to speak up for every creature whose life and habitat you’re about to destroy. I’m here to speak up for those who can’t speak for themselves.
I’m here to speak up for every
• American Toad and Spadefoot Toad
• Mourning Cloak Butterfly
• Groundhog
• Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
• Wood Frog and Tree Frog
• White-Throated, Swamp, Chipping, Field, and Tree Sparrow
• Winter Firefly and Daytime Firefly
• Eastern Towhee
• Spotted Salamander and Spring Peeper
• Indigo Bunting
• Milk Snake
• Figured Tiger Moth and Juvenal’s Duskywing Butterfly
• Chipmunk
• Eastern Comma Butterfly and Green Darner Dragonfly
• Scarlet Tanager
• Bumblebee and Mason Bee
• Orange-Crowned, Yellow-Rumped, Nashville, Black-Throated Blue, & Prairie Warbler
• Spring Azure Butterfly
• Gray Squirrel
• Great Blue Heron
• Eastern Whip-Poor-Will
And for the many others whose home is this forest.
Some of these you’ll kill directly as you fell the trees and blast the rock away.
You’ll harm some by depriving them of habitat when they return in the spring, driving them closer to endangerment and extinction.
I ask you
I implore you
to consider the lives of these creatures, who’ve done you no harm, and whose existence is part of the web of life of which we too are part.
I beg you to consider the legacy you’ll leave behind when future generations shake their heads at this needless destruction and careless lack of consideration for our fragile ecosystem, all the more so at a time when we need to protect our trees, not destroy them, in the face of climate change.

Please submit your comments and stand up for wildlife on the MEPA FAIL SAFE Citizen’s petition from February 8 - March 3, 2023.

Here’s how:
Go to the MEPA comment portal 

Scroll down to the list of projects and click on Advisory Opinion.
Search for Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational Technical School.
Under Actions, choose comment. Continue as a guest. Submit before March 3, 2023

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