Here is your reminder there are dozens of “RESTRICTED AREA: Endangered Species Critical Area” signs plastered around both of the Fort Edward Grassland Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs).
You and I, as regular citizens, are not allowed to walk through that grassland. That would be “prohibited trespassing” according to the
@NYSDEC.
But a foreign solar corporation from Canada? They’re allowed to do whatever they want to the grassland around the WMAs.
In fact, they’re allowed to remove its topsoil, destroy the grasses, shove panel anchors 6-12 feet into the weak shale that can’t support the anchors (our environmental assessment uncovered that), clear the land, erect 10 foot tall chain link fencing, bury equipment below the soil surface, and carve access roads into this critical habitat.
But hey, in the meantime, don’t walk in that grass. As the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation admits from its own field studies and research, there are critically endangered species present.
Rules for thee.