“We’re losing plant and animal species at an alarming rate. Every new construction project means a little more habitat destroyed. Once a species becomes extinct, that’s it. We’re just trying to slow down the rate at which they are disappearing by saving some of the habitat”
—Steve Hobbs, then director of land protection in the Virginia office of the Nature Conservancy (and now California senior project director for the Conservation Fund), in a March/April 1989 piece by Becky Hepler.
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