Letter: Nothing new about vernal pools, meadowfoam

Letter: Nothing new about vernal pools, meadowfoam

I am frustrated at the continuing argument that we need not protect living things in our local presence. In the 1970s and 1980s, my father identified the area where Valley’s Edge and Stonegate have been proposed to be built as having vernal pools with the existence of Butte County Meadowfoam. This is not a new issue at all.  Back then men representing developers, which included a church, arrived at our house and threatened our family. They wante…