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If anybody wonders why Cali is going bust here is a perfect exhibit of stupidity at taxpayer cost of course.
"Money may not grow on trees, but it sure cost taxpayers a bundle to move a bush that was found growing in the path of the Doyle Drive rebuild.
Not just any bush - this was the Franciscan manzanita, a city native that was thought for 60 years to be extinct until the bush was spotted late last year.
With the final bills in, the cost of moving the bush in January came to $175,000 - $140,000 to dig up and move the shrub, and $35,000 for "support" services from geological, botanical and climate experts in preparation for its new home in the Presidio less than a mile away.
The discovery of the 8-inch-tall, 20-foot-wide bush was greeted with cries of joy by nature enthusiasts but quiet shock by the San Francisco County Transportation Authority, which suddenly found a leafy version of the spotted owl right in the path of a billion-dollar roadway.
Not only did the
authority spend a small fortune preserving the manzanita, it moved the plant to its new secret home under cover of darkness out of fear that plant buffs might stalk it for cuttings.
It now sits in a gulch under a canopy, where the care continues.
"We think of it as an act of love," Moscovich said.
Good Lord!!! Is this a joke??? Well heck, I've got a pecan tree that I need transplanted to the front, can I get the city to do it for me? What a WASTE of taxpayers money. Ahhh, good 'ol California politics at work again
If anybody wonders why Cali is going bust here is a perfect exhibit of stupidity at taxpayer cost of course.
"Money may not grow on trees, but it sure cost taxpayers a bundle to move a bush that was found growing in the path of the Doyle Drive rebuild.
Not just any bush - this was the Franciscan manzanita, a city native that was thought for 60 years to be extinct until the bush was spotted late last year.
With the final bills in, the cost of moving the bush in January came to $175,000 - $140,000 to dig up and move the shrub, and $35,000 for "support" services from geological, botanical and climate experts in preparation for its new home in the Presidio less than a mile away.
The discovery of the 8-inch-tall, 20-foot-wide bush was greeted with cries of joy by nature enthusiasts but quiet shock by the San Francisco County Transportation Authority, which suddenly found a leafy version of the spotted owl right in the path of a billion-dollar roadway.
Not only did the
authority spend a small fortune preserving the manzanita, it moved the plant to its new secret home under cover of darkness out of fear that plant buffs might stalk it for cuttings.
It now sits in a gulch under a canopy, where the care continues.
"The discovery of the 8-inch-tall, 20-foot-wide bush was greeted with cries of joy by nature enthusiasts but quiet shock by the San Francisco County Transportation Authority, which suddenly found a leafy version of the spotted owl right in the path of a billion-dollar roadway."
It's stories like this that remind me why I don't feel one bit sorry for the people of California and their budget problems.
This sort of stupid is quite common in California, even what used to be conservative northern California. All the loons moved up to the northern state and it turned into "San Fran District 1234" (When I say northern, I am talking about north of Sacramento). California is the picture perfect form of stupid. I loved the location, but stupid people make living in perfect conditions unbearable so I moved out of state. At this point, I don't care if that worthless state falls off into the ocean.
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