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Those differing opinions are still echoing through the faculty at Arizona, where the biology department is still fighting the observatory, saying it would destroy a virgin habitat...
Warshall contends that a "fact war" is raging about how much of the squirrels' habitat will be encroached upon by the planned observatory...
About 650 acres of habitat remain now. Nine acres are to be cut for observatory construction. "Nine acres actually means 40 acres of damage to the squirrels habitat due to the `edge effect,'" says Warshall. "Sunlight and wind heat up the area of forest near the cut line, creating a microclimate too warm for the squirrels...
...habitat atop Mt. Graham is unique. Due to the altitude, the climate of northern habitats is reproduced and allows spruce and fir trees, as well as squirrels, to live on the high peaks...
Professor of Geology Stephen J. Gould was pulled into the debate when one of his theories was cited in a editorial supporting the building of the observatory--which some say will destroy the habitat of a rare subspecies of red squirrels...