Word: siting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protests that it would flood a wilderness area and doubts about the benefit it would bring. But one threat to the project was a problem that seemed downright silly: the discovery of a few clumps of a greenish-yellow wild flower called the Furbish lousewort growing near the dam site. Because the plant, named for Botanist Kate Furbish, was not known to exist anywhere else, the dam location could conceivably have been ruled out under the 1973 Endangered Species...
...possibility to invest $17,000 and two summers scouting a 300-mile stretch of the St. John River to see if the fearsome Furbish could be found elsewhere. Now the engineers have proudly announced the discovery of no fewer than five clumps of louseworts safely beyond the proposed dam site. What is more, they claim, the exotic flower can be cultivated elsewhere. Although the Dickey-Lincoln project, first authorized by Congress in 1965, still has other hurdles to clear before construction begins, the lousewort no longer appears to be an obstacle in its path...
Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci declared a "state of emergency" in Cambridge last Wednesday at a City Council meeting in response to Radcliffe's plan to build an athletic complex on Observatory Hill and to Harvard's long-range plan that designates a site near there for a potential parking garage...
More than 100 residents of the Observatory Hill area, however, submitted a petition last Tuesday to the Council to down-zone the block of land owned by the University on that site. Although the zoning change, if passed, will not affect Radcliffe's plans for the athletic facility, the process of changing the zoning map may delay the granting of a building permit, Duehay said...
...biggest headache for students, however, will be for those who live between Cabot and Whitman Halls, at the site of the South House dining hall extension. Most of the construction should be finished by Christmas vacation, but right now, the drilling starts...