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Shapiro now says that Mt. Graham was not a controversial topic in 1985 when he wrote the memo. "We did not even know what a red squirrel was," he says...
...Graham is home to an endangered subspecies of squirrel--Tamiasciurus hudsonicus grahamensis--the Mt. Graham Red Squirrel. Conservationists say construction of the observatory puts the handful of Mt. Graham squirrels, the only ones of their kind on the planet, in danger of extinction...
Shapiro says he and other observatory officials are weighing a number of factors, but says some of the environmental arguments advanced have not been persuasive. "It's not at all clear that the observatory would harm the red squirrel," he says...
Mount Graham red squirrel One of 25 subspecies, it has pitted conservationists against astronomers who want to build an observatory atop Arizona's Mount Graham...
...Passed a resolution asking the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to investigate the deaths of four squirrel monkeys from intense heat in laboratories last summer...