Butterflies vs. Hotels

In Albany, NY, a large national hotel developer plans to build a 124-room hotel next to the habitat of the endangered Karner blue butterfly.

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December 31, 2003, 1:00 PM PST

By Connie Chung

"Environmentalists are trying to fend off the nation's largest independent hotel developer....A fight is brewing because that site...is next to a protected preserve...that contains the last major population of the endangered butterflies south of the Thruway."

Thanks to Sam Gold

FULL STORY: Ground zero for fight over butterfly

Monday, December 29, 2003 in Times Union

Environment New York

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