For whatever reason, these kind of projects do not have have qualified biologists survey the sites prior to modification. They just do not want to pay the $ for an educated report? I have applied for several of these jobs and they do not want to hire somebody w/ an MS. Or, perhaps they do not want to have a challange and do not care what they destroy? Probably a little of both. This just happened here w/ an ancient population of Hymenocallis palmeri. However, Jim Frechette and myself discovered the destruction before they had progressed to far into the colony. the city backed-off and allowed us to collect the desroyed, uprooted plants. Half were given back to the city's botanical garden. Kevin Preuss