Please Help the World's Rarest Butterfly

[Paul Cherubini]

The following April, 2000 Los Angles Times article
http://csf.colorado.edu/lists/deep-ecology/2000/msg00177.html
gives a good overview of the situation with the Palos Verdes Blue
including these points:


  -  there is already a 10-acre Navy preserve in place
     for the butterfly. 

  -  there are two nearby 60 acre parcels where the
     butterfly is now found on property that is already
      developed.  The butterfly on this property breeds on 
     "locoweed and deer weed growing wild on the
      site among the 545 houses formerly used by Navy
      families" according to the article.

 -   Fish and Wildlife biologists believe there
      are ways of developing areas to accomodate a new school
      and research park while still protecting the butterfly
      habitat. 

Paul Cherubini