- C32 -

Help us stop the senseless destruction of this historic hilltop forest. Felling over 2000 trees on over 13 acres of forested hilltop and wetlands in an area significant to early Indigenous peoples to build the replacement Northeast Metro Tech vocational school goes against the recommendation of the prefeasibility study which recommended building in existing open space next to the current school. This sanctuary forest is home to rare and endangered species including a previously undocumented population of Eastern Whippoorwill a nocturnal bird whose habitat is being lost to development. The hilltop site requires blasting a 650 ft long 3035 ft high cliff into extremely brittle waterfilled bedrock that will need fencing and hazard signs at the top of the cliff and guardrails at the base to keep rockfalls off the road by the school.