Double Oops

Carrollton takes one step backward as it tries to make amends with Mother Nature

A A A Comments By Carlton Stowers Thursday, Dec 6 2001

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Scott Whitaker and Bob Schantz will oversee the spring replanting and coordinate with Bill Neiman, a prairie restoration expert with the Native American Seed Co. The results, Whitaker says, should be visible by midsummer.

"Even before all this happened," he says, "it was our intent to make some improvements to the prairie. Because of the recent droughts, some of the vegetation had done better than others and had begun to take over the area. As soon as the construction is completed, we're going to do some things that we believe will make the blackland prairie even better than it originally was."

Mark Graham

Jeff Stone planted prairie grasses as part of his Eagle Scout project. His work was destroyed by a construction project.

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And that, he hopes, will put an end to any concerns. "We're going to do the right thing," he says.

Some of the city's environmentalists, now feeling twice betrayed, hope so. "The thing that still troubles me," Roz Stone says, "is that it would have made so much more sense to have protected the prairie in the first place.

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