permitting is indeed at the center of it; I suggest that if it wasn't bats and salamanders, it would simply be something else to stall about.. even with extreme stories, and their opposite where a real estate developer finds and kills the last flower or butterfly on the land (which is true also), I support saving bats and salamanders. You know how easy it is to mix and pour a portion of an acre of concrete? or run a chain saw? literally forty years of growth can be killed in a half a day.. easy..