If you have suitable habitat and a viable [tortoise] population, the answer isn't to dig them up and move them.

It's rare that you know exactly where a population became started and then its march across an area.

Construction vandalism has existed since the population in Spotsylvania started growing,

We all have jobs and families, so this made it easy for us to participate.

This property is part of the natural furniture ... that makes it the pristine river it is. That's the major reason a number of [environmentalists] oppose this rezoning. It's urbanizing a pristine river.

When citizens are trying to participate in the process, it's tough going up against a company that is ruthlessly pulling out all the stops.