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Francine Shay: "There are many factions with conflicting ideas on the best way to accomplish these goals: environmentalists, developers, agri-businesses, native tribes."
Is that sea turtle in jeopardy or isn't it? As an environmental law paralegal working to overcome a challenge to her client's plans to build an artificial reef, Francine Shay, CLA, found herself assembling a banker's box full of information on these endangered, hardshelled creatures.
"The challenge was to overcome the permit challengers' emotional outlook that anything on the beach is harmful to the turtles," Shay said.
Shay's duties include public records review and indexing, drafting responses to environmental agency compliance notices, obtaining historical maps and aerial photos, attending various governmental meetings on environmental issues, and...