Save Pine Bush, Inc. v. Common Council

OPINION OF THE COURT

Kavanagh, J.

Petitioner Save the Pine Bush, Inc. is an organization that lists as its purpose, among other things, the protection and preservation of the Earner blue butterfly—which is listed on the federal and state endangered species lists—and its habitat, as well as other species that live in the Pine Bush in Albany County. The Pine Bush Preserve is an area of land, several thousand acres large, set aside by the City of Albany for the protection of the Earner blue butterfly, its habitat and other rare species.1 The long-term goal of the Preserve is to induce Earner blue…