"Originally this was wetland, but when the Directorate-General of Highways widened the highway, the workers just piled up the leftover soil to make reclaimed land, and then people started opening up businesses on it," explains Lin Chang-mao, who has been doing conservation work in these mountains for over a decade.
「原本這裡是個窪地，公路局在此拓寬工程後，把多餘的廢土填起來，就有人開始營業了。」十多年來從事山林保育的林長茂解釋，承包商為了省錢省事，隨意傾倒土方到河床或就近回填的不知凡幾，這些回填的廢土很可能導致坡地不穩而造成坍滑。