[GreenFreeper]

The problem with the legislation supporting most environmental concerns, is this. It becomes a vehicle to control the lives of others, and therefore becomes a compliant and useful tool of people who's agenda has nothing to do with protecting nature.

I couldn't agree more. The question is how do we balance these competing interests. I'm not sure regulation at the state or local level makes anymore sense as watersheds know no boundaries.

[.cnI redruM]

If watersheds know no boundaries, as you claim, than any legislation at all regulating their use, potentially devalues any piece of land I happen to own. Giving a government agency a blanket power like that is in no way in the interest of liberty. Unless a logical and sane border on what land is considered "wetlands" can be established, the government has no Constitutional right to regulate their use.