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Man to pay $50,000 fine killing trees at Lake Tahoe
AP via Las Vegas Sun ^
| April 27, 2006
Posted on 04/27/2006 11:37:02 AM PDT by EveningStar
A California business executive has agreed to pay a $50,000 fine for poisoning trees to enhance the view from his Lake Tahoe home...
(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; US: California; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: environment; environmentalism; envirowhackos; govwatch; laketahoe; libertarians; propertyrights; tahoe; trees
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To: EveningStar
Agency staff discovered last summer that Fitzhenry poisoned three, 40-foot Jeffrey pines on his $2.4 million property in Dollar Point on Tahoe's north shore. Inspectors noticed the trees were ailing while responding to the Silicon Valley executive's request for approval to cut them down.
He can't cut down his own trees!
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posted on
04/27/2006 11:40:00 AM PDT
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: EveningStar
If you poison the hardwoods we will burn the pine.
Old statement from logging war.
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posted on
04/27/2006 11:40:28 AM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
To: editor-surveyor; freepatriot32
To: EveningStar
A California business executive has agreed to pay a $50,000 fine for poisoning trees to enhance the view from his Lake Tahoe home... Now that I've read this thread, I think I'll go kill a few trees myself.
To: EveningStar
"We would prefer that everyone understand the fragile ecosystem at Lake Tahoe so that harmful acts for the exclusive enjoyment of individuals do not destroy the resource that can be enjoyed by all."LOL!! Fragile ecosystem? What are they afraid of--the asphalt and concrete eroding?
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posted on
04/27/2006 11:41:38 AM PDT
by
randog
(What the...?!)
To: The_Victor
This idiot poisoned his trees and then invited them to inspect so he could cut them down!!!
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posted on
04/27/2006 11:41:40 AM PDT
by
learner
To: EveningStar
But environmentalists and agency governors called that amount paltry, saying it would do little to deter wealthy Tahoe homeowners from similar actions to boost the value of their property
That's really what pisses them off, someone making a dollar.
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posted on
04/27/2006 11:42:22 AM PDT
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
To: EveningStar
Killing trees on his own property??? Uh-uh, not gonna say it...nope....not me.....
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posted on
04/27/2006 11:42:25 AM PDT
by
Millee
To: The_Victor
That rankles my libertarian side. What exactly does the PRIVATE in "private property" mean, again?
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posted on
04/27/2006 11:42:40 AM PDT
by
BibChr
("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
To: EveningStar
The piece doesn't specify if this happened in Nevada or California,but if it was CA one must marvel at the fact that this guy paid $50K for killing a couple of trees and OJ paid $0 for killing a couple of people.
To: EveningStar
This stinks. You can't cut down trees on your own property?
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posted on
04/27/2006 11:43:39 AM PDT
by
manwiththehands
("'Rule of law'? We don't need no stinkin' rule of law! We want AMNESTY, muchacho!")
To: EveningStar
in 1996, Nancy Pelosi... built a golf course and country club outside of San Jose, California, called the CordeValle Country Club.
They never followed the environmental regulations. The ponds were never built for endangered species. For seven years, they also failed to file any of the environmental reports required by the California Fish and Wildlife Commission.
A 2004 County Environmental Compliance Report found all kinds of environmental problems on the Pelosi's golf course.
What does that actually mean in practical terms? Did they turn around and build this habitat and comply?
No, they solved the problem the old-fashioned way: they hired lobbyists and they got the environmental regulations changed.
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posted on
04/27/2006 11:44:11 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: learner
This idiot poisoned his trees and then invited them to inspect so he could cut them down!!!Get it? They were HIS TREES on HIS PROPERTY. He should be able to do anything he wants with them.
To: traviskicks
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posted on
04/27/2006 11:44:31 AM PDT
by
freepatriot32
(Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
To: EveningStar
When was the last time you heard of "environmentalists and agency governors" getting that sort of fine for doing worse? Burning down legitimate homes, businesses and facilities?
Having radicals do it for them by financial and moral support and encouragement (as by tripling this fine) is just as egregious.
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posted on
04/27/2006 11:44:42 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
To: EveningStar
If they were so concerned for the ecosystem, why let him build in the first place? Didn't he have to cut trees for his building?
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posted on
04/27/2006 11:45:03 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
(Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
To: BibChr
That rankles my libertarian side. What exactly does the PRIVATE in "private property" mean, again?To "environmentalists" it means zip,zero,zilch.
To: george76
No, they solved the problem the old-fashioned way: they hired lobbyists and they got the environmental regulations changed.What? No fines?
< /sarc >
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posted on
04/27/2006 11:46:40 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
To: manwiththehands
"This stinks. You can't cut down trees on your own property?
"
Not your trees, not your property, they just let you pay taxes on it to humor you.
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posted on
04/27/2006 11:46:41 AM PDT
by
hadaclueonce
(shoot low, they are riding Shetlands.....)
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