Posted on 05/24/2006 12:52:49 PM PDT by dnmore
As you prepare for the summer golfing season, a word of warning before trying to retrieve your ball from that water hazard on No. 2 at Stoneybrook West. Chances are, you're encroaching on a federally classified wetland. True story: Gale Norton, the former Secretary of the Interior who just quit a few weeks ago amid the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, called a news conference before her resignation to trumpet a U.S. Fish & Wildlife study claiming the nation had finally put an end to the ongoing depletion of federal wetlands. It was all part of President Bush's promise of "no net loss" of our environmentally integral wetlands. "This report is good news not only for biologists but for all of us," Norton proclaimed. "We all depend on wetlands as the nurseries of life." Now for the rest of the story: During the time frame of the study, we actually lost 523,000 acres of natural wetlands.
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i have a fountain in my backyard i guess that will be considered a wetland
Where I live in Florida, they have a rule such as this for over ten years.
I'd like to see Gail say this while standing in my backyard twenty feet from the swamp with hundreds of mosquitoes buzzing around her head.
Isn't a wetland just the same ol' swamp?
Where did they find this idiot squish-head with no capacity whatsoever for rational thought? I've never seen that newspaper, but if he is the best it can do, it's in trouble. Even his non-essential comments were inaccurate.
I have a sizeable puddle that forms in my backyard when I water the lawn in the summer. Is that a wetland too?
Careful with that information. They just might use the "gandering goose" clause that states a goose may possibly want to land for a drink there. Prepare for the seizure of your land!
He doesn't understand the rule.
Chasing a golf ball into the water is ok but you can't fill it in to build a gazebo where you could drink beer in the shade.
This B.S. really hits home in Alaska as 55% of our state is considered wetlands. Compared with 5% in the lower 48.
i doubt it they already are working deals with developers
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