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To: La Enchiladita
I really don’t think anyone is stopping people from clearing brush on or adjacent to their property... are they?

Yes. All the time. There are too many examples to list, but here is one example:

On October 26, 1993, dozens of homes and tens of thousands of acres in Riverside County were burned as a direct result of policies imposed by the Fish and Wildlife Service. The FWS designated 77,000 acres in Riverside County as a "rat preserve" for the kangaroo rat. Homeowners in that area knew that the buildup of brush posed a grave fire danger and sought to lightly plow their land in order to create firebreaks. But the Fish and Wildlife Service repeatedly threatened prison sentences and fines of up to $100,000 against homeowners who sought to protect their homes against fire hazards in the area of "protected" rat habitat.

4,005 posted on 10/25/2007 10:38:28 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: calcowgirl

1993.....


4,008 posted on 10/25/2007 10:58:05 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
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To: calcowgirl

They also stopped people from building on their own property. There was own house half built and they were told to keep off their land or be fined. It was in the courts last I heard.


4,009 posted on 10/25/2007 11:06:26 PM PDT by ThomasThomas
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