Shoot, Shovel and Shut Up

Townhall.com ^ | 2/10/2014 | Marita Noon

[rktman]

If you find oil or natural gas on your property, the value goes up. If you find an endangered species, your land becomes virtually worthless because the critter prevents productive use.

Most people would be excited to have a Jed-Clampet moment when, while hunting for dinner, the shot resulted in bubbling crude coming up from the ground. Like the Clampet family, your life would change dramatically. Your land would suddenly be worth more than you’d ever dreamed!

If, while hunting for dinner, you instead find an endangered species—the half-jest, half-serious advice would be “shoot, shovel and shut up.” Kent Holsinger, a Colorado attorney whose work centers around endangered species issues, told me that he has seen many landowners lose significant value due to a listed species being found on their property.

[rktman]

Can you say “night vision goggles”? Working in the dark can be tough.

[jch10]

It involves plants too. Some of my family owns 6 acres of waterfront property, here in Florida, that was very valuable until surveyors found pitcher plants growing on it. Now, it is zoned wetlands and nothing can be built there, even though there are homes on either side.

[rktman]

Roger that. I remember several envirowackjob issues when we still lived there and folks who lived on the St. Johns were being denied expansion or building permits.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “Working in the dark can be tough.” <<

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Add some eye nutrition to your diet (bilberry, zeaxanthin, xtazanthin)
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[Arrowhead1952]

It involves plants too. Some of my family owns 6 acres of waterfront property, here in Florida, that was very valuable until surveyors found pitcher plants growing on it.

Several years ago, an environmental nut job wanted to stop a shopping center from being built. He went and found an endangered plant and transplanted it into the proposed site. He got the shopping center plans stopped.

Then he went stupid and bragged that he had moved the plant. Too bad someone overheard the conversation and he got fined heavily for removing the endangered plant from its original habitat.

[Jewbacca]

Do a little “round up” spraying a couple of times, gravel it quietly with native rock and then have it reviewed in a couple years.

[Timocrat]

If, while hunting for dinner, you instead find an endangered species—the half-jest, half-serious advice would be “shoot, shovel and shut up.”

Half Jest ???

[CodeToad]

Colorado’s most favorite and hated ‘endangered’: Woody Woodpecker.

[cherry]

why can't the EPA and all of its insanity be changed?...be nullified?...these laws get enacted and its like nobody can ever change it....

we need it to be eliminated....

[Starstruck]

If, while hunting for dinner, you instead find an endangered species—the half-jest, half-serious advice would be “shoot, shovel and shut up.

I will take it and drop it on the property of the biggest liberal I can find.