Too late. He needed to get started ten years ago to collect the validated data to prove my tortoise habitat improvements are effective by statistically-designed experiments. Then there's setting up the business with all the paperwork, "i"'s crossed and "t"'s dotted etc.
After I spent four years writing and publishing that book, I spent about a year traveling that region and I couldn't get their brains out of park. 'What I'm doing is just fine. We should all go back to forty years ago' was about the size of it.
These issues are complex, and what I posted was an idealized representation, but the serious point is how easily a free-enterprise system can do a better job for less. What pisses me to no end is how stupid this gets. Too many people are so used to the fascist system we have that they have no idea how a free market is supposed to work. They get worried that the managers might get rich doing it. They fear their loss of covetous control. They have no trust for their neighbor, and trust their crooked agents instead.
So after having had the ranchers, including Wayne Hage, tell me that my ideas are superior but that 'It'll never happen,' I went home to build an unarguably superior example of environmental management. Which I've done. Our property is now the cleanest piece of native plant habitat in the Western United States, and I can't get the experts who verbally admit that it is true to write it down. So I wrote a 525 page photographic book showing what we did so that they can acknowledge it because the proof is right in the images. They don't read it. So I'll be putting it all online because I don't know what else to do. All in all, I've put over two million dollars of labor into the effort. Meanwhile, grandstanding idiots run all about shrieking about the Agenda 21 with no idea what to do to satisfy the public claim for environmental management while at the same time getting a crooked government out of the business. I'm still doing it, but it's pretty discouraging.
I live on a mini-farm at one of God’s greenest, cleanest locations in the USA.
Congratulations on your book.
I might check it out. I’m in the east (Ohio Valley), so if it doesn’t apply, that’s fine.
What was the link?