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Post by HiTemp on May 11, 2016 6:19:02 GMT -7
Read this morning on Fox News that a WY rancher prevailed against the EPA trying to control his creation of a stock pond on his property. Amazing on one hand the EPA denies it's a stock pond so they can control it, yet admit it's no danger at all to the environment, in fact it's been a boon to ecology and wildlife. Gee, whodda thunk someone beside federal bureaucrats could actually do something on their own property that didn't lay waste to the earth. Story here |
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Post by Grug - American Neanderthal on May 11, 2016 8:58:51 GMT -7
You know this is one of those cases that really make you grit your teeth in support. The guy was no rancher, he wanted to build a fishing pond on his small acreage home sight of 8 acres, and he used the exemptions for Ag stock ponds to do it in a flowing waterway. That kind of grinds on me.
However I think if you own property, you should be able to make small ponds, drain wetland, divert water paths or do anything that doesn't permanently impact people next to or down stream without the feds hand in your pocket, so good for him.
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Post by HiTemp on May 11, 2016 18:54:29 GMT -7
Well that clears up a few things. The article called him a "welder" in the headline but then a rancher in the text; I presumed he was a welder that also raised a few head for food or something like that. So basically, he wanted a fishing pond then he went out and got some cattle so he could pull the ol' flink-flam on the gummint and call it a stock pond? Dang, that's one huge pond for just a few cows... think it said it was 40 x 300? He'll have a nice hockey rink come winter.
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Post by Grug - American Neanderthal on May 11, 2016 20:13:39 GMT -7
I don't even think he has cows, maybe a horse or something. For giggles I looked him up on the county plat map and then google earth, the majority of his property is pond. He did it right, and its pretty cool, but stock pond?, not hardly.
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