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>Heidi I think you did an excellent job of
responding to Mike's post.
>As a farmer I also take offense to his comments
about "sterilizing"
>creekbeds in wanting a" few more yards of
crops". We are required
>to maintain a 25 foot filter strip next to
anything that comes close to
>being classified as a stream. ..
One of the main points being made at the Southeast
Equestrian
Trails Conference is that these actions on the part
of government
are the result of *laws*. If you don't
understand what the laws
are, what they say and what they require of land
managers,
you are going to *lose*, and lose badly, in any
contest over
the interpretation of these laws. Everybody
else at the
table--the government, the land managers, the
environmental
groups--knows what the laws are, and thus what the
rules
of the game are. It's only the horse people
who show up
at the table thinking that their pithily-worded opinion on
government interference means a damn and should carry
the day.
Anyway, I thought I'd point out that this
discussion started
with a piece of legislation submitted to alter the
federal
Endangered Species Act. Regulations that have
to do
with 25 foot filter strips beside creeks are the
result of
state wetlands protection legislation, which is an entirely
different topic.
Linda B. Merims
Massachusetts, USA
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