One of the "rules" that bugged me was the EPA saying that if you had one plant in your yard that was normally found in wetlands, then that part of your yard automatically was classified as wetlands, and you couldn't use it for anything.
No different than the EPA saying if there was even a remote possibility of there being a kangaroo rat on your property you could not disturb the soil or plants at all.
Plenty of people lost their homes due to wildfires because the EPA blocked them from creating defensible space around their homes.
At least the EPA won't block what they don't know about. I live in the country, and no one can see what goes on in my back yard. We remodeled years ago and tore down the old freestanding garage. This exposed our outhouse. Friends started asking "When did you get an outhouse?" It's been in this yard since the 1930s, but no one could see it. No one can see the huge greenhouse I built years ago, or the grapevines, blueberries, or figs. And now the birds have given us a large stand of elderberries that are now in bloom.
They'd have to come down almost to eye level to see anything, because of the overhead coverage by trees and bushes. They are evergreen, so nothing is easily seen even in the dead of winter. Nothing in my back yard shows up on Google Earth, except for a few feet of grass in the middle.
Hope so, since millions of Americans just became felons.
STOP IT! Now I'm gonna have to go to the ER in 4 hours!
One of the "rules" that bugged me was the EPA saying that if you had one plant in your yard that was normally found in wetlands, then that part of your yard automatically was classified as wetlands, and you couldn't use it for anything.
No different than the EPA saying if there was even a remote possibility of there being a kangaroo rat on your property you could not disturb the soil or plants at all.
Plenty of people lost their homes due to wildfires because the EPA blocked them from creating defensible space around their homes.
At least the EPA won't block what they don't know about. I live in the country, and no one can see what goes on in my back yard. We remodeled years ago and tore down the old freestanding garage. This exposed our outhouse. Friends started asking "When did you get an outhouse?" It's been in this yard since the 1930s, but no one could see it. No one can see the huge greenhouse I built years ago, or the grapevines, blueberries, or figs. And now the birds have given us a large stand of elderberries that are now in bloom.
I really should mow more and trim bushes more. :)
Just wait until they start doing drone surveys.
It's already happened in other areas of the country.
They'd have to come down almost to eye level to see anything, because of the overhead coverage by trees and bushes. They are evergreen, so nothing is easily seen even in the dead of winter. Nothing in my back yard shows up on Google Earth, except for a few feet of grass in the middle.
Nice!