politics are local....
My neighborhood is a karst region. That is there are collapsed caverns that become sink holes. The sinks drain to the still existing caves that drain under ground to the river.
Then comes one neighborhood sink owner that hires a contrctor to clean and reseed the lawn. Prt of that effort involved dozing the saplings and sink sides. Dirt and debris were deposited at the bottom, clogging the drain. The sink is now a substantial pond. It never goes away and after the winter rains, is now pretty deep.
We have a few deer that come out all over the neighborhood at night. Days are spent in any one of several wooded sinks. They come to the new pond to drink.
The neighbor created a wetland
That should have been a huge positive that everyone including the gov’t officials would have lauded.
Instead they use it as an excuse to make your own land unusable.
Your neighbor’s “wetland” might just disappear one day.